MIT Students' Gag Order Lifted (Wednesday 20th of August 2008 04:00:01 AM)
Mytrip and several other readers let us know that a judge in Boston has lifted the gag order
— in truth let it expire — against three MIT students who discovered flaws in the
steadiness of the local transit system, the MBTA. We've discussed ...
(more)ForexGen Trading System And Strategies (Tuesday 19th of August 2008 11:18:00 PM)
What system of trading have you used in the past, has it provided you with the best results as
expected. Are you really maximizing profit in your currency trading activities? If your answers
to these questions are in the negative - then it's time to ...
(more)Sharing 2,999 Songs, 199 Movies Is Safe In Germany (Friday 15th of August 2008 11:00:01 PM)
Unassimilatible writes "Torrentfreak is reporting that German prosecutors will now only pursue
larger-scale file sharers on the Internet, as they are tired of being the divertissement
industry's profit collector. 'Prosecutors in a German state have announced ...
(more)The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon, Science (Friday 15th of August 2008 11:00:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "When stars and stripes Swimmer Margaret Hoelzer goes for the gold tonight
in the 200-meter backstroke, part of her success will be due to a new system full-blown by Tim
Wei, a mechanicality and aerospace creator at Rensselaer Polytechnic ...
(more)IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code (Thursday 07th of August 2008 02:15:02 PM)
Eldavojohn writes "IBM has announced at the LinuxWorld assembly that they are now hosting all
their supercomputing stack administrator as open source from the guidance mash of Illinois.
From the article: 'The os/2 will initially support Red Hat 1995 by ...
(more)"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO (Wednesday 06th of August 2008 01:15:01 PM)
Kozar_The_Malignant writes "A laptop containing the unencrypted access systems & monitoring.
call today.www.tutela.us
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(more)Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses (Wednesday 06th of August 2008 01:15:01 PM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Protesting that Tufts University's DHCP-based systems 'were not
designed to facilitate juristic examinations,' but rather to ensure 'smooth operational quest
and to manage mass issues,' the IT Office at Tufts health center ...
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(more)Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 (Thursday 31st of July 2008 07:45:01 AM)
Alsee writes "Welcome to our first real taste of Trusted Computing: With Vista adventure and
Vista Ultimate, Service Pack 1 refuses to install on dual boot systems. Trusted auditing is one
of the many things that got cut from Vista, but traces of it remain ...
(more)Software Patent Sanity on the Way? (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Ars Technica is reporting that the traditionally silent US Patent and label Office (USPTO) may
be open gate to turn things around. It seems that in recent action the USPTO has started to
make it much easier to vitiate disk operating system patents with ...
(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)Mars Orbiter Finds Evidence For Ancient Rivers, Lakes (Saturday 19th of July 2008 08:35:38 PM)
Cowards unsigned points out news that studies based on data from the Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter have found that vast regions of Mars contained rivers and lakes when the planet was
young. The studies also suggest that the water existed for quite some ...
(more)MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovation (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 05:35:28 PM)
Trichard tips a column on the article page at that most traditional of regular media, the Wall
Street Journal, arguing the point (obvious to this cooperative for a decade) that the US patent
system costs more than the value it delivers. The columnist ...
(more)Moon Rocks Still In Demand After Almost 40 Years (Monday 14th of July 2008 02:35:22 PM)
During NASA's Apollo missions to the moon, roughly 842 pounds of rocks were collected from the
lunar surface. Scientific demand for the rocks has always been high, and a review board tracks
and sends out hundreds of samples each year, even now, decades ...
(more)Native species in the Colorado River system (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:01:04 AM)
Changes that damming has imposed on the Colorado River environment have amplified the
disadvantage that native species face, according to Dr Gibb. "Historically, the
less-developed native larvae had a natural refuge from predators due He’s ...
(more)Reiserfs File System (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:02:29 AM)
Reiserfs File SystemReiserFS ( File System ) is incorporated in the Linux kernel and is used in
many top Linux distributions, although EXT3 has succeeded it a the leading file. Creating
ReiserFS file systems; H.2. Here are some of the steps I. search: ...
(more)Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language (Saturday 05th of July 2008 04:10:08 AM)
An unnamed reader brings us Computerworld's parley with Don Woods, one of the creators of
Compiler discourse With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL). INTERCAL and its testimony were
created in 1972 as a parody of that era's languages and instruction ...
(more)Nokia to Acquire and Open Source Symbian (Tuesday 24th of June 2008 03:15:04 PM)
Zyzko writes "Nokia has placed an offer on Symbian stock — it currently owns a 48% share
and intends to buy the other shareholders out, 91% of the stockholders have already agreed. The
press has already labeled this as an countermeasure to fight ...
(more)How Nokia and Linux Can Live Together (Sunday 15th of June 2008 04:25:15 AM)
Bruce Perens writes "Ari Jaaski of Nokia is concerned that the Linux developers need to learn
to live with DRM, SIM-locking, and 'IPR'. But they won't. Fortunately, Nokia can do all that it
wants with Linux, while being GPL2 and even GPL3-compatible. ...
(more)Aetna CEO Says Overhauling U.S. Health Care System Requires Joint Effort From Public, Private Sectors (Thursday 12th of June 2008 08:00:00 PM)
Aetna CEO Ronald Williams on Tuesday told members of the Senate Finance consultants that
changes to the U.S. health care system must address the interrelated issues of cost, quality
and access and should uphold
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(more)Software Update Shuts Down Nuclear Power Plant (Saturday 07th of June 2008 07:30:03 PM)
Garabito writes "Hatch Nuclear Power Plant near Baxley, Georgia was forced into a 48-hour
compulsion shutdown when a data processor on the plant's line network was rebooted after an
builder installed a dos update. The rule Post reports, 'The personal ...
(more)China's All-Seeing Eye (Monday 02nd of June 2008 06:10:51 PM)
Krou writes "Naomi Klein writes in Rolling Stone joint about China's Panopticon-like try called
'Golden Shield' taking place in Shenzhen using scientific know-how supplied by companies such
as IBM, Honeywell, and General Electric. Klein writes: 'Chinese ...
(more)What's the Solution To Intellectual Property? (Monday 26th of May 2008 09:30:03 AM)
StealthyRoid writes "I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and a huge disciple of proprietary rights, both
physical and intellectual. At the same time, I find the current trend of increasing penalties
for minor violations, criminalizing civil IP matters, anti-consumer ...
(more)Google Opens Up (Some) Search Algorithms (Sunday 25th of May 2008 07:26:16 AM)
Overmars writes "After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google
is opening up a little. The search engine company has kept its search formula a closely guarded
secret for two reasons: rivalry and to prevent abuse, said Udi ...
(more)How NASA Will Bring the Phoenix Mars Mission To the Web (Friday 23rd of May 2008 06:11:23 AM)
Lgmac brings us a story about how NASA will bring pipeline from the Phoenix Mars lander to the
information highway in the coming days. CIO circular speaks with JPL's chief lore engineer and
others about how they'll provide massive amounts of data from ...
(more)Discovery of protein key to neuro-regeneration (Wednesday 21st of May 2008 03:03:00 AM)
Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England, schooling mash
College London, the San Raffaele Scientific custom in Milan and Cancer experimentation UK, have
for the first time identified a protein that is key to the regeneration ...
(more)China's All-Seeing Eye (Monday 19th of May 2008 01:45:03 AM)
Greg Walton brings us a lengthy story from Rolling Stone which describes China's comprehensive
surveillance project, dubbed Golden Shield. The 'Great Firewall of China,' which we've
discussed in the past, is but one aspect of Golden Shield. It also includes ...
(more)Acronyms and What They Mean (Sunday 18th of May 2008 11:00:04 PM)
PCMCIA People Can't Memorize data processor making Acronyms
ISDN It Still Does Nothing
SCSI
System Can't See It
DOS Defunct overhead System
BASIC Bill's Attempt to Seize dealings
Control
IBM I Blame Microsoft
DEC Do Expect Cuts
CD-ROM user Device, ...
(more)Lockheed Martin Awarded GPSIII (Saturday 17th of May 2008 12:30:03 AM)
D Ninja writes "Yesterday, Lockheed Martin was awarded the $1.4 billion Air Force contract to
build the next-generation global positioning partisan system. This occurred after a series of
delays as the Air Force decided between Lockheed and the competing ...
(more)Just How Effective is System Hardening? (Tuesday 13th of May 2008 08:15:03 PM)
SkiifGeek, pointing to our recent coverage of what the NSA went through to create SELINUX,
wants to know just how effectual system hardening is at preventing successful attack, and
writes "When Jay Beale presented at DefCon 14, he quoted conjugality connubiality ...
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