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Submission + - Why have Slashdot stories slowed to a crawl? 2

Submitted by zamboni1138
zamboni1138 writes: You're been an avid Slashdot reader for years, so have I. Why, over the last however many months, has Slashdot story publication slowed to a new low. Weekdays, maybe eight stories, weekends, maybe two or three. We already know the editors are not the brightest bunch, posting dupes, slashvertisements, etc. But is there something deeper going on? Inquiring minds want to know.

Comment media (Score 3, Interesting) 43

Many many years ago, back when napster was all of the rage, we had record labels searching the web with bots looking for hosted media. There was a movement with generated lists of mp3 and fake files on our websites. I thought I had an archive of mine, but it seems to have been removed by me, too long ago.

This story reminds me of that time, good on him.

Submission + - Dr. Ed Stone, Voyager Project Scientist, passes away

Submitted by hackertourist
hackertourist writes: Edward C. Stone, former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and project scientist of the Voyager mission for 50 years, died on June 9, 2024. He was age 88.

Stone served on nine NASA missions as either principal investigator or a science instrument lead, and on five others as a co-investigator (a key science instrument team member). These roles primarily involved studying energetic ions from the Sun and cosmic rays from the galaxy. He had the distinction of being one of the few scientists involved with both the mission that has come closest to the Sun (NASA’s Parker Solar Probe) and the one that has traveled farthest from it (Voyager).

Stone is best known for his work on NASA’s longest-running mission, Voyager, whose twin spacecraft launched in 1977 and are still exploring deep space today. He served as Voyager’s sole project scientist from 1972 until his retirement in 2022. Under Stone’s leadership, the mission took advantage of a celestial alignment that occurs just once every 176 years to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The mission transformed our understanding of the solar system, and is still providing useful data today.

Comment Re:You think they would learn... (Score 4, Informative) 30

by wokka1 (#63922835) Attached to: Cisco Can't Stop Using Hard-Coded Passwords

Only one very specific version is vulnerable. My guess is that they have the root password hardcoded during dev and they missed the step about changing it when it shipped. 12.5.1su4 is the version. Older and newer versions are fine. https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.co...

It's still an attack vector though, and yes, they missed it.

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