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Submission + - New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal (sciencedaily.com)

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ThinkComp

on Tuesday August 26, 2008 @10:37AM

ThinkComp writes: "In what could possibly be a major blow to a scientific consensus that has held for decades, recent research suggests that the traditional conception of Neanderthals being "stupider" than Homo sapiens may in fact be misleading. As articles about the research findings state, "early stone tool technologies developed by our species, Homo sapiens, were no more efficient than those used by Neanderthals." The data used in the study is available on-line along with a visual description of the process used."

Submission + - The Times on Botnets

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ThinkComp

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @05:29PM

ThinkComp writes: "The New York Times has a story on the proliferation of botnets which describes the problem as getting worse. The article cites a number of security researchers who paint a depressing picture of the state of internet security, and concludes with the suggestion that for home users, buying a new "updated" PC may be the only real solution. Unfortunately, as most of us know, given the number of outstanding flaws in software and the ingenuity of malicious software authors, that might not even help. The story fits perfectly with our own ongoing research into spam coming from malicious HTTP POST requests to corporate "Contact Us" pages routed through open proxy servers. Look out for those newline characters!"

Submission + - Friendster's Rise and Fall

Submitted by ThinkComp on Sunday October 15, 2006 @08:02PM

ThinkComp writes: A few weeks ago I wrote an open letter to my former friend from school, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, telling him to take Yahoo's money before it's too late. It was meant partly as a joke, and partly as a way to set the record straight on his company's origins, since in financial terms he'll be fine no matter what happens. Now the New York Times has written a story on Friendster, the social network no one talks about anymore. It seems that while history repeats itself every few decades in the global scheme of things, the period of recurrence in Silicon Valley is quite a bit shorter. The moral here: take the billion dollars while you still can.

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