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submission
Cocoshimmy writes:
It seems as though the Florida attorney general has been redirecting sex assault victims to a sex chat line. Apparently the government victim helpline number was changed but they didn't update their website and the old number was bought by an adult entertainment company. They finally discovered this when an 8 year old girl came to her mother crying after calling the number.
237507
submission
mopomi writes:
I'm setting up a home-office for my SO. Part of the company's requirement for the home-office is that the computer have an anti-virus package installed (because it will be connected directly to their network via a VPN). Since we don't like to use Windows for day-to-day work, we're running the VPN and remote display software under Suse 10.1. To be technically compliant with the AV requirement, I found and installed software from a big-name AV vendor (company is irrelevant). Last night I ran the AV scan on the entire system (bar /proc and /dev). This includes the Windows XP partition that is used for gaming.
The software scanned nearly three million files (with no positives!). My (somewhat rhetorical) question: Why are there so many files on modern operating systems? is every file necessary? is every tenth? how much of this is cruft?
