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Submission + - Middle school students best their teachers with social engineering

lukej writes: In Ketchikan, Alaska a small group of unidentified students gained access to school owned computers by using phishing techniques on their teachers. The then used the elevated access to remotely control their peers computers.

Fortunately the school administrators seem to have a taken a realistic and pragmatic viewpoint of the situation, although no official punishment has yet been determined.

"Kids are being kids," (Principal) Robinson said, adding that he was surprised something like this had not already occurred. "They're going to try to do what they try to do. This time we found out about it."

Comment Re:11 years? (Score 1) 35

Just for the heck of it, I'll defend my semantics. Yup... DUSEL was proposed in the early 2000s right after Homestake shutdown. And the key being, using that site "as an underground science laboratory". Prior to that, it was indeed used... "as a goldmine" (with some science on the side). So it indeed seemed like a 'new' proposal.

As the NSF was asking for RFPs at the time, there were three or four contenders (a new mine in Colorado, and an existing mine in MN, and of course Homestake). At the time, Homestake had a lot of positive elements, but also some serious problems (ownership, EPA liability, and many thousands of vertical feet of water). So, at the time it was only a "possibility", and far from a sure thing that DUSEL would ever come to fruition. I would speculate that even today, given the nature of science funding and grants... it's still a bit touch and go.
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Submission + - Tour of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab (rapidcityjournal.com)

lukej writes: Over eleven years ago, the possibility of using the retired Homestake Mine as an underground science laboratory was first proposed.
Today the local newspaper gives a science-filled tour of that facility, along with a short photo tour, and decent descriptions of some of the experiments it hosts (Majorana, LUX, Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment). Some fairly interesting deep, dirty, and real physical science!

Comment The Choices (Score 1) 4

Also, as bit of a corollary to my question...
I found it kind of interesting that most IT titles were composed out of a set of about ~30 total words/options.
It seemed like they could be juggled fairly interchangeably in their role as a prefix, root, or suffix.

The ad hoc list I eventually compiled was (in no order):
Network Server Database HelpDesk Programmer Software Support Security System Web Telecommunications IT/IS Operations Systems Administrator Architect Engineer Technician Analyst Specialist Designer Developer Officer Programmer DirectorSenior Junior Lead Manager Director EnterpriseTechnical

Did I miss any?

Comment Burden of the reciever? (Score 1) 35

Neither article mention's what the proper response of the receiver of these goods should have been. If someone told you Walmart was giving away all it's products, would you just go in and load up your cart?

I think the users of Craigslist are naive, much like new email users who believe every spam they receive. There were comments on the DallasNews site from readers to the effect of 'this should be against the law'. But it's not. There is no law against lying (outside of commercial product misrepresentation, lying under oath, etc).

Hopefully, Craigslist users will wise up soon. Get 'Bills-of-Sale', or at least determine the proper owner and get permission for 'free' items.

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 2

I appreciate the sarcasm about the BW control... but just in case somebody was that naive, and for posterity... At my work place we have a 'tube' of Internet, and while there is QOS going on at the routers, sometimes it's nice to have Squid help keep the YouTube fanatics at bay, and ensure there is BW available for other applications; e.g. the inbound VPN users. I can only assume 'cutting the wire' probably wouldn't please the traveling C-level execs with their laptops.

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