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FCC Mulling More Control For Electronic Media 176

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 30, 2009 @08:03AM from the yeah-that-sounds-fantastic dept.

A recent Notice of Inquiry from the FCC is looking for opinions on how the "evolving electronic media landscape" affects kids, and whether the FCC itself should have more regulatory control over such media. The full NOI (PDF) is available online. "FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski included a statement with the NOI in which he noted that 'twenty years ago, parents worried about one or two TV sets in the house,' while today, media choices are far more widespread for children, including videogames, which 'have become a prevalent entertainment source in millions of homes and a daily reality for millions of kids.'"

Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing 230

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @06:01PM from the if-I-want-bing-I-will-type-bing dept.

Jaeden Stormes writes "We just started getting word of a new browser hijack from our sales force. 'Some site called Bing?' they said. Sure enough, since the patches last night, their IE6 and IE7 installations are now routing all NXDOMAINs to Bing. Try it out — put in something like www.DoNotHijackMe.com." We've had mixed results here confirming this: one report that up-to-date IE8 behaves as described. Others tried installing all offered updates to systems running IE6 and IE7 and got no hijacking.
Update: 08/11 23:24 GMT by KD : Readers are reporting that it's not Bing that comes up for a nonexistent domain, it's the user's default search engine (noting that at least one Microsoft update in the past changed the default to Bing). There may be nothing new here.

Comment Re:But some software is more free than others (Score 1) 312

by UnRDJ on Monday June 01, 2009 @10:35AM (#28167903) Attached to: Should Enterprise IT Give Back To Open Source?

everyone who uses free software must give
back changes they make to the code, because that was the deal in the first place.

That's what my little GPL-firmly-believing voice says. Perhaps I'm not fervorish enough for the masses?

Regardless of how one might define "free," I like these stipulations and would release code under them. Call it derpaderpasource software if you want, I'd still feel the same way about the underlying meaning

Champions Online Delayed Until September 12

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 17, 2009 @12:44PM from the done-when-it's-done dept.

Erik J writes "Cryptic Studios has announced that their upcoming superhero MMORPG, Champions Online, has suffered a delay. The title, originally slated to arrive for PC and Xbox 360 on July 14th, has been pushed back to September 1st of this year. The studio claims the postponement stems from the need to make the game as polished as possible. 'It is critically important for an MMO to be as good as it possibly can be at launch,' said executive producer Bill Roper. 'Through our constant dialogue with our vocal and supportive community of beta testers, we quickly realized that in order to implement certain features that we all considered important the development of Champions Online would require more time.'" Roper also spoke recently about the lessons he's taken from his years in the MMO industry, commenting on why big-budget games are such a gamble, and why it's ridiculous to measure success by comparing a new game to World of Warcraft.

Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked 341

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 17, 2009 @12:13PM from the that-didn't-take-long dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft was planning on giving out the Office 2010 Technical Preview to select testers in July on an invite-only basis. Office 2010 will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and both flavors have been leaked to torrent sites and the like. Multiple screenshots of each application are available. '... some applications have changed a lot more than others. The ribbon seems to be on every application now, which is great for consistency's sake. ... The biggest change, in my opinion, is that the no file/orb menu is no longer a menu. When you click the colored office button, you get a screen that is shown in the second screenshot for each application.'"

Comment Re:Obligitory (Score 1) 620

by UnRDJ on Thursday April 23, 2009 @10:39AM (#27687253) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Released

Except me. I'm running it on my desktop and laptop. Torrenting it as we speak.

Comment Post your banlist (Score 2, Informative) 203

by UnRDJ on Sunday April 12, 2009 @09:02PM (#27552051) Attached to: The Low-Intensity, Brute-Force Zombies Are Back

I get about 5 of these a day, on a relatively small site. I wrote a small shell script out of sheer boredom that parses hosts.deny and gives me country and hostname info. Here's the output from the past week or so. It seems to confirm that most of these are from public isps overseas.

