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Submission + - Massive DNS Cache Poisoning Hits Brazil (net-security.org) 1

Submitted by Orome1
Orome1 writes: A massive DNS cache poisoning attack attempting to infect users trying to access popular websites is currently under way in Brazil, according to Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini. Brazil has some big ISPs. Official statistics suggest the country has 73 million computers connected to the Internet, and the major ISPs average 3 or 4 million customers each. If a cybercriminal can change the DNS cache in just one server, the number of potential victims is huge. And that is exactly what has been happening during last week. Users trying to reach Google, YouTube, Facebook and other popular global and local sites were being faced with pop-up windows telling them to install "Google Defence" and similar thematic software or Java applet in order to be able to access the wanted site.
Programming

Submission + - Coding Guidelines: Finding the Art in the Science (acm.org)

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CowboyRobot
CowboyRobot writes: "An article at Queue tries to identify the qualities of code that makes it easiest to update and maintain. "...when it comes time for implementation, there is a combination of artistic flare, nuanced style, and technical prowess that separates good code from great code." Their recommendations include treating the program as a table, and relying on simple English, white space, and context.
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DRM

Submission + - Bell Labs System Enables 3D Rendering on DisplayLi (phoronix.com)

Submitted by
billakay
billakay writes: ""A recently open-sourced experimental Linux infrastructure created by Bell Labs researchers allows 3D rendering to be performed on a GPU and displayed on other devices, including DisplayLink dongles. The system accomplishes this by essentially creating "Virtual CRTCs", or virtual display output controllers, and allowing arbitrary devices to appear as extra ports on a graphics card.

Story can be found at Phoronix. The code and instructions to get the system running can be found here at GitHub.""
Google

Submission + - Patent 5,893,120 Reduced to Math (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: US Patent #5,893,120 has been reduced to mathematical formulae as a demonstration of the oft-ignored fact that there is an equivalence relation between programs and mathematics. You may recognize Patent #5,893,210 as the one which Google was ordered to pay $5M for infringing due to some code in Linux. It should be interesting to see how legal fiction will deal with this. Will Lambda calculus no longer be "math"? Or will they just decide to fix the inconsistency and make mathematics patentable?

Comment Re:Frankly... (Score 1) 117

by thebjorn (#35904856) Attached to: IMSLP Taken Down By UK Publishers Group

Anybody who would use GoDaddy as a provider must be fairly fucking stupid. Could a more disreputable outfit, with shittier customer service, ever be found?

But they're cheap. And who needs customer service, it's a fucking domain registrar? Disreputable? If you think you only buy shit from reputable companies I've got a big fucking surprise for you.

They should switch away from GoDaddy, so they don't have to share a server with 4000 other customers...
Idle

Submission + - Chinese Scientists Make Cow Producing Human Milk (plosone.org)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: Scientists from China Agricultural University have produced 17 healthy cloned cattle expressing recombinant human lysozyme using somatic cell nuclear transfer. In this study, we just focus on four transgenic cattle which were natural lactation. Lysozyme, a bactericidal protein that protects human infants from microbial infections, is highly expressed in human milk but is found in only trace amounts in cow milk. The result not only describes transgenic cattle whose milk offers the similar nutritional benefits as human milk but also reports techniques that could be further refined for production of active human lysozyme on a large scale.
Security

Submission + - Samsung keylogger could be false (networkworld.com) 2

Submitted by mug funky
mug funky writes: UPDATE 3/31/11: GFI Labs, the maker of VIPRE, has issued an explanation and apology for generating the false positives that led to these articles: "We apologize to the author Mohamed Hassan, to Samsung, as well as any users who may have been affected by this false positive."

looks like it wasn't just me who was surprised that of all the Samsung laptops in the world, only two have this issue and both were found by one guy (who was loath to divulge the AV tool he was using)
Microsoft

Submission + - Man steers R/C car with his hands using Kinect (indianjack.com)

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hasanabbas1987
hasanabbas1987 writes: "With the right Arduino board, an R/C race car, a couple paperclips and the MacGyver spirit, we imagine most anyone can hack together a creative remote control these days... but how many can open-source an HTML5 web app that'll do the deed from any tablet, phone or PC? Gaurav Manek crafted just such a thing, and he'll demonstrate it for you on an Apple iPad in the video immediately above. What's more, he's also got a Kinect hack that uses Microsoft depth camera to control the very same with the wave of a well-placed hand. That said, you don't need to wait for an illustrious creator to have all the fun."

Submission + - Sugar Is Sugar TV ad (bloggernews.net) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The industry sponsored Corn Refiners Association have started a series of of TV adverts to stem the growing movement away from HFCS (High Corn Fructose Syrup). This might be an uphill battle based on the mounting scientific evidence. Even Hunts, part of Conagra, have switched sides on HFCS. Clearly the CRA have an issue. The Youtube copy of the advert posted by the CRA has a 95% disapproval rating.
Earth

Submission + - PETA Quits GoDaddy after CEO Shoots Elephant 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Bob Parsons, chief executive of the Internet domain-hosting company Go Daddy, has been roiled in controversy after he killed an elephant in Zimbabwe and posted a video of the hunt on his blog that justified the shooting because the meat fed villagers and helped farmers scare pachyderms away from crops. Now the LA Times reports that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has closed its account with Go Daddy and urged others to do the same. "Parsons is hiding behind the lame claim that killing elephants helps farmers in Africa whose crops are damaged by the animals," says PETA. "In fact, there are ample effective and nonlethal methods to deter elephants from crops, including using chili-infused string and beehives on poles to create low-cost 'fences." Meanwhile Parsons continued to defend his actions as good for local villagers. "These people have literally nothing and when an elephant is killed it's a big event for them, they are going to be able to eat some protein.""
Chrome

Submission + - Facebook Develops HTML5 Gaming Benchmark (facebook.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A couple of Facebook engineers are developing an HTML5 gaming benchmark. They write, 'Two weeks ago Bruce and I released JSGameBench version 0.1. Today marks the release of version 0.2, a much faster and cleaner version. We continue to learn both from tightening the code and from the strong HTML5 community. Version 0.2 reinforces our belief in HTML5 as a strong, horizontal platform for games and highly interactive applications across the web.'

Comment Re:Why do these people keep pushing video?! (Score 1) 305

by thebjorn (#35101570) Attached to: Verizon To Throttle High-Bandwidth Users

[...] In the case of bandwidth marketing, it has always been a lie, since dial up modems, companies always selling far more than they can actually provide.

Living in the US, that's certainly true. It's not necessarily true in other parts of the world though. Where I'm at right now (http://goo.gl/PjjiL), I pay ~$120/month for 25Gbit up/down + a static IP address. I consistently get just over 3200 KB/sec, i.e. what I'm paying for plus a few extra bytes.

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