Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole

UgLyPuNk writes with an excerpt from Gamepron.com: "Freeware games can actually cost you more money than their pay-to-play cousins, as mobile gamers in the UK have learned. A 'booby-trapped' version of a popular Windows Mobile game has been sneakily spending their money while they sleep – by dialing phone numbers in the Antarctic behind their backs."

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Wait I'm confused

[Anonymous Coward]

So I've been reading Slashdot for a couple of years now and I'm thoroughly confused about how we decide which stories deserve the community's notice. A few days ago a young geek asked the community for advice on coming out ( http://slashdot.org/submission/1249026/Coming-Out-For-Geeks ) and the struggles of being being different in both within geek culture and wider society as a whole - something I'm sure most of the community could offer some really insightful commentary on. A day later and it's buried under the weigh of scam sites, advertisments, random idles, and this.

Okay I get that there's a security worry, and as computer users we should all be worried. But how has that risen to the top when the other story dissapeared without any notice whatsoever? Should we be gaming the system so as to post at the optimal time to attract attention? Is it just something we have to shrug off and ignore? I thought "News That Mattered" was as much a declaration of a philosophical basis as anything else - a commitment to serve the needs and interests of a self-selected community of geeks. One of our community had a life changing question, one that really got to the heart of what it means to be one of us, and we ignored him.

Re:Wait I'm confused

[EvanED]

So I've been reading Slashdot for a couple of years now and I'm thoroughly confused about how we decide which stories deserve the community's notice.

What happens is kwadson looks at the story, and if it's anti-MS, he posts it. (This is not a complete description of the process.)

(And to be fair, this story is much less flamebait than some of the FUD that he's put on the front page.)

Re:Wait I'm confused

[LingNoi]

Just because you're gay doesn't mean anyone on slashdot cares. It's also a pretty stupid question as the issues of "coming out" are no different then with non-geeks. This isn't a homosexual oriented site. This is a tech site. Hence why windows mobile virus is on the main page and "I'm a gay teen, should I out myself?" isn't.

Re:yikes

[simcop2387]

replying to undo moderation, where the fuck did the button go to let me do it without this shit

Re:Did penguins answer ?

[DreadPirateShawn]

"Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you..."