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GMGruman writes:
Roger A. Grimes gets a federal hacker to open up about life as a cyber warrior. It's a fascinating interview that provides a glimpse of the front lines — and what it takes to do battle.
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GMGruman writes:
Windows 8 is simply not selling, and everyone but Microsoft knows it's a mess of an OS. And the Windows 8.1 "Blue" that Microsoft revealed some details of late last week doesn't address the fundamental flaws. So a team at InfoWorld worked up a serious proposal to rework Windows 8 for both PCs and tablets that fixes those flaws and lets Microsoft's true innovations break free of today's Windows 8, complete with mockups of the proposed Windows "Red."
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Bearhouse writes:
Researchers have identified the most-edited pages in Wikipedia — the subject of so-called 'Wikiwars'.
It's interesting to see how these differ by country; in the USA, GWB tops the list.
For the Czech republic, it's homosexuality.
Regarding Germany, 9/11 conspiracy theories are in third place, after Croatia and Scientology.
Just as weird and interesting as Wikipedia itself.
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miller60 writes:
GoDaddy says yesterday's downtime was caused by internal network problems that corrupted data in router tables. "The service outage was not caused by external influences,” said Scott Wagner, Go Daddy’s Interim CEO. “It was not a ‘hack’ and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS)." The outage lasted for at least 6 hours, and affected web sites and email for customers of the huge domain registrar.
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InfoWorld_Pete writes:
This week's Kindle Fire announcement shows Amazon is serious about displacing Apple's iPad/iTunes combination in the home, with major improvements in its hardware and Amazon's huge book and growing video and music libraries. But, as InfoWorld's Galen Gruman writes, the Kindle Fire could also diminish the iPad in the office, should the Fire displace it at home. Why? At its core, the iPad's ability to serve both business and personal uses means it's the perfect vehicle for BYOD; the Fire isn't so suited. So, that could favor corporate-issued iPad deployments, not user-driven ones, and thus constrain the iPad to being just another type of work PC. The odds remain in the iPad's favor, but the even possibility of such a shift is surprising.
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sciencehabit writes:
If you spent time at the beach this summer, you probably encountered seagulls screeching overhead and eating trash. You probably also encountered their poop. Seagull droppings can carry disease-causing microbes like Escherichia coli and Enterococcus, which can contaminate beaches and water. Now scientists have found a way to fight back: Release the hounds. In a new study, researchers show that unleashing dogs keeps the seagulls away—and the water at the beach free of microbes.
