Comment Re:And So Al Amrikee Invokes The Streisand Effect? (Score 1) 1131
How this, the rallying cry of Revelations addled bigots for hundreds of years now, is moderated insightful is beyond me.
Comment Re:System Clock (Score 2, Informative) 214
Looking at http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/, it appears that it gets the time from an HTTP response coming from a few dozen major websites. The responding IP is checked against a blacklist of IPs. Additionally, if the returned IP is a duplicate of one returned from a previous request, that IP is blocked as well. So the network time could be spoofed, but you'd need to set up multiple http servers,each with unique IPs that are aren't on the blacklist.
Comment Re:System Clock (Score 1) 214
I'd imagine the developers were bright enough to supply the node with the ability to grab the time from a reliable network source, rather than the local system.
This Is the Way the World Ends 394
Dave Knott writes "The CBC's weekly science radio show Quirks and Quarks this week features a countdown of the top ten planetary doomsday scenarios. Nine science professors and one science fiction author are asked to give (mostly) realistic hypotheses of the ways in which the planet Earth and its inhabitants can be destroyed. These possibilities for mankind's extinction include super-volcanoes, massive gamma ray bursts, and everybody's favorite, the killer asteroid. Perhaps the most terrifying prediction is the reversal of the Earth's magnetic field (combined with untimely solar activity), a periodic event which is currently 1/4 million years overdue."
Comment Re:Probably just for P2P (Score 1) 370
You're just not cut out for a career in law enforcement. Or software sales for that matter...
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