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Comment: Re:Screw the law. (Score 1) 301

by DoktorTomoe (#26410613) Attached to: Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open"

You might want to differ. Installing software on foreign computers without consent is perfectly legal in lots of jurisdictions, in some western nations it is even tried by the state. Why should it be acceptable for the state to install trojans to monitor your net use (see: Bundestrojaner, EU in general), but despictable to kill a botnet with similar tactics?

Anti-Virii are no new invention - they were around in the 1990s.

Editorial

Zen and the Art of Guitar Hero

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Julian Murdoch over at GamersWithJobs.com has what can only be described as a piece of liturgy, proclaiming a gospel experience at his local Best Buy as he watches someone beat "Through the Fire and the Flames" on Expert in Guitar Hero 3. Maybe video games are a religious experience, and us old farts just don't get it.

"At 6 minutes in, a small crowd has formed, perhaps 15 of us. His sravaka — his disciples — look nervously at us, absorbing the distractions, protecting him a bubble of calm. There is complete silence. Even my son is staring slackjawed, like he does in church during communion, not understanding the content of the ritual but understanding the tone and sacredness of the space."
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Enlightenment

Video Games Train A Better Surgeon!

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Phooey42
Phooey42 writes "Reuters is reporting today that Surgeons who play video games are more skilled at laparoscopic surgery. From the article, "Playing video games appears to help surgeons with skills that truly count: how well they operate using a precise technique." It continues to say that, "Out of 33 surgeons from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York that participated in the study, the nine doctors who had at some point played video games at least three hours per week made 37 percent fewer errors, performed 27 percent faster, and scored 42 percent better in the test of surgical skills than the 15 surgeons who had never played video games before." Sounds like every hospital needs a Wii with Trauma Center: Second Opinion."
Windows

Vista Security — Too Little Too Late 483

Posted by kdawson
from the five-years-work dept.

Thomas Greene of The Register has a fairly comprehensive review of Vista and IE7 user security measures. The verdict is: better but not adequate, and mostly an attempt to shift blame onto the user when things go wrong. From the review: "[Vista is] a slightly more secure version than XP SP2. There are good features, and there are good ideas, but they've been implemented badly. The old problems never go away: too many networking services enabled by default; too many owners running their boxes as admins and downloading every bit of malware they can get their hands on."

Biotech

Video Games Improve Surgeons' Skills

Submitted by Kazade
Kazade writes "A Reuters article reports that a recent U.S. study shows that video games greatly improve the skills of surgeons.

From the article:
""It was surprising that past commercial video game play was such a strong predictor of advanced surgical skills," said Iowa State University psychology professor Douglas Gentile, one of the study's authors."

Perhaps playing video games should be part of the job description :)"

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