Comment Re:A Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Publ (Score 4, Insightful) 492
That really does take the cake for a poorly written title.
Seriously - how long does it take to write a dozen thoughtful words, then check it??
Comment Missing the obvious (Score 3, Funny) 290
You are all missing the obvious reason for the shutdown.
Microsoft has finally fixed all the bugs! Celebrate!
Submission + - Norton AntiVirus cripples thousands of PCs in Chin
An anonymous reader writes: A routine upgrade of anti-virus software has disabled tens of thousands of PCs in China, according to local media reports. The faulty upgrade caused Symantec's Norton AntiVirus software to remove critical Windows XP system files, the reports state.
The system files moved or deleted by the software include netapi32.dll and lsasrv.dll, according to Sohu News (in Chinese). The software incorrectly identifies the files as being infected with the Backdoor.Haxdoor trojan. With these files removed, Windows XP will no longer start up, and even the system safe mode no longer functions. Only Chinese-language versions of Windows appear to be affected so far.
The Norton AntiVirus application is part of Norton's 360 suite and it is pre-installed in many PCs sold in China, indicating that the problem could potentially affect millions of users.
The problem appears to stem from an update Microsoft released in November 2006, which contained new versions of some system files, as PCs which have not applied this update are unaffected.
Symantec has acknowledged the issue and is working on a solution, reports said — although there is no apparent mention of it on the company's Chinese website.
PC owners affected by the issue may be able to restore the missing files from their Windows XP installation CDs. However, since piracy of Windows XP is common in China, some users may not have access to these.
Submission + - RIAA sues man for downloading five songs
Ten24 writes: "An Augusta, Maine man is in hot water with the music industry after downloading five songs. 23-year-old Scott Hinds has been sued by the Recording Industry of America for illegally downloading the songs through peer to peer networks and now faces a $750 civil penalty for each song...."
Could these guys get any more disgusting? Can the artists stop supporting these guys sometime soon, maybe take a moral stance?
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/06/riaa_sues_august a_5_songs/
Could these guys get any more disgusting? Can the artists stop supporting these guys sometime soon, maybe take a moral stance?
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/06/riaa_sues_augus
Submission + - Filemaker Open-Source look Alikes ???
Steve Bovy writes: "Are their any open source products/projects that address the same application
space as Filemaker ???"
Submission + - US Shopping Cart Census
Intron writes: The US Census Bureau has a story from the near future on Missing Shopping Carts. What this story says to me is that their budget and staff are bigger than they need to be to do their job. Maybe someone can fill me in on the important story I'm missing here.
Submission + - Electronic medical records
jbrodkin writes: "Electronic medical records are billed as the savior of the health care industry, but three out of four doctors have failed to latch onto this trend because of cost. This is creating a huge divide between big and small players in the health industry.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020607-healt hcare-medical-records.html"
Journal SPAM: Clinton, Edwards and Obama: Strike Iran 6
Clinton, Edwards and Obama: Strike Iran
By Joshua Frank
Why the Democrats Won't Save Us
Over the past weekend Hillary Clinton pledged to end the war in Iraq if she is elected. "If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as president, I will," she told a large crowd at the Democratic National Committee's winter convention in Washington.
Feed Steve Jobs: Let Us Open the IPod (wired.com)
Submission + - Action video games sharpen vision 20 percent
MITEgghead writes: Video games that contain high levels of action, such as Unreal Tournament, can actually improve your vision. Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved by about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter — a visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics...Students were then divided into two groups. The experimental group played Unreal Tournament, a first-person shoot-'em-up action game, for roughly an hour a day. The control group played Tetris, a game equally demanding in terms of motor control, but visually less complex. After about a month of near-daily gaming, the Tetris players showed no improvement on the test, but the Unreal Tournament players could tell which way the "T" was pointing much more easily than they had just a month earlier.
