Rabu, 07 Maret 2012

Slashdot Newsletter 2012-03-07

 
 
Code Signing
Developers know that their creations are not immune from malicious tampering. Particularly for software distributed via the Internet, tampering is a common concern. Software can be modified to include malware, and the software's original, non-malicious author will be blamed for the harm the modified software does. 
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Consolidation without Compromise
Pay more to get less consolidation? How dense does F5 think you are? The Iron Age is over. The Cloud Age is here. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x consolidation. For less. Don't compromise your consolidation project. Learn how virtualization streamlines your datacenter and consolidates network resources. 
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From the Department of but-all-those-bits-sound-so-good
An anonymous reader writes "A recent post at Xiph.org provides a long and incredibly detailed explanation of why 24-bit/192kHz music downloads — touted as being of 'uncompromised studio quality' — don't make any sense. The post walks...
 
From the Department of can-you-hear-me-carrier-lost
rullywowr writes "A story run by local new NBC10 of Philadelphia last Friday illuminated the fact that this particular rider of the pubilc bus system is packing a cell phone jammer and is not afraid to use it. Going by the name of 'Eric,'...
 
From the Department of keeps-your-friends-close
Velcroman1 writes "Law enforcement agents on two continents swooped in on top members of the infamous computer hacking group LulzSec early this morning, and acting largely on evidence gathered by the organization's brazen leader — who...
 
From the Department of insert-rant-about-3g-dongle-speeds
holmedog writes "A simple question with a lot of answers (I hope). I recently had issues with my DSL broadband at home, and after a month of no resolution, I was told 300ms latency (to their test servers) was the acceptable range for Centurylink...
 
From the Department of mother-may-I
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist reports that last week State of Maryland prosecutors were able to obtain a warrant ordering Verisign, the company that manages the dot-com domain name registry, to redirect the website to a warning page...
 
From the Department of ignore-it-until-2039-and-then-panic
The Bad Astronomer writes "The asteroid 2011 AG5 is 140 meters across: football-stadium-sized. Its orbit isn't nailed down well enough to say yet, but using what's currently known, there's a 1 in 625 chance it will impact the Earth in 2040. It's...
 
From the Department of more-drm-is-awesome
shoutingloudly writes "Warner Brothers has just announced a new 'Disc-to-Digital' program to convert your DVDs into digital files that you can play on your internet-connected computers. As the helpful Public Knowledge graphics demonstrate, all you...
 
From the Department of it's-not-me-it's-you
An anonymous reader writes "Matt Dillon of DragonFly BSD just announced that AMD confirmed a CPU bug he found. Matt quotes part of the mail exchange and it looks like 'consecutive back-to-back pops and (near) return instructions can create a...
 
From the Department of too-hip-to-be-cool
nirgle writes "I have been wondering lately if there are any kids interested in programming for its own sake anymore. When I was my nephew's age, computers were still fascinating: There wasn't a laptop on every table, facebook wasn't splattered...
 
From the Department of no-redheads-were-harmed-in-the-posting-of-this-story
schwit1 writes "If you think redheads are inherently different, well, you'd be right; they're better than you. In fact, they have a higher pain threshold than most of us, and can handle spicier food, too. It turns out that gingers are less...
 
From the Department of nobody-should-be-the-internet's-filter-mechanism
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports on one of the worst jobs in the digital world — moderating photos and posts on Facebook and other social networking sites flagged as unsuitable by other users. Last year Amine Derkaoui, a...
 
From the Department of where-did-my-robot-avatar-go
Esther Schindler writes "Many of us geeks prefer to work at home without distractions, but a lot of bosses still believe that if they don't see you, you must be lolling about, eating bon-bons and playing Angry Birds. 'There may be many reasons a...
 
From the Department of the-truth-will-out
ananyo writes "A landmark study involving U.S. miners that links cancer rates to diesel fume exposure has been published after a seventeen-year legal battle with an industry group. A February 27 Slashdot story had reported that lawyers for the...
 
From the Department of shop-smarter
cylonlover writes "When Chaotic Moon Labs debuted the Kinect-powered Board of Awesomeness — and its mind-reading offspring, the Board of Imagination — that was apparently just a preview of a more practical product the company had in...
 
From the Department of trade-commission-regulating-trade-for-once
angry tapir writes "Western Digital's plan to buy Hitachi Global Storage has run into U.S. FTC resistance: The U.S. FTC will require Western Digital to sell off assets used to manufacture desktop hard drives to a competitor as a condition of its...
 
 
 
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