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Comment Re:My test has results in 1 minute! (Score 0) 88

It really doesn't have a good start in the US. Over half the cases are in the greater NY Metropolitan area. It's a city-wide epidemic with a few scattered cases elsewhere.

Wrong.

The US has 120,000 cases - far the most of any country in the world. 44,000 cases are in the state of New York, 9000 in New Jersey, 1000 in Connecticut. That leaves 66,000 other cases in the US, which currently puts the rest of the US behind only all of Italy, all of China, and all of Spain.

That is not "a few scattered cases". That is a massive outbreak.

Sources:
https://www.worldometers.info/...
https://plague.com/

Comment Re:AltSlashdot is coming (Score 3, Insightful) 23

by Ayanami Rei (#46174405) Attached to: CowboyNeal Locked In Basement For Opposing Slashdot Beta

Hey John, I'm going to parrot what a few others have said; you might want to re-think the site name a little to avoid trademark dispute and angering the Dice.com gods. Maybe something like afterslash.org (altslash, as mentioned earlier, is too similar I think to alterslash, an existing blogroll/summary site).

I'd help in any way I can. I'll contact you later.

Comment Politicization and Blind Spots (Score 1) 460

by RomSteady (#41587429) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions

One of the biggest issues I see with the politicization of software licensing is that often advocates of software on a certain license will mentally gloss over major holes in the software/ecosystem, while at the same time gloss over major advantages of competing software/ecosystems.

In your opinion, what are the biggest holes/"areas for opportunity to improve" in Linux at the moment?
Botnet

Mariposa Botnet Beheaded 177

Posted by kdawson from the sting-like-a-butterfly dept.
northernboy and many other readers sent news of the beheading of the Mariposa botnet with three arrests in Spain. "Defense Intelligence of Ottawa working with ISPs and Spanish authorities have taken down yet another > 12M PC botnet, called Mariposa. The three top-level operators are in custody, but remain anonymous under Spanish law (how quaint: apparently in Spain, the accused have some right to privacy). AP is claiming that the botnet included systems in roughly half of the Fortune 1000 companies, scattered over 190 countries. Interesting details: none of the three principals has a prior criminal record. Although apparently hardworking, they are not uber-hackers, but rather had connections to the Spanish mafia, which apparently helped to equip them. At the time of arrest, they were not showing signs of their significant new income level. From the article: 'Chris Davis, CEO of Ottawa-based Defence Intelligence, said he noticed the infections when they appeared on networks of some of his firm's clients, including pharmaceutical companies and banks. It wasn't until several months later that he realized the infections were part of something much bigger. After seeing that some of the servers used to control computers in the botnet were located in Spain, Davis and researchers from the Georgia Tech Information Security Center joined with software firm Panda Security, which is headquartered in Bilbao, Spain. The investigators caught a few lucky breaks. For one, the suspects used Internet services that wound up cooperating with investigators. That isn't always the case.'"

Comment Re:I actually kind of miss the old combat system (Score 1) 331

by Masami Eiri (#30991940) Attached to: Review: <em>Mass Effect 2</em>
I must be the only person that didn't have ammo problems. I'm hitting the final boss now, and for the first time I'm running seriously low on everything. Part of that has to do with me being too damn chicken to pop over a barrier and run over to where I killed a few guys. You'll find yourself running low on sniper and maybe pistol ammo, sure, but there's always "thermal clips" laying around to pick up.
Wireless Networking

Verizon FiOS/DSL Customers Get Free Wi-Fi Across US 168

Posted by kdawson from the windows-only dept.
Glenn Fleishman lets us know that Verizon is finally offering nationwide Wi-Fi access to its high-speed Internet customers, long after Cablevision's similar service went live. While Cablevision is building out an in-house network of hotspots, Verizon is relying on a deal with Boingo Wireless — a strategy with both strengths and drawbacks, as Wi-Fi Net News points out. Neither Verizon's nor Boingo's announcement reveals the mechanics of how existing Verizon DSL and FiOS customers will get access, but an AP report spells it out: "To use a hotspot, the customer must install software that works only on computers with Windows Vista or XP installed. Phones, iPods, and Macintosh computers with Wi-Fi can't access the hotspots."

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