Comment Self-preservation an option (Score 1) 709
I prefer the idea of permanently equipping every steering wheel with a giant spike directed at the driver's chest. Now who's gonna risk even a fender bender for the sake of a little text-gossip?
Comment Data invasion and cloud computing (Score 1) 646
And Google and others are pushing cloud computing as the way of the future whilst protection of private data continues to degrade. Does this convergence not upset anyone else?
Comment Re:Yep (Score 1) 336
Also in North-Western NY: I could pay $30*/mo. for 10/1Mb or $20*/mo. for 1Mb/128kb, both through Time-Warner.
*These are prices to me; my apartment complex pays for basic cable for everyone, so I don't see that part of the charge.
Since I can call anytime TW 24/7 to up- or downgrade, I opted for the 1/.128. That may sound unreasonably unbearable, however: I Skype several hours a day with family and it's mostly pretty good; Hulu isn't the best, but I let it buffer and go on with life. For anyone living like myself on a tight budget, looking into a slower package may not be the end of the world.
Comment Re:works both ways (Score 1) 138
What do atheists hold as "objects of reverence"? (This isn't meant as a rebuttal, but is asked simply out of curiosity.) I am under the assumption (misunderstanding?) that because atheists don't believe in a higher being, they view everything on the same material plane. "To desecrate" means to make common things that are holy or sacred. What is holy without a god? What is sacred without a higher being to impart some meaning of sanctity?
(Note that I'm not saying that atheists have no *beliefs*. I'm not speaking of the immaterial, because neither was the original article.)
Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed 333
An anonymous reader writes "A Google study of DRAM errors in their data centers found that they are hundreds to thousands of times more common than has been previously believed. Hard errors may be the most common failure type. The DIMMs themselves appear to be of good quality, and bad mobo design may be the biggest problem." Here is the study (PDF), which Google engineers published with a researcher from the University of Toronto.
First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered 254
The Register writes up a Russian security researcher who has uncovered a Linux webserver botnet that is coordinating with a more conventional home-based botnet of Windows machines to distribute malware. "Each of the infected machines examined so far is a dedicated or virtual dedicated server running a legitimate website, Denis Sinegubko, an independent researcher based in Magnitogorsk, Russia, told The Register. But in addition to running an Apache webserver to dish up benign content, they've also been hacked to run a second webserver known as nginx, which serves malware [on port 8080]. 'What we see here is a long awaited botnet of zombie web servers! A group of interconnected infected web servers with [a] common control center involved in malware distribution,' Sinegubko wrote. 'To make things more complex, this botnet of web servers is connected with the botnet of infected home computer(s).'"
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