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  1. NSA installing spyware on Cisco routers on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone still remembers the information about NSA installing spyware on Cisco routers, right? Maybe sales and thus information from such have strangely decreased? So let's call an ad-campaign!

  2. USB fans anyone? on US Government Finds New Malware From North Korea (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Was this one included in the USB fans given to reporters during the NK - US summit? ;) :D

  3. Re:Doesn't make up for hacking our computers on Researchers Uncover Android Malware With Never-Before-Seen Spying Capabilities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your local government(s) exactly want you to think that way, so that you don't use those tools that would detect their malware. They can silence local tool vendors using National Security Letters. But not these kind of foreign ones.

    If you read the story, mostly Italians are infected, with a malware made by Italian company and likely used by Italian intelligence agencies...

  4. Sound cleanup on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    Sure, MP3 or other lossy compression can actually remove some of the bad distortion harmonics from the over-compressed and over-limited material what the big record companies are throwing out these days.

    Any of these tests done on material which has any signal clipping in it, is immediately invalid.

    Most of the CDs from big record companies produced on this century sound horrible. Luckily there are still small record companies producing good material on a multichannel SACD...

  5. Multicast!? on The Tiger Effect and Internet DDoS · · Score: 1

    How about getting multicast finally into proper use? Then these kind of things wouldn't be an issue at all, or even get noticed...

    Having each and every client streaming the same content separately is completely broken concept.

  6. Re:No ogg support?? on Linux Tablet to be Released in Two Days · · Score: 1

    Doing C55x DSP implementation of ogg/vorbis is not easy as that... ;)

  7. Re:Improve on symlinks? on Vista To Get Symlinks? · · Score: 1

    And many years ago, OS/2 did this right... No broken symlinks when target is moved, etc...

  8. Not the first one... on Irish Movie Theatres Go Digital · · Score: 1

    In Finland we have a 461 seat movie theater with digital projector (TI DLP technology). Movie is transferred in digital format. First movie shown using that projector was Star Wars Episode II in 2002.

    I'm not sure about the current status of it, but at least I watched the abovementioned movie there.

  9. Wolfram cell automation on The Universe in 4 Lines of Code? · · Score: 1

    I read about it in a local newspaper and wrote a small simulator (in two hours) drawing results from random input data. It has Gtk+ "GUI".

    You can find it at http://uworld.dyndns.org/linux/wolfram.c

  10. GPL'd military software on Open Source in the Military? · · Score: 1

    When it comes to submarines and GPL'd software, there is at least my software suite for passive sonar signal analysis. http://hasas.sf.net

  11. Re:Oh come on People! on Kursk Destroyed By Cavitation Missles? · · Score: 1

    You mean when torpedo detonated on board Scorpion?

    I believe Kursk collided with foreign submarine because they didn't hear it. If there was a torpedo in torpedo tube it might have exploded when the tube broke up because of collision, or when boat hit the bottom. That wouldn't be first collision with another sub.

    I would be very surprised if there weren't any foreign subs listening and watching the exercise and gathering intelligence information. How did US and UK know about the accident so fast if they weren't there? They also seemed to know when submariners stopped signalling (hammering the hull)...

    About the rocket (ASROC for short), I believe they have been testing it at least since -97, that was the first time I heard about it. It was called something like VA-111.

  12. Re:I knew something was screwy on Kursk Destroyed By Cavitation Missles? · · Score: 1

    That's usual when it's about submarines or ASW.

    Submarines are one of the most secret areas of military. You don't get much news about where US subs are going and what they are doing, do you?

    I believe there really isn't anything very secret there, otherwise they wouldn't let anybody foreign that close to their sub.

    US didn't make much noise either when they lost Scorpion...