doombringerltx - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Why can plugins crash the browser anyway? (Score 1) 771

by doombringerltx on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @11:05PM (#24868959) Attached to: Chrome Vs. IE 8

I was coming here to post the same thing. I've never had flash crash firefox. The firefox flash plug in runs as a seperate process called npviewer.bin. Maybe other browsers handle it different, but I severely doubt it. I was looking at that sentence and thinking "Oh, I'm a linux user, I know all about flash crashing..."

Submission + - Japan launches lunar orbiter mission Friday

Submitted by

Sooner Boomer

on Friday September 14, 2007 @01:25AM

Sooner Boomer writes: "Japan launched its first lunar probe on Friday, nicknamed Kaguya after a fairy-tale princess, in the latest move in a new race with China, India and the United States to explore the moon. The rocket carrying the three-metric ton orbiter took off into blue skies, leaving a huge trail of vapor over the tiny island of Tanegashima, about 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo, at 10:31 a.m. (9:31 p.m. EDT) as it headed out over the Pacific Ocean. The mission consists of a main orbiter and two baby satellites equipped with 14 observation instruments designed to examine surface terrain, gravity and other features for clues on the origin and evolution of the moon. Read the article or see Japanese Space Agency home page (in English) China has plans to launch an orbiter later this year, with unmaanned rover lander mission scheduled for 2010. India and the US also have orbiter missions scheduled for next year."

Submission + - Ted Stevens' Home Raided

Submitted by el_munkie on Monday July 30, 2007 @07:15PM

el_munkie writes: It appears that the home of Senator Ted Stevens is in the process of being raided by the FBI and the IRS. According to the article, a remodeling project at Stevens' home and the involvement of Veco, an oil company, are the focus of the raid.

Submission + - Are Mobile Phone Masts Responsible For Illness?

Submitted by drewmoney on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @08:55PM

drewmoney writes: According to a major UK study, symptoms of illness caused by mobile phone masts is "all in the mind".

Excerpts from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6914492.stm

Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.

However, the Environmental Health Perspectives study stressed people were nonetheless suffering "real symptoms".

Campaign group Mast Sanity "http://www.mastsanity.org/" said the results were skewed as 12 people in the trials dropped out because of illness.

Submission + - Replacing Silicone with Pencil Graphite

Submitted by

Late-Eight

on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @05:55AM

Late-Eight writes: "A key discovery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could help advance the role of graphene as a possible heir to copper and silicon in nanoelectronics. Researchers believe graphene's extremely efficient conductive properties can be exploited for use in nanoelectronics.

Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, eluded scientists for years but was finally made in the laboratory in 2004 with the help of everyday, store-bough items. This research is an important first step, For developing a way to mass produce metallic graphene that could one day replace copper as the primary interconnect material on nearly all computer chips."

Submission + - Critical Security Bug in FireFox (com.com) 1

Submitted by

Gypsy2012

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @01:28PM

Gypsy2012 writes: "This article from CNet says "A "highly critical" security flaw has been discovered in Firefox, which could allow a malicious attacker to gain remote control of a user's system, according to an advisory issued by Secunia." Looks like it's a good idea to make sure the 'firefox://' URI handler is not registered on your system."

Submission + - AMD Announces Release Date for Barcelona in Q3 (yahoo.com)

Submitted by on Friday June 29, 2007 @03:30PM

An anonymous reader writes: Rumors said the release wouldn't be until late Q4 but an August ship date is now promised. They're only releasing up to 2.0 GHz processors at first, with the top speed devices coming out later in the year.

Submission + - Vista Security Claims Debunked (seclists.org)

Submitted by

[Send Bug Reports Here]

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @03:38PM

[Send Bug Reports Here] writes: "Apparently Microsoft still hasn't learned that counting vendor acknowledged vulnerabilities isn't a good way to establish the security of an OS. As an analysis of Microsoft's claims on Full Disclosure shows, we see that the methodology used was badly flawed. A bug in Firefox (not to mention emacs), counts as a flaw for Linux, while IE bugs get ignored on Vista's chart. Then we see that vulnerabilities aren't vulnerabilities when they're security-challenged features such as Vista's Teredo. Also, there's far too little consideration given to severity, given that it stoops to counting even extra access restrictions on a file in OSX to have something to show. In short, the original Microsoft analysis was good PR and poor research."

