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Submission + - Maxtor/Seagate Ships Drives With A Virus

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 08, 2007 @08:43PM

An anonymous reader writes: I bought a brand new Maxtor 3200 drives today and it came with a virus:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/personal_storage/ps3200-sw
And if you want to exchange them for an uninfected one, plan to spend hours on the phone with support and then you still have to pay the shipping to return the drive! And then they send you a refurbished drive to replace your brand new drive! Oh, and did I mention that you get a virus as an added prize.

Submission + - Nissan turns to high-tech to stop drink driving

Submitted by StonyandCher on Friday August 03, 2007 @02:57AM

StonyandCher writes: As part of its drive to reduce road deaths and injuries, Nissan Motor has installed in a car three prototype high-tech systems designed to stop drink driving.

The first attempts to directly detect alcohol in the driver's sweat and gear shift lever. A second system in the car uses a camera mounted in front of the driver to monitor eye movement. If the driver is drowsy it triggers the seat belt to tighten and this movement will hopefully snap the driver out of their drowsiness or prompt them to take a rest. A third system monitors the path of the vehicle to ensure it's traveling in a straight line and not weaving about the road, as is common with a drunken driver.

Comment Fortify (Score 1) 398

by GlenMac on Thursday June 07, 2007 @03:24AM (#19420983) Attached to: Memory Checker Tools For C++?

I don't know if you've used or seen fortify but I found it a wonderful tool to not warn and resolve memory issues in C++.

It is very fast, compiles switches into nothing and incredibly helpful.

-- Snip
Fortify is a powerful C++ debugging aid. Detects and pinpoints memory related bugs. It supports alloc/calloc/realloc/strdup/free and new/delete. It traps memory leaks, writes beyond and before memory blocks, writes to freed memory, free twice, freeing memory never allocated, and removes all randomness from reading uninitialized or free memory.

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