Comment Re:Buffy Bonus! (Score 1) 763
I wish mod points were available on eBay. I'd pay good money right now.
The above comment is the funniest I've seen on
Comment Re:Can't lose! (Score 1) 546
It goes further than that. It's like saying:
"If you choose to keep the spare tyre, we will close the roads that you previously drove your car on."
Microsoft To Distribute Third-Party Patches 135
dhiren writes "Secunia on Wednesday announced that their authenticated internal vulnerability scanner, the Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) 4.0, has been integrated with Microsoft Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). This will hopefully pave the way for other vendors to also make use of Windows' existing patching infrastructure and eliminate the need for the multitude of custom updater applications and services that clutter most systems today."
Submission + - Swiss Army Knife Hacking Challenge - Win £10 (playthefuture.co.uk)
Joe writes: "Pen Knife Challenge — Win £100,0000
Victorinox are launching a new Swiss Army knife featuring a USB stick that has biometric encryption and a further program that monitors usage patterns: if anything out of the ordinary occurs it will email the owner and if no reply arrives, the data drive will self destruct. All very Mission Impossible!
To launch the knife, and test the hardware, they are holding an event at their Bond Street Store over Thursday 25th and Friday 26th March allowing people to attempt to access the knife. Each participant receives a two hour slot and would-be code-breakers can form teams of up to three people. Any person or team that succesfully cracks the knife will win a staggering £100,000.
The day promises to be great fun with hacker teams from all over the UK taking part. All participants will receive the knife itself and a £200 shopping voucher. View the challenge rules and book a hack slot at http://playthefuture.co.uk/
Good luck!"
Victorinox are launching a new Swiss Army knife featuring a USB stick that has biometric encryption and a further program that monitors usage patterns: if anything out of the ordinary occurs it will email the owner and if no reply arrives, the data drive will self destruct. All very Mission Impossible!
To launch the knife, and test the hardware, they are holding an event at their Bond Street Store over Thursday 25th and Friday 26th March allowing people to attempt to access the knife. Each participant receives a two hour slot and would-be code-breakers can form teams of up to three people. Any person or team that succesfully cracks the knife will win a staggering £100,000.
The day promises to be great fun with hacker teams from all over the UK taking part. All participants will receive the knife itself and a £200 shopping voucher. View the challenge rules and book a hack slot at http://playthefuture.co.uk/
Good luck!"
Blazing Fast Password Recovery With New ATI Cards 215
An anonymous reader writes "ElcomSoft accelerates the recovery of Wi-Fi passwords and password-protected iPhone and iPod backups by using ATI video cards. The support of ATI Radeon 5000 series video accelerators allows ElcomSoft to perform password recovery up to 20 times faster compared to Intel top of the line quad-core CPUs, and up to two times faster compared to enterprise-level NVIDIA Tesla solutions. Benchmarks performed by ElcomSoft demonstrate that ATI Radeon HD5970 accelerated password recovery works up to 20 times faster than Core i7-960, Intel's current top of the line CPU unit."
Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer 303
theodp writes "Give Bill Gates your 'pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail lists, project management features, computing device data, tasks and location data,' and he'll improve your 'quality of life.' That's the promise behind a patent issued Thursday to Bill Gates and his 20 co-inventors for 'Personal Data Mining', which Microsoft notes 'can include a monetization component' that 'could initiate an auction to sell information to the highest bidder.'"
Comment Re:I have no choice (Score 1) 549
I wish it was 4x£10! A recently booked flight cost £198.19.
I'm travelling to Maribor, the other end of Slovenia. That makes Graz airport nearer. I once managed to fly direct to Maribor, but Ryanair made some strange demands that Maribor wouldn't entertain, so Ryanair stopped flying there.
I rely on our rail service as much as I do Ryanair! Agreed, re York to (wherever), but I have to get to York first. Once you factor in the time and cost, it's quicker and cheaper just to drive down the A1 to Stanstead.
In an ideal world, American Airlines would fly from Robin Hood to Maribor. But, I don't think that's likely to happen.
Comment Re:I have no choice (Score 1) 549
Okay, so Ryanair prices aren't exactly first class.
What I was implying was that Ryanair prices aren't anywhere near as cheap as they claim. Between seat quote and payment, the price often multiplies 4x.
Their service still sucks though.
I just wish a "quality" airline would fly from a local(ish) airport to Slovenia. At the moment I'm having to drive from Yorkshire to Stanstead, then get a flight to Austria.
Comment I have no choice (Score 2, Informative) 549
Wherever I need to go, I always seem to have just one airline to choose from. Nine times out of ten, that's Ryanair.
So, I pay first class prices and get less than economy service.
Comment Re:Elementary School in the 80s (Score 2, Funny) 266
One of the ones in the UK:
"Go on then, let her have a go."
Comment But who's responsible? (Score 1) 447
Ignoring the pro/cons of this issue....
If I manage a web site that uses Google AdSense, for example, is it not Google that serve up those cookies?
So, is it not my problem?
Comment CounCILLors! (Score 4, Informative) 227
They're councillors. As in, people on a council.
Counsellors are a different breed of people altogether, like Troi.
Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning 227
Dr_Barnowl writes "In an occurrence first postulated in sci-fi and later lampooned by stick figures, it seems that a blogger has actually been responsible for the mass resignation of elected officials — a British town council — largely by calling them 'jack***es' and Nazis. What's next? The deposition of a president with 'your mom' smacktalk?"
SCO Terminates Darl McBride 458
bpechter writes "Linux Today reports SCO has terminated Darl McBride and linked to the SCO 8K SEC report. The report found also at the SCO site and states: 'the Company has eliminated the Chief Executive Officer and President positions and consequently terminated Darl McBride.'"
Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It 465
Bimal writes "After a short three-month beta program, Microsoft is officially releasing Microsoft Security Essentials, its free, real-time consumer anti-malware solution for fighting viruses, spyware, rootkits, and Trojans. MSE is available for Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista/7 32-bit, and Windows Vista/7 64-bit. 'Ars puts MSE through its paces and finds an unobtrusive app with a clean interface that protected us in the dark corners of the Internet.' The software received positive notes when in beta, including a nod from the independent testing group AV-Test." But reader CWmike notes that Symantec is trash-talking Microsoft's free offering. Jens Meggers, Symantec's vice president of engineering, dismissed MSE as a "poor product" that will "never be up to snuff." Meggers added, "Microsoft has a really bad track record in security." The GM of Trend Micro's consumer division sniffed, "It's better to use something than to use nothing, but you get what you pay for."
