Comment But... (Score 1) 125
...does it run Android?
Comment Re:Quite well behaved? (Score 1) 340
I thought the same thing when I saw "quite well behaved".
Don't forget that Mac OS X also can't traverse DFS shares without third party software. Sure, I can look on my Windows box and see where the DFS share points to and map it directly, but I shouldn't have to do that either.
Comment Re:Detection and removal (Score 1) 583
Don't forget Java. Out-of-date versions of Java are also largely responsible for infections. I'd actually love to have a way to see method of infection, whether it's Flash or Java. I've been able to tell sometimes simply because infected
Flash updates seem to be much more reliable in terms of asking to install the update than Java. In 99.9% of infections, I see an out-of-date version of Java installed on the system.
Submission + - Spammers Moving to Disposable Domains (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: Spammers and the botnet operators they're allied with are continuing to adapt their techniques to evade security technologies, and now are using what amount to disposable domains for their activities. A new report shows that the spammers are buying dozens of domains at a time and moving from one to another as often as several times a day to prevent shutdowns. New research shows that the amount of time that a spammer uses a given domain is basically a day or less. The company looked at 60 days worth of data from their customers and found that more than 70 percent of the domains used by spammers are active for a day or less.
Submission + - Wireless PCIe to enable remote graphics cards (techreport.com) 1
J. Dzhugashvili writes: If you read Slashdot, odds are you already know about WiGig and the 7Gbps wireless networking it promises. The people at Atheros and Wilocity are now working on an interesting application for the spec: wireless PCI Express. In a nutshell, wPCIe enables a PCI Express switch with local and remote components linked by a 60GHz connection. The first applications, which will start sampling next year, will let you connect your laptop to a base station with all kinds of storage controllers, networking controllers, and yes, an external graphics processor. wPCIe works transparently to the operating system, which only sees additional devices connected over PCI Express. And as icing on the cake, wPCie controllers will lets you connect to standard Wi-Fi networks, too.
Submission + - Astronomers Solve The Mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp (technologyreview.com) 1
KentuckyFC writes: n 2007, a Dutch school teacher called Hanny van Arkel discovered a huge blob of green-glowing gas while combing though images to classify galaxies. Hanny's Voorwerp (meaning Hanny's object in Dutch) is astounding because astronomers have never seen anything like it. Although galactic in scale, it is clearly not a galaxy because it does not contain any stars. That raises an obvious question: what is causing the gas to glow? Now a new survey of the region of sky seems to have solved the problem. The Voorwerp lies close to a spiral galaxy which astronomers now say hides a massive black hole at its centre. The infall of matter into the black hole generates a cone of radiation emitted in a specific direction. The great cloud of gas that is Hanny's Voorwerp just happens to be in the firing line, ionising the gas, causing it to glow green. That lays to rest an earlier theory that the cloud was reflecting an echo of light from a short galactic flare up that occurred 10,000 years ago. It also explains why Voorwerps are so rare: these radiation cones are highly directional so only occasionally do unlucky gas clouds get caught in the cross fire.
Submission + - Set free your inner jedi or pyro... (dailytech.com)
sirgoran writes: We've all thought about being the hero fighting off evil doers and saving the day ever since we first saw Star Wars. The folks at Wicked Lasers have now made that a little closer to reality with their latest release. A 1Watt blue diode laser that can set skin and other things on fire. From an article at daily tech they talk about the dangers of such a powerful laser. "And here's the best (or worst) part — it can set people (or things) on fire. Apparently the laser is so high powered that shining it on fleshy parts will cause them to burst into flames. Of course it's equally capable of blinding people." The thing that caught my eye was the price, $200.00! I wonder if they'll be able to meet the demand since this will be on every geeks Christmas list...
Submission + - Help finding a good photo manager?
