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Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA

Zolzar writes "Looks like the Md. State Motor Vehicles Administration is the first government agency reporting a failure of their systems due to the recent virus." This is a more specific story about the outage. And the city of Philadelphia has suffered as well.

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    1. Re:GNAA EARLY POST SYSTEM (fuck Lunix+AMD+michael) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      hard manual gay nigger labor?

      Hardly. All you lameass crackers are doing is synchronizing you clocks every few hours, and sitting around in your parents' basements hitting refresh on the fifth second of every minute(when new stories are posted) after the "subscribers can beat the rush and see it early" spiel pops up.

  2. roosting chickens by 0111+1110 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does this mean those chickens are finally coming home to roost?

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  3. TOAST!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    toaster,toaster toaser, do you have toast in you yet i think
    so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Im not a toaster!!!!!!!!!!And one more
    thing........YOUR A TOASER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A COOKIE WITH MILK SOAGE
    MILK!!!!!!!!!!AND A BUTT WITH POOP IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. This sucks... (Engagement ring) by voxel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just spent $2400 on a diamond for my future wifes engagement ring.

    Does this mean I should take it back and wait for the $100 version of the same quality/clarity/weight/cut ?

    Ugh... :P.

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  5. You Are Alive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You Are Alive
    By Universal Conciousness
    Consciousness, VA - You are alive. Wake up. Life is all around you. You've been put in a trance. You can come out of it. You can remember who you really are.

    Stop sleeping. It's long past time to wake up. You are an entire self aware universe. You are a god. You are not the small thing that you have been taught to be.

    Throw off their false teachings. Pull the blinders from the eyes. You wear their chains willingly. You can take them off. You are free, the instant you choose to be.

  6. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What We Can Learn From BSD
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    Everyone knows about BSD's failure and imminent demise. As we pore over the history of BSD, we'll uncover a story of fatal mistakes, poor priorities, and personal rivalry, and we'll learn what mistakes to avoid so as to save Linux from a similarly grisly fate.

    Let's not be overly morbid and give BSD credit for its early successes. In the 1970s, Ken Thompson and Bill Joy both made significant contributions to the computing world on the BSD platform. In the 80s, DARPA saw BSD as the premiere open platform, and, after initial successes with the 4.1BSD product, gave the BSD company a 2 year contract.

    These early triumphs would soon be forgotten in a series of internal conflicts that would mar BSD's progress. In 1992, AT&T filed suit against Berkeley Software, claiming that proprietary code agreements had been haphazardly violated. In the same year, BSD filed countersuit, reciprocating bad intentions and fueling internal rivalry. While AT&T and Berkeley Software lawyers battled in court, lead developers of various BSD distributions quarreled on Usenet. In 1995, Theo de Raadt, one of the founders of the NetBSD project, formed his own rival distribution, OpenBSD, as the result of a quarrel that he documents on his website. Mr. de Raadt's stubborn arrogance was later seen in his clash with Darren Reed, which resulted in the expulsion of IPF from the OpenBSD distribution.

    As personal rivalries took precedence over a quality product, BSD's codebase became worse and worse. As we all know, incompatibilities between each BSD distribution make code sharing an arduous task. Research conducted at MIT found BSD's filesystem implementation to be "very poorly performing." Even BSD's acclaimed TCP/IP stack has lagged behind, according to this study.

    Problems with BSD's codebase were compounded by fundamental flaws in the BSD design approach. As argued by Eric Raymond in his watershed essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, rapid, decentralized development models are inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development. BSD developers never heeded Mr. Raymond's lesson and insisted that centralized models lead to 'cleaner code.' Don't believe their hype - BSD's development model has significantly impaired its progress. Any achievements that BSD managed to make were nullified by the BSD license, which allows corporations and coders alike to reap profits without reciprocating the goodwill of open-source. Fortunately, Linux is not prone to this exploitation, as it is licensed under the GPL.

    The failure of BSD culminated in the resignation of Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith from the FreeBSD core team. They both believed that FreeBSD had long lost its earlier vitality. Like an empire in decline, BSD had become bureaucratic and stagnant. As Linux gains market share and as BSD sinks deeper into the mire of decay, their parting addresses will resound as fitting eulogies to BSD's demise.

  7. How in the hell is this off-topic? by voxel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You morons, this article is about manufacturing cheap diamonds. Yes, it will change computers as well, but it is going to effect a multi-billion dollar industry before it makes it into a diamond wafer manufacturing lab..

    Maybe the intel P7 will use it...

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  8. Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your relevent comentary has infected, and thus diminished his dogma. Should this action, your relevent observations, continue, we, in keeping with the current climate, will be forced to sue you.

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    SCO, RIAA, MPAA, Fox News, Soviet Russia, and the rest of the "Not-so-much-'Best'-as-much-as-'Convienent'-friend s"

  9. Re:Yes by Molina+the+Bofh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, he is an asshold who did this in order to eat SAN's asshole.

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  10. Re:Yes by b4rB3li7h · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Boss came in gthis morning with his laptop and guess what we found on it....that's right....blaster! luckily we got it b4 it hit anything too hard but it shows that you can take all the internal precautions and still get caught out by someone plugging after a few days off site. matty.

  11. Linix might be just as vulnerable by ptarjan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I hate to have to say this to you guys, but the only reason Microsoft is having all these exploits published for their OS is the fact that they controll most of the market share!

    If linux starts to become prolific, you know what? People are going to start looking harder for worms and I can guarentee you that the same amount will start coming out for that OS.

    I'm going to have to sit on the other side of the fence for this one boys and girls. I don't think that this shows that Microsoft's OS's suck, it just shows that they are the best target.

  12. "everything off" by metamatic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Although "everything off" is good, "everything uninstalled" is better.

    One of the things I like about my little Gentoo box is I don't even have the telnet and ftp daemons on disk, let alone open to hacker attack.

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