A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday.

Steve Hindi, president of SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness), said his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when law enforcement officers and an attorney claiming to represent the privately-owned plantation near Ehrhardt tried to stop the aircraft from flying.

"It didn't work; what SHARK was doing was perfectly legal," Hindi said in a news release. "Once they knew nothing was going to stop us, the shooting stopped and the cars lined up to leave."

He said the animal rights group decided to send the drone up anyway.

"Seconds after it hit the air, numerous shots rang out," Hindi said in the release. "As an act of revenge for us shutting down the pigeon slaughter, they had shot down our copter."

There's been a lot of interest in the story of the Secret Service completely shutting down Jotform.com through a request to GoDaddy. It appears that the suspension is now ending, though it hasn't fully propagated. What's amazing is that no one in the US government (or at GoDaddy) seems to be willing to explain what happened. When GoDaddy completely shut down JotForm.com with no notice, the folks at JotForm had to inquire as to what the hell happened to their entire website. They were merely told to contact a Secret Service agent. That agent then told JotForm she was too busy to respond to them and would get back to them within a week.

Think about that for a second. The US government completely takes down a small business' website and then is too busy to explain why.

Der Vertreter Österreichs teilte mit, man erhalte seit der Unterzeichnung eine Flut von Anfragen aus der Netzgemeinde, von Abgeordneten und Ministerien, und bat die EU-Kommission um Unterstützung. Man müsse die Gegner überzeugen und könne nicht einfach deren Argumentation mit dem Hinweis zurückweisen, sie hätten "keine Ahnung". Auch Estland, Ungarn und die Niederlande baten die Kommission um bessere Informationen. Malta erklärte, dass auch dort "erheblicher Druck" auf die Regierung ausgeübt werde. Rumänien bat die Kommission, die Regierungen bei der Ratifikation des Acta-Abkommens zu unterstützen.

Vertreter der Kommission verwiesen auf Informationsmaterial, das zur Verfügung gestellt wurde. Gern sei die Kommission bereit, bei konkreten Fragen auch "weitere Argumentationshilfe" zu leisten.

In einem wegweisenden Urteil entschied der Europäische Gerichtshof heute, dass es mit bestehendem EU-Recht nicht vereinbar sei, die auf Webservern gespeicherten Daten von Internetnutzern vorsorglich auf Urheberrechtsverletzungen durchsuchen zu lassen. Genau dies hatte nämlich die belgische Verwertungsgesellschaft Sabam von einem Hosting-Anbieter gefordert.

Der Rechteindustrie dürfte dieses Urteil wenig gefallen, da die Entscheidungen des EuGH sofort und auch rückwirkend verbindlich sind. Die aktuelle Entscheidung ist bereits die zweite Niederlage für Sabam innerhalb weniger Monate. Bereits im November wurde eine von ihr eingereichte Klage abgewiesen.

Kopien und illegale Downloads sind für die ÖVP keine "Kavaliersdelikte". Mit dem Urheberrecht nimmt es die Partei aber selbst nicht genau. Auf der ÖVP-Website wird eine urheberrechtlich geschützte Schriftensammlung des Typs "Helvetica Neue" zum Download angeboten. Ein klarer Verstoß gegen Urheber- und Markenrechte, sagen die Rechteinhaber von Linotype. Nun droht der Partei eine Schadenersatzklage.

Was passiert, wenn sich Wirtschaftswissenschaftler mit der Frage beschäftigen, wieviel eigentlich an den von der Contentmafia herbeihalluzinierten Milliardenschäden durch Filmpiraterie dran ist. Die Antwort wird euch sicher genau so überraschen wie mich: Kein Schaden in den USA nachweisbar. Außerhalb der USA gibt es einen Schaden von 7% und mehr — aber nur bei Filmen, die im jeweiligen Land signifikant später anlaufen als in den USA.

Computers running Microsoft‘s antivirus and security software may be flagging google.com — the world’s most-visited Web site — as malicious, apparently due to a faulty Valentine’s Day security update shipped by Microsoft.

The effect of all those changes are numerous. For one, it is no longer possible to run the system without a graphical user interface unless you plan to invest a huge amount of work and to throw out most of your system support. If you want to get vendor support, this is not the way you will want to go.

You also can't implement complex network or authentication setups anymore. The number of possible combinations in the configuration has been significantly reduced by removing options which are not typically used for desktop systems. Also, since the APIs have a tendency to change very frequently, typically, only genuine supported Gnome or Ubuntu/Fedora software tends to work on the long run. If you try to use an alternative which has an user interface you prefer or has a feature you want, you will find very frequently that it is trying to call some DBus interface which is no longer implemented or has a different set of parameters.

In dem Paper haben einige Kryptologen mal das Internet nach RSA-Schlüsseln durchsucht, einige Millionen eingesammelt, und geguckt, ob es da gemeinsame Primfaktoren in den Modulen gibt.

More worrisome is that among the 4.7 million distinct 1024-bit RSA moduli that we had originally collected, more than 12500 have a single prime factor in common. [...] in our current collection of 7.1 million 1024-bit RSA moduli, almost 27000 are vulnerable and 2048-bit RSA moduli are affacted as well.

