Comment: Oi vey! (Score 1) 66
No possibilities for trojans here..move along.
Comment: No preview? (Score 2, Informative) 41
Dennis Dyack said over and over how bad previews are for the industry after their disastrous showing which was anyone but their own fault...source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3158015
I listened to the podcast argument about this, which was very entertaining, but bottom line, end of the day, what happens? Previews come out for Too Human. Seems awful hypocritical to me...
I listened to the podcast argument about this, which was very entertaining, but bottom line, end of the day, what happens? Previews come out for Too Human. Seems awful hypocritical to me...
A New Approach to Mutating Malware 80
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Zonk
from the bigger-hammers dept.
from the bigger-hammers dept.
mandelbr0t writes "CBC is reporting that researchers at the Penn State University have discovered a new method of fighting malware that better responds to mutations. From the article: 'The new system identifies a host computer with a high rate of homogeneous connection requests, and blocks the offending computer so no worm-infected packets of data can be sent from it.' This is a change from previous methods, which compared suspected viruses against known signatures. Mutations in malware took advantage of the time-delay between the initial infection and the time taken by the anti-virus system to update its known signatures. This new system claims to be able to recognize new infections nearly instantly, and to cancel the quarantine in case of false alarm."
Global Warming Debunker Debunked 676
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kdawson
from the you're-getting-warmer dept.
from the you're-getting-warmer dept.
Earlier this month we ran an article linking Christopher Monckton's attempt to discredit global warming. The submitter asked plaintively, "Can anyone out there go through this piece and tell me why it might be wrong?" George Monbiot has now done so. From the article: "This is a dazzling debunking of climate change science. It is also wildly wrong... In keeping with most of the articles about climate change in [the Sunday Telegraph], it is a mixture of cherry-picking, downright misrepresentation, and pseudo-scientific gibberish. But it has the virtue of being incomprehensible to anyone who is not an atmospheric physicist... As for James Hansen, he did not tell the US Congress that temperatures would rise by 0.3C by the end of the past century. He presented three possible scenarios to the US Senate — high, medium, and low. Both the high and low scenarios, he explained, were unlikely to materialise. The middle one was 'the most plausible.' As it happens, the middle scenario was almost exactly right. He did not claim, under any scenario, that sea levels would rise by several feet by 2000." And on the political front, the only major ally for Pres. Bush's stand on global warming, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard, is now willing to look at carbon trading.
Bomb Explodes At PayPal Headquarters 551
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ScuttleMonkey
from the disgruntled-customers dept.
from the disgruntled-customers dept.
Pooua writes to tell us that an explosive device left outside of PayPal headquarters exploded last night. The explosion was powerful enough to knock out one of their plate glass windows but thankfully that was the only casualty of the blast. Perhaps they should have offered employee protection instead?