Comment Re:No content in TFA (Score 1) 56
I'd mod you up if I had points. This headline has absolutely no relation to the article. It's sensationalism at its finest (worst?).
Submission + - 1st Private Manned Orbital Flight Announced by IoS (blogspot.com)
Miroslav Ambrus-Kis writes: "Two members if the Google Lunar X Prize Synergy Moon Nebojsa Stanojevic and Miroslav Ambrus-Kis announced to be the first private astronaouts aboard the first completely private orbital fligt, Interorbital Systems announced on Friday. Interplanetary Ventures, Interorbital Systems and Human Synergy Project make a Team Lunar Synergy, a contender in Google Lunar X Prize. You can easily google that to have a big picture before other media start to make it for you, and find traces of persons involved on Facebook and Twitter. http://spaceports.blogspot.com/2009/09/interorbital-systems-has-crewed-capsule.html"
Comment Re:insurance companies are evil (Score 4, Informative) 470
As somebody who works for a company involved in medical billing... yes, the industry is being run by a pack of trained monkies. Fortunately, my company is involved in reform and switching it all to being done electronically. With some luck, it'll get better over the next few years.
FTP Hacking on the Rise 212
yahoi writes "The disco-era File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is making a comeback, but not in a good way — spammers are now using the old-school file transfer technology to serve up bot malware, and even as a backdoor into some enterprises that neglect to lock down their oft-forgotten FTP servers. Researchers at F-Secure have spotted a new wave of exploits that use FTP — rather than a malicious URL, or an email attachment — to deliver their malware payloads because few gateways scan for FTP attachments these days."
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