Comment To boil it down to one quote: (Score 1) 282
From TFA
"If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks," said a military official.
Submission + - LastPass Pasword Service Hacked (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: LastPass, a popular Web based password management firm, advised its customers to change the password they use to access the service following what the company said are signs that its network may have been compromised.
Comment Re:Other OS (Score 1) 329
In all fairness, Nintendo and MS never made any attempt to allow that type of thing.
You also didn't see the US Air Force or other research institutions buying clusters of Nintento Wii's or XBOX 360's for their cluster computing platforms.
Submission + - Endeavour launch scrubbed for 48 hours
shuz writes: At 10:15 am Eastern time the launch of Endeavour has been scrubbed for a minimum of 48 hours. The scrub is due to 2 failed Axillary Power Unit heaters.
Comment What about FY2012? (Score 3, Interesting) 290
If lawmakers can't agree to a budget for the time period starting 7 MONTHS AGO, how are they going to get a FY2012 budget done?
Federal managers aren't spending more than the Continuing Resolution levels, and should be saving some money in case of cuts. Funding them over the CR level would just lead to waste spending in the 'use it or lose it' model (They have until September to spend it all).
They need to pass a status quo budget for FY2011, and get started on FY2012. That is where the problem lies, and where a solution can take place.
Comment Re:All I immediately thought of (Score 1) 69
I was going to say the exact same thing. Good show, excellent use of the monocle.
Submission + - Google Fiber comes to Kansas City (tekgoblin.com)
tekgoblin writes: "Remember that campaign that Google had announced a long while back to bring fiber to your front door? Well, it looks like they are making some actual progress now and launching part of the network in Kansas City, Kansas.
The city of Topeka had actually temporarily renamed the city to Google, Kansas the capital city of fiber optics in a move to get Google to lay fiber there. Well it seems to have worked because a deal has just been signed to roll out the fiber in the city which should be available to everyone in the area by 2012."
The city of Topeka had actually temporarily renamed the city to Google, Kansas the capital city of fiber optics in a move to get Google to lay fiber there. Well it seems to have worked because a deal has just been signed to roll out the fiber in the city which should be available to everyone in the area by 2012."
Comment Re:Two-Factor (Score 1) 144
I wouldn't trust them to quickly roll out a RSA product. With the speed, they are going to leave some holes open, and with the back-end source code probably out in the wild, it may just make the problem worse. (The source code is only going to hurt shoddy implementations of the RSA Server. People do shoddy work under time pressure).
Submission + - Gamification - how much of this stuff is new?
An anonymous reader writes: It's nigh on impossible to avoid all the chatter and buzz around the concept of gamification — using game mechanics to create engagement outside the world of videogames. silicon.com has an interview with US author Aaron Dignan whose book Game Frame delves into the topic to try and pull out a few rules of engagement for businesses seeking to tap into the power of gaming to better motivate their staff. Dignan is fairly convincing and yet I can't help feeling there's a lot of hype and not necessarily a great deal of substance to all this gamification chat. Perhaps the term itself is the problem — maybe 'playfulness' would be a better concept to think of. What do Slashdot readers make of the gamification movement and its evangelists?
Submission + - MIT drone finds its way using Kinect vision (suasnews.com)
garymortimer writes: "This MIT multicopter is able to fly in GPS denied environments by creating a 3D map of its surroundings on the fly (no pun intended) based on point clouds generated by a Kinect. Also pretty handy for avoiding trees and other obstacles outside at low level.
Moores law is making this happen in small drones quick! This processing is onboard, unlike other systems that depend on motion capture rigs."
Moores law is making this happen in small drones quick! This processing is onboard, unlike other systems that depend on motion capture rigs."
Comment Good Job FBI (Score 1) 336
I didn't know the FBI's Pedophile Hunting Team was doing such a great job! 10 million accounts closed in a month?
oh, you mean there are other people who still use(d) MySpace? #newsToMe
Comment Re:Nonsense! (Score 1) 588
I'll admit it- I misread it as "driver's license", but all that means is that he can't use a VW Beetle at the speed of light. He'll have to use the bus.
Submission + - ISP's war on BitTorrent hits World of Warcraft (itworld.com)
jfruhlinger writes: "Canadian Internet users have the prospect of a metered Internet looming over their head, and now World of Warcraft players who use Rogers Communications as their ISP are encountering serious throttling. The culprit seems to be Rogers' determination to go after BitTorrent. WoW uses BitTorrent as a utility to update game files — something most users probably aren't even aware of."
Comment Obligatory (Score 2) 256
Here's the chart that you can derive your Daily Radiation Dosage (and put it into Banana form) http://xkcd.com/radiation/
Submission + - P2P Music Downloads At All-Time Low (ibtimes.com) 1
RedEaredSlider writes: Peer-to-peer music sharing, the type of service which helped create the digital music industry, is at an all time low.
According to research group NPD Group, the shuttering of Limewire's music file sharing service has led to a similar decline in the usage of such services throughout the U.S. The number has gone from a high of 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to just nine percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, right after Limewire shut down its file-sharing services due to a court order, when a federal judge sided with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
According to research group NPD Group, the shuttering of Limewire's music file sharing service has led to a similar decline in the usage of such services throughout the U.S. The number has gone from a high of 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to just nine percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, right after Limewire shut down its file-sharing services due to a court order, when a federal judge sided with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Slashdot Top Deals
The bigger the theory the better.
