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  1. Midair collision on Radioactive Snails Crawl Up From Beneath · · Score: 1

    Between a B-52 on deterrence patrol and a fuel tanker during a mid-air refueling. Several bombs fell loose. Two hit the ground in Palomares, one went down in the Mediterranean.

  2. Speaking of which on Extent of Government Computers Infected By Bots Uncertain · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Commerce Department Targeted; Hackers Traced to China


    Hackers operating through Chinese Internet servers have launched a debilitating attack on the computer system of a sensitive Commerce Department bureau, forcing it to replace hundreds of workstations and block employees from regular use of the Internet for more than a month, Commerce officials said yesterday.

    The attack targeted the computers of the Bureau of Industry and Security, which is responsible for controlling U.S. exports of commodities, software and technology having both commercial and military uses. The bureau has stepped up its activity in regulating trade with China in recent years as the United States increased its exports of such dual-use items to the growing Chinese market.

  3. Lucasfilm will instead focus on television. on George Lucas To Quit Movie Business · · Score: 1

    I hear he's producing, scriptwriting, and directing, Season 4 of BSG.

  4. Apparently she's only guilty on Calif. AG Files Felony Charges In HP Probe · · Score: 1
    if she knew that pretexting was a crime. If she can convince a jury that she didn't know illegal acts were taking place she'll get off. Apparently a quirk of California law.

    OTOH, she's recently been diagnosed with a recurrence of ovarian cancer, so maybe she'll be answering to a Higher Authority...

  5. That's why I run Linux on HOWTO Commit Corporate Espionage · · Score: 1

    It stops both of them.

  6. And don't forget The Matrix Unbound on KDE on the NBC Show "Heroes" · · Score: 1

    or Uploaded, or Sucked, But Not As Much as 3, or whatever it was. The one where the Hot Chick hacked into a mainframe using a known SSH vulnerability.

  7. A couple friends have Fios on Verizon To Pump $18B Into FiOS · · Score: 0
    They love it. Faster than cable or DSL.

    As far asw having 86 million people wired by now, have you not heard of the last mile problem. Laying the cable costs money. And takes time. After the dot bomb the telcos had to retrench for a few years until the market improved a bit.

  8. hy can't a foreign self governing nation on Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites · · Score: 1
    control its own airspace and space space.

    Because if they could restrict activitis in orbit, then that would be the end of satellite communications, the space program, etc. Oh, and other countries (and private corporations) do orbit recon sats over the US. Without the US objecting.

  9. You know what these numbers really mean? on Which Grad Students Cheat the Most? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They mean that Business students are the least dishonest.

  10. Hey, borgy, on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 1
    You coming back to HuSi ever? Did Hulver pisson your leg? Was MisterQueue's psychosexual disturbance too disturbing?

    Don't you love tolerate us anymore?

  11. drig of choice. on Analog Revival Means Vinyl Will Outlive CD · · Score: 1

    Judging from the spelling, I'd say yours is beer.

  12. wireless was disabled. on How a Wiring Rack Should Look · · Score: 1

    I have my home system set up that way. When friends with laptops come over I can enable the wireless. Otherwise it's just a bridge between the cable modem and the Linux box.

  13. This isn't a new idea on Cheating At Roulette May Be Legal In UK · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Back in the early 80's a group of hippy hackers in California did it. Read The Eudaemonic Pie for the details. Fun, and funny, book.

  14. tazers & stun guns on US Air Force to Test Hi-Tech Weapons on Americans? · · Score: 1

    You'd rather be shot with a 9mm pistol? Sure, tazers are not completely non-damaging, but they're a hell of a lot less damaging than bullets. Or, for that matter, clubs.

  15. They had to toss her overboard on HP's Dunn Stepping Down · · Score: 1

    It's badPR when your CEO gets arrested for wire fraud...

  16. Not computers on MGM to Produce "The Hobbit" · · Score: 1

    Well, not completely. They used forced perspective (a technique dating back decades) for many of the scenes.

  17. Would that fit in 16GB? on 16GB Flash USB Dongle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    at got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)at got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)at got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)

  18. Why would security be addressed on Data Sharing, Government Style · · Score: 1

    at this level? It's an XML data-interchange format. A stylesheet. It covers the format data has to be in to be transferred from system A in agency X to system B in agency Y, the security would be handled at the connection level, not the data level. When you log in to a website, slashdot for example, I doubt the CSS says much (if anything) about the security of the connection.

  19. Paging Doc Ock... on Computer Control, by Bug and by Brain · · Score: 1

    Your lab's on line 1.

  20. Dude, we have no choice. on Interstate Highway System: 50th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Rhode Island won the lawsuit.

  21. Re:And in other news on U.S. Service Personnel Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised /. hasn't already posted 3 stories about this.

  22. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. on Stupid Engineering Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Weren't engineering disasters. They were procedural/training/operator headspace disasters. Chernobyl, especially, was an example of people not thinking before acting. The design of the reactor was acceptable, if the operators paid attention and didn't push it beyond its limits. They deliberately pushed it beyond it's limits. Well beyond.

  23. I wasn't talking about that expulsion on Google News, Censorship or Responsible Journalism? · · Score: 1

    I was talking about the neighbors who took her to court to get her evicted from her residence, and the judge who agreed they had cause, because she was receiving the threats.

  24. get ready for some real rucus on Google News, Censorship or Responsible Journalism? · · Score: 1

    Not likely. In the US (unlike Europe) the government (and locals) don't try to expel someone from the neighborhood because that person is getting death threats from terrorists. We go after the people making the threats, not the ones receiving them.

  25. Not just the cells on Free Nationwide Wireless Internet Access? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The cable companies (not much difference between them and 'traditional' telcos) will also want to stomp his idea flat.