"Newsweek has announced that it will cease print publication at the end of the year, going all-digital. The new digital edition will still be based on a subscription model. Who will be next?"
The writing's on the Wall for print media, with such devices such as iPAD and Kindle the future of paper media is very much in the decline...
"Ok, I'm only a student. So I don't know anything. But I sorta THOUGHT that the standard for a mission critical system (aka something like a heart monitor, blood gas analyzer, etc etc etc) would be to NOT use any software in your system that you don't have 100% control over.
"One aspect of zero-day exploits use that's made them tough to track and count has been how closely targeted they are. Unlike the mass malware infections that typically infect many thousands of machines using known vulnerabilties, the majority of the exploits in Symantec's study only affected a handful of machines--All but four of the exploits infected less than 100 targets, and four were found on only one computer.
"After nearly three years of development, Invisible Things Labs has finally released Qubes 1.0, a Fedora 17-based Linux distribution that tries to be as secure as possible by isolating various applications in their own virtual machines using Xen. If one of the applications is compromised, the damage is isolated to the domain it's running in" link
"American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States"
Assuming such attacks took place then it would have consisted of phishing attacks against unsecured Windows desktops and there's no evidence it came from Iran. It isn't beyond the bounds of probability that US intelligence fakes cyber-attacks and then blamed Iran.
No one forces you to use Google, unlike Microsoft where every defauly installation of Internet Explorer has BING as the default search engine, and MS embedding msBing into Office applications..
Bing Bar
`U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta has warned that the country is 'facing the possibility of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" and [is] increasingly vulnerable to foreign computer hackers who could dismantle the nation's power grid, transportation system, financial networks and government'.
Assuming this is the case and not a pretext for getting a bigger budget, then it's largely self inflicted due to the excessive and compulsory use of Windows in finance, government and the DHS itself...
"Ex-Nokia exec Tommi Ahonen's new article has a few suggestions. Is the Nokia board either asleep at the wheel, or incompetent, or in collusion with the incompetent CEO?"
But the best way to avoid a cyberheist is to not have your computer systems infected in the first place. The trouble is, it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell when a system is or is not infected. That's why I advocate the use of a Live CD approach for online banking." link
The short version: Don't own his own seeds and once you buy Monsanto seeds they own your business..
"A federal appeals court found that soybean farmer Vernon Bowman infringed on Monsanto patents when he planted second-generation soybeans that were the product of seeds he had purchased from Monsanto"
"Tomorrow's planned flight is to be the first under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA that calls for a dozen resupply flights by SpaceX, essential in the post-shuttle era". link
I find it hard to believe that NASA isn't capable of designing and lauching its own launch vehicle.
Is it any news that the Russians 'borrow` a lot of their tech from the west. I understand you could get such 'advanced microelectronics` in a games console. Wasn't it the case, some time ago, that a middle-eastern country was going round buying up games consoles for the chips?
Slashdot Mirror
Is there a transcript available, cause in lectures, I tend to nod off after five minutes ...
I'll stick with Lubuntu, less is more ...
The problem with Newsweek is it hasn't said anything of interest for a long time ...
"Newsweek has announced that it will cease print publication at the end of the year, going all-digital. The new digital edition will still be based on a subscription model. Who will be next?"
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The writing's on the Wall for print media, with such devices such as iPAD and Kindle the future of paper media is very much in the decline
Where did the RNA world evolve from?
DNA Replication process ...
"Ok, I'm only a student. So I don't know anything. But I sorta THOUGHT that the standard for a mission critical system (aka something like a heart monitor, blood gas analyzer, etc etc etc) would be to NOT use any software in your system that you don't have 100% control over.
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You make a lot of sense for a student
"One aspect of zero-day exploits use that's made them tough to track and count has been how closely targeted they are. Unlike the mass malware infections that typically infect many thousands of machines using known vulnerabilties, the majority of the exploits in Symantec's study only affected a handful of machines--All but four of the exploits infected less than 100 targets, and four were found on only one computer.
What OS do these machines run on?
"After nearly three years of development, Invisible Things Labs has finally released Qubes 1.0, a Fedora 17-based Linux distribution that tries to be as secure as possible by isolating various applications in their own virtual machines using Xen. If one of the applications is compromised, the damage is isolated to the domain it's running in" link
Malware isn't a virus and require the end user to download and run the malware ..
NoScript filtered a potential cross-site scripting attempt from [http://online.wsj.com]
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[NoScript InjectionChecker] JavaScript Injection in coalesced:///site/4454ret=html&limit=10&r=65017&phint=serverDomain=online.wsj.com
[NoScript XSS] Sanitized suspicious request. Original URL [http://tags.bluekai.com/site/4454?ret=html&limit=
"Which ignores the fact that Britain had legally secured the mineral rights to virtually all of Iran
You mean IRAN was going to take back what the British had previously stolen from them, their own oil. link
"American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States"
Assuming such attacks took place then it would have consisted of phishing attacks against unsecured Windows desktops and there's no evidence it came from Iran. It isn't beyond the bounds of probability that US intelligence fakes cyber-attacks and then blamed Iran.
No one forces you to use Google, unlike Microsoft where every defauly installation of Internet Explorer has BING as the default search engine, and MS embedding msBing into Office applications ..
Bing Bar
See here at 7:48 where the Mom has the Dog on an anti-anxiety medication :)
`U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta has warned that the country is 'facing the possibility of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" and [is] increasingly vulnerable to foreign computer hackers who could dismantle the nation's power grid, transportation system, financial networks and government'.
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Assuming this is the case and not a pretext for getting a bigger budget, then it's largely self inflicted due to the excessive and compulsory use of Windows in finance, government and the DHS itself
"Ex-Nokia exec Tommi Ahonen's new article has a few suggestions. Is the Nokia board either asleep at the wheel, or incompetent, or in collusion with the incompetent CEO?"
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No, they are just another in the long line of suicide-by-Microsoft victims
> A well written GUI can do just as much, just as easily, as a shell can ..
With shell scripts, you can automate the task, go for your walk, and when you get back, the task is done ...
'What does the Slashdot crowd see as the best path to fame, wealth and full employment for gray-haired old coots who love to program?"'
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There isn't one, either get into management or get into teaching
"It is set to focus on how to ensure license rights to critical technologies are offered on "reasonable" terms".
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US tech firms lean on UN to legalize stealing stuff from companies and then selling it back to them under RAND terms
What is Wrong with RAND?
But the best way to avoid a cyberheist is to not have your computer systems infected in the first place. The trouble is, it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell when a system is or is not infected. That's why I advocate the use of a Live CD approach for online banking." link
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Or don't use Microsoft Windows
The short version: Don't own his own seeds and once you buy Monsanto seeds they own your business ..
"A federal appeals court found that soybean farmer Vernon Bowman infringed on Monsanto patents when he planted second-generation soybeans that were the product of seeds he had purchased from Monsanto"
$1.6 billion is lowest bidder, how much of that goes on revenue for the company ...
"Tomorrow's planned flight is to be the first under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA that calls for a dozen resupply flights by SpaceX, essential in the post-shuttle era". link
I find it hard to believe that NASA isn't capable of designing and lauching its own launch vehicle.
Is it any news that the Russians 'borrow` a lot of their tech from the west. I understand you could get such 'advanced microelectronics` in a games console. Wasn't it the case, some time ago, that a middle-eastern country was going round buying up games consoles for the chips?