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Comment Re:It would be good to have optional GUI (Score 1) 780

by mitashki (#38687166) Attached to: Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server

PowerShell is really powerful shell for Windows, even more powerful than you have on Linux, as it passes objects between commands and programs, not just text.

How many years it took for MS to finally come up with shell for its own servers? Far from the thought to start flame war on different shells though. What I like is that on Linux/Unix I am not resticted to a single shell choice! Praise to the freedom!

Comment Re:EU still has some sense left, compared to US (Score 3, Insightful) 225

by mitashki (#38057670) Attached to: EU Approves Unified Full Body Scanner Regulations

Disclaimer: I am European and I do think the perfect government is a balance between Communism and Capitalism.

Actually I do believe the BEST government would use the good ideas from both and refuse to follow the ideologies and propaganda from both. For the record I am an European too (whatever it might mean these days).

Comment They could try... (Score 0) 899

by mitashki (#37466676) Attached to: How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs
Certainly the big proprietary OS guys could choose a path which will lock out the rest for their advantage. However I'm positive I will be able to choose my PC components and my OS in the future same way as now. We're not afraid of where we're going We're just afraid of where we've been
Biotech

Biometric Face Recognition At Your Local Mall 120

Posted by samzenpus from the sunglass-and-disguise-hut dept.
dippityfisch writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that face recognition is being considered at Westfield's Sydney mall to catch offenders. The identification system matches images captured by surveillance cameras to an existing database of faces. Police said they could not comment on the center's intentions, but would welcome any move to improve security and technology in the area."

Comment Re:It's even worse than that (Score 1) 277

by mitashki (#30246818) Attached to: EU About To Grant US Unlimited Access To Banking Data
Good call! And more pizza analogy: "The guy who eats the pizza is not the crazy one, the crazy is the guy who gives him the pizza for nothing in return." It is not so much an US "fault" if they want an access to the data, but the EU Council representatives are the traitors here. I wonder if they don't receive more benefit next to the inter-bank transaction data?
Privacy

EU About To Grant US Unlimited Access To Banking Data 277

Posted by kdawson from the not-too-swift dept.
An anonymous reader points out a blog post reporting that on Monday The EU Council is set to give US intelligence services full access to SWIFT banking data, despite a unanimous call by the European Parliament not to do so. "The move of SWIFT the data server to Switzerland would be an excellent opportunity to stop the nearly unlimited access of US authorities on EU bank transactions. But EU justice and interior ministers are apparently keen [on agreeing to] a deal as soon as possible, on 30 November. Why 30 November? Because one day later, on 1 December 2009, the EU’s Lisbon Treaty will be in force and would allow the European Parliament to play a major role in the negotiations of the deal with the US. A deal one day before will be a slap in the face to democracy in the EU. ... [W]hile the US will be able to access EU banking data, no access to US banking data by EU [authorities] is being foreseen."
Security

First Malicious iPhone Worm In the Wild 135

Posted by timothy from the because-some-jerks-are-clever dept.
An anonymous reader writes "After the ikee worm that displayed a picture of Rick Astley on jailbroken iPhones, the first malicious iPhone worm (Google translation; original, in Dutch) has now been discovered in the wild. Internet provider XS4ALL in the Netherlands encountered several of such devices (link in Dutch) on the wireless networks of their customers and put out a warning. After obtaining a copy of the malware it was discovered that the jailbroken phones, which are exploited through openSSH with a default password, scan IP ranges of mobile internet providers for other vulnerable iPhones, phone home to a C&C botnet server, are able to update themselves with additional malware and have the ability to dump the SMS database as well. Owners of a jailbroken iPhone with a default root password are advised to flash to the latest Apple firmware in order to ensure no malware is present."

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