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Comment No thanks (Score 2, Informative) 251

by ZOMFF (#28307483) Attached to: Microsoft's Free AV App May Be a Non-Starter
If it's anything as effective as One Care, I'm going to stay away. I received a free 1 year subscription to One Care at a Microsoft event about 2 years ago and ran it until it expired. After removing it and re-installing my previous Symantec product, it detected around a dozen viruses and malware infections that One Care did not notice. Since then I've kept my distance from any Microsoft AV type product.
Power

Submission + - Researchers Create 'Sleep Talking' Mode for PC's

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that induces a new energy saving state known as "sleep talking" that may soon save large amounts of energy. The new sleep talking state provides much of the energy savings of sleep mode and some of the network-and-Internet-connected convenience of awake mode. "Large numbers of people keep their PCs in awake mode even though the PCs are relatively idle for long blocks of time because they want to stay connected to an internal network or the Internet or both," says Yuvraj Agarwal. "I realized that most of the tasks that people keep their computers on for--like ensuring remote access and availability for virus scans and backup, maintaining presence on instant messaging (IM) networks, being available for incoming voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls, and file sharing and downloading--can be achieved at much lower power-use levels than regular awake mode." Following this realization, the team built a small USB-connected hardware and software plug-in system that allows a PC to remain in sleep mode while continuing to maintain network presence and run well-defined application functions. Researchers say the new mode consumes 11 to 24 times less power than a PC in idle state, which could translate to energy savings of 60 to 80 percent depending on their use model. "Reducing energy consumed by wall-powered devices, especially computing equipment, offers a huge opportunity to save money and reduce greenhouse gasses," said Agarwal."

Comment Re:LinuxConf is next month... (Score 1) 1082

by ZOMFF (#24200155) Attached to: Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System
Is it bigotry because I'm wrong? Or bigotry because I'm right?

The city's large gay and lesbian population has created and sustained a politically and culturally active community over many decades, developing a powerful presence in San Francisco's civic life. A popular destination for gay and lesbian tourists, the city hosts San Francisco Pride, an annual parade and festival.
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Pressure Mounting for 2KGames over DRM in BioShock 1

Submitted by
DoctorDyna
DoctorDyna writes: "Pressure seems to be building for 2KGames over the inclusion of SecuROM with their latest release, BioShock. They have been fighting criticism over the last couple of days after limiting customers via SecuROM (accused of being a rootkit) to only install the game twice, which they later increased to 5 times. Customers are irate that once again, only the customer suffers due to draconian anti-piracy measures.

PC Gamer is being outspoken on their front page as well."
Google

Submission + - Google Adds StarOffice to Pack software bundle

Submitted by
Van Cutter Romney
Van Cutter Romney writes: "Google quietly added StarOffice to its freely available Google Pack software bundle. StarOffice is the commercial version of Sun Microsystems' office suite. While StarOffice is available for Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms, the version being offered through Google Pack is only for Windows XP or Vista users. Even though it is bundled with the Pack, StarOffice is not integrated with Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google's online office productivity suite."
Security

Submission + - Ubuntu Servers HACKED! (ubuntu.com)

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Ubuntu had to shutdown 5 of 8 production servers that are sponsored by Canonical, when they started attacking other systems. Canonical blames the community, saying they were community hosted, and were poorly maintained. However, kernel upgrades couldn't be done because of poor backwards compatibility with the very hardware that Canonical had sponsored! While people point fingers at each other it is pretty clear that both sides are equally to blame, the community administrators for practicing bad security practices, such as using unencrypted FTP transfers with accounts, not properly maintaining the system. However Canonical should have been well aware of what they are hosting. The question remains, if any of the files distributed to users have been compromised. A major blow for Canonical though who are attempting to enter the business market with Ubuntu Server."
The Internet

