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Security

Submission + - IIS twice as likely to serve malware as Apache (arstechnica.com)

abhinav_pc writes: Ars Technica is carrying an article about a study by Google's Anti-Malware Team which seems to confirm that Web sites running Microsoft's IIS are twice as likely to host malware than those running Apache. Last month, Google looked at 70,000 domains that were either distributing malware or hosting attack code. Nagendra Modadugu, at the company's anti malware group, wrote in a blog: "Compared to our sample of servers across the internet, Microsoft IIS features twice as often as a malware distributing server."
Censorship

Submission + - Reporter Arrested on Orders of Giuliani Press Sec. (jonesreport.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Freelance reporter Matt Lepacek, reporting for Infowars.com, was arrested for asking a question to one of Giuliani's staff members in a press conference. The press secretary identified the New York based reporter as having previously asked Giuliani about his prior knowledge of WTC building collapses and ordered his arrest on the grounds of criminal trespass, despite protest of CNN staff. He had a proper press pass.
Movies

Submission + - Lesbian Illegal Immigration Movie coming to DVD! (prweb.com)

maplepalm writes: "Last year's politically charged indie feature, Maple Palm, sneaks across the border from theaters to home video when it's released on DVD July 3, with advance crossings occurring now via pre-order. Set in California's idyllic Marina del Rey, the film's dramatic subject matter exposes the one arena in which gay relationships are a felony, and in the process, challenges our stereotypes of what it means to be an immigrant, and an American. Read the full story at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/05/prweb524670. htm For more info on the film visit: www.maplepalmmovie.com"
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Doing the Nasty In Second Life

An anonymous reader writes: InformationWeek's Mitch Wagner looks at Second Life sex: "As I worked on our report on sex in Second Life, I wondered: Is all this gettin' cyber-sweaty harmful? I decided it depends on the circumstances. But I know many of our readers will say it's just plain wrong. What do you think?" InformationWeek's look into the Second Life sex scene includes interviews with a lesbian dominatrix, a virtual madam, and a bi Asian chick who likes to have cybersex with hermaphrodites, shemales, alien avatars, and futuristic cyborgs.
Republicans

Submission + - Trouble in the Tubes for Senator Ted Stevens

MillionthMonkey writes: "Internet star Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), has been implicated in scandal: according to the Anchorage Daily News the senator had the first floor of his house lifted off the ground and a new floor put underneath it with the help of a top executive from Veco Corporation, a local oil company. The addition doubled the size of the house (assuming the honorable gentleman from Alaska can still make it up the stairs). The FBI and a grand jury are still investigating- although the Senator's role is still somewhat murky in the scandal, which had previously ensnared his son, Ben Stevens, an Alaskan State Senator. The initial inquiry surfaced last year in August when the younger Stevens' legislative office was raided by the FBI along with five other state-level offices. Four politicians have been charged and Veco executives have already pled guilty- testifying that Ben Stevens received $242,000 in illegitimate consulting fees. Ted has remained clean until now."
Announcements

Submission + - Chinese drug commissioner is sentenced to death

An anonymous reader writes: From IHT: "SHANGHAI: The former head of China's top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death Tuesday after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, the state-controlled news media reported.

Zheng Xiaoyu, who served as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from its founding in 1998 until mid-2005, was detained in February as part of a government investigation into corruption at the agency.

The unusually harsh sentence for the 62-year-old former commissioner came at a time of heightened concern about the quality and safety of China's food and drug system, following a series of scandals here involving tainted food and counterfeit drugs.

China is under mounting pressure to overhaul its food export controls after two local companies were accused this year of shipping contaminated pet food ingredients to the United States, leading to one of the largest pet food recalls in U.S. history."

Whilst it's good to see steps being taken to reduce corruption, and increase the quality of Chinese exports; sentencing someone to death for this shows a continued difference in legal standards with the Western world.
Programming

Submission + - Silicon Valley cheaper than India?

uniquebydegrees writes: "InfoWorld is reporting today (link here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/29/riya-wag e-inflation-sinks_1.html) about the effects of the tech boom on wages in India, with a profile of Riya.com, a visual search startup with headquarters in Bangalore, India and Silicon Valley. With high demand for qualified programmers pushing wages in India up from 30% to 75% of their U.S. counterparts in recent years, Riya was forced to pull up stakes in Bangalore and consolidate in the U.S. Turns out, that 75 cents on the dollar is a lot, when you figure in the unreliable infrastructure in India (rolling blackouts) and the tendency for Indian IT workers to value salary over options. Figure those in, and Silicon Valley looks like a good deal — or at least it did to Riya. As the article points out, startups are particularly vulnerable to the effects of wage inflation in emerging markets like India, because they can't afford to take on, then train inexperienced workers, as IBM, HP and Oracle can. "Startups aren't places where you train people from the ground up," said Riya CEO Munjal Shah. "They're places where either you know what you're doing or you don't. We paid to hire the best.""
Communications

Submission + - Nortel strong-arms Fonality, pressures blogger

An anonymous reader writes: What happens with a popular VoIP blogger writes about Nortel spin-off Blade Network's decision to use the Asterisk open-source comms server from Fonality, instead of Nortel's traditional systems? Answer: crap hits the fan when a Nortel board member reads the blog post, and threatens both everyone involved. Luckily for the open-source religion and for all the Davids out there, the blogger didn't back down. Nor did Fonality's CEO, who agrees that Nortel needs to be taught a lesson! The whole dark story is here.
GUI

Submission + - Top 5 OS X Style Dock Replacements for Linux

Dan the man writes: "Why lie about it? Linux right out of the box is lacking style. Even with the new Ubuntu and RedHat packages, people look at Linux as a Legacy Operating system because it 's style looks like something that Al gore would have used 20 years ago. Here you will find my reviews and videos of the top 5 OS X Style Dock Replacements for Linux. Check out the top 5 list here: http://pimpyourlinux.com/linux-feature-review/top- 5-os-x-style-dock-replacements-for-linux/"
Space

Submission + - Nobody Wins NASA's Regolith Challenge

eldavojohn writes: "On Saturday, I submitted a story covering the beginning of NASA's Regolith challenge in which teams were to move 150 kg of regolith (moon rock) on 30 watts of power. Nobody succeeded. This makes it the sixth of seven Centennial Challenges that NASA has held since 2005 to be won by no one."
IBM

Submission + - NYSE moving off the mainframe

BDPrime writes: "The New York Stock Exchange today started its migration off the mainframe to AIX and Linux.

Francis Feldman, the vice president of the shared data center for Securities Industry Automation Corp. (SIAC), the NYSE's technology arm, said the bottom line for the migration was the bottom line. He estimates the move will halve the cost of transactions, and though he wouldn't detail how much that would mean on a yearly basis, he said it is "serious financial savings, very serious."


AIX on System p will run the recompiled application code; Linux on HP x86 servers will run the FTP transfers."
Graphics

Submission + - Free/Libre Intel X11 graphics driver for 965GM

sTeF writes: Keith Packard has announced the inclusion of a free Intel driver into Xorg:

In addition to Intel 965GM chipset support, the X.org 2.0 driver adds native video mode programming support for all chipsets from i830 forward. The driver supports automatic video mode detection and selection, monitor hot plug, dynamic extended and merged desktops and per-monitor screen rotation.

The official Intel Linux Graphics website even reveals links to Ubuntu developers, could we also find a link to the Dell Ubuntu offering? Ubuntu will be much easier to setup for 3D accelerated desktops (think Beryl) than on competing ATI and NVidia chipsets. Maybe this will make the ATI announcement from earlier to day more credible if they want to hold on to Linuxers.

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