Comment Re:How about an LTS version? (Score 1) 282
That's the point behind Iceweasel in Debian : take Firefox, and strip down updates to security fixes for the lifetime of the stable distribution. It's a pity this job isn't done upstream.
Raising a Botnet In Captivity 60
holy_calamity writes "Technology Review reports that researchers installed 3000 copies of Windows XP on a high performance cluster at a Canadian university and set loose the Waledac botnet on them. It's the first time researchers have built and operated their own botnet as a strategy to better understand those at large on the internet. Doing it inside an experimental computing cluster removes the legal and ethical complications of experimenting with live botnets that control innocent users' machines."
Submission + - Raising a botnet in captivity (technologyreview.com)
holy_calamity writes: Technology Review reports that researchers installed 3000 copies of Windows XP on a high performance cluster at a Canadian university and set loose the Waledac botnet on them. It's the first time researchers have built and operated their own botnet as a strategy to better understand those at large on the internet. Doing it inside an experimental computing cluster removes the legal and ethical complications of experimenting with live botnets that control innocent users' machines.
Yahoo! To Close Delicious 311
Thwomp writes "A leaked internal presentation from Yahoo shows that Delicious, the popular bookmark sharing site, will be wound down. According to Daring Fireball's John Gruber the whole team was let go just yesterday. It appears that Delicious is just one of the services in Yahoo's portfolio that is going the way of the Dodo."
Comment Wikimedia foundation budget ? (Score 1) 608
Am I the only one here amazed of what the spendings are ? According to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report page 4 :
There are 45% of technical spendings, including technical staff. But 20% to Management, Finance, Administration.
And 10% for "Fundraising". That's 1 in 10 you donate that's wasted in making you spit that money. I wonder if this is regarded as a sustainable business plan for a foundation ?
Homebrew Cray-1 140
egil writes "Chris Fenton built his own fully functional 1/10 scale Cray-1 supercomputer. True to the original, it includes the couch-seat, but is also binary compatible with the original. Instead of the power-hungry ECL technology, however, the scale model is built around a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. All software is available if you want to build one for your own living room. The largest obstacle in the project is to find original software."
Comment Re:not the highest resolution: 8k super hi-vision (Score 1) 204
From what I remember, eye can distinguish two objects separated by about 1 arc minute. That is around 3E-4 rad.
Comment National Cybersecurity Undermined (Score 1, Flamebait) 100
Time to move
Not like anyone can really win a cyberwar, it will be decided by who owns more bots......
Comment Bad Google Bad Bad Google (Score 1) 319
So if I go to a Porn site, won't I get advertiseing to other porn sites? Aren't those non-family friendly?
Pot meet Kettle...
Submission + - Boltzmann equation solved, the new way
xt writes: The Boltzmann equation is old news. What's news is that the 140 year old equation has been solved, using mathematical techniques from the fields of partial differential equations and harmonic analysis, some as new as five years old. This solution provides a new understanding of the effects due to grazing collisions, when neighboring molecules just glance off one another rather than collide head on. We may not understand the theory, but we'll sure love the applications!
Comment Re:damn. (Score 1) 175
gonna have to stop surfing porn at work now.
Just do it from the proxy server and they'll never be able to trace it back to you
Comment Re:Well said! (Score 1) 334
... unless you happen to like seafood.
Comment Re:Oil at Key West already. (Score 3, Funny) 334
On the plus side, with recent advances in DNA computing, we should just be able to introduce bzip2-capable e. coli into the environment, which will shrink the tarballs to a more manageable size in no time...
Matter-Antimatter Bias Seen In Fermilab Collisions 304
ubermiester writes "The New York Times is reporting that scientists at Fermilab have found evidence of a very small (about 1%) average difference between the amount of matter/antimatter produced in a series of particle collisions. Quoting: '[T]he team, known as the DZero collaboration, found that the fireballs produced pairs of ... muons ... slightly more often than they produced pairs of anti-muons. So the miniature universe inside the accelerator went from being neutral to being about 1 percent more matter than antimatter.' This finding invites theorists to explain why there is so much more matter than antimatter in the universe, when the Standard Model suggests that there should be equal amounts of each." Here is the paper as submitted to Physical Review (PDF). The DZero team is looking forward to getting detailed data from the LHC once it ramps up operationally.
Comment Wikipedia Porn (Score 2, Insightful) 267
I sent an email to Wikipedia regarding this issue. Their response seems canned but encouraging.
Thanks for your email. Wikipedia remains dedicated to providing an encyclopaedia free from censorship, and that includes topics some might consider inappropriate (after all, if we were to censor things based on the idea that somebody, somewhere, might find it inappropriate, we'd never write anything). While we are not censored by default, we must consider our legal responsibilities; there were some worries that we may violate the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act with the collection, which is what led to the spate of image deletions. We remain dedicated to our original goal, and will (usually) keep images if they prove helpful in an encyclopaedic context. Thank you for your message of support for Wikipedia Yours sincerely, Oliver Keyes
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