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Submission + - Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer for YouTube (neosmart.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Instead of spending the next 10 years trying to find a Flash implementation for Linux or OS X that doesn't drain CPU cycles like there's no tomorrow, NeoSmart Technologies has made an HTML5 viewer for YouTube videos. It loads YouTube videos in an HTML5 video container and streams (with skip/skim/pause/resume) against an MP4 resource, and an (optional) userscript file can update YouTube pages with the HTML5 viewer. The latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are supported. Personally, I can't wait until the major video sites default to HTML5 and we can finally say goodbye to flash.
Medicine

Submission + - Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House 1

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: A hastily-crafted amendment imposing tough new restrictions on abortion coverage in insurance policies helped pave the way for the House to approve the Democrats' bill to overhaul the nation's health insurance system. "It provides coverage for 96 percent of Americans," said Rep. John Dingell. Rep. Candice Miller disagreed, calling the legislation "a jobs-killing, tax-hiking, deficit-exploding" bill. The 1,990-page, $1.2 trillion legislation passed by a vote of 240-194 and moves on for Senate debate, which is expected to begin in several days.
Unix

Journal Journal: AMD Releases Data Center Study

Journal by success49085
According to a data center report released this week by computer manufacturer AMD (amd.com), if data center energy use trends continue for three years, the IT industry could necessitate the creation of 10 new 1000-megawatt power plants. http://www.webhostingcompanys.blogspot.com
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Wiimote as multi-touch display controller (gearlog.com)

Submitted by Tmack
Tmack writes: While hard-hacks with the Wiimote is somewhat Old News, this particular implementation is quite interesting. Using the infrared camera on the 'mote, pens with LED's instead of ink, and an LCD projector, Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Mellon University has created some software to use them as a cheap (relatively speaking) multi-touch display. Any surface you can project onto becomes an interactive multi-touch display, as demonstrated in the video in the page linked above. He has the software available for download from his website, along with some other neat projects.
Security

SquirrelMail Repository Poisoned 182

Posted by kdawson from the nuts-to-that dept.
SkiifGeek writes "Late last week the SquirrelMail team posted information on their site about a compromise to the main download repository for SquirrelMail that resulted in a critical flaw being introduced into two versions of the webmail application (1.4.11 and 1.4.12). After gaining access to the repository through a release maintainer's compromised account (it is believed), the attackers made a slight modification to the release packages, modifying how a PHP global variable was handled. This introduced a remote file inclusion bug — leading to an arbitrary code execution risk on systems running the vulnerable versions of the software. The poisoning was identified by a difference in MD5 signatures for version 1.4.12. Version 1.4.13 is now available."
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Vendor Virtualization in the Data Center 111

Submitted by Scott_Intel
Hello Slashdot community. Scott, Sunil, Arjan and Chris here and we are changing the guard this week and moving our discussion from energy efficiency to server virtualization. At Intel we are "all in" on virtualization in the data center. Our move to Quad-Core Xeon has given our servers even more performance to hit solid consolidation ratios, and we're seeing real benefits within IT and business. If you want to read about one way in which we are implementing virtualization in our own IT dep
Security

Submission + - Remote Control To Prevent Aircraft Hijacking

Submitted by
Snad
Snad writes: "The UK's Evening Standard is reporting that Boeing plans to roll out aircraft remote controls systems in a bid to eliminate the threat of terrorist hijackings, and prevent any repetition of the events of September 11 2001.

"Scientists at aircraft giant Boeing are testing the tamper-proof autopilot system which uses state-of-the-art computer and satellite technology. It will be activated by the pilot flicking a simple switch or by pressure sensors fitted to the cockpit door that will respond to any excessive force as terrorists try to break into the flight deck.
Once triggered, no one on board will be able to deactivate the system. Currently, all autopilots are manually switched on and off at the discretion of pilots. A threatened airliner could be flown to a secure military base or a commercial airport, where it would touch down using existing landing aids known as 'autoland function'.""

Comment Mean Time Between Failures (Score 0, Redundant) 185

by tewner (#14605045) Attached to: Petabyte Storage Array
I talked to someone who set up a Petabyte array many years ago (he had a *lot* of funding). It seems that when you put tens of thousands of disks together, your total mean time between failures becomes, well, for all those disks, every few minutes. They had someone full time whos job was to go around replacing disks all day.

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