Free Web-Based Exception Reporting

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 14, @08:06AM
from the interesting-concept-awaiting-execution dept.
Tsar writes "Promethean Personal Software (makers of Sherpa, a code generating tool for db apps) have quietly released ExceptionCollection, a free (as in beer) online service for developers using any SOAP-enabled environment. You sign up on the site, download their component, add three or four lines of code to your app, and any exceptions thrown by your users get logged at ExceptionCollection.com for your later perusal (the last 100 anyway). There are several options, like whether reporting requires user approval. Is this as cool as it looks, or a solution in search of a problem?"

This is a great tool - but doesn't sound like it'd be hard to implement yourself if you already are working in SOAP anyways

Slashdot | Free Web-Based Exception Reporting

GMC to Begin Remotely Scanning Cars for Trouble

I like it.

Slashdot | GMC to Begin Remotely Scanning Cars for Trouble

WASHINGTON — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (search), in his first visit to the White House, thanked President Bush for U.S. support and said "we will never forget what you have done for our people."

I'd like to hear some of your liberal comments about this.

I for one think this is great that the Iraqi's themselves are saying this - while our Democrats at home are still just whining.

Oh wait nevermind - I'm sure this guy was pressured to say this by the evil Republican Administration.

FOXNews.com - Politics - Talabani: Iraqis 'Will Never Forget' Bush

Bush: 'I take responsibility'

Damn.

This guy always takes the moral high ground. Impressive.

CNN.com

Keyboard Sound Aids Password Cracking

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 13, @01:04PM
from the but-i-love-clicky-keyboards dept.
stinerman writes "Three students at UC-Berkley used a 10 minute recording of a keyboard to recover 96% of the characters typed during the session. The article details that their methods did not require a 'training text' in order to calibrate the conversion algorithm as has been used previously. The research paper [PDF] notes that '90% of 5-character random passwords using only letters can be generated in fewer than 20 attempts by an adversary; 80% of 10-character passwords can be generated in fewer than 75 attempts

Cool.

Slashdot | Keyboard Sound Aids Password Cracking

Brown is being sent back to Washington from Baton Rouge, where he was the primary official overseeing the federal government's response to the disaster, FOX News has confirmed. Brown will be replaced by Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, who was overseeing New Orleans relief and rescue efforts.

Like it matter this late in the game.

FOXNews.com - Politics - FEMA Chief Taken Off Hurricane Relief Efforts

Members of the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron here flew the first F/A-22 Raptor Follow-on Operational Test and Evaluation mission Aug. 29, releasing Joint Direct Attack Munitions on the Utah Test and Training Range.

After almost 20 years in development - my favorite killing machine is almost ready.

Next test is to fire a AIM-120 (medium range air to air missile).

This plane should be ready to kill people as early as next year - I CAN'T WAIT!!!

Raptor releases JDAM during first 'follow-on' evaluation mission

But the speeds at which we will eventually release the JDAM over the next couple of weeks will far exceed any current aircraft's JDAM envelope," said the test pilot.

Additionally, this was the first time a JDAM was released supersonically from an internal weapons bay.

I love this plane. I want to marry this plane and have little fighter jet babies!

Supersonic JDAM drop marks increase in Raptor capability

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday July 26, @01:47PM
from the nerdcore-makes-a-good-comic-too dept.
hammeredpeon writes "MC Plus and others talk about their nerdcore rap skills with Wired magazine." From the article: "While gangsta rap is seen as celebrating the violence and aggression that claimed two of its brightest stars, 'geeksta' rap is a hip-hop genre celebrating coding skills and school grades. Also dubbed 'nerdcore,' this branch of hip-hop is for geeks, by geeks. Geeksta rappers adopt the same combative verbal-assault stylings of their forerunners, but bust rhymes about elite script compiling and dope machine code. The term was first coined in 2000 by nerdy New York rapper MC Frontalot in a track of the same name. Nerdcore now refers to artists waxing lyrical about topics as disparate as engineering and Lord of the Rings."

uhm.... hAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Slashdot | Nerdcore Rap In The Press

"One of the dangers of random searches is that they can invite the possibility of racial, ethnic or religious profiling," NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said.

Ok, so then there's a choice to make.

(1) Possibly offend people.
(2) Or get blown up and die.

I choose what's behind door number 1.

US News Article | Reuters.com