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Comment Re:I hope they implement this as plugins (Score 0) 501

by MarsMartian on Saturday March 29, 2008 @05:45PM (#22907376) Attached to: Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition

Repeat after me: People are humans. Humans error.
this line, complete with mistake, should be written on the back-hand of every system administrator.

Submission + - Microsoft reinvents Bittorrent

Submitted by Anon E. Muss on Saturday July 28, 2007 @11:22AM

Anon E. Muss writes: Microsoft has a new Secure Content Downloader tool that sounds an awful lot like Bittorrent clone. It's described as a "peer-assisted technology" where "Each client downloads content by exchanging parts of the file they're interested in with other clients, in addition to downloading parts from the server." Right now MSCD is just a time-limited preview, intended to support downloads of select Microsoft beta releases (e.g. Visual Studio 2008). If this test goes well, Microsoft will probably start using MSCD for all their large downloads. How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's bandwidth costs?

Submission + - Kismac soon to become illegal (kismac.de)

Submitted by

mgv

on Saturday July 28, 2007 @10:52AM

mgv writes: "From the website: "There has not been a lot of time for KisMAC lately. However the motivation for this drastic step lays somewhere different. German laws change and are being adapted for "better" protection against something politicians obviously do not understand. It will become illegal to develop, use or even posses KisMAC in this banana republic." So, unfortunately, one of the better passive wireless network detection programs for the mac is being wound up. If you are able, download the binary and source code now."

Submission + - The Pirate Bay not to be censored in Sweden (thepiratebay.org)

Submitted by Naycon on Monday July 09, 2007 @05:43PM

Naycon writes: Eventually it looks like the Swedish police dropped the Pirate Bay from the list of sites filtered for containing child porn. The update of the filter which is scheduled for later this week won't contain the Swedish filesharing giant. The police states that the reason for this change is that the torrents containing the porn has been removed, but the Pirate Bay states that no files have been removed. Was this a try from the Swedish police to battle filesharing in a easy way? The link contains a statement from the Pirate Bay. Several Swedish newspaper also run the story.

Submission + - The Missing iPhone Feature -- Now at T-Mobile (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

tregetour

on Thursday July 05, 2007 @12:35PM

tregetour writes: "
Here's the basic idea. If you're willing to pay $10 a month on top of a regular T-Mobile voice plan, you get a special cellphone. When you're out and about, it works like any other phone; calls eat up your monthly minutes as usual.

But when it's in a Wi-Fi wireless Internet hot spot, this phone offers a huge bargain: all your calls are free. You use it and dial it the same as always — you still get call hold, caller ID, three-way calling and all the other features — but now your voice is carried by the Internet rather than the cellular airwaves.

Perhaps far more revolutionary than the iPhone. Full Article"

Submission + - Beijing accused of being world virus capital

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05, 2007 @01:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Chinese capital city Beijing tops the global league table for distributing viruses, a new survey has reported.

According to UK-based managed security services companyNetwork Box, Beijing accounts for 40 percent of all viruses that passed though the company's servers in June, and 5.25 percent of detected spam.

This compares with slightly lower percentages for cities in countries noted for having a malware problem. Moscow was second for spam with 5.12 percent, Seoul third with 3.58 percent, Turk in Turkey fourth with 3.4 percent, and London in fifth place on 2.47 percent, statistics that are likely to be skewed to some extent by the company's UK-based customer base.

But it is in the area of virus distribution that Beijing outpaces other cities in the Network Box figures. Its 40 percent score contrasts markedly with much smaller scores for other locations. Not all of these are prominent — the obscure town of Wattleup near Perth in Australia comes is number 2 in the chart, with 3.68 percent of viruses. Madrid in Spain is third with 2.48 percent, Taipei In Taiwan fourth with 2.35 percent, and Henan in China fifth on 1.71 percent.

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