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Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher 290

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @08:47AM from the we-think-you-meant-9 dept.

First time accepted submitter sal_park writes "According to a report from German computer scientist D. Kriesel, some Xerox WorkCentre copiers and scanners may alter numbers that appear in scanned documents. Having analyzed the output of two such devices, the Xerox WorkCentre 7535 and 7556, Kriesel found that "patches of the pixel data are randomly replaced in a very subtle and dangerous way": in particular, some numbers appearing in a document may be replaced by other numbers when it is scanned."

Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France 314

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 20, 2011 @09:23PM from the precooked-seafood dept.

nicomede writes "The French state-owned DCNS (French military shipyard) announced today a concept study for an underwater nuclear reactor dedicated to power coastal communities in remote places. It is derived from nuclear submarine power plants, and its generator would be able to produce between 50 MWe and 250MWe. Such a plant would be fabricated and maintained in France, and dispatched for the different customers, thus reducing the risk for proliferation."

Comment Re:Charge for support (Score 1) 635

by thelibrarian on Monday August 23, 2010 @09:05PM (#33349600) Attached to: National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity

I thought Graeme Garden had already done something like this (at least outside the 5 mile limit) for his pirate radio station.

"..and now 'A Walk in the Black Forest'".

Why "Running IT As a Business" Is a Bad Idea 364

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @05:12PM from the guerilla-movement dept.

snydeq sends along a provocative piece from Infoworld, arguing that the conventional wisdom on how IT should be run is all wrong. "Bob Lewis dispels the familiar litany that 'IT should be run as a business,' instead offering insights into what he is calling a 'guerilla movement' to reject conventional 'IT wisdom' and industry punditry in favor of what experience tells you will work in real organizations. 'When IT is a business, selling to its "internal customers," its principal product is software that "meets requirements." This all but ensures a less-than-optimal solution, lack of business ownership, and poor acceptance of the results,' Lewis writes. 'The alternatives begin with a radically different model of the relationship between IT and the rest of the business — that IT must be integrated into the heart of the enterprise, and everyone in IT must collaborate as a peer with those in the business who need what they do.' To do otherwise is a sure sign of numbered days for IT, according to Lewis. After all, the standard 'run IT as a business' model had its origins in the IT outsourcing industry, 'which has a vested interest in encouraging internal IT to eliminate everything that makes it more attractive than outside service providers.'"

Intel Takes SATA Performance Crown With X25-E SSD 164

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 24, 2008 @11:21PM from the bragging-rights dept.

theraindog writes "We've already seen Intel's first X25-M solid-state drive blow the doors off the competition, and now there's a new X25-E Extreme model that's even faster. This latest drive reads at 250MB/s, writes at 170MB/s, and offers ten times the lifespan of its predecessor, all while retaining Intel's wicked-fast storage controller and crafty Native Command Queuing support. The Extreme isn't cheap, of course, but The Tech Report's in-depth review of the drive suggests that if you consider its cost in terms of performance, the X25-E actually represents good value for demanding multi-user environments."

Comment Re:IDE Integration (Score 1) 667

by thelibrarian on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @11:58PM (#25478243) Attached to: Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion?

No, that bit is all well known and documented. I was querying your assertions that branching is what people do when they fail to work effectively as a team. More, that you imply that this is the ONLY reason people use branching, and that if people could only learn to get along and work as a team, they would not need branching in their source control software.

Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space 716

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 15, 2008 @01:17PM from the cosmic-dust-on-the-lens dept.

Gizmodo is reporting that the Hubble space telescope has found a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. Some are even suggesting that this could be a new class of object. Of course, without actually understanding more about it, the speculation seems a bit wild. "The object also appeared out of nowhere. It just wasn't there before. In fact, they don't even know where it is exactly located because it didn't behave like anything they know. Apparently, it can't be closer than 130 light-years but it can be as far as 11 billion light-years away. It's not in any known galaxy either. And they have ruled out a supernova too. It's something that they have never encountered before. In other words: they don't have a single clue about where or what the heck this thing is."

Investors Bailing On SCO Stock, SCOX Plummets 368

Posted by kdawson on Monday August 13, 2007 @05:29PM from the is-it-wetter-underwater-than-when-it-rains dept.

HailDorothy writes "SCO's stock price is plummeting in the aftermath of Judge Kimball's ruling that Novell owns the UNIX copyrights, as we discussed earlier. '[W]e will continue to explore our options with respect to how we move forward from here,' SCO said in a public statement issued in a futile attempt to calm investors. SCO's stock price has fallen 70 percent during trading today, reaching a 52-week low. It looks like the end is near for SCO, which still owes Novell 95 percent of the SVRX UNIX royalties it collected from Microsoft and Sun through the SCOsource program. As Judge Kimbell noted in his ruling, it's unlikely that Novell will ever be able to collect on those royalties."

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