Comment Very negative poll (Score 1) 248
X=4-7 == -3, Is everybody into selling camera's that they haven't received yet?
Comment Re:Holland? (Score 1) 139
And because there is no single province named "Holland" it is always obvious that when people refer to Holland they mean the whole county, not just a province.
Spammers Moving To Disposable Domains 147
Trailrunner7 writes "Spammers and the botnet operators they're allied with are continuing to adapt their techniques to evade security technologies, and now are using what amount to disposable domains for their activities. A new report shows that the spammers are buying dozens of domains at a time and moving from one to another as often as several times a day to prevent shutdowns. New research shows that the amount of time that a spammer uses a given domain is basically a day or less. The company looked at 60 days worth of data from their customers and found that more than 70 percent of the domains used by spammers are active for a day or less."
xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167
xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.
Hand Written Clock 86
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
Submission + - Iran Getting Better at Internet Filtering (technologyreview.com)
Al writes: "Rob Lemos reports that Iran's national ISPs seem to have recently gained the ability to filter large quantities of web traffic more effectively. Arbor Networks used data gathered from distributed network sensors to monitor the data going to Iran from the global Internet. The firm found that all of the country's providers showed an enormous drop in traffic following the contested June 12 election, then nearly normal traffic patterns until June 26. After that, five of six national ISPs showed an 80 percent drop in traffic for approximately three weeks. The one internal ISP that continues to see significant traffic during those three weeks counts many government ministries among its clientèle. The picture painted by the data is of an ISP that is becoming increasingly skilled in filtering, says Craig Labovitz, chief scientist for Arbor Networks."
Comment Re:in the scheme of things (Score 1) 480
Mod parent up.
How long did you wait for THAT to be on topic lol.
How long did you wait for THAT to be on topic lol.
Comment How can you tell graphs without error-bars? (Score 1) 823
Looking at the AMST-E data it does seem to be warming up though.
For sure the lines in winter are pretty close, but if you look at the lines in August 2006 and 2007 show pretty deep dips.
If you look at the 'old' SSM/I data the same trend emerges.
If course graphs without error-bars are not to be trusted as people are wont to fixate on the exact numbers shown rather than the trend. Without error-bars you cannot even tell if the trend is real or due to sampling bias.
A nice way of doing error bars is used in the (our) national weather on TV.
Instead of showing a line to indicate the predicted rainfall, temp, etc.
They use a colored area with includes the line + error bars. Except almost none realise its error bars you're looking at. Neat.
For sure the lines in winter are pretty close, but if you look at the lines in August 2006 and 2007 show pretty deep dips.
If you look at the 'old' SSM/I data the same trend emerges.
If course graphs without error-bars are not to be trusted as people are wont to fixate on the exact numbers shown rather than the trend. Without error-bars you cannot even tell if the trend is real or due to sampling bias.
A nice way of doing error bars is used in the (our) national weather on TV.
Instead of showing a line to indicate the predicted rainfall, temp, etc.
They use a colored area with includes the line + error bars. Except almost none realise its error bars you're looking at. Neat.
Comment Easy fix (Score 1) 260
This does not sound like such a hard problem,
Just erase the decryption key from memory when the computer goes to sleep (or lock screen) and ask the user to reenter the decryptkey on wake up of the system.
Of course this requires that the operating system needed to get out of lock is not on the cryptodisk, but there are solutions for that.
- Only use a crypto-disk for data.
- Put wake-up portion of operating system in RAM disk.
Now the disk-encryption program just needs to be really careful where it stores the key in RAM and you're done.
For a server this will not work, but for laptops I don't see why not....
Just erase the decryption key from memory when the computer goes to sleep (or lock screen) and ask the user to reenter the decryptkey on wake up of the system.
Of course this requires that the operating system needed to get out of lock is not on the cryptodisk, but there are solutions for that.
- Only use a crypto-disk for data.
- Put wake-up portion of operating system in RAM disk.
Now the disk-encryption program just needs to be really careful where it stores the key in RAM and you're done.
For a server this will not work, but for laptops I don't see why not....
Comment Re:Just wondering (Score 1) 1475
I am just wondering why this story was tagged as "Republican." [...]
Nothing to do with this story, every item this week has been tagged "Republican".
Comment 50%+ votes should not a constitution change make (Score 5, Interesting) 1475
I for one find the concept that a state (or country) for that matter could change its constitution with a simple 50% majority vote deeply disturbing.
Where I live (NL) --Yes, liberal bias on these issues because of nationality is noted -- a constitution change involves:
- Find 2/3 majority vote in Congress;
- than a 2/3 majority vote in Senate;
- New elections (that means wait out the 4 year term);
- new 2/3 majority vote in the newly elected Congress and ...
- new 2/3 majority vote in the newly elected Senate.
This prevents constitution amendments based on hype or 'in-vogueness' of an idea and it also allows for the legislation to mature.
Of course the constitution deal does get clouded in package deals, as it will hardly be the only issue in an election. And yes it does make a constitution change slow as molasses, but it does look like a more even keeled process.
BTW, does this mean a new 'reverse prop 8' amendment can be started up next week which will undo this change? A flip-flop constitution sounds like an interesting concept for /. (from a digital point of view ;-)
Where I live (NL) --Yes, liberal bias on these issues because of nationality is noted -- a constitution change involves:
- Find 2/3 majority vote in Congress;
- than a 2/3 majority vote in Senate;
- New elections (that means wait out the 4 year term);
- new 2/3 majority vote in the newly elected Congress and
- new 2/3 majority vote in the newly elected Senate.
This prevents constitution amendments based on hype or 'in-vogueness' of an idea and it also allows for the legislation to mature.
Of course the constitution deal does get clouded in package deals, as it will hardly be the only issue in an election. And yes it does make a constitution change slow as molasses, but it does look like a more even keeled process.
BTW, does this mean a new 'reverse prop 8' amendment can be started up next week which will undo this change? A flip-flop constitution sounds like an interesting concept for
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