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Comment Where are cooking resources going in the tech age? (Score 1) 124

by DangerJones (#43294945) Attached to: Ask Nathan Myhrvold What You Will, Live Q&A April 3

As an early owner/adopter of your physical book, "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking", I have to say that the searching system (in particular, the index and table of contents) is unusually poor and the books are somewhat unwieldy (they are larger and heavier than my Larousse Gastronomique and the box they arrived in my country in came marked with a "warning: heavy" label), therefore making the information contained less-accessible while the books themselves are clearly pushing the boundaries of practical usability.

You have said that you do not plan to publish an e-book which has led me to prefer and use an electronic PDF over my own physical copy. Can you explain your reasoning behind that decision and, more generally, where do you see the future of cooking "books" and other resources going?
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Submission + - "Fee-Deduction" Malware on Android Spotted in Wild (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: New malware has been discovered embedded in more than 20 Android applications circulating via various forums on the Internet which auto-dials phone numbers to incur high user fees. The infected mobile applications include QQ Doudizhu, Voice SMS, Drag Racing, Trader, Donkey Jump, Jungle Monkey and Gold Miner among others.

Dubbed BaseBridge, NetQin Mobile says the Malware can be embedded in legitimate applications, and during the applications installation, the Malware prompts the user to upgrade. If the user chooses to upgrade, the Malware is installed on the Android device under the name "com.android.battery". Then, another prompt would pop up to ask the user to restart the app to run it, and the Malware is formally activated upon restart.

Once activated, the malware can activate three malicious services — AdSmsService, BridgeProvider and PhoneService, to communicate with a control server, from which it will download a configuration file to read related information and dial calls or send out SMS messages, incurring fees for users.

Comment Site works fine and ASP.NET 4 just released. (Score 1) 246

1. referencesource.microsoft.com works just fine.
2. There isn't anything new on the blog likely because they've been busy working on ASP.NET 4 which was only released on April 12 so let's give them a few weeks of sleep-ins before we starting beating them up, m'kay?

So that just leaves you with... a couple of people's questions went unanswered on a forum.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Security Essentials final released 1

Submitted by Bimal
Bimal writes: After a short three-month beta program, Microsoft is officially releasing Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), its free, real-time consumer antimalware solution for fighting viruses, spyware, rootkits, and Trojans. MSE is yet another layer of defense the company is offering to help its customers fight the threats that plague Windows PCs. Microsoft Security Essentials is available for Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista/7 32-bit, and Windows Vista/7 64-bit. "Ars puts MSE through its paces and finds an unobtrusive app with a clean interface that protected us in the dark corners of the Internet." The software received positive notes when in beta, but now it's available to the public.

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