'As more and more users come online in China, there's a good chance those computers are using pirated software without up-to-date security fixes, making them prime targets for hackers who are actually located elsewhere in the world, [Simon] Heron said. Those compromised computers, which are used to send spam and make it more difficult to identify the spammer, are so valuable that hacker gangs have been competing to take over machines
Apparently not only are Zombies tricky, but so is reading an article summary.
Currently, 121 people are suspected of being involved. The attack started by a tailormade Trojan sent in the name of the bank to some of its clients, according to McAfee.
While I am sure that "121 people are suspected", in reality, it is going to be much less. Many of these 121 that are being counted, I am sure are zombied machines, associates that in reality have no involvement and just plaing "suspects", however I assume that there are probably less than a dozen or so actual_bad_guys.
For someone who's supposedly an intelligent/. commenter you'd have expected the guy to have a vague clue about a prolific sci-fi author. I'm not sure I believe him to be honest.
By the way, last I remember Gibson still composes most of his work on a mechanical typewriter (I know at least Neuromancer was written in this way).
JotSpot is a wiki style online collaboration tool. It's particularly useful when you have several remote team members that need to organize in different time zones / countries, whatever. Not half bad actually.
Possibly. I for one am a bit ashamed at my past allegiance to the Google ethos. However I am not sure this is part of what I signed on for. Google can go a lot of ways with these acquisitions. Straight to hell being one of them.
With the most recent releases of FF 2.0 and IE7 almost simultaneously, from a person who does QA for a web deliverable software company, trying to debug and locate the source of inconsistencies in the way that FF 2.0 and IE7 handles DOM - what steps is the Mozilla foundation taking to help blaze the trail for some kind of standardization in DOM? I realize that IE has its own version of DOM, but is there hope that 1) Mozilla will better respond to erratic DOM programming from those that develop for IE or that 2) Mozilla will somehow influence the Microsoft camp to come over to standards?
You mean all those worthless Office Online Templates will be unavailable to users with non-validated copies (*cough* er...pirated) of Microsoft Office?
Oh my what a blow to the software piracy market . . .
The game, "Counter Strike", invites players to plant two bombs on the oil tanker to sink it and make the strait of Hormuz impassable, the Jomhouri-ye Eslami daily reported. About two-fifths of globally traded oil passes through the channel.
From Wiktionary
terrorism
The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response from the victim in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.
Violence against civilians to achieve military or political objectives.
A psychological strategy of war for gaining political or religious ends by deliberately creating a climate of fear among the popuation of a state.
Sounds kinda like terrorism, huh? Don't know about you but that kind of strict literalism taken from journalism is the reason why we all cower in fear and give deference to an administration that steals our civil liberties and keeps us from being able to speak out for our own freedom and civil rights.
However, IMO:
This is more rhetoric hijacking (no pun intended) the terrorism script to further the agenda of those that would like to see games like CS removed from the public domain. And TFA makes it seem like CS is a 'new' game, intentionally developed to train terrorists (or if you prefer the previous posters viewpoint, militants of the Iranian persuassion).
Nice use of the API jbum. I for one am glad to see that there is an apparent preference for "Cat" uploads over "Joke" as we all know abusive cat torture videos are what the internet is really about!
Education in this country is broken, and this is a great attempt by a very successful software company to change the tide.
Agreed. A change does need to occur within our current educational framework. And I believe that this is an interesting approach, as not only is Microsoft attempting to give support to a decrepit public school system through innovation, but it is trying to twist and fashion a new culture in education. IMO it is the culture of the education system which so desperately needs to change. I agree with previous posters that money is not the answer, that administration takes the largest cut of funding and that educators are the real victims within the school system.
In part I feel that this is due to a degraded culture in the public schools. Microsoft is a "lifestyle company" and in large part developed much of what we consider corporate culture in today's high tech firms.
I work in high tech and have worked for mostly lifestyle companies in the last 3 years. I for one feel that I get more done, am more productive and am better appreciated for my work as well as seeing a lot less overhead spent on administrative costs/processes. Everyone has mindshare. It is collaborative. We all go home thinking "how can I make this company's ideas work" and its fun.
If we can put a bit of that mentality into our school's culture, I think we can see a revolution occur from within. Caveat: I do fear the looming concern that this is all a ploy by Microsoft to engender consumer loyalty in our youth. However, I do think that this could go horribly right as well.
I for one plan to reserve judgement until this pilot matures and has some long term outcomes to prove or disprove the effectiveness of this approach.
Beta has been out for awhile . . . missed the scoop - too little too late IMO
How pointless is it to comment on commented code?
