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Satoshi Nakamoto's Email Address Compromised 65

Posted by Soulskill from the or-as-he-likes-to-be-called,-bitcoin-batman dept.
ASDFnz writes: Satoshi Nakamoto, the respected (and currently missing) inventor of Bitcoin, seems to have had his email address compromised by an unknown agent. Satoshi exclusively used one email address when he was active in the Bitcoin community: satoshin@gmx.com. If you have a look at the original Bitcoin whitepaper (PDF), you will find it there at the top just under the title. He also usually signed his correspondence with his PGP signature. Earlier today, the head administrator of Bitcointalk, Theymos, received an email from Satoshi's email address that appeared to originate from GMX's servers. Theymos made a post on the Bitcointalk forums saying he had received an email from the address without Satoshi's PGP signature. Later, the unknown agent posted to other Satoshi accounts.
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Barnes & Noble's Nook HD Tablets Face iPad, Kindle Fire HD 134

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the so-many-cheap-computers-so-little-money dept.
Nerval's Lobster writes "It's proven a busy month for mobile-device releases. First Nokia whipped back the curtain from the Lumia 820 and 920, its first Windows Phone 8 devices. The very next day, Amazon unveiled its new line of Kindle devices, including the Kindle Fire HD. Not to be outdone, Apple executives took to a stage in San Francisco the next week to show off the iPhone 5, complete with a larger screen and faster processor. But September's not over yet, and the releases keep coming: Barnes & Noble has launched a pair of HD tablets, the Nook HD and Nook HD+, designed to maintain the bookseller's toehold in the tablet space. The question is whether the Nook, even with upgraded hardware and new services, can successfully punch above its weight against the iPad and Kindle Fire, which are widely perceived as the dominant devices in the tablet market." Nook HD specs (Android 4.0, Dual 1.3Ghz Cortex-A9, 1G RAM), and HD+ specs (1.5GHz Coretex-A9 and a larger screen). Nate the greatest writes with a job posting that may indicate B&N is defecting to Windows 8, or at least hedging their bets.

Comment Re:I have issues with the TFA (Score 1) 491

From the TFA:

* Sixty-four percent (64%) of survey participants found the transition to Agile confusing, hard, or slow. Twenty-eight percent (28%) report success with Agile.
- I'd like to see the number for success in waterfall.

* Overwhelmingly, 40% of participants that use Agile did not identify a benefit.
- How is 40% overwhelming? I though overwhelming meant much larger than a simple majority. What about the other 60%?

Comment News From Nasa (Score 4, Interesting) 201

by PhotonSphere (#27872507) Attached to: What's Getting Cut From Science Part of the Federal Budget

I just caught a local PBS show in which someone from NASA (I didn't catch his name, as I came into the program right after his
introduction) shared the following bit of bad news that comes with the new Federal Budget:

"The Shuttle is 30 years old. We've been flying this machine for thirty years. Over the last year and a half, we've been transitioning to a new Constellation program and developing a new launch vehicle as well as the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle to take us back to the moon. That's the goal.

When that shuttle retires, there's going to be a serious change in workforce.

What are we going to do with all the engineers that were performing sustaining engineering on that shuttle program?

The idea was to take them and move them over into the part of the Constellation program that develops the Altair, which is a Lunar Lander going back to the moon.

Today, when President Obama rolled out his detail budget on space, he pulled the Altair and pushed it out three to five years.

So that's a real concern.

If you had asked me this morning at 8:00 if there was going to be a problem with the space industry with engineers and moving forward, I would have said no. This afternoon we've got a real concern
about that and how we're going to fill the gap with those employees.

And we've still got time. We've got a couple of years to try to convince the present Obama administration to continue to go back to the moon."

Comment A little ironic... (Score 1) 360

by PhotonSphere (#22875556) Attached to: City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over "Health Concerns"
...because Sebastapol was on the cutting edge of WiFi and community wireless not too long ago. Home to O'Reilly & Associates as well WiFi guru, Rob Flickenger, this was the site of many of the first long-haul WiFi links and other rooftop tech. It's a shame that a community that was once on the forefront of wireless coolness is now putting on the brakes over something like this...

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