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Comment Post Employment Ad for "legal expert" (Score 5, Interesting) 259

by tlk nnr on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @08:43AM (#44806749) Attached to: How To Foil NSA Sabotage: Use a Dead Man's Switch

The rsync canary is a good idea, another standard approach for delicate communications are job advertisements.

In this case:
A large ad in a suitable newspaper that you are searching for a lawyer.

Comment Tsunami waves are not higher than 19 feet, (Score 1) 117

by tlk nnr on Friday April 29, 2011 @10:55AM (#35974862) Attached to: Amazon EC2 Failure Post-Mortem

and the primary and secondary network will not fail simultaneously for a large number of nodes.

It's nice to see that everyone has the same problem:
There is no approach to identify wrong assumptions.

But what's the conclusion?
Should we stay away from huge systems, because the damage due to a wrong assumption in a huge system is huge?

Minecraft Reaches Beta Status, Price Goes Up 279

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @07:23AM from the another-notch-in-the-belt dept.

Eric writes "After over a year of development, Minecraft has hit Beta status today. Minecraft was developed for about a week before its public release on May 17, 2009. With the new milestone, the price of the game has increased to €14.95; when Minecraft moves beyond beta status, it will sell for €20.00. The beta is more focused on polish and content. The aim is to add proper modding support via a stable API, some kind of non-intrusive narrative to help drive the game experience early on, and a late-game goal. Updates will be less frequent, so as to make sure stability is maintained thanks to more extended testing. Despite this, there have already been two beta releases: client and server Beta 1.0 followed quickly by client 1.0_01."

200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant 693

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 18, 2010 @11:41AM from the people-get-what-they-deserve dept.

Over 200 University of Central Florida students admitted to cheating on a midterm exam after their professor figured out at least a third of his class had cheated. In a lecture posted on YouTube, Professor Richard Quinn told the students that he had done a statistical analysis of the grades and was using other methods to identify the cheats, but instead of turning the list over to the university authorities he offered the following deal: "I don't want to have to explain to your parents why you didn't graduate, so I went to the Dean and I made a deal. The deal is you can either wait it out and hope that we don't identify you, or you can identify yourself to your lab instructor and you can complete the rest of the course and the grade you get in the course is the grade you earned in the course."

TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old 1135

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @02:09PM from the security-theater dept.

3-year-old Mandy Simon started crying when her teddy bear had to go through the X-ray machine at airport security in Chattanooga, Tenn. She was so upset that she refused to go calmly through the metal detector, setting it off twice. Agents then informed her parents that she "must be hand-searched." The subsequent TSA employee pat down of the screaming child was captured by her father, who happens to be a reporter, on his cell phone. The video have left some questioning why better procedures for children aren't in place. I, for one, feel much safer knowing the TSA is protecting us from impressionable minds warped by too much Dora the Explorer.

Comment Re:Not true (Score 1) 397

by tlk nnr on Sunday November 14, 2010 @07:42AM (#34221248) Attached to: Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz

No need to search: You can find press releases from 2008 about engine control ECUs build around Infineon Tricore with 150 MHz:

http://www.tuneline.at/news/detail.asp?start=235 (sorry, in German)

The Audi V12 (diesel) is controlled by two 150 MHz processors operating as master-slave.

Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux 121

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 29, 2010 @04:23PM from the everything-is-amazing-no-one-is-happy dept.

tc6669 writes "Tom's Hardware is continuing its coverage of easy-to-install Linux applications for new users coming from Windows with the latest installment, Office Apps. This segment covers office suites, word processors, spreadsheet apps, presentation software, simple database titles, desktop publishing, project management, financial software, and more. All of these applications are available in the Ubuntu, Fedora, or openSUSE repos or as .deb or .rpm packages. All of the links to download these applications are provided — even Windows .exe and Mac OS X .dmg files when available."

Chinese Root Server Shut Down After DNS Problem 91

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 28, 2010 @06:50AM from the need-a-new-source-of-ginseng dept.

itwbennett writes "After a networking error first reported on Wednesday last week caused computers in Chile and the US to come under the control of a system that censors the Internet in China, the 'root DNS server associated with the networking problems has been disconnected from the Internet,' writes Robert McMillan. The server's operator, Netnod, has 'withdrawn route announcements' made by the server, according to company CEO Kurt Lindqvist."

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