Author of TA didnt really get into a lot of the features like Labels, modifiable templates from an AJAX control, blah blah
For once I actually did RTA and I think Ill go back to just making flippant comments about comments
Now about Beta - my big gripe is the continued lack of xhtml compliance on the part of the blogger developers. I go through the extra 5% effort it takes to ensure my code validates. It makes things easier on the end user, and its just good best practices. Despite several years of complaints by bloggers, they [Google] have yet to enforce compliance with their blogger product.
The FTC will host a conference from Nov. 6 to 8 focusing on protecting consumers in an era of converging technologies, Majoras also announced. The conference, called Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-Ade, will focus on emerging trends, applications, products, services and technology issues in the next decade, she said.
'While I am sounding cautionary notes about new legislation, let me make clear that if broadband providers engage in anticompetitive conduct, we will not hesitate to act using our existing authority,' she said. 'But I have to say, thus far, proponents of Net neutrality regulation have not come to us to explain where the market is failing or what anticompetitive conduct we should challenge.'
Since when did the FTC all the sudden start taking this anti-legislation stance? So they will only legislate issues after-the-fact? Let Comcast, Verizon, AT&T bully the market, then we will see if we decide to do anything about it . . . right!
The thing that net neutrality proponents are proposing is resistance to current talks of creating a tiered internet:
"In essence, network neutrality regulations proposed by Senators Snowe and Dorgan[4] and Representative Markey bar ISPs from offering Quality of Service enhancements for a fee. --From Wikipedia
Humph! They added AJAX controls to the frontpage, added vids, blogs, blah, blah - not impressed.
Just because it used AJAX, ATLAS,.NET 2.0 or any of the "new" technologies doesn't mean anything. It's still going to be bottom-barrel internet fodder. The idea of social networking and reputation driven sites have been around for ages (look at/.)
The question then is this: do social networking communities or even reputation servers in the longrun do anything for anyone, except in small specialized communites (like bushmen tribes in the Australia and maybe even slashdot), or in the case of commerce; i.e. Google, Ebay, Amazon, etc?
All attempts I have seen outside of this, Friendster or dare I mention Orkut, have failed. I do recall seeing quite a bit of activity from west coast users however on sites like Tribes, but again these were activity based groups that had RL connections. Again, I look to the idea that like most social based networks, unless united by a common and specialized purpose tend to fall apart. And we wonder why world peace seems so far away.
Overall, the reviewer likes this free KDE-based distro, but had to question some implementation choices, such as using the less-compatible Konqueror over Firefox for its default web browser.
Simple:
apt-get firefox
enter
From the Ark Linux website: Ark Linux uses a combination of rpm and apt-get. That wasn't so hard was it?
Slashdot Mirror
While I am sure that "121 people are suspected", in reality, it is going to be much less. Many of these 121 that are being counted, I am sure are zombied machines, associates that in reality have no involvement and just plaing "suspects", however I assume that there are probably less than a dozen or so actual_bad_guys.
Sounds like ReactOS to me.
Indeed
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=3
For someone who's supposedly an intelligent /. commenter you'd have expected the guy to have a vague clue about a prolific sci-fi author. I'm not sure I believe him to be honest.
By the way, last I remember Gibson still composes most of his work on a mechanical typewriter (I know at least Neuromancer was written in this way).
My understanding is that Open-Xchange is way ahead in development anyway.
Or was every comment after about the first half dozen off topic?
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. - A. Einstein
Always has been. Always will be.
Ill probably get a downmodded as troll for this, but heh my Karma is good
Viva la Revolucion!
JotSpot is a wiki style online collaboration tool. It's particularly useful when you have several remote team members that need to organize in different time zones / countries, whatever. Not half bad actually.
Possibly. I for one am a bit ashamed at my past allegiance to the Google ethos. However I am not sure this is part of what I signed on for. Google can go a lot of ways with these acquisitions. Straight to hell being one of them.
With the most recent releases of FF 2.0 and IE7 almost simultaneously, from a person who does QA for a web deliverable software company, trying to debug and locate the source of inconsistencies in the way that FF 2.0 and IE7 handles DOM - what steps is the Mozilla foundation taking to help blaze the trail for some kind of standardization in DOM? I realize that IE has its own version of DOM, but is there hope that 1) Mozilla will better respond to erratic DOM programming from those that develop for IE or that 2) Mozilla will somehow influence the Microsoft camp to come over to standards?
I believe its scheduled for 2013 - JWST. However it only does infrared imaging, whereas Hubble covers the visible spectrum.
