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New trojan infects Android phones-> 0

Submitted by GlowinOrb on Thursday December 30 2010, @01:19PM

GlowinOrb writes "Dubbed 'Geinimi', it can harvest large amounts of personal data on a user’s phone and send it to remote servers, says Lookout Mobile Security, describing it as 'the most sophisticated Android malware we’ve seen to date'."
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Microsoft Patents Looks-are-Everything Dating 1

Submitted by theodp on Thursday December 30 2010, @12:50PM

theodp writes "Screw that eHarmony Compatibility Matching System nonsense. 'Physical appearance is generally considered one of the most important search criteria among users of online dating services,' according to a patent granted Tuesday to five Microsoft Research Asia inventors. Its Image-Based Face Search technology not only allows people to specify the 'gender, age, ethnicity, location, height, weight, and the like' of their prey, explains Microsoft, it also allows them to 'provide a query image of a face for which they would like to search for similar faces.' So, even though you can't have the real Angelina Jolie or Natalie Portman, Microsoft will fix you up with a look-alike. Badda-Bing!"

Comment: Re:In America (Score 1) 130

by GlowinOrb on Monday August 02 2010, @11:51AM (#33111156) Attached to: Indian Police Using Facebook to Catch Scofflaw Drivers

Are you blind?

Comment: Re:On the other hand (Score 1) 480

by GlowinOrb on Tuesday July 13 2010, @12:35PM (#32889090) Attached to: Nerds Still More Likely To Get Bullied

Shut up and give me your lunch money

Comment: Re:Coastal CA (Score 1) 525

by GlowinOrb on Friday July 09 2010, @12:11PM (#32851570) Attached to: Where I am now, it's ...

You should know today. Or yesterday.

Comment: Freegeek (Score 3, Insightful) 249

by GlowinOrb on Thursday July 01 2010, @03:18PM (#32761926) Attached to: What To Do With Old 802.11b Equipment?

If you happen to be in Portland, Freegeek does good things with your old stuff.

Noisebridge Attempts to Teach Science To Juggalos 198

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 21 2010, @02:44PM
from the so-that's-how-a-magnet-works dept.

Working on the assumption that the Insane Clown Posse's song Miracles was indeed a tribute to the wonder of nature and not the cleverest troll ever, some folks from the hackerspace Noisebridge decided to try and educate ICP fans. Surprisingly, most of the fans seemed to enjoy the science lesson, but representatives of the band didn't seem to think it was funny.

Dungeon Siege III Being Developed by Obsidian 84

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 08 2010, @01:40AM
from the hack-and-slash dept.

Square Enix has announced that it will be publishing Dungeon Siege III, which is in development at Obsidian Entertainment, makers of Alpha Protocol, Neverwinter Nights 2, and the as yet unfinished Fallout: New Vegas. Obsidian will be receiving input from Gas Powered Games, the developer behind the first two installments in the Dungeon Siege series. No release date has been set, but the game is planned for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, and it will include a co-op mode.

Comment: Re:In other words (Score 1) 332

by GlowinOrb on Monday May 24 2010, @07:55PM (#32330392) Attached to: Google <em>PAC-MAN</em> Cost 4.8M Person-Hours

I like slaving for the man. Where else can I get paid to play Pac-Man?

Comment: How does this stop crime? (Score 1) 1

by GlowinOrb on Monday March 15 2010, @03:48PM (#31486506) Attached to: Yale Law Student Wants Everybody's DNA

It only aids the the prosecution of a small number crimes. Most of the crimes that effect the majority of us are spottily investigated at best. Think about the infractions that effect your quality of life and threaten your safety daily. The only value here would be a slight increase in the ease with which a small fraction of relatively rare yet serious crimes are prosecuted.