Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish? ya really writes "My family has one of those BUDs (Big Ugly Dishes) sitting in their back yard still. The other day they asked me if I would take it apart for them. Aside from simply recycling it, I w

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Open Security Foundation To Maintain DataLossDB An anonymous reader points out an announcement up at Attrition.org, that going forward their Data Loss Database will be taken over and maintained by the Open Security Foundation. From the news release

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Notebook Storage SSDs and HDs Compared The Raindog sends us a particularly timely showdown article comparing seven 2.5" mobile hard drives, four of them HDs and three SSDs, across a wide range of application, file-copy, power-consumption,

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The Push For Quotas For Women In Science mlimber writes "The NYTimes has a story about how Congress has quietly begun to press for an equal number of women in the hard sciences and engineering under Title IX, which is best known for mandatin

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Fallout From the Fall of CAPTCHAs An anonymous reader recommends Computerworld's look at the rise and fall of CAPTCHAs, and at some of the ways bad guys are leveraging broken CAPTCHAs to ply their evil trade. "CAPTCHA used to be an ea

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SCO's Lawsuit Gets Even Crazier I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "With SCO in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and there being little to read other than status reports and the boring financial details of how the company is wasting

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Send the ISS To the Moon jmichaelg writes "Michael Benson is proposing that NASA send the ISS to the moon instead of leaving it low earth orbit. (While we're at it, we should re-brand it as the 'International Space Ship.') He

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Thwarting New JavaScript Malware Obfuscation I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Malware writers have been obfuscating their JavaScript exploit code for a long time now and SANS is reporting that they've come up with some new tricks. W

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Apple Files Suit Against Psystar Reader The other A.N. Other, among others, alerts us to the news that Apple has filed suit against Psystar, the unauthorized clonemaker. (We've been discussing Psystar from the start.) The suit allege

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First North American OpenMoko/FreeRunners Arrive holdenkarau writes "The North American OpenMoko FreeRunners are starting to arrive. It would appear that the OpenMoko still has problems with some 3G networks, including AT&T. Although, in my own

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