You mean all those worthless Office Online Templates will be unavailable to users with non-validated copies (*cough* er...pirated) of Microsoft Office?
Oh my what a blow to the software piracy market . . .
FTA
From Wiktionary
terrorism
Sounds kinda like terrorism, huh? Don't know about you but that kind of strict literalism taken from journalism is the reason why we all cower in fear and give deference to an administration that steals our civil liberties and keeps us from being able to speak out for our own freedom and civil rights.
However, IMO: This is more rhetoric hijacking (no pun intended) the terrorism script to further the agenda of those that would like to see games like CS removed from the public domain. And TFA makes it seem like CS is a 'new' game, intentionally developed to train terrorists (or if you prefer the previous posters viewpoint, militants of the Iranian persuassion).
Utterly crap, irresponsible journalism
Nice use of the API jbum. I for one am glad to see that there is an apparent preference for "Cat" uploads over "Joke" as we all know abusive cat torture videos are what the internet is really about!
Education in this country is broken, and this is a great attempt by a very successful software company to change the tide. Agreed. A change does need to occur within our current educational framework. And I believe that this is an interesting approach, as not only is Microsoft attempting to give support to a decrepit public school system through innovation, but it is trying to twist and fashion a new culture in education. IMO it is the culture of the education system which so desperately needs to change. I agree with previous posters that money is not the answer, that administration takes the largest cut of funding and that educators are the real victims within the school system. In part I feel that this is due to a degraded culture in the public schools. Microsoft is a "lifestyle company" and in large part developed much of what we consider corporate culture in today's high tech firms. I work in high tech and have worked for mostly lifestyle companies in the last 3 years. I for one feel that I get more done, am more productive and am better appreciated for my work as well as seeing a lot less overhead spent on administrative costs/processes. Everyone has mindshare. It is collaborative. We all go home thinking "how can I make this company's ideas work" and its fun. If we can put a bit of that mentality into our school's culture, I think we can see a revolution occur from within. Caveat: I do fear the looming concern that this is all a ploy by Microsoft to engender consumer loyalty in our youth. However, I do think that this could go horribly right as well. I for one plan to reserve judgement until this pilot matures and has some long term outcomes to prove or disprove the effectiveness of this approach.
- Beta has been out for awhile . . . missed the scoop - too little too late IMO
- How pointless is it to comment on commented code?
- Author of TA didnt really get into a lot of the features like Labels, modifiable templates from an AJAX control, blah blah
- For once I actually did RTA and I think Ill go back to just making flippant comments about comments
Now about Beta - my big gripe is the continued lack of xhtml compliance on the part of the blogger developers. I go through the extra 5% effort it takes to ensure my code validates. It makes things easier on the end user, and its just good best practices. Despite several years of complaints by bloggers, they [Google] have yet to enforce compliance with their blogger product.Since when did the FTC all the sudden start taking this anti-legislation stance? So they will only legislate issues after-the-fact? Let Comcast, Verizon, AT&T bully the market, then we will see if we decide to do anything about it . . . right!
The thing that net neutrality proponents are proposing is resistance to current talks of creating a tiered internet:
"In essence, network neutrality regulations proposed by Senators Snowe and Dorgan[4] and Representative Markey bar ISPs from offering Quality of Service enhancements for a fee.
--From Wikipedia
Humph! They added AJAX controls to the frontpage, added vids, blogs, blah, blah - not impressed.
Just because it used AJAX, ATLAS, .NET 2.0 or any of the "new" technologies doesn't mean anything. It's still going to be bottom-barrel internet fodder. The idea of social networking and reputation driven sites have been around for ages (look at /.)
The question then is this: do social networking communities or even reputation servers in the longrun do anything for anyone, except in small specialized communites (like bushmen tribes in the Australia and maybe even slashdot), or in the case of commerce; i.e. Google, Ebay, Amazon, etc?
All attempts I have seen outside of this, Friendster or dare I mention Orkut, have failed. I do recall seeing quite a bit of activity from west coast users however on sites like Tribes, but again these were activity based groups that had RL connections. Again, I look to the idea that like most social based networks, unless united by a common and specialized purpose tend to fall apart. And we wonder why world peace seems so far away.
Overall, the reviewer likes this free KDE-based distro, but had to question some implementation choices, such as using the less-compatible Konqueror over Firefox for its default web browser.
Simple:
apt-get firefox
enter
From the Ark Linux website: Ark Linux uses a combination of rpm and apt-get.
That wasn't so hard was it?
But not smart enough to avoid the big tank at PetSmart apparently . . . .
PlutoPod - or would Apple claim that is a derivative technology?