Comment Re:Here's how this will go... (Score 1) 205
3. We all click on far fewer adverts as a result.
Who the heck even clicked on ads in the first place?
Comment So much... (Score 1) 267
for technology thrusting you forward!
Submission + - Latest Microsoft Patch Wreaks Havoc on Sharepoint (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "Microsoft's latest Black Tuesday SharePoint patch is causing Windows SharePoint Servers to lock up, according to a report from InfoWorld. There does not appear to be a single solution to the problem, which Microsoft has yet to officially acknowledge. Compounding the problem is a bug that prevents patch KB 983444 from being uninstalled. 'Patching gurus recommend that anyone who's encountered this problem call Microsoft support and file a problem report. Immediately. Until the level of clamor reaches a critical point, Microsoft may not have sufficient impetus to fix the patch.'"
Submission + - June 'Black Tuesday' patch causes SharePoint woes (infoworld.com)
GMGruman writes: Admins report that a new Microsoft patch is causing SharePoint servers to fall over — and getting them back up isn't easy. Microsoft hasn't yet officially acknowledged the problem, according to this InfoWorld report.
Comment Re:Crank it to 11 (Score 1) 298
I don't get it. Am I sad or what? Joking ofc, or am I?
Submission + - Botnets Using Ubiquity as Security (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: As major botnet operators have moved from top-down C&C infrastructures, like those employed throughout the 1990s and most of the last decade, to more flexible peer-to-peer designs, they also have found it much easier to keep their networks up and running once they're discovered. When an attacker at just one, or at most, two, C&C servers doling out commands to compromised machines, evading detection and keeping the command server online were vitally important. But that's all changed now. With many botnet operators maintaining dozens or sometimes hundreds of C&C servers around the world at any one time, the effect of taking a handful of them offline is negligible, experts say, making takedown operations increasingly complicated and time-consuming.
It's security through ubiquity.
Security researchers say this change, which has been occurring gradually in the last couple of years, has made life much more difficult for them. While it's a simpler task to find a C&C server when it's one of a hundred or so, taking the server offline if much less effective than it used to be. Researchers in recent months have identified and cleaned hundreds of domains being used by the Gumblar botnet, but that's had little effect on the botnet's overall operation.
It's security through ubiquity.
Security researchers say this change, which has been occurring gradually in the last couple of years, has made life much more difficult for them. While it's a simpler task to find a C&C server when it's one of a hundred or so, taking the server offline if much less effective than it used to be. Researchers in recent months have identified and cleaned hundreds of domains being used by the Gumblar botnet, but that's had little effect on the botnet's overall operation.
Comment Maybe... (Score 1) 164
...DDoS goes unpunished because it usually originates through bot-nets and zombie computers. More so when trace-back leads to "masterminds" located in countries outside the country of targeted host.
If you get DDoS'ed by a teenager, maybe you deserve it. BTW, who the hell are you and your "research"?
Comment Re:Apple's the next microsoft (Score 1) 527
Well, not all people, if not most, have CS degrees. A large percentage of those people do not even care. A decent portion of those people are customers of Apple. Do you want to get them involved in terminology, alpha, beta or RC stages of development or just give them something that works for them. My guess i tshe last one.
So ye, maybe this is quite fishy on Apple's part for all the "rest" of us considering their declaration not long ago, e.g. Flash bashing by Jobs etc.. However, instead of bashing Apple we should get people thinking about things; even if it is kind of hard at the beginning.
Comment Re:not to be an asshole... (Score 1) 222
I mostly agree to this. Assuming the target group for this title, I think the most useful part will be the security chapter. At least make users of this level a bit more conscious about safeguards that need to be in place to run a healthy system.
Comment Re:NoScript (Score 1) 124
NoScript rocks. Being using it for a long time and will be for time to come
Cheap Incubator Backpack Could Reduce Infant Deaths 76
Boy Wunda writes "In just one six-month period in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2006, 96 newborn babies who were in need of medical care died before they could get help. In many developing nations, these deaths could be prevented simply by providing better ways for medical responders to transport infants properly over rough terrain and keep them alive until they can reach hospitals and clinics. Now, a group of Colorado State University seniors has designed and filed a patent for a medically equipped incubator backpack unit that they believe can reduce baby deaths in medical emergencies both in the United States and in newly industrialized nations."
Theora Development Continues Apace, VP8 Now Open Source 312
SergeyKurdakov writes "Monty 'xiphmont' Montgomery of the Xiph Foundation says the latest action-packed, graph- and demo-clip-stuffed Theora project update page (demo 9) is now up for all and sundry! Catch up on what's gone into the new Theora encoder Ptalarbvorm over the last few months. It also instructs how to pronounce 'Ptalarbvorm.' Ptalarbvorm is not a finished release encoder yet, though I've personally been using it in production for a few months. Pace on improvements hasn't slowed down — the subjective psychovisual work being done by Tim Terriberry and Greg Maxwell has at least doubled-again on the improvements made by Thusnelda, and they're not anywhere near done yet. As a bonus Monty gathered all Xiph demo pages in one place."
Also on the video codec front, and also with a Xiph connection, atamido writes "Google has released On2's VP8 video codec to the world, royalty-free. It is packaging it with Vorbis audio, in a subset of the Matroska container, and calling it WebM. It's not branded as an exclusively Google project — Mozilla and Opera are also contributors. Builds of your favorite browsers with full support are available."
An anonymous reader points out this technical analysis of VP8.
Comment Re:Anonymous coward (Score 1) 154
Indeed. I was expecting some more concrete ideas to surface. Those generic frameworks just do not go hand in hand with the amount of funding. Meh, I think this initiative, although fundamentally good, turned out to be kind of fail.