JeremyDuffy writes: Ask Slashdot: I have an photo project of over 7000 photos. I want to tag them based on location, time of day, who's in them, etc. Doing this by hand one at a time through the Windows 7 interface in explorer is practically madness. There has to be a better way. Is there a photo manager that can easily group and manage file tags? And most importantly, something that stores the tag and other data (description etc) in the FILE not just a database? I don't care if the thing has a database, but the data MUST be in the file so when I upload the files to the Internet, the tags are in place.
Submission + - Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online (ieee.org)
An anonymous reader writes: According to this IEEE article (http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/biomedical/bionics/061110-eyeborg-bionic-eye), Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence, who calls himself Eyeborg because he replaced his false right eye with a bionic one (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/06/2344220), is showing off his latest prototype. The new bionic eye contains a battery-powered, wireless video camera that can transmit low-res feed to a nearby receiver. Now Spence plans to share his 'vision' online, literally. According to the IEEE article, "soon people will be able to log on to his video feed and view the world through his right eye."
Submission + - Microsoft explains mystery Firefox extension 1
Ricky writes: Microsoft has fixed the distribution scope of a toolbar update that, without the user's knowledge, installed an add-on in Internet Explorer and an extension in Firefox called Search Helper Extension. Microsoft told us that the new update is actually the same as the old one; the only difference is the distribution settings. In other words, the update will no longer be distributed to toolbars that it shouldn't be added to. End users won't see the tweak, Microsoft told Ars, and also offered an explanation on what the mystery add-on actually does.
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Submission + - High school forces all students to buy Mac Laptops (salemnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A new program at Beverly High will equip every student with a new laptop computer to prepare kids for a high-tech future. But there's a catch. The money for the $900 Apple MacBooks will come out of parents' pockets. "You're kidding me," parent Jenn Parisella said when she found out she'd have to buy her sophomore daughter, Sky, a new computer. "She has a laptop. Why would I buy her another laptop?" Sky has a Dell. Come September 2011, every student will need an Apple. They'll bring it to class and use it for homework. Superintendent James Hayes sees the technology as an essential move to prepare kids for the future. The School Committee approved the move last year, and Hayes said he's getting the news out now so families can prepare. "We have one platform," Hayes said. "And that's going to be the Mac."
Submission + - Boltzmann equation solved, the new way
xt writes: The Boltzmann equation is old news. What's news is that the 140 year old equation has been solved, using mathematical techniques from the fields of partial differential equations and harmonic analysis, some as new as five years old. This solution provides a new understanding of the effects due to grazing collisions, when neighboring molecules just glance off one another rather than collide head on. We may not understand the theory, but we'll sure love the applications!
Submission + - Critics Say US Antimissle Defense Flawed, Dangerou
Hugh Pickens writes: "The NY Times reports that President Obama’s plans for reducing America’s nuclear arsenal and defeating Iran’s missiles rely heavily on a new generation of antimissile defenses which last year he called “proven and effective," but now a new analysis being published by two antimissile critics at MIT and Cornell, casts doubt on the reliability of the a rocket-powered interceptor known as the SM-3. The Pentagon asserts that the SM-3, or Standard Missile 3, had intercepted 84 percent of incoming targets in tests but a re-examination of results from 10 of those apparently successful tests by Theodore A. Postol and George N. Lewis, finds only one or two successful intercepts — for a success rate of 10 to 20 percent. Most of the approaching warheads, they say, would have been knocked off course but not destroyed and while that might work against a conventionally armed missile, it suggests that a nuclear warhead might still detonate. “The system is highly fragile and brittle and will intercept warheads only by accident, if ever,” says Dr. Postol, a former Pentagon science adviser who forcefully criticized the performance of the Patriot antimissile system in the 1991 Persian Gulf war. Dr. Postol says the SM-3 interceptor must shatter the warhead directly, and public statements of the Pentagon agency seem to suggest that it agrees. In combat, the scientists added, “the warhead would have not been destroyed, but would have continued toward the target" causing a warhead to fall short or give it an added nudge, with the exact site of the weapon’s impact uncertain. “It matters if it’s Wall Street or Brooklyn,” says Postol, “but we won’