Comment Bowtie? Nice try. (Score 5, Funny) 140
Don't let that bowtie fool you. I know a Dalek when I see one.
The Year of 2008 In Cybercrime 47
BobB-nw writes "Underground botnet markets and high-profile spam cases headlined the year in tech crime. One of the most disturbing cybercrime trends in 2008, many security analysts say, has been the emergence of a full-blown underground economy where credit card information, identity theft information, and spam and phishing software are all available for relatively low prices. 2008 also saw major developments in the cases against three major spammers in the United States."
Comment Re:Device staging = Marketing TOOLS (Score 2, Interesting) 662
At my job we still use Word 2003. I make frequent use of Word's Help features for writing VBA macros- the documentation is actually pretty thorough. But since Office 2007 came out, underneath the 'See Also' section of every single help box are _several_ options for purchasing Office 2007 online. It's so stupid- if I'm running Word 2003, and looking for information about Word 2003, why the hell would MS need to remind me about Office 2007 two or three times in a list that has five entries?
Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents 773
musther writes "An Australian airline Qantas Airbus A330-300, suffered 'a sudden change of altitude' on Tuesday. "The mid-air incident resulted in injuries to 74 people, with 51 of them treated by three hospitals in Perth for fractures, lacerations and suspected spinal injuries when the flight bound from Singapore to Perth had a dramatic drop in altitude that hurled passengers around the cabin." Now it seems Qantas is seeking to blame interference from passenger electronics, and it's not the first time; 'In July, a passenger clicking on a wireless mouse mid-flight was blamed for causing a Qantas jet to be thrown off course.' Is there any precedent for wireless electronics interfering with aircraft systems? Interfering with navigation instruments is one thing, but causing changes in the 'elevator control system' — I would be quite worried if I thought the aircraft could be flown with a bluetooth mouse."
Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic 285
willdavid writes "Paul McDougall reports in InformationWeek on Microsoft's new online comic. The Heroes Happen Here comic strips are being created by Jordan Gorfinkel, a former DC Comics editor who helped revitalize the Batman series. 'Tech workers who in the middle of the night fix a downed server or take on a computer virus don't really have extraordinary powers. It just seems that way. But a new comic book has debuted in which IT pros literally are superheroes. The daily Web comic, called Heroes Happen Here, features tech savvy crime fighters like Lord Firewall, who "stands between chaos and order" and says things like "begone vermin!"'" And because it's never easy, in order to read the archives of the comic you're going to need to install Microsoft's Silverlight.
Submission + - Circumcision overstated as prevention against AIDS (plosone.org)
Anonymous Coward writes: "Male circumcision is overstated as prevention tool against AIDS (reported by Eurekalert http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/plo s-mco062007.php)
Quoting:
"New study finds the key to understanding the global spread of AIDS is the size of the infected prostitute community around the world. [...] The study has a number of important findings that should impact policy decisions in the future. First, male circumcision, which in previous studies had been found to be important in controlling AIDS, becomes statistically irrelevant once the study controls for the number of prostitutes in a country."
Cross fingers! The prevention programs so much touted by the neo-conservators and intelligent-designers, baked by UN (http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20070329/circu mcision-new-weapon-against-AIDS) are not good at all? How about the praying and singing in the churches?"
Quoting:
"New study finds the key to understanding the global spread of AIDS is the size of the infected prostitute community around the world. [...] The study has a number of important findings that should impact policy decisions in the future. First, male circumcision, which in previous studies had been found to be important in controlling AIDS, becomes statistically irrelevant once the study controls for the number of prostitutes in a country."
Cross fingers! The prevention programs so much touted by the neo-conservators and intelligent-designers, baked by UN (http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20070329/circ
Submission + - Mono Silverlight plugin for Linux makes its debut (arstechnica.com)
monocode writes: A group of Mono developers at Novell voluntarily worked weekends and 12 to 16 hour per day during an epic 21-day "hackathon" to produce a functioning prototype of Moonlight, a Linux-compatible open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight development framework and browser plug-in. The Moonlight XAML canvas component doesn't depend on Mono and can even be used in native Linux desktop applications without requiring any C# or managed code. "Moonlight is a monumental achievement with broad implications for the Linux desktop. Novell developers have already begun to investigate ways that the Moonlight rendering canvas can be used in desktop applications and other projects."
Submission + - New Vidoop Authentication Scheme Broken
An anonymous reader writes: A new web authentication scheme Vidoop, was announced at Web 2.0 recently that is supposedly invulnerable to "all prevalent forms of hacking" (according to their TV commercial on YouTube). Harvard and CommerceNet researchers report that they broke the scheme in a few hours, and they posted a video of the attack. The attack is related to the attack on Bank of America's Sitekey by the boarding pass guy and to the Harvard study on SiteKey that shows how easily users get phished.
Submission + - Wind farms might not reduce pollution
catbutt writes: "According to a NYTimes article, which references a National Academy of Sciences study, wind farms may not be effective at reducing polution. The logic seems a bit odd, though, because it says that the reason it won't reduce certain types of pollutants is that there "was already a cap on sulfur emissions and one on nitrogen oxides was likely to follow. Is is possible such caps are a bad idea, then, if they cause people to not bother reducing their output of pollutants, since all it would end up doing is allowing someone else to pollute more?"
Journal Journal: Bored at work... (don't bother reading this)
I find it hard to believe that, on a site that has so many users, anyone would actually read another user's journal (particularly a low-output user like me). So if you're reading this, stop now! There's nothing here.
So, I'm bored at work. Of course my internet usage is being monitored so I run the risk of being terminated. So why am I doing this? Am I making a statement about my disdain for being monitored? A passive-aggressive attack against 'the man'? Why?!
