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Comment Re:Price gouging? YOU should have been prepared. (Score 1) 303

by keller999 (#41868205) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a DDoS Attack?
Rackspace has more than enough bandwidth to cover anything but the largest DDoS attacks. However, that doesn't mean that your individual rack's switch, your load balancers, your servers, or your services are designed to handle it. DDoS will pretty much just tickle a bit for Rackspace. It's going to kill your servers far before it kills their infrastructure.
Programming

Submission + - Joining an existing Open Source Project

Submitted by Tathagata
Tathagata writes: I have been using GNU/Linux for quite sometime now. Though I'm from Computer Science background, getting into a project that really involves you into programming was not possible, as people(read teachers) run away, if you utter the word "linux". Being least bothered about mentoring an exciting project, they would suggest you to get settled with visual basic, .NET, — and would prefer a 24 hour solution when it comes to programming.(I'm a student in my final year, from a West Bengal, India). So my programming endeavours have remained limited to writing few lines of C/C++, Java. For last few days I've been googling, and trying to read how to join an existing open source project, and avoid reinventing the wheel by starting yet another. I read people suggesting to start by submitting patches, fixing bugs, becoming package maintainer — but most are overloaded with jargon like upstream/downstream, nightly builds, etc. Added to that how does joining the mailing list, or irc channel help when you don't even understand their slangs, forget about the tech discussion? Distributed/centralised scm, track, bugzilla, launchpad, with sourceforge or freshmeat laden with an unlimited number of projects regarding everything you have ever come across — it quite an overwhelming world to step in. Could you suggest a road map, links to essential tools or a few projects, for people like me, who would want to improve their skills by contributing FOSS?
Censorship

Submission + - Canadian MP Calls For ISP Licenses, Content Blocks

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A member of Canada's ruling Conservative party has pledged to "clean up" the Internet with new bill that would mandate ISP licensing, know-your-subscriber rules, and allow the government to order ISPs to block content. ISPs that fail to block would faces possible jail time for the company's directors and officers.

Feed DARPA puts out call for shape-shifting 'ChemBots' (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Robots

Well this is just great. One of our few remaining advantages over the robots who wish to enslave us -- the ability to run away and cower in an inaccessible location -- may soon be gone forever, if DARPA's bid for softball-sized, morphing 'ChemBots' proves successful. The government's mad scientist wing wants proposals for a soft, flexible bot that is able to collapse down to a tenth of its original size, crawl through a one centimeter opening at a quarter of a meter per hour, and bulk back up to its original size in under 15 seconds. Think you're up for the challenge? White papers are due on May 3rd of this year, and since liquid metal robots won't be feasible until about the year 2029, interested parties better get cracking.

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Media

Submission + - How To Properly Archive Data On Disc Media

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An anonymous reader writes: Patrick McFarland, the well-known Free Software Magazine author, going into great detail on CD/DVD media. McFarland covers the history of these media from CDs through recordable DVDs, explaining the various formats and their strengths and drawbacks. The heart of the article is an essay on the DVD-R vs. DVD+R recording standards, leading to McFarland's recommendation for which media he buys for archival storage. Spoiler: it's Taiyo Yuden DVD+R all the way. From the article:

"Unlike pressed CDs/DVDs, 'burnt' CDs/DVDs can eventually 'fade,' due to five things that affect the quality of CD media: sealing method, reflective layer, organic dye makeup, where it was manufactured, and your storage practices (please keep all media out of direct sunlight, in a nice cool dry dark place, in acid-free plastic containers; this will triple the lifetime of any media)."
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Submission + - Top 10 April Fools Stories

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ddelmonte
ddelmonte writes: "Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070329/od_afp/lifes tyleaprilfoolmediaholidayoffbeat;_ylt=AiB2WDfNIRFu kGxgROHj_pnMWM0F) has made a roundup of the top 10 April Fools stories, at least of recent years. I personally think we're in the midst of one of the longest running AF stories of all time. He lives down the street on Pa Ave."
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Coldwell Banker to Sell Second Life Properties

Submitted by Dekortage
Dekortage writes: Corporate involvement in Second Life is not just for advertising, says Coldwell Banker's senior VP of marketing. Instead, as reported on CNN, the U.S.-based real estate brokerage agency "will open a virtual sales office and start selling virtual land at 9 a.m. [today]... Coldwell Banker has bought extensive tracts of property on the central 'mainland' of Second Life. (Most companies own 'islands' scattered all over.) It subdivided this digital land into 520 individual houses and living units, half of which it will sell and half it will rent." The VP claims that "A small number of land barons mostly control real estate in Second Life, and we thought we could bring real estate to the masses." The virtual masses, of course.

Feed Fears of a YouTube Swiftboat (wired.com)

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Campaign experts worry that the success of the brilliant Vote Different anti-Hillary Clinton spot will lead to misleading ads financed by anonymous donors with deep pockets. By Sarah Lai Stirland.


NASA

Submission + - SpaceX's Falcon Plummets

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JHarrison
JHarrison writes: "Spaceflight Now is running a story on the SpaceX Falcon 1 launch yesterday. Those of you watching the stream will have no doubt noticed the telemetry failure at 04:50, and turns out that was more than them turning the webcast off.. "A year after its maiden flight met a disastrous end, the SpaceX booster lifted off at 9:10 p.m. EDT (0110 GMT Wednesday) from a remote launch pad on Omelek Island, part of a U.S. Army base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Controllers lost contact with the Falcon during the burn of the second stage that would have placed the rocket into orbit around Earth. "We did encounter, late in the second stage burn, a roll-control anomaly," Elon Musk, founder and chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., said in a post-launch call with reporters. Live video from cameras mounted aboard the rocket's second stage showed increasing oscillations about five minutes after liftoff, just before the public webcast was cut off. The rolling prevented the necessary speed to achieve a safe orbit, instead sending the stage on a suborbital trajectory back into the atmosphere.""
Intel

Submission + - AMD: Intel Destroyed Evidence in Antitrust Case

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Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam writes: "In an unpublished statement to the U.S. District Court of Delaware, AMD alleges Intel allowed the destruction of evidence in pending antitrust litigation. According to the opening letter of the AMD statement, 'Through what appears to be a combination of gross communication failures, an ill-conceived plan of document retention and lackluster oversight by outside counsel, Intel has apparently allowed evidence to be destroyed.'"

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