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Comment The sun is at a low point... (Score 2, Insightful) 200

by mechaman on Thursday December 18, 2008 @04:36AM (#26157155) Attached to: Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field

The variable is that the sun is at a low point in activity right now. I wonder if we'll see a larger failure rate of satellites orbiting the region. I guess it's extra tin-foil for them too. How would you go about shielding something that big from electrical fields that strong?

Comment In other news... (Score 5, Funny) 371

by mechaman on Monday June 23, 2008 @02:29AM (#23900389) Attached to: Multitasking Considered Detrimental

...it's been found that most guys already have a great tool for all this mono-tasking, Selective Hearing.

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released 249

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:06PM from the and-they-are-just-giving-it-away-this-time dept.

dbhost writes "Along with this morning's cup of coffee and log reviews, I discovered that the KDE team is moving forward with a long awaited beta release of KDE 4.0 beta release of KDE 4.0. The most interesting item I found in the notes is that the file manager in KDE is being separated from Konqueror into a component called Dolphin. Also, according to the announcement, konsole has been treated to a number of improvements such as split view, and history highlighting."

Submission + - Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat (tgdaily.com)

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not5150

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:51PM

not5150 writes: "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his Black Hat speech."

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