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  • Australian Scientists Discover 'Oldest Living Thing On Earth'
    pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ixFIgQkzH465oD5k6gedYT23rGM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ixFIgQkzH465oD5k6gedYT23rGM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ixFIgQkzH465oD5k6gedYT23rGM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ixFIgQkzH465oD5k6gedYT23rGM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pNew submitter offsafely writes "Scientists in Australia have discovered the oldest living life-form to date: a small patch of Ancient Seagrass, dated through DNA sequencing at 200,000 years old." Says the linked article: "This is far older than the current known oldest species, a Tasmanian plant that is believed to be 43,000 years old." What I want to know is, How does it taste?pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Australian+Scientists+Discover+'Oldest+Living+Thing+On+Earth'%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FynPCNU"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F161241%2Faustralian-scientists-discover-oldest-living-thing-on-earth%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/161241/australian-scientists-discover-oldest-living-thing-on-earth?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/161241/australian-scientists-discover-oldest-living-thing-on-earth?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=2658669amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/lVFzTcT0vpM" height="1" width="1"/

  • No More SSL Revocation Checking For Chrome
    pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G6MHLEB_r843l8KrnkfDFJph98s/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G6MHLEB_r843l8KrnkfDFJph98s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G6MHLEB_r843l8KrnkfDFJph98s/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G6MHLEB_r843l8KrnkfDFJph98s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pNew submitter mwehle writes with this bit from Ars Technica: "Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break when they are needed most. The browser will stop querying CRL, or certificate revocation lists, and databases that rely on OCSP, or online certificate status protocol, Google researcher Adam Langley said in a blog post published on Sunday. He said the services, which browsers are supposed to query before trusting a credential for an SSL-protected address, don't make end users safer because Chrome and most other browsers establish the connection even when the services aren't able to ensure a certificate hasn't been tampered with."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=No+More+SSL+Revocation+Checking+For+Chrome%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxClarp"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F159215%2Fno-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/159215/no-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/159215/no-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=2658555amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/UKGNT_D_Eog" height="1" width="1"/

  • Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader
    pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hwRE3TY3LSrBBo4t1ykmj9KQU3o/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hwRE3TY3LSrBBo4t1ykmj9KQU3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hwRE3TY3LSrBBo4t1ykmj9KQU3o/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hwRE3TY3LSrBBo4t1ykmj9KQU3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdarthcamaro writes "Red Hat is changing the leadership at the Fedora Project. Jared Smith is out after having been the Fedora Project Leader since June of 2010. In is Robyn Bergeron mdash; who will be the first female leader of the open source project's history. Bergeron is well known in the community as she has most recently been the Fedora Program Manager."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Red+Hat+Appoints+Robyn+Bergeron+First+Female+Fedora+Project+Leader%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAqHf7G"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F1556207%2Fred-hat-appoints-robyn-bergeron-first-female-fedora-project-leader%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1556207/red-hat-appoints-robyn-bergeron-first-female-fedora-project-leader?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1556207/red-hat-appoints-robyn-bergeron-first-female-fedora-project-leader?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=2658653amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/4kd-lyErVzI" height="1" width="1"/

  • Sanctions Or Not, Iranian Competition Yields Successful UAVs
    pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t7GUdq502HLJ5pLC6izFxH8IIlk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t7GUdq502HLJ5pLC6izFxH8IIlk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t7GUdq502HLJ5pLC6izFxH8IIlk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t7GUdq502HLJ5pLC6izFxH8IIlk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pgarymortimer writes with word of the result from a high-tech student competition that doesn't come with sponsorship from DARPA or Mobil mdash; far from it. Instead, the sponsors include "military and non-military organizations" within Iran. "In this competition, participants must provide a UAV equipped with a camera to search a 10 square kilometer area for at least 40 minutes to find 3 square meter marks on the ground with different English letters on them. Finding ground targets and reporting the geo location are criterion for choosing the contest winner." (This article updates another from last year, which gives some more details about the competition.)pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Sanctions+Or+Not%2C+Iranian+Competition+Yields+Successful+UAVs+%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fy00EJf"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F150248%2Fsanctions-or-not-iranian-competition-yields-successful-uavs%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/150248/sanctions-or-not-iranian-competition-yields-successful-uavs?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/150248/sanctions-or-not-iranian-competition-yields-successful-uavs?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=2658549amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/X-A33eZzs3k" height="1" width="1"/

  • Cops Set Up Extortion Sting On Symantec's Source Code Thieves
    pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuFBvCGGFerBVP-EQSzPKUQr8lc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuFBvCGGFerBVP-EQSzPKUQr8lc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuFBvCGGFerBVP-EQSzPKUQr8lc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuFBvCGGFerBVP-EQSzPKUQr8lc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pSparrowvsrevolution writes "Hackers linked with Anonymous leaked another 1.26 gigabytes of Symantec's data Monday night, what they say is the source code company's PCAnywhere program. More interestingly, also posted a long private email conversation that seems to show a Symantec exec offering the hackers $50,000 to not leak the company's data and to publicly state they had lied about obtaining it. Symantec has responded by revealing that in fact, the $50,000 offer had been a ruse, and the 'Symantec exec' was actually a law enforcement agent trying to trace the hackers. It adds that all the information the hackers have released, including a 2006 version of Norton Internet Security, is outdated and poses no threat to the company or its customers. Symantec says the Anonymous hackers began attempting to extort money from the company in mid-January, and it responded by contacting law enforcement, though it won't comment on the results of the fake payoff sting while the investigation is still ongoing."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Cops+Set+Up+Extortion+Sting+On+Symantec's+Source+Code+Thieves%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fx9H9Cy"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F149205%2Fcops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/149205/cops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/149205/cops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=2658465amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/UKTkKqh6CPg" height="1" width="1"/


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