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Submission + - A New Linux Worm Targets The Internet of Things

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A new Linux worm — luckily still not spotted being used in the wild — has been unearthed by Symantec researchers. Dubbed “Darlloz”, its targets are not just traditional computers, but also Internet-enabled devices such as home routers, set-top boxes, security cameras, and even industrial control systems. The worm inserts itself into target devices by exploiting a PHP vulnerability that has been patched as far back as May 2012.

Submission + - North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons (smh.com.au)

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An anonymous reader writes: The Sydney Morning Herald reports, "North Korea is using Russian technology to develop electromagnetic pulse weapons aimed at paralysing military electronic equipment south of the border, according to South Korea's spy agency. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a report to parliament that the North had purchased Russian electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weaponry to develop its own versions. EMP weapons are used to damage electronic equipment. At higher energy levels, an EMP can cause more widespread damage including to aircraft structures and other objects. The spy agency also said the North's leader Kim Jong-Un sees cyber attacks as an all-purpose weapon along with nuclear weapons and missiles, according to legislators briefed by the NIS."

Submission + - Google Nexus 5 review (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye
zacharye writes: After months of rumors, leaks and speculation, Google finally took the wraps off of its new Nexus 5 smartphone last week and Android fans were elated. The sleek new handset started selling out in mere minutes and by the end of the day, it would be weeks until new orders of some Nexus 5 builds would be dispatched. Can Google’s new Nexus phone possibly live up to all the hype that has built up over the past few months?...

Submission + - Auto-Detecting Fake Social Media Accounts (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Facebook estimates 5 percent of its accounts are bots, frauds, or otherwise fake; Twitter puts the estimate for its accounts at 7 percent. Now services are arising that claim to automatically assess an account to tell whether or not it represents a real human. One such service, called BeehiveID, is already helping assess online dating accounts to check for fakes, and surely other companies will jump into this market soon enough.

Submission + - Google Drops Internet Explorer 9 Support In Google Apps

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google today announced it has discontinued support for Internet Explorer 9 in Google Apps, including its Business, Education, and Government editions. Google says it has stopped all testing and engineering work related to IE9, given that IE11 was released on October 17 along with Windows 8.1. This means that IE9 users who access Gmail and other Google Apps services will be notified “within the next few weeks” that they need to upgrade to a more modern browser. Google says this will either happen through an in-product notification message or an interstitial page.

Comment Re:My New Car (Score 1) 116

by LQ (#45210105) Attached to: Ubuntu Touch On a Nexus 7: "Almost Awesome"

Except your analogy is dumb. This isn't buying a new car, this is more like getting invited down to the factory to try out a prototype of a new model they're still in the process of designing.

I mean gee, you'd almost think that this was an unfinished OS running on a Tablet that wasn't specifically designed to run it or something...

I've been using Linux and Windows varients professionally for over twenty years. I'm sorry to have to say it but Linux distros never really get past that functional prototype feeling. The mix of bleeding edge, inconsistent design, playing catch-up with commercial apps and "if you don't like it, fix it yourself" never fails to slightly disappoint.

Comment Re:Good! It's not a religion (Score 4, Insightful) 321

by LQ (#45163111) Attached to: Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France

Scientology is a cult, it's entire story is based off a science fiction novel written by man who wanted to make a religion! All of that would be fine but then to charge your members fees to read from books is kind of messed up, that would be like the library charging you based on every book you took out. I don't see how any logical adult can honestly see Scientology as anything but a joke, it's only slightly more a joke then the Mormon based religion, both of which have near 0 evidence for what they take as fact.

And Islam is the "revealed truth" that its prophet made up. And Christianity reveals the "word of God" through the medium of a mystic who thought he was the messiah. And the Buddha came up with his own ideas for a religion. I guess a non-cult religion is one derived millenia ago from various polytheistic myths (Hinduism, Shinto, Paganism) but somebody, somewhere made that stuff up too.

Comment Re:AI and robotics and jobs (Score 1) 625

by LQ (#44855637) Attached to: 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation

The union whores with an ever spiraling "living wage" are why Detroit is a third world shithole. Economics, motherfucker, do you speak it?

Before you argue--60 years of unions and democrats. Detroit CANNOT blame its failure on Bush.

So let me try to picture your de-regulated, un-unionised, robot-automated future. Not much room for the little people, is there? What are they supposed to do, go back to subsistence agriculture?

Comment Re:Rebels released the chemical weapons. (Score 1) 203

by LQ (#44772757) Attached to: Making a Case For Cyberwar Against Syria

And anyway, what is American Military going to do, team up with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah to attack Syria and kill hundreds of thousands more people in the middle east?

Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah are not on the same side.

And this is exactly the reason the USA should stay out. The whole thing is a mess and there are no good guys. If Obama wants to topple Assad, does he have a clear idea of who he wants to win?

The Syrian Shia population is fighting an existential battle against Sunni jihadists. If they lose, they will be ethnically cleansed and the refugee crisis will double. If anything, the US should be supporting the Syrian government against these foreign-backed Islamist rebels.

Comment Re:Redhat (Score 1) 570

by LQ (#44628557) Attached to: The Steady Decline of Unix

How difficult it is to port to, and support the different major distros, such as RHEL, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware? How about FreeBSD and NetBSD? Are there differences that would cause something developed for and ported to RHEL not to run on, say, Mint?

It's probably not difficult at all but it's just that our products are tested, delivered and supported on a small set of platforms. Can we run full system test on every distro?

Comment Redhat (Score 1) 570

by LQ (#44615685) Attached to: The Steady Decline of Unix
Our company sells software products for *nix platforms. Five years ago we only supported HP and Sun but started looking at Redhat. Now the majority of our customers are on Redhat. Costs are lower and performance is so cheap these days that you don't need fancy hardware. And the "you really ought to port ot AIX" lobby has totally died out.

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