117.21.249.75 CN, China
121.166.163.142 KR, Korea, Republic of
122.128.36.3 KR, Korea, Republic of
189.19.245.182 BR, Brazil 189-19-245-182.dsl.telesp.net.br.
200.111.157.187 CL, Chile
201.6.124.155 BR, Brazil c9067c9b.static.spo.virtua.com.br.
202.229.120.74 JP, Japan
203.125.51.23 SG, Singapore
207.5.149.188 US, United States 149-188.suscom-maine.net.
211.87.224.190 CN, China
211.99.203.168 CN, China
216.164.162.155 US, United States 216-164-162-155.pa.subnet.cable.rcn.com.
217.219.67.86 IR, Iran, Islamic Republic of
218.241.177.241 CN, China
219.121.10.35 JP, Japan m010035.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp.
221.3.131.110 CN, China
61.184.136.164 CN, China
61.191.53.99 CN, China 99.53.191.61.broad.static.hf.ah.cndata.com.
77.79.88.247 TR, Turkey reverse-77-79-88-247.grid.com.tr.
80.179.149.122 IL, Israel 122.sharatim.co.il.
82.165.27.220 DE, Germany p15173261.pureserver.info.
83.19.20.66 PL, Poland byq66.internetdsl.tpnet.pl.
84.53.78.183 NL, Netherlands 84-53-78-183.wxdsl.nl.
87.197.110.47 SK, Slovakia static-dsl-47.87-197-110.telecom.sk.
99.53.191.61 --, N/A adsl-99-53-191-61.dsl.mtry01.sbcglobal.net.
200.219.194.74 BR, Brazil static.200.219.194.74.datacenter1.com.br.
202.190.177.144 MY, Malaysia
164.77.195.60 CL, Chile
89.119.5.106 IT, Italy 89-119-5-106-static.albacom.net.
221.154.206.233 KR, Korea, Republic of
218.208.91.111 MY, Malaysia
65.120.74.22 US, United States
210.185.64.195 AU, Australia 210-185-64-195.intrapower.net.au.
202.168.58.111 AU, Australia 111.58.168.202.static.comindico.com.au.
85.25.71.36 DE, Germany loft1551.serverloft.de.
193.136.39.26 PT, Portugal genid.dcc.fc.up.pt.
150.146.40.173 IT, Italy mspasiano.cedrc.cnr.it.
221.194.128.66 CN, China
82.135.192.72 LT, Lithuania 82-135-192-72.static.zebra.lt.
80.10.250.17 FR, France
207.28.220.1 US, United States voyager.iavalley.cc.ia.us.
164.77.208.198 CL, Chile
38.107.141.131 US, United States host-38-107-141-131.mtl.net.vexxhost.com.
222.218.156.41 CN, China

Comment Re:Let me guess... (Score 5, Funny) 316

by UnRDJ on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @08:46AM (#27328037) Attached to: Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release

too much karma for your tastes?

Comment Re:Hmmm.... (Score 1) 98

by UnRDJ on Thursday March 19, 2009 @11:05PM (#27264497) Attached to: First Pwn2Own 2009 Contest Winners Emerge

Now let's consider how many inexperienced users run everything as administrator/root. Those botnets don't make themselves!

How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science? 314

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @05:00PM from the none-of-that-fake-science-stuff dept.

Wellington Grey writes "I'm a physics teacher and have been wondering what ways it's possible to get students to participate in or donate to real science projects. I encourage my students to help out with things like Galaxy Zoo (which has just released a new version) and to get them to install BOINC on their personal computers. Do Slashdotters out there have any other suggestions that would be appropriate for the 11-18 age range? Extra credit if you can think of a way that I can track their progress so that I can give them extra credit."

Comment Re:OK, Let's have a big, hearty chorus, folks! (Score 0) 194

by UnRDJ on Friday March 13, 2009 @07:36PM (#27188215) Attached to: Microsoft-Novell Relationship Hits the Skids

It's a shame really, I love SuSE as a distro. Yast is probably the most complete centralized gui based configuration tool for linux. Much better in that sense than ubuntu with gnome which is obsessively minimal and redhat who scatters random tools everywhere that all have varying levels of completeness, stability, and support.

Comment Insidious thought (Score 1) 464

by UnRDJ on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @09:39PM (#26977675) Attached to: $100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available

Hide one of these behind a desk somewhere in a computer lab, sneak a cable to the switch or through one of the workstations, and have it connect via rootkit to a remote server somewhere. Then connect to the server and do whatever naughty things you desire. If you were clever you could even disguise it as an AC adapter.

Belkin's Amazon Rep Paying For Fake Online Reviews 369

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 17, 2009 @01:19PM from the fake-them-yourself-like-everybody-else dept.

remove office writes "I recently discovered that Belkin's lead online sales rep, Michael Bayard, has been secretly paying internet users to review his company's products favorably on Amazon.com and other websites like Newegg, whether or not they've ever used the devices. Bayard instructed the people he was paying to 'Write as if you own the product and are using it... Mark any other negative reviews as "not helpful" once you post yours.' Ironically, he was using Amazon's own Mechanical Turk service to hire his fraudsters. Did he honestly think he wouldn't get caught? Are Slashdotters aware of other examples of other such blatant astroturfing on behalf of a large tech company like Belkin?"

Comment Re:You mean physical memory right :-) (Score 1) 983

by UnRDJ on Friday December 05, 2008 @12:21AM (#25998943) Attached to: Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems?

Wouldn't it be more like "Why use swap space in modern systems?" then? Or where you trying to point out the fact that virtual memory references all physical memory and swap space, and therefore the title in that context sounds like "why use physical memory in modern systems?" I can't imagine that he was wondering why modern systems have physical RAM.

US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool" 320

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 26, 2008 @02:18PM from the which-technically-is-true dept.

Mike writes "A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter as a potential terrorist tool. A chapter titled 'Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter' notes that Twitter members reported the July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets and activists at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to provide information on police movements. 'Twitter is already used by some members to post and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives,' the report said. The report goes on to say, 'Terrorists could theoretically use Twitter social networking in the US as an operation tool.' Just wait until the Army finds out about chat rooms and email!"

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