Giga-Byter - Slashdot User

Comment Web Office? (Score 1) 233

by Giga-Byter on Monday December 20, 2010 @05:42PM (#34621256) Attached to: Microsoft Kills Office Anti-Piracy Program

I think it is more about resource optimization than encouraging piracy and fighting OpenOffice. In several years it seems Office suite would move to the cloud where is no need for such anti-piracy measures at all.

Comment Absolutely Beautiful (Score 1) 215

by Giga-Byter on Sunday September 13, 2009 @04:13PM (#29407225) Attached to: Students Take Pictures From Space On $150 Budget

In my opinion, it's an incredible feat!

But most of all I'm amazed of how they've been able to successfully retrieve the device after its landing. It could have landed in a sea, or even in another country. It also could have been disintegrated before it had reached the ground.

P.S. Because of such enthusiasts we can be certainly sure that NASA isn't fooling us: there are no elephants out there and the Earth is round indeed.

Submission + - Google Groups Used to C&C Botnets (symantec.com)

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oDDmON oUT

on Saturday September 12, 2009 @03:41PM

oDDmON oUT writes: ""Maintaining a reliable command and control (C&C) structure is a priority for back door Trojan writers. ... Symantec has observed an interesting variation on this concept in the wild. A back door Trojan that we are calling Trojan.Grups has been using the Google Groups newsgroups to distribute commands." according to Symantec employee Gavin O Gorman.

He goes on to state that "The Trojan itself is quite simple. It is distributed as a DLL" and while the decrypted commands indicate it is used "for reconnaissance and targeted attacks" he does go on record as saying "It's worth noting that Google Groups is not at fault here; rather, it is a neutral party. The authors of this threat have chosen Google Groups simply for its bevy of features and versatility.""

Submission + - Ebay denies new page design is broken, lays blame (ebay.com)

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krick-zero

on Saturday September 12, 2009 @02:24PM

krick-zero writes: "Ebay recently rolled out a new page design. Many Ebay sellers are reporting issues with missing description text, resulting in lost sales. Buyers are reporting the same intermittent issue, on multiple platforms, with multiple browsers. After complaining to Ebay customer service, one user got this response...
I have reviewed several of your listings using my computer and had several of my coworkers view your listings as well and we are seeing the complete listings. Many times when buyers are not able to see the whole description or just bits and pieces it is due to browser issues they are having. A lot of times if they simply clear out their cache and cookies or change browsers (i.e. change from Internet explorer to Firefox or vice versa) they no longer have this problem.

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Submission + - IE8 beats other browsers in laptop battery life (anandtech.com)

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WARM3CH

on Saturday September 12, 2009 @02:02PM

WARM3CH writes: "AnandTech tested battery life of a laptop with an AMD CPU, a laptop with an Intel CPU and netbook running Internet Explorer 8, Opera 10, Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, and Chrome. Webpages were a combination of simple and flash infested ones. IE8 had the best battery life on both laptops followed by FF+adblock and Safari had the worst battery life. On the netbook Chrome was slightly ahead of IE8. The report concludes: --Overall, Internet Explorer and Firefox + AdBlock consistently place near the top, with Chrome following closely behind. Opera 10 Beta 3 didn't do as well as Opera 9.6.4, and in a couple quick tests it doesn't appear that the final release of Opera 10 changes the situation at all. Opera in general — version 9 or 10 — looks like it doesn't do as well as the other major browsers. Safari is at the back, by a large margin on all three test notebooks. We suspect that Safari 4 does better under OS X, however, so the poor Windows result probably won't matter to most Safari users.--"

Submission + - Videogame success not reliant on plot or graphics (newscientist.com)

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proslack

on Saturday September 12, 2009 @01:04PM

proslack writes: "In a study presented at the Human-Computer Interaction conference in Cambridge, England, British researchers Beale and Bond found that plot and graphics are not critical to the success of video games; price and the inclusion of social aspects (e.g. multiplayer or chat) were found to be more important."

Submission + - Scientists clone oldest living organism (phenomenica.com) 1

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goran72

on Saturday September 12, 2009 @10:31AM

goran72 writes: "Tasmanian scientists have cloned what is believed to be the world's oldest living organism as part of a battle to save it from a deadly fungus.
http://www.phenomenica.com/2009/09/scientists-clone-oldest-living-organism.html"

Submission + - Russia's New Holiday: Programmer's Day (blogspot.com) 1

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Glyn Moody

on Saturday September 12, 2009 @05:26AM

Glyn Moody writes: "Russia's President Medvedev has decreed a new holiday for his country: Programmer's Day. Appropriately enough, it will be celebrated on the 256th day of the year: September 13th (September 12th for a leap year). Do programmers deserve their own holiday ahead of other professions? Should the rest of the world follow suit?"

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