Being a programmer

TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight
An anonymous reader excerpts from an AP story as carried by Yahoo News about changes stemming from yesterday's foiled bombing attempt of a Northwest Airlines flight: "Some airlines were telling passengers on Saturd...ay that new government security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats ...

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NetBIOS Design Allows Traffic Redirection
iago-vL writes "Security researchers at SkullSecurity have demonstrated how the NetBIOS protocol allows trivial hijacking due to its design, through the use of a tool called 'nbpoison' (in the package 'nbtool'). If a DNS lookup f...ails on Windows, the operating system will broadcast a NetBIOS looku...

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Best Open Source Business Tools?
An anonymous reader writes "My wife and I started an S Corp in 2009 mainly to provide small scale consulting services for friends with small businesses of their own (we build them websites and do odd technical jobs). Now that the year is ...closing I'm giving thought to our corporate tax filings whi...

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Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises?
cyclocommuter writes with this snippet from The Register's assessment of whether Microsoft's .NET framework has been a success: "If the goal of .NET was to see off Java, it was at least partially successful. Java di...d not die, but enterprise Java became mired in complexity, making .NET an easy sel...

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New Zealand Reintroduces 3 Strikes Law
An anonymous reader writes "The New Zealand government has reintroduced a newly rewritten addition to the Copyright Act which will allow rights' holders to send copyright notices to ISPs, and force them to pass them on to account ho...lders. Section 92A of the Copyright Act will allow rights holders...

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Mars Express Captures Phobos and Deimos
westtxfun writes "The Mars Express Orbiter captured a very cool movie of Phobos and Deimos on Nov 5. Besides the 'wow factor,' the images will be used to refine models of the moons' orbits. The orbiter has also captured high resolu...tion images of Phobos back in July. 'The images were acquired with...

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Microsoft Expands exFAT Multimedia Licensing
alphadogg writes "Microsoft Thursday announced a broadening of its licensing program around its exFAT file system, which is designed to handle large multimedia files. Microsoft hopes companies making devices such as cameras an...d smartphones will adopt the Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) tec...

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US Patent Office Fast Tracks Green Patents
eldavojohn writes "A new initiative is being piloted where 'green' patents are given special priority over other patents in the backlogged system. David Kappos (Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director ...of the USPTO) said, 'Every day an important green tech innovation is ...

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Hackers vs. Phishers
An anonymous reader writes ""Some hackers out there don’t like to do all the hard work of running a successful phishing campaign. Instead, they developed a simple online service to ‘steal’ account details from the hard-working phishers. Named AutoWha...ler, the service allows anyon...

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Robo-Chefs and Fashion-Bots On Show In Tokyo
avishere writes "The International Robot Exhibition kicked off this week in Tokyo, unveiling the latest whirring and buzzing inventions from 192 companies and 64 organizations from at home and abroad — and bringing humanity an...other step closer to irrelevance. Among the humanoid cavalcade wa...

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Facebook Stock Going Public?
zmaragdus writes "Facebook Inc. converted its existing stock holdings into different classes of stocks (Class A and Class B) designed to give certain shareholders more power than others. This has been typically done in an IPO of a company's s...tock to give important people (company founders, for in...

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Australia's CSIRO To Launch CPU-GPU Supercomputer
bennyboy64 contributes this excerpt from CRN Australia: "The CSIRO will this week launch a new supercomputer which uses a cluster of GPUs [pictures] to gain a processing capacity that competes with supercomputers over twi...ce its size. The supercomputer is one of the world's first to combine tradit...

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100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018
CWmike writes "As amazing as today's supercomputing systems are, they remain primitive and current designs soak up too much power, space and money. And as big as they are today, supercomputers aren't big enough — a key topic... for some of the estimated 11,000 people now gathering in Portland,...

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Mimicking Materials and Structures In Nature
eldavojohn writes "From special organic molecules to organic surfaces with special properties to organic concrete, MIT's Technology Review takes a look at inspirations in nature that materials scientists are currently mimickin...g for human purposes. You may be able to name other fields that have tu...

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