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Submission + - White House must answer petition to "Build Death Star" (whitehouse.gov)

EdIII writes: The White House petition to secure funding for building the Death Star has garnered 25,499 petitions, meaning the White House must officially respond.

I can't wait for the response... but my question to Slashdot readers is what modifications would you add to the proposed Death Star?

Obviously, as one journalist put it, "guardrails around any of the facility's seemingly endless number of bridges, spans, shafts and pits"

Japan

Submission + - Japan police offers first-ever reward for wanted hacker (networkworld.com)

alphadogg writes: Japanese police are looking for an individual who can code in C#, uses a "Syberian Post Office" to make anonymous posts online, and knows how to surf the web without leaving any digital tracks — and they're willing to pay. It is the first time that Japan's National Police Agency has offered a monetary reward for a wanted hacker, or put so much technical detail into one of its wanted postings. The NPA will pay up to $36,000, the maximum allowed under its reward system. The case is an embarrassing one for the police, in which earlier this year 4 individuals were wrongly arrested after their PCs were hacked and used to post messages on public bulletin boards. The messages included warnings of plans for mass killings at an elementary school posted to a city website.

Comment Re:My Ad hominem. (Score 2, Insightful) 82

"To put it short, I've no need for any other operating systems like Ubuntu or Mac OS, and some software I need is available only under Windows. " Just because he runs Win7 does not mean his opinions are meaningless. He runs one of the largest computer security companies in the world... I think his opinion outweighs yours.

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