The Other Side of the Sprint Vs. Cogent Depeering (Tuesday 02nd of December 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Swoolley writes "A month back this company discussed the Sprint vs. Cogent depeering. Now a
story I wrote for Forbes.com tells the inside story of the fight, based on the lawsuits the two
companies filed against each other in worm fence state court. For ...
(more)Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers (Tuesday 28th of October 2008 07:30:06 AM)
Arno Igne writes to tell us that the number of underage applicants in "high-tech" crimes has
risen steeply in recent history. Reporting travail as young as 11 swapping credit card details
and asking for hacks, many are largely unskilled and thus more ...
(more)Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way Black Hole (Thursday 04th of September 2008 11:45:01 PM)
FiReaNGeL writes "An international team has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed
to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers used
radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual ...
(more)Hacked Oyster Card System Crashes Again (Saturday 26th of July 2008 01:45:01 AM)
Barence sends along PcPro inclusion of the second crash of London's Oyster card billing system
in two weeks. Transport for London was forced to open the gates and allow free travel for all.
"There is currently a mechanical problem with Oyster readers ...
(more)How to edit this sentence so the reference is clearer?..the sentence will be in the add details section? (Thursday 10th of July 2008 06:01:17 AM)
A chapion cyclist, a cancer survivor, and a humanitarian, it is no wonder that Lance Armstrong
is one of the most highly celebrated athletes in the world.The problem is that the sentence
begins with a transposed appositive (a noun or group of nouns used ...
(more)How to edit this sentence so the reference is clearer?..the sentence will be in the add details section? (Thursday 10th of July 2008 06:01:13 AM)
Not long afterward, because of intense pain, he sought medical attention, and they told him he
had testicaular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain.Soon after, intense pain drove
him to doctors, who told him that he had testicular cancer that ...
(more)Safari "Carpet Bomb" Attack Still a Risk (Sunday 22nd of June 2008 11:09:54 AM)
SecureThroughObscure writes "Just a short time after Apple's recent acknowledgment of and patch
for the Safari Carpet Bomb 'blended' IE flaw, Microsoft rocket manager Billy Rios shows that
Safari is still useful in a blended attack, this time with Firefox ...
(more)Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater (Wednesday 28th of May 2008 12:41:07 PM)
#space_on_irc.freenode.net (Dusty) writes "Lake Cheko in Siberia has been noted as the
contingent crater of the 1908 Siberian Tunguska event. This news was discussed here in
December, but details on the crater were scant. Now a new paper written by Luca ...
(more)New Report Examines How Prescription Drug Rebates Have Evolved and How Health Care Industry Has Reacted to New Reimbursement Methodologies (Saturday 10th of May 2008 12:00:04 PM)
This report on law drug rebates details how they have evolved over the years and take up to
change. It also examines how the health care mob has reacted to new reimbursement
methodologies, and details strategies that have been successful, as well as ones ...
(more)IBM Leaks Details on New Mainframe (Saturday 23rd of February 2008 07:15:01 AM)
Mark writes "Big Blue inadvertently revealed details about its new z10 Enterprise Class
mainframe set to launch on Feb. 26, as well as details on z/OS v1.10, a new version of the
mainframe OS due out in September. 'According to an internal IBM record ...
(more)The Shadow Space Race (Thursday 14th of February 2008 01:30:03 AM)
Vm writes "NOVA's recent documentary, "Astrospies," was written and co-produced by scribe and
NSA expert, James Bamford. It details the U.S. Air Force's orbiting spy station program begun
in the 1960s, the Manned Orbital Laboratory. Designed from a heavily ...
(more)Mystery Malware Affecting Linux/Apache Web Servers (Friday 25th of January 2008 05:00:03 AM)
Lisah writes "Reports are beginning to surface that some Web servers running Linux and Apache
are unwittingly infecting thousands of computers, exploiting vulnerabilities in QuickTime,
Yahoo! Messenger, and Windows. One way to tell if your machine is ...
(more)Rochester Judge Holds RIAA Evidence Insufficient (Monday 29th of October 2007 09:15:05 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Judge David G. Larimer, supervisory in Rochester, New York, has
denied an RIAA practice for default judgment on the ground that the RIAA's sign was
insufficient, in that it contained no details of actual downloads or distributions, ...
(more)Inside Comcast's Surveillance Policies (Tuesday 16th of October 2007 08:30:04 PM)
Monk writes "The Federation of american stars and stripes Scientists has obtained a lately
disclosed Comcast Handbook for Law Enforcement which details its policies for divulging its
customers' personal information. (Here's the handbook itself in PDF ...
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