Submission + - CIA Declassifies the "Family Jewels"

Submitted by on Tuesday June 26, 2007 @03:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: The CIA has recently declassified some records relating to illegal spying, assassination attempts, and other goodies for afternoon reading. These are available from the CIA's FOIA portal
From the article:
Last week, CIA chief Michael Hayden announced the decision to declassify the records, saying the documents were "unflattering but part of CIA history".
The documents detail assassination plots, domestic spying, wiretapping, and kidnapping.
The incidents include:
* the confinement of a Soviet KGB defector, Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko, in the mid-1960s
* attempts to use a suspected Mafia mobster, Johnny Roselli, in a plot to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro
* the wiretapping and surveillance of journalists, including in 1972 columnist Jack Anderson who broke a string of scandals

Submission + - Bloody hard to run a blog in Sweden

Submitted by

mpawlo

on Friday June 22, 2007 @02:50AM

mpawlo writes: "Swedish media today reports that Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt is being investigated by a prosecutor because of his blog. In a blog post, Mr Bildt states that some 13.000 comments are posted on his blog and that he and his staff try to erase all inapproriate comments. However, in the comment being investigated, genocide of palestinians has been proposed. This comment was not erased, which prompted a Swedish leftist blogger to report the conservative foreign minister's blog and the comment to the authorities. Now a prosecutor is looking into the blog and the foreign minister will likely be held responsible for the comments due to poor Swedish legislation on freedom of speech in relation to the Internet.

Mr Bildt has been in the digital frontline for many years. As the prime minister of Sweden, he sent email to president Clinton, thus becoming the first national leader to use email to communicate with another national leader. He has been adviser to ICANN and has now recently been the first foreign minister to blog extensively. It would be very sad to see him limit his efforts just because it is bloody hard to run a blog with comments in Sweden."

Submission + - France Bans BlackBerries

Submitted by DesertBlade on Thursday June 21, 2007 @04:18PM

DesertBlade writes: France Government officials are no longer allowed to use BlackBerries fearing that the US can snoop government secrets. Are these risks real or just unfounded. What will they ban next, cell phones, computers or talking. Maybe they like most of slashdot they are waiting for the new iPhone and just needed an excuse to find a way to pay for them.

Submission + - Vertical Farming (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by SolFire on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @03:29PM

SolFire writes: The BBC is running a story titled Vertical Farming in the Big Apple http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6752795.stm, a concept that promises to reduce the environmental impact of farming and increase the efficiency of food production by building multi-story farm complexes in urban areas. The vertical farm is envisioned as a self sustaining complex of greenhouses stacked on top of each other. The project site can be found here http://www.verticalfarm.com/

Submission + - Bones Could Become Conduits For Data Swaps

Submitted by

Billosaur

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @02:19PM

Billosaur writes: "New Scientist Tech has an intriguing article about researchers at Rice University in Houston, TX who are looking at ways to use the human skeleton to transmit data. The idea is to use bones to conduct sound waves, with 0's and 1's being represented by different frequencies. Preliminary results, shared with a conference on body networks in Florence, Italy, this week, show that bones can conduct even low-power vibrations with few errors. The idea is that the conduction of sound along bone would be more secure that via radio waves, leading to the possibility of swapping data with someone by shaking their hand."

Submission + - FBI Operation Bot Roast:1 million botnet victims (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @12:13PM

coondoggie writes: "The Department of Justice and FBI today said ongoing investigations have identified over 1 million botnet crime victims. The FBI is working with industry partners, including the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University, to notify the victim owners of the computers. Microsoft and the Botnet Task Force have also helped out the FBI. Through this process the FBI may uncover additional incidents in which botnets have been used to facilitate other criminal activity, the FBI said in a statement.Bots are widely recognized as one of the top scourges of the industry. Gartner predicts that by year-end 75% of enterprises "will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded traditional perimeter and host defenses." http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1619 3"

Submission + - NC man fined for using vegetable oil as fuel (newsobserver.com)

Submitted by

mdsolar

on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @04:33PM

mdsolar writes: "The News and Observer reports on an Charlotte, NC driver who has been fined $1000 for not paying a fuel tax when he fills his tank with vegetable oil. Perhaps the funniest quote is this one:

"With the high cost of fuel right now, the department does recognize that a lot of people are looking for relief," said Reggie Little, assistant director of the motor fuel taxes division. "We're not here to hurt the small guy, we're just trying to make sure that the playing field is level."
since the field is so plainly tilted against Arab oil interests."

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