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Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37 332

Posted by timothy from the regards-to-his-friends-and-family dept.
An anonymous reader points out The Register's report that Wi-Fi security expert Cédric 'Sid' Blancher has died as the result of a skydiving accident. "Among other things, the 37-year-old Blancher was a sought-after speaker on WiFi security, and in 2005 published a Python-based WiFi traffic injection tool called Wifitap. In 2006, while working for the EADS Corporate Research centre, he also put together a paper on how to exploit Skype to act as a botnet." Some of Blancher's skydiving videos are posted to Vimeo; clearly, it's something he was passionate about.
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The End of the "Age of Speed" 531

Posted by samzenpus from the taking-it-easy dept.
DesScorp writes "'The human race is slowing down,' begins an article in the Wall Street Journal that laments the state of man's quest of aerial speed: we're going backwards. With the end of the Space Shuttle program, man is losing its fastest carrier of human beings (only single use moonshot rockets were faster). 'The shuttles' retirement follows the grounding over recent years of other ultra-fast people carriers, including the supersonic Concorde and the speedier SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. With nothing ready to replace them, our species is decelerating—perhaps for the first time in history,' the article notes. Astronauts are interviewed, and their sadness and disappointment is apparent. In the '60s and '70s, it was assumed that Mach 2+ airline travel would one day be cheap and commonplace. And now it seems that we, and our children, will fly no faster than our grandparents did in 707s. The last major attempt at faster commerical air travel — Boeing's Sonic Cruiser — was abandoned and replaced with the Dreamliner, an airliner designed from the ground up for fuel efficiency."

Comment Technical Merit (Score 1) 1061

by NinjaTJ (#8816052) Attached to: Auto-Censoring DVD Player
Ok, the censorship part of this has been covered. I'm interested in how the system determines what to censor. It sounds like it knows what to skip based on the movie. "Subscribers can then watch standard copies of the 500-or-so films on its list, with the assurance that they will automatically skip over mute anything that children or the squeamish may not like. " But can I pick and choice to see the sex scenes but not the drug sense or I think that *&%! is ok but not %$#&*!. How upset is a parent going to be when they buy a new movie not on the list and pop it in to babysit their kids and find out it isn't censored?
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Journal Journal: Automated Help Line Story

Journal by NinjaTJ
I had a question for Sony so I called their 800 number. After going through their FAQ automation, the phone system had decided I needed to talk to a representative (Whoopee!!!). But first it needed some information to make my experience better.

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