Submission + - Social Networking For The Digitally Unhinged 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The social networking site Hakspace originally billed as a myspace for hackers and the digital underground in general has just launched version 2.0 of their social networking backend — now twinned and incorporating news from the somewhat infamous Whitedust.net (which now publishes Hakspace blogs on their front page, without the moderation expected of Web 2.0 sites) the sites are apparently based on an interesting manifesto of 'free publishing'. From the manifesto; "We believe in the sharing and publication of information; all information. That is the beginning and the end of the Whitedust agenda, there is no mystery, no corporate backing or capitalist master plan, no anarchistic undertone of mayhem or militancy. From this point on we will not indulge in juvenile destructive squabbling that plagues the web nor pander to the greed and envy of others intent on trying to control us." The manifesto goes on to say "Information is a pure, simple concept. Our agenda's limits shall not be dictated by either the 'corporate establishment' — the information security industry, or by the self-glorifying militant elements that dwell on its outskirts, the teenage miscreants who pool at the bottom of this digital barrel... We will publish what we want, when we want." Is this the beginning of web 3.0?
Education

Submission + - Nigerian students browse porn on OLPC

Submitted by
jmanforever
jmanforever writes: "Tag this one "noduh"

"Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet..."

"Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials,"

Story at: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idU SL1966647020070720"
Communications

Details and Rumors of iPhone Restrictions Emerging 441

Posted by kdawson from the still-don't-know-how-much-a-month dept.
We're getting indications of the ways the iPhone will be sold (or not sold) and restricted by Apple and AT&T. Reader thefickler writes, "An anonymous AT&T store manager has told blorge.com that users will get their WiFi when they sign a contract locking them into a data plan and EDGE. Kiss your dreams of WiFi reliance goodbye." And our own CmdrTaco found an article up on AppleInsider reporting that the iPhone will not be sold through established business channels — forcing Cingular business customers to stand in line for their goodies, as individuals, at Apple stores. An AT&T Business Division rep told one customer, "There is no ETA on the [ending of the] sale ban to business."
Windows

Submission + - Daylight Saving Time

Submitted by
lilbudda
lilbudda writes: "Given the new Daylight Saving time in the US, how are you preparing your servers and users for the change?"

Feed HD DVD: No Copycats Allowed (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
SourceForge complies with a DMCA notice to remove open-source software designed to help you rip HD DVDs. But was it really infringing copyright? In 27B Stroke 6.


Security

Submission + - eBay hacker keeps busting through site's back door

Submitted by pacopico
pacopico writes: A hacker specializing in eBay cracks has once again managed to masquerade as a company official on the site's message boards, according to this story on The Register. A company spokesman denies that "Vladuz's" repeated assaults on eBay point to a larger problem with the site's security. Of course, eBay two days ago claimed to have found a way to block Vladuz altogether, only to see him pop up again. Is eBay Vladuz the online version of the Exxon Valdez?
Spam

Submission + - Alleged spammer tries to take Spamhaus.org, foiled

Submitted by norml
norml writes: Last year, electronic marketing firm e360insight sued the anti-spam blocklist Spamhaus in U.S. District Court over being included on the Spamhaus website as an alleged spammer. Since Spamhaus is a UK company, the jurisdiction of a U.S. Court may be questionable, but Spamhaus found (the hard way) that the court was still willing to enter a default judgment. e360insight then attempted to take Spamhaus.org by using the US Marshall service to try to seize it from its domain registrar, Tucows, but failed on a technicality.

Sadly, the latest development is that the US Federal Court in Illinois has granted e360's motion to enter its judgment against Spamhaus in the U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi, allowing the seizure from Tucows, which maintains offices there for one of its products.

This would be bad news. However, Spamhaus hasn't been sitting around idly waiting to be crushed by the U.S. legal system. When Tucows was served, e360 had the nasty shock of discovering that Tucows was no longer the registrar for Spamhaus. Spamhaus.org has now been registered through Gandi in France. We're pretty sure that the French aren't about to hand over a UK company's domain registration due to a U.S. judgment.

The Spamhaus guys can be found to be going "neener, neener, neener!" in news:news.admin.net-abuse.email in response to e360's posting there.

http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/statement.las so?ref=3 http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2006 102700261694 http://www.e360insight.com/news.php

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