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Comment Re:One good turn... (Score 1) 235

Here it was a scam buying a house as an investment. You cannot rent it, as the tenant became the owner with socialist laws to guarantee house to anybody, and you have to pay huge council taxes, and even if the tenant pays a low rent, you have to pay for all the repairs. On top of that, the tenant fucks up your house over time, and even better, when you sell it, you pay a tax of 40% on the profit you made from when you bought it, without taking inflation into account.

Comment Re:Wha?!?!!! (Score 1) 172

So you are saying they are masochists that write everything from scratch, and automagically the binaries are eerily compatible between versions. And I quite remember not long ago they discovering a 20 year old bug - but hey, I could be wrong saying they reuse code and I do not believe their markeing. http://www.techradar.com/news/...

Submission + - Swedish Police Raid The Pirate Bay, Site Offline (torrentfreak.com)

An anonymous reader writes: This morning, for the first time in months, The Pirate Bay disappeared offline. A number of concerned users emailed TF for information but at that point technical issues seemed the most likely culprit.

However, over in Sweden authorities have just confirmed that local police carried out a raid in Stockholm this morning as part of an operation to protect intellectual property.

“There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law,” read a statement from Paul Pintér, police national coordinator for IP enforcement.

Police are staying quiet on the exact location of the operation and the targets involved but the fact that the national police IP chief is involved at this early stage suggests something sizable.

Submission + - Ubuntu Gets Container Friendly "Snappy" Core (datacenterdynamics.com)

judgecorp writes: Canonical just announced a new Ubuntu Core which uses containers instead of packages. It's the biggest Ubuntu shakeup for 20 years, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth, and is based on a tiny core, which will run Docker and other container technology better, quicker and with greater security than other Linuxes. Delivered as alpha code today, it's going to become a supported product, designed to compete with both CoreOS and Red Hat Atomic, the two leading container-friendly Linux approaches. Shuttleworth says it came about because Canonical found it had solved the "cloud" problems (delivering and updating apps and keeping security) by accident — in its work on a mobile version of Ubuntu

Submission + - A Flying Drone Built From Fungus (dice.com)

Nerval's Lobster writes: what if manufacturers could build drones out of something other than metal? What if you could construct an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) out of biological material, specifically a lightweight-but-strong one known as mycelium? The vegetative part of a fungus, mycelium is already under consideration as a building material; other materials would include cellulose sheets, layered together into “leather,” as well as starches worked into a “bioplastic.” While a mushroom-made drone is probably years away from takeoff, a proposal for the device caught some attention at this year’s International Genetically Engineered Machine competition. Designed by a team of students from Brown, Spelman, and Stanford Universities in conjunction with researchers from NASA, such a drone would (theoretically) offer a cheap and lightweight way to get a camera and other tools airborne. 'If we want to fly it over wildfires to see where it’s spreading, or if there’s a nuclear meltdown and we want to fly in to see what’s going on with the radioactivity, we can send in the drone and it can send back data without returning,' Ian Hull, a Stanford sophomore involved in the project, told Fast Company.

Comment Re:Well (Score 2) 129

And it is. The fact that you may have a 10-year old server infected with some malware, and a FUD article for someone with vested interests in running AV solutions for every machines does not disprove it. Plus it is very easy to have malware and or running external commands through applicational holes, like wordpress both in Windows or Linux if your PHP is not well configured, and it is not exactly "Linux" fault. Pity the article is more concerned with fear mongering than providing technical details.

Comment Re:Hello spooks (Score 1) 129

The last attacks I have seen they use coded transmission to talk with the CC, and I have seen a couple of instances where when running locally, they erase the binaries to not be tracked. If one is not careful analysing a system or too fast shutting down a compromised server, you will damage important data to be collected with foresync tools for sure.

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