Comment Re: It's been like this for eBooks forever (Score 1) 33
IIRC, Apple prohibits having higher prices in the Apple store than outside. So they demand a 30% cut of the earnings if you sell through their store.
Old Malware Tricks Still Defeat Most AV Scanners 122
SkiifGeek writes "A year ago Didier Stevens discovered that padding IE malware with 0x00 bytes would happily slip past most of the scanners in use at VirusTotal.com. Revisiting his earlier discovery, Didier found that detection on his initial samples had improved, but not by much. For all the talk of AV companies moving away from signature based detection to heuristics, it is painfully obvious that not many of the tested engines can successfully handle such a simple and well known obfuscation method and the best of those that can detect the obfuscation can only detect it as a generic malware type. At least the scanning engines that can detect the presence of malware with the obfuscation aren't trying to claim each differential as a new variant."
Comment A matter of interest (Score 1) 509
If you're interested in programming and algorithms you definitively should select CS.
Math is a very important foundation for computer science that should not be understated. So, while you propably won't need the more exotic mathematics when you solve mundane programming tasks, you'll still benefit from it intellectually.
So if you're interested in development work, I'd recommend CS. If interested in management, it is possible that IS is adequate or even better.
But my judgement is colored by the fact that I'm a master of science in CS (or a Swedish equivalent).
Math is a very important foundation for computer science that should not be understated. So, while you propably won't need the more exotic mathematics when you solve mundane programming tasks, you'll still benefit from it intellectually.
So if you're interested in development work, I'd recommend CS. If interested in management, it is possible that IS is adequate or even better.
But my judgement is colored by the fact that I'm a master of science in CS (or a Swedish equivalent).
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