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Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In
Nieriko writes "Reports are trickling in about the impact from the Conficker worm, as infected systems passed zero hour at midnight and began downloading additional malicious components. Here are a couple of the more notable incidents caused by Conficker so far, according to published reports: — '... shortly after midnight local time, an ATM in the capital city of Reykjavik began spewing 100-Krona notes. ... A nuclear missile installation near Elmendorf Air force Base outside of Anchorage, Alaska briefly went on a full-scale military alert after technicians manning the bunker suspected that several of their control systems were infected with Conficker.'"
It's so hard to tell which ones are too stupid to be true and so stupid they probably are true.
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I hope so, otherwise this is Wargames meets reality. If this is a joke, I didn't laugh because I've been watching this ConFlickr worm closely ever since seeing it in action.
Whoever set this virus up was smart to have things happen on April 1st. I never know if these reports are real or someone is making a joke.
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There's a difference between a funny april fools joke (see StackOverflow's new Cornify feature) and just being annoying by reporting fake news. I hate to be the downer, but I'd still like to be able to watch /. for good info today. Too bad I guess.
Would be if Conficker does nothing after all the man-hours spent preparing for it.
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Can slashdot PLEASE implement a "-1 Missed the April Fool's Day Joke" Moderation option?
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All may have agendas (not necessarily true), but some are more biased than others (yes, Fox News fits in that category).
university-elitist brainwashing...
Most people call that "learning".
There hasn't been a serious story on /. yet today. I always hope nothing important actually happens on April 1st, for fear it'll be ignored and get filed as "yet another gag"
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Moderators should just refuse to moderate April Fool's stories. The story's from an alternate reality; let them moderate their own insane events.
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Well, that's what you get for listening to Archvillains.
In other news, there's a flickr user calling herself Jay Peg. Maybe just 'jaypeg.' There's also a racehorse named Jay Peg. I'm gonna put down the Google and back away slowly with my hands in the air now.
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What is amazing is that the real haters of Fox don't acknowledge the bias of the others. It's completely laughable.
No, the real hilarity is the presumption that 1) Fox News is honest about their bias (no they are not, they don't deny it but they actively avoid advertising the fact that they are strictly conservative viewpoints) and that 2) everyone else is strictly liberal (total bullshit, but knowing that fact requires remembering what media was like prior to Bush's 8 years...seems like most Fox News worshippers cannot remember it).
I agree. It's a good one. Both because it's subtle AND it punishes the tendency to not RTFA. Bravo, /.
The degree of bias from Fox/CNN/MSNBC is subjectively scored based on how much you agree with whatever slop they're dishing out.
In other words, if you believe MSNBC has no bias, then you will also believe that Fox has an extreme bias. The reverse is also true.
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Maybe because time and time again Fox News proves to not have any journalistic integrity. They are the station that have whack jobs like Jack Thompson on all the time since he is an "expert" on video game violence. They only present one side. I mean, Obama addressed the nation and you had Bill O'Reily critiquing it. He isn't a journalist at all, just someone pushing his agenda (somewhat hypocritically). CNN had a team of people discussing what Obama talked about on both sides of the aisle. But then again, CNN has conservative air heads like Campbell Brown on. They also used to have commentaries from Glenn Beck. If you think Fox News is anything but a tool to push an agenda, then you really aren't paying attention. It is not news and I wish there was some way to sue them so they have to take that out of their name until they actually meet some basic journalistic standards.
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That is a very large assumption. Some people are more concerned about the accuracy of the reporting. Fox tends to make things up more frequently than others. Does that mean I think CNN or MSNBC are free and clear? No. 1 and 0 are not the only options.
I never got the whole elitist thing. So Obama is an elitist because he went to a good school and got good grades? I'd love to be an elitist then. How was McCain not an elite with his war hero background and millions of dollars? Do we want sub-elite people running the country? I don't really think the conservatives thought this insult through very well.
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Learning is the mental absorption and retention of information. Whether the information you learned is true or false is something else again, and I think that's the point he was making. Some universities may, in fact, be causing their students to learn false information. Brainwashing is a form of learning too.
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There are two parts to the Fox News Channel: the journalism part and the editorial part. The journalism part is actually pretty "fair and balanced," and that's the part most people refer to when they talk about media bias. Unfortunately, that part comes on while no one is watching.
The editorial part is unabashedly conservative, but even they do a better job than the other channels in at least having someone there to provide token opposition. Their bias is very evident because they provide the contrast right there. Other channels with less obvious bias usually will at best tell you the other side's position in their own words.
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So conservatives would be okay with a gay couple deciding to get married? Or with decriminalizing marijuana? Or legalizing liquor sales on sundays? What makes the conservatives any less "elitist" for thinking that they can make better decisions for other people? I shouldn't be barred from buying a bottle of wine on Sunday because it might upset a hyper conservative Christian. Or if I was gay, I shouldn't be barred from entering into a simple legally binding contract with another consenting adult who happened to be the same sex. I'd say it's pretty damned "elitist" to make those decisions based on dogmatic values or personal prejudices.
Why only two?
Your upset because Palin can't answer what newspapers and magazines she read? Give me a break. She was asked questions that any reasonable politician should have been able to answer (hell, I could have answered them) but she failed miserably because she isn't very smart and was a huge judgment mistake my McCain.
The other poster already commented on the journalist thing...but when your news station has a "non-journalist" covering Obama's major speeches, how do you expect rational, logical people to take you seriously? How is it fair and balanced? Really, please try to watch Fox News from a point of view of trying to find facts instead of trying to find viewpoints you agree with. They edit to change meaning, they blow out of proportion non-issues if they are against liberals, they change the little R next to congress members names to Ds when they have sexual relations with their male interns. And people just sit by and act if it is ok. It isn't. This isn't an entertainment show like Rush Limbaugh. It is billed as a news channel, and it fails at that on almost every level.
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I'm a moderate and almost all of them look biased from where I sit. Not that I mind, as long as they're reasonably open about it. It's the ones who pretend to be fair and impartial while only presenting one side of the story and refusing to admit that the other POV even exists that I don't like, and here on the Left Coast, most of those are Very Liberal in their politics.
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