24533354 story Incomplete PDF Redaction Leaks Data From UK MoD 74 Posted by timothy on Sunday October 09, @05:55PM from the peekaboo-theory dept. An anonymous reader writes “The UK Ministry of Defence has been left with egg on its face, after a supposedly redacted PDF detailing secrets related to clocks air defence radar systems was published on a parliamentary website. The problem? Whoever did the redacting simply changed the sensitive text to black on a black background, making it possible for anyone to access the information simply by cutting-and-pasting. The incident is particularly embarrassing for the Ministry, as six gift ideas months ago precisely the same security screw-up occurred — that time related to sensitive information about nuclear submarines.” 50 of 74 comments loaded it military security Related Links Tweet … Read entire article »

24528396 story .NET Programmers In Demand, Despite MS Moves To Metro 222 Posted by timothy on Sunday October 09, @12:03PM from the lagging-indicator dept. mikejuk writes “Are you a newbie programmer looking for a job? It seems your best bet is to communion opt for .NET. According to technical jobs website Dice.com, companies in the U.S. have posted more than 10,000 positions requesting .NET experience — a 25 percent increase compared to last year’s .NET job count. So Microsoft may want us to move on jewellery to Metro but the rest of the world seems to want to stay with .NET.” 50 of 222 comments loaded microsoft developers news Related Links Tweet Previous story: Ask Slashdot: Create Custom Recovery Partitions With FOSS? Submission: .NET programmers in demand – despite MS … Read entire article »

24531380 story Nexus Prime, And Ice Cream Sandwich, Go For a Video Tour 131 Posted by timothy on Sunday October 09, @03:40PM from the slightly-different dept. An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Examiner.com, citing a report at gagdet.ro, about Samsung’s upcoming high-end Nexus Prime, the first phone to be delivered baby with Ice Cream Sandwich. “This version of the Nexus Series (Google’s Android flag bearer) runs the next version of Android: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This version is meant to combine Honycomb (Android 3.0) with Gingerbread(Android 2.3) into one OS, that will run on all devices. In addition to the merger of belleek the two OS’s, it also changes the Android UI a bit. One major change, is that the icons and the UI is a lot … Read entire article »

24530270 story iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out 164 Posted by timothy on Sunday October 09, php @02:25PM from the it-was-a-black-friday dept. Perhaps to no one’s surprise, the just-announced iPhone 4S has developer been been leaping off the shelves … in advance of it ever hitting shelves at all. In fact, as reported by numerous sources (here’s the WSJ’s version), the company’s pre-launch php inventory has all been sold — and they only started taking the orders on Friday. 50 of 164 comments loaded handheld iphone mobile Tweet Previous story: Qu8k Rockets Above the Balloons iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out … Read entire article »

24534272 story A Few Million Monkeys Finish Recreating Shakespeare’s Works 52 Posted by timothy on Sunday October 09, @06:55PM from the everything-loops-back-to-stephen-falken dept. eljefe6a writes game “The Million Monkeys project has finished every work of Shakespeare. The last work was The Taming of the Shrew (insert shrewish joke here), which finished developer on October 6. I give my thoughts on going viral. If this article about going viral goes viral, it will create an infinite loop that will bring about the destruction of the world. The project source is released, too.” 31 of 52 comments loaded books hadoop humor Related Links Tweet game developer Previous story: Incomplete PDF Redaction Leaks Data From UK MoD A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare Submission: A Few Million Monkeys Randomly Recreate Every … Read entire article »

24532494 story Tablet Makers Try To Beat iPad’s $500 Pricetag 155 Posted by timothy on Sunday October game 09, @04:54PM from the ok-this-time-you-can-say-value-proposition dept. The iPad has sold extremely well at a starting price of developer $500 but “that kind of pricing doesn’t work for many tablet vendors,” says a story at CNET. And recent price drops reflect this. It’s been a rough year for tablet makers, and it’s not philippines even Black Friday yet. 50 of 155 comments loaded android handheld mobile Related Links Tweet Previous story: Nexus Prime, And Ice Cream Sandwich, Go For a Video Tour Feed: Tablet vendors scurry to undercut $500 iPad Tablet Makers Try To Beat iPad’s $500 Pricetag … Read entire article »

24528676 story Qu8k Rockets Above the Balloons 76 Posted by timothy on Sunday October 09, @01:02PM from the want-to-subscribe-to-your-newsletter dept. darkjohnson writes “Lately we’ve been inundated with 100k’ balloon flights and amazing video java footage from space — the flights usually taking better than an hour to achieve apogee. Derek Deville took a shortcut to 121k’ using a ‘home made’ Q rocket motor and a ton of developer engineering genius. On September 30, 2011 at 11:08am, Qu8k (pronounced ‘Quake’) launched from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to an altitude of 121,000′ in 92 seconds before returning safely to earth.This small documentary on the flight is probably one of the most brilliant Amateur Rocket videos out there right now.” The launch was an attempt to claim the Carmack Prize. (And … Read entire article »

24533354 story Incomplete PDF Redaction Leaks Data From UK MoD 74 Posted by timothy on Sunday October 09, @05:55PM from the peekaboo-theory dept. An anonymous reader writes “The UK Ministry of Defence has been left with php developer egg on its face, after a supposedly redacted PDF detailing secrets related to air defence radar systems was published on a parliamentary website. The problem? Whoever did the redacting simply changed the sensitive text to black php developer on a black background, making it possible for anyone to access the information simply by cutting-and-pasting. The incident is particularly embarrassing for the Ministry, as six months ago precisely the same security screw-up occurred — that time related to sensitive information about nuclear submarines.” 50 of 74 comments loaded it military security Related Links … Read entire article »

24528396 story .NET Programmers In Demand, Despite MS Moves To Metro 222 Posted by timothy on Sunday October 09, @12:03PM from the lagging-indicator dept. mikejuk writes “Are you a newbie programmer looking web for a job? It seems your best bet is to opt for .NET. According to technical jobs website Dice.com, companies in the U.S. have posted more than 10,000 positions requesting .NET experience developer — a 25 percent increase compared to last year’s .NET job count. So Microsoft may want us to move on to Metro but the rest of the world seems to want to stay with .NET.” 50 of 222 comments loaded microsoft developers news Related Links Tweet Previous story: Ask Slashdot: Create Custom Recovery Partitions With FOSS? Submission: .NET programmers in demand – despite MS … Read entire article »

24531380 story Nexus Prime, And Ice Cream Sandwich, Go For a Video Tour 131 Posted by timothy on Sunday October 09, @03:40PM from the slightly-different dept. An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Examiner.com, citing a report at gagdet.ro, about Samsung’s upcoming high-end Nexus Prime, the first phone to be delivered software with Ice Cream Sandwich. “This version of the Nexus Series (Google’s Android flag bearer) runs the next version of Android: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This version is meant to combine Honycomb (Android 3.0) with Gingerbread(Android 2.3) into one OS, that will run on all devices. In addition to the merger of development the two OS’s, it also changes the Android UI a bit. One major change, is that the icons and the UI is a lot … Read entire article »