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Comment Re:Doesn't have a built in update mechanism? (Score 1, Informative) 376

by ascendant on Thursday December 18, 2008 @11:53AM (#26160537) Attached to: Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch

no, and neither does firefox, FYI. You clearly don't understand how the FF update mechanism works.

It checks while you browse. And downloads it. During the last session. Then prompts you at the start of the next session.

Submission + - NASA: No repair needed. (google.com)

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ascendant

on Friday August 17, 2007 @12:13AM

ascendant writes: "NASA says that the gouge in the shuttle is not bad enough to warrant a fixing expedition.

Everyone complains of bad articles, so here you go."

Submission + - We have broken the speed of light

Submitted by maththaios on Thursday August 16, 2007 @09:47PM

maththaios writes: A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light — an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second. However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory.

Submission + - Laptop thief shown on web fined (nzherald.co.nz)

Submitted by on Thursday August 09, 2007 @11:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: A video of a man stealing a laptop computer posted on YouTube and Google video has resulted in a man being convicted for the theft. The video showed a man walking past a computer shop and then going into the store. He walked around the shop for some time before closing the lid on a laptop and walking away from it. He then walked back to the laptop and put it under his coat before leaving the shop.

Submission + - Rival malware gangs wage turf war (theregister.co.uk)

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ascendant

on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @06:17AM

ascendant writes: "The Register has a story up about two malware groups are fighting for turf and control over each other's bots.

Security researchers have uncovered evidence of a turf war between rival criminal enterprises connected to two of the most sophisticated malware toolkits in current use.But rather than clashing over who gets to skim money off a garbage collection contract or a major construction project, the cyber criminals are battling to own tens of thousands of compromised computers.
One trojan in the MPack attack kit is now removing a worm distributed by another group, who sat up and responded- DDoSing the server that the trojan uses to update itself.

Could this mean that there just aren't enough new suckers out there, and the scammers finally have to start fighting over the gullible set that's already been identified?"

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