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Thursday, 3-November-2011 02:41:55 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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People are concerned about spam which seems to be related to having shopped at Umart. ZDNet have a report and info from the vendor. The spam says that they're receiving the email because they subscribed to a mailing list on "one of the job portals". It offers a job that requires "no specific education or work experience". Umart told ZDNet Australia that it was aware of the issue and had received several instances of the email from its customer base. It is currently conducting an investigation, although it considers its data to be protected. Latest info in the thread seems to indicate the emails may be harvested from another source as well.
Will spotted some upcoming bigger hybrid drives. The Barracuda Green model line is being made end of life and moving forward Seagate will be making two types of desktop hard drives, simply called the Barracuda and Barracuda XT. Both drives run off a SATA 6Gbps interface and use the 1TB per platter areal density. The main difference between the two will be that the Barracuda XT will include Hybrid SSD caching (which launched on the laptop focused Momentus XT last year) when it hits the market in 4TB capacities next year.
Phoronix have a Ubuntu Virtualisation Showdown. While last week I showed how Ubuntu's performance has evolved as a KVM guest from Ubuntu 8.04 through Ubuntu 11.10, in today's article is a Linux virtualization showdown between VirtualBox, Xen, and KVM while using Ubuntu 11.10 on the Linux 3.0 kernel.
iiNet are in a little hot water over some alleged subliminal messaging in a TV ad. "We had 4400 people find it and they were pretty happy with themselves and that was about as far as it went, at least up until yesterday," he said. "That was until the rest of the world caught on to our little bit of fun and the online conversation buzzed. Some people were discussing whether it was 'subliminal advertising', others thought it was 'just a bit of fun', others said it was 'marketing genius' — I liked the last people the best."
Jastormont sent word that some satellites have been hacked. The two satellites, Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1, had been interfered with on four separate occasions, allowing the attackers to be in command of the satellites for two to over twelve minutes each time. Luckily, both of the satellites are used only for observing the Earth's climate and terrain, and the hackers never actually misused their control over them in any way.
Meanwhile a huge space rock is going to not quite kill us all again. NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. Scientists are treating the flyby of the 1,300-foot-wide (400-meter) asteroid as a science target of opportunity – allowing instruments on "spacecraft Earth" to scan it during the close pass.
Here's a video of a man flying an RC multicopter.. while sitting in it, thanks Madhatter. At the end of October 2011, Thomas Senkel of e-volo made the first manned flight with an e-powered multicopter at an airstrip in the southwest of Germany. The flight lasted one minute and 30 seconds, after which the constructor and test pilot stated: "The flight characteristics are good natured. Without any steering input it would just hover there on the spot". This could be the future of flight, piloting a device as simple as a car.
Asher sent in today's very difficult Spatial Ability Test timewaster, which is part of his Uni course or something. Brain hurty.
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