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Comment From estonian perspective... (Score 2, Interesting) 68

by ZWoz_new (#29204861) Attached to: Legitimate ISP a Cover-up For a Cybercrime Network
First: I'm estonian and maybe not objective. But, in my opinion, this "research" are little bit inflammatory. I don't count, but if every third word is "Estonian" or "Estonia" or "Tartu", then this looks like "oww, look those foreign, maybe russian, cybercriminals!". Anyway, this is old and dead horse, what gets beaten, this infamous estdomains a.k.a Rove Digital (if anybody want proof, look Figure 1 in pdf and compare rovedigital.com). This article tries make impression, how in estonia this ISP is legal or somewhat "known and normal" business. In fact, i never heard about those guys before first scandals and court case, i afraid they don't have much business (legal or other kind) in Estonia.

Comment Re:Instant Karma... (Score 1) 757

by ZWoz_new (#27609685) Attached to: Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack

The solution? Log in as admin and fix it.

Nope.

runas /user:administrator cmd

cacls <filename> /E /G Everyone:W

Or if you don't want modify permission stuff over command line:
runas /user:administrator explorer
(note, that this is windows explorer, not IE) Then you can continue point-and-click happy.
The Internet

Broadband Access Without the Pork? 412

Posted by timothy from the yessir-that's-the-mandatory-federal-barbeque-fee dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Like many consumers nowadays, I find more of my time spent on the internet and various wireless devices (e.g. mobile phone). This has gotten to the point where I basically do not use a landline or cable television anymore, and they are essentially pork on my broadband bill, which further subjects the consumer to all sorts of clandestine fees that aren't disclosed until the first bill arrives and add a non-trivial sum (in my case, nearly 100%) to the monthly rate. However, it seems that all broadband access providers have this stipulation, that an internet customer must first have a basic phone or cable TV service in order to sign on for the internet service. Are there any ISPs that can get around this and still deliver broadband internet service at a competitive rate?"
The Internet

ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains 198

Posted by timothy from the how-about-vending-machines dept.
narramissic writes "Late last week, ICANN put up for comment a new top-level domain (TLD) proposal that would open up the market for generic TLDs on the Internet, basically allowing anyone with $185,000 to buy a new TLD. ICANN has based the cost of a generic TLD on what it believes will be the cost to evaluate applications and protect the organization against risk, said Paul Levins, ICANN's executive officer and vice president for corporate affairs. Any excess money would be redistributed based on the wishes of the Internet community, he said. As of late Tuesday, there were only a couple of comments on the proposal."
The Internet

Opera Develops Search Engine For Web Developers 31

Posted by Soulskill from the web-devs-need-love-too dept.
nk497 writes "The Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA) doesn't index content like a standard search engine, but looks at markup, style, scripting and the technology behind pages. Based on those existing MAMA-ed pages, 80.4 per cent of sites use cascading style sheets (CSS), while the average web page has 47 markup errors and 16,400 characters. Should you want to know which country is using the AJAX component XMLHttpRequest the most, MAMA can tell you that it's Norway, with 10.2 per cent of the data set." Additional coverage is available at Computerworld, and a deeper explanation is up at Opera's Dev site.
Microsoft

Ballmer Admits Google Apps Are Biting Into MS Office 293

Posted by Soulskill from the legacy-of-clippy dept.
twitter points out coverage of a discussion between Steve Ballmer and two Gartner analysts in which the Microsoft CEO admits that Google Apps is enjoying an advantage over Office by users who want to share their documents. He points to Office Live as their response to Google, and adds, "Google has the lead, but, if we're good at advertising, we'll compete with them in the consumer business." Whether or not they're good at advertising is still in question, if their recent attempts are any indication. Ballmer also made statements indicating some sort of arrangement with Yahoo! could still be in the works, but Microsoft was quick to step on that idea. Regarding Windows Vista, he said Microsoft was prepared for people to skip it altogether, and that Microsoft would be "ready" when it was time to deploy Windows 7.
Supercomputing

CERN Launches Huge LHC Computing Grid 46

Posted by Soulskill from the just-waiting-on-the-actual-LHC-now dept.
RaaVi writes "Yesterday CERN launched the largest computing grid in the world, which is destined to analyze the data coming from the world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. The computing grid consists of more than 140 computer centers from around the world working together to handle the expected 10-15 petabytes of data the LHC will generate each year." The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid will initially handle data for up to 7,000 scientists around the world. Though the LHC itself is down for some lengthy repairs, an event called GridFest was held yesterday to commemorate the occasion. The LCG will run alongside the LHC@Home volunteer project.
The Internet

Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela 486

Posted by samzenpus from the welcome-to-the-80's dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Seems like Cuba is working around the US internet embargo by teaming up with Venezuela: A confidential contract released yesterday on Wikileaks reveals Cuba's plan to receive internet upstream via an undersea cable to Venezuela, thus circumventing the enduring embargo of the US, denying Cuba access to nearby American undersea cables and overcoming the current limits of satellite-only connectivity. The connection, to be delivered by CVG Telecom of Venezuela, is to be completed by 2010 and will provide data, video as well as voice service for both the public and governmental services."
Idle

Censored Count 4

Posted by samzenpus
samzenpus writes "The thing that interests me about this video is how by just adding a beep you can change something completely innocent into something that seems vulgar. There is a consumer/advertising perception study in here somewhere. Also, perceived puppet profanity is funny."

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