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Submission + - Studies Reveal Key to Bedbug Spread in U.S.

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Two new studies shed light on the amazing rise of bedbugs in the United States. The research suggests that the annoying critters were imported from overseas, not just once but on many occasions. It also shows that bedbugs are highly incestuous. As a result, a single mated female can set off an infestation in an apartment, or even an entire building.
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Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability 236

Posted by Soulskill from the might-want-to-just-trademark-that-term dept.
wiredmikey writes "Adobe issued an advisory today on a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) that has come under attack in the wild. According to Adobe, the issue is a U3D memory corruption vulnerability that can be exploited to cause a crash and permit an attacker to hijack a system. So far, there are reports the vulnerability is being exploited in limited, targeted attacks against Adobe Reader 9.x on Windows. However, the bug also affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for UNIX and Macintosh computers, as well as Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and Acrobat X (10.1.1) and earlier 10.x versions on Windows and Mac. Patches for Windows and Mac users of Adobe Reader X and Acrobat X will come on the next quarterly update, scheduled for Jan. 10, 2012."
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Groupon Not Doing So Well On Wall Street 140

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the bad-business-idea-is-bad dept.
bdking writes "Shares of the daily-deals site were up Tuesday, but Groupon's ride on Wall Street since going public in early November has been almost all downhill. And there's no evident catalyst to reverse the slide." From the looks of it, Groupon is blowing all of its money attempting to expand in the face of ever-growing competition in a market with trivial start-up costs.

Comment Re:Apples and Oranges (Score 1) 272

by lptport1 (#37823788) Attached to: Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools

Parents are also a handicap if they feel that their child put in the effort to make the grade, and that they deserve appropriate marks for the effort.

I'm of the opinion that schools need to maximize the number of C students, not A students. If you push the bell curve of scores toward the middle, then you are challenging the majority of the students, and not neglecting the people who should be at the high end of the curve. People need to stop thinking of them as an statements of worth, and start thinking of them as an evaluation of challenge. Winning all the time does not lead to success. Even video game designers know that.

(I would probably be somewhere in middle of that curve, honestly)

Comment Re:In other words, we should give up. (Score 1) 2247

by lptport1 (#37777382) Attached to: Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets)

A faster way to balance the budget and promote small government would be to prune back social security and national healthcare (including Medicare and Medicaid). Throw in a reduction in defense spending and you could easily redirect 30% of the budget toward paying off our debt.

Political suicide, true, but probably the right long term solution. We're screwed, as far as I can tell.

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