Das ist ein sehr gruseliges Ergebnis. Ihre Schlussfolgerung ist, dass das Generieren von RSA-Schlüsseln deutlich risikobehafteter ist als das Generieren von Schlüsseln mit nur einer Komponente, wie bei ElGamal oder (EC)DSA.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's SSL Observatory is a research project that gathers and analyzes the cryptographic certificates used to secure Internet connections, systematically cataloging them and exposing their database for other scientists, researchers and cryptographers to consult.

Now Arjen Lenstra of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne has used the SSL Observatory dataset to show that tens of thousands of SSL certificates "offer effectively no security due to weak random number generation algorithms." Lenstra's research means that much of what we think of as gold-standard, rock-solid network security is deeply flawed, but it also means that users and website operators can detect and repair these vulnerabilities.

Mutmaßliche chinesische Hacker haben laut einem Zeitungsbericht über viele Jahre Zugang zum Computersystem des Telekom-Ausrüsters Nortel gehabt – und diesen auch ausgiebig genutzt. Dank sieben gestohlener Passwörter von Top-Managern habe es für die Eindringlinge ab dem Jahr 2000 bei Nortel kaum Geheimnisse gegeben, berichtete das "Wall Street Journal" am Dienstag unter Berufung auf eine interne Untersuchung.

It's been highly underreported that ICANN is now accepting submissions for new gTLD's, or 'generic top level domains'. #

Without getting into all the details of what that means, other than possibly hundreds if not thousands of new domains like .shop .dork .shill and .drone that you will be able to register vanity domain names under, ICANN has come up with a new requirement upon registration: #

You must verify who you are when you register a new domain name, even an international one. #

So, if I pay GoDaddy or any other outfit my $9 for curry.blog and have it point to my server at blog.curry.com, I will have to prove my identity upon registration. Presumably with some form of government approved ID. #

This way, when OPEN or perhaps a non-NDS-version of SOPA is passed, if you break the rules, you will be hunted down, regardless of where you live or operate since this also includes international domain names. #

Once upon a time, there lived a little DJ, in a big, wild world with
weirdly tagged or untagged or re-tagged mp3 files all over the place - and all
he would've asked for was just a wee bit of order. Back then (he still vividly
remembered the days when he used to walk through man-high snow, barefoot, uphill
both ways and... well, you get the idea), the DJing business was hard enough to
be honest.
Now, one day, a fairy little fairy (true story!) would listen to one of his gigs
by chance, and was so amazed by the deep house and tech house and what-not he
mixed, that she'd approach him and granted him a wish - and oh, our dear DJ did
know exactly what he wanted!
He placed the tiny bot he was given by our fair fairy in his folder with freshly
hunted-down tracks, and the bot would make sure all ID3 tags were kept clean...
that meaning, discarded of; and the artist & title taken from the file names of
all .mp3s present in said directory written in ID3v2.

The new restaurant, which is being built in a former branch of Midland bank, was being excavated when the tapes were found, alongside guns, gold and jewellery. The total value of the haul is £1.1 million, reports Holy Moly. Oliver has since given everything found in the basement to the treasury.

We all know that there's no such thing as a size 10. But I'm a computer programmer as well as a fashion fan, so I built a website to beat the sizing madness

Here are some recommendations for fonts to use in gvim, particularly for writing programs.

Das Landesarbeitsgericht Köln hat mit einer Entscheidung vom 18.02.2011 (4 Sa 1122/10) verdeutlicht, dass die gemäß § 1 Abs. 3 KSchG im Rahmen der Sozialauswahl zu beachtenden Kriterien zwar grundsätzlich gleichrangig sind, hat jedoch ein Arbeitnehmer altersbedingt schlechtere Chancen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, so ist das Lebensalter regelmäßig höher zu bewerten als Unterhaltspflichten. Somit ist in einem solchen Fall die Kündigung eines erheblich jüngeren Arbeitnehmers auch dann gerechtfertigt, wenn dieser gegenüber Kindern unterhaltspflichtig ist.

IBM says: "eXFlash is optimized for a heavy mix of random read and write operations, such as transaction processing, data mining, business intelligence and decision support, and other random I/O-intensive applications."

Read the Redbook for more information. In summary: IBM has a VFCache equivalent and has had for over a year.

Access Optical Networks says it has developed a 1.2TB holographic storage cube that can transfer data at 155MB/sec and last longer than 50 years. Oh, and it's done using mirrors – but no smoke.

The storage medium is a 1cm cube of photorefractive lithium niobate crystalline material and the claimed cost/GB is $0.11 in 1,000 unit quantities.

Having succeeded in halting the runaway SOPA/PIPA train, Internet users don’t intend to just stand down and let a few tech companies, who need to worry about their bottom line along with the needs of users, or even crucial nonprofit organizations like Wikipedia, speak for everyone. Indeed, it’s pretty ironic, and telling, that Sherman’s piece points to the “six-strikes” deal big content made with ISPs last year as a model for the “voluntary cooperation.” Users weren’t at the table when that deal was struck either, even though they’ll be stuck with much of the bill. If they had been, that deal could have been very different, and a lot more fair.