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Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In 508

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @10:10AM from the be-on-the-lookout dept.

Nieriko writes "Reports are trickling in about the impact from the Conficker worm, as infected systems passed zero hour at midnight and began downloading additional malicious components. Here are a couple of the more notable incidents caused by Conficker so far, according to published reports: — '... shortly after midnight local time, an ATM in the capital city of Reykjavik began spewing 100-Krona notes. ... A nuclear missile installation near Elmendorf Air force Base outside of Anchorage, Alaska briefly went on a full-scale military alert after technicians manning the bunker suspected that several of their control systems were infected with Conficker.'"

Comment The 80's called, they want their PRAGMA back (Score 0, Troll) 115

by fletch_wins on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @01:37PM (#26048595) Attached to: Khronos Releases OpenCL Spec

Why are all HPC languages targeting the GPU pretending that compiler technology stopped with C? I can understand wanting the low-level control, but not always. How about some higher level constructs to encapsulate the often repeated GROUPSIZE, group_id, local_id logic?

There's only one way of accessing memory that performs - so make the compiler enforce it, unless I explicitly want to use low-level API to do something fancy.

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