Comment Re:But where to get it (Score 1) 419
Seasoned with a hefty helping of nationalism ?
Comment Re:Clearly... (Score 3, Informative) 367
That is assuming that free antivirus is as good as paid, which in my experience it is not.
I have had to clean up systems running so-called free antivirus and some of them had 30+ varieties of malware.
I use a paid software at home and it has already paid for itself several times over in blocked attacks.
Submission + - Microsoft Disrupts Massive Cybercrime Operation (net-security.org)
Orome1 writes: In its most complex effort to disrupt botnets to date, Microsoft, in collaboration with the financial services industry announced it has successfully executed a coordinated global action against some of the most notorious cybercrime operations that fuel online fraud and identity theft. With this legal and technical action, a number of the most harmful botnets using the Zeus family of malware worldwide have been disrupted in a proactive cross-industry action against this cybercriminal organization. As a part of the operation, on March 23, Microsoft and its co-plaintiffs, escorted by the U.S. Marshals, seized command and control servers in two hosting locations, Scranton, Pa., and Lombard, Ill., to seize and preserve valuable data and virtual evidence from the botnets for the case.
Submission + - Japanese court orders Google to halt auto-complete function
An anonymous reader writes: Tokyo District Court has ordered search giant Google to suspend its auto-complete function because it breaches one's privacy. Tokyo District Court approved a petition by the man, who claimed typing his name into the search engine generated a suggestion linking him to crimes he did not commit, lawyer Hiroyuki Tomita said. Auto-complete is a function provided by many search engines that predicts what a user may be looking for. It is often based on what previous users have searched for when they typed the same initial letters of a word. If a user accepts the search suggestion, thousands of results are produced that imply criminality of which the man is not guilty. The lawyer added that since these postings began appearing on the Internet over the last few years, his client has had difficulty finding work, with his online reputation always in question.
Comment Re:Finallly history repeats (Score 2) 210
Probably.
It actually makes a lot of sense, especially here in Norway where most of the country is mountainous and the arable land is very limited.
Of course, carving caves in granite is a bit more demanding than in porous soil...
Comment Maybe it is just me... (Score 1) 483
...but the moronic utterings of US Congressmen on subjects they have zero knowledge about cause more aggression than a lifetime of playing games.
Submission + - The 1,000-Year-Old Message That Saved a Village
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Disaster researcher José Holguín-Veras writes in the LA Times that when he went to Japan after the Tohoku earthquake to identify lessons that could benefit future disaster-response operations, he discovered a message sent across 50 generations that saved the residents of a fishing village called Murohama. "A millennium ago, the residents of Murohama, knowing they were going to be inundated, had sought safety on the village's closest hill. But they had entered into a deadly trap," writes Holguín-Veras. "A second wave, which had reached the interior of the island through an inlet, was speeding over the rice paddies from the opposite direction." The waves collided at the hill and killed those who had taken refuge there. To signify their grief and to advise future generations, the survivors erected a shrine. Holguín-Veras asked a community leader if "a thousand years ago" was a figure of speech and to his astonishment, village elders had reviewed the local temple's records and found reports pinpointing a large tsunami 1,142 years ago that coincided with the massive Jogan Jishin earthquake of 869. On March 11, 2011 residents relied on the lesson that had been transmitted generation to generation for 1,000 years. "We all knew the story about the two tsunami waves that collided at the shrine," and instead of taking refuge on hill with the shrine, they took the time to get to high ground farther away and watched two tsunami waves colliding at the hill with the shrine, just as they did long ago. "I know that science and engineering save lives. But in this instance neither did much to help," says Holguín-Veras. "Reaching out from the distant past, long-gone ancestors — and a deeply embedded story — saved their children.""
Comment Re:Socialized Medicine (Score 5, Insightful) 91
Land of the free - where anyone having health problems are FREE to live in a cardboard box...
But then any attempts to socialize medicine gets voted down over there so I guess they have the system they deserve.
Comment Spam (Score 1) 279
If the protocol is defined now, and made public, I cannot help imagining the final approach of our alien visitors, their messaging system flooding over with spam for V1agra, knockoff "time pieces" and urgent letters from Nigeria asking to use their off-world bank accounts...
