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BT Funnels All Customers' Sent Emails Into One Guy's Inbox (theregister.co.uk) 45

Posted by msmash from the poor-guy-Steve dept.
Shaun Nichols, reporting for The Register: The UK's biggest broadband provider BT redirected its customers' outgoing emails to a single account for three hours on Tuesday. The telco said the flooded inbox was an internal account it uses for test purposes and not a random unlucky subscriber. While BT did not provide details on the reason for the disruption, it appears to be the result of testing or maintenance gone awry. "A small number of customers reported an issue sending emails earlier. Sorry about this, it's fixed now," BT said in a statement to El Reg. "The mailbox in the delivery failure notification was for internal/test use and appeared in error, sorry for any confusion that caused." The emails were going to an account which belonged to someone named Steve Webb. The Register reports that Steve Webb works for one of BT's contractors. For Webb, I fear, Tuesday wasn't a productive day.

Comment Re:And a round of slow clapping began.... (Score 1) 202

by DarkWicked (#40840981) Attached to: Fedora 18 To Feature the GNOME2 Fork MATE

I've been a Fedora user since Fedora Core 3. It's my only OS, and most of my time is spent in front of it (for work and leisure). I was shocked when I discovered Gnome 3 and all the things it "broke" for me and the way I interact with my computer. I felt like my computer had suddenly lost a lot of its value and functionality.

I tried to get used to it, I tried add-ons, I tried Cinnamon, Xfce, Lxde... But nothing felt right. Until I tried KDE. I was shocked to find that it was -or could be made to look and feel- exactly like Gnome 2, but more modern and with a ton of options and cool features Gnome2 didn't have. I'm not going back to Gnome 2.
Movies

The Home-Built Dark Knight Batmobile 87

Posted by samzenpus from the taking-the-little-jokers-to-school dept.
ElectricSteve writes "RM Auctions recently declared James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 to be 'the world's most famous car,' but there's no doubt that there is another contender for that title — the Batmobile. One thing that muddies the waters a bit is the fact that the term 'Batmobile' actually describes at least three different vehicles: the modified Lincoln Futura concept car from the '60s TV series, the vaguely Corvette-shaped 1989-and-beyond movie cars, and now the car from the most recent two movies, the military-spec Tumbler. Michigan-based movie props artist Bob Dullam really likes the Tumbler, so he did what any of us would do in his position — he built one of his own from scratch."
Earth

Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half 414

Posted by samzenpus from the not-so-bad-after-all dept.
bonch writes "A new study on Greenland's and West Antarctica's rate of ice loss halves the estimate of ice loss. Published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the study takes into account a rebounding of the Earth's crust called glacial isostatic adjustment, a continuing rise of the crust after being smashed under the weight of the Ice Age. 'We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted,' said researcher Bert Vermeeersen."

Comment Zero (Score 1) 384

by DarkWicked (#33402794) Attached to: Icons on my (computer) desktop:

In the unfortunate event that I have to reboot my computer, I will then spend about 10 seconds pressing Alt+F2 and a few keystrokes to relaunch the three Apps I need.

I then place each app on its own virtual desktop to keep things organized and I'm back to work.
Privacy

Highly Directional Terahertz Laser Demonstrated 125

Posted by kdawson from the break-out-the-tinfoil-underware dept.
eldavojohn writes "A new paper published this week in the journal Nature Materials announces a successful demonstration of highly directional terahertz semiconductor lasers. You might not think it's a big deal that some Harvard and University of Leeds researchers (funded partially by the US Air Force) figured out how to better direct lasers; but this means the ability to see what's in someone's pockets and clothing, at a distance of possibly hundreds of meters, or farther. The big benefit is that they are lower in energy than X-Rays and are less invasive, since they cannot pass through water or metal. Coming soon to an airport near you or buzzing around on board a drone in civilian airspace?"

Comment Re:Doesn't matter (Score 1) 181

by DarkWicked (#32678644) Attached to: IE9 Preview Touts Cross Browser Compatibility

As a web developer with more than ten years experience who doesn't use any kind of "IE only" hacks and code, I disagree.

IE wastes time, because it's the only browser that needs extra care, but when you know what it can and can't do properly, you know how to code css that just works on every browser, IE 6 included, without hacks and without extra CSS files for IE.

Writing extra IE-only css code is a sign of incompetence.

Javascript is a different matter, but jQuery takes care of that problem just fine (mostly).
Graphics

WebGL Standard To Bring 3D Acceleration To Browsers? 239

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the need-faster-delivery-of-js-already dept.
Several sources are reporting that while native audio/video support has been dropped from the HTML 5 spec, the Khronos Group has released a few details about their up and coming WebGL 3D acceleration standard. "The general principle behind WebGL is to offer a JavaScript binding to the group's OpenGL ES 2.0 system, allowing code run within the browser to access the graphics hardware directly in the same way as a standalone application can. As the technology would rely solely on JavaScript to do the heavy lifting, no browser plugin would be required — and it would be compatible with any browser which supports the scripting language alongside the HTML 5 'Canvas' element."
Privacy

White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules 235

Posted by timothy from the but-other-than-this-one-thing dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The new White House website privacy policy promises that the site will not use long-term tracking cookies, complying with a decade old rule prohibiting such user tracking by federal agencies. However, Obama's legal team has quietly exempted YouTube from this rule. Visitors to the official White House blog will receive long-term tracking cookies whenever they surf to a web-page with an embedded YouTube video — even those users that do not click the "play" button. As CNET reports, no other company has been singled out and rewarded with such a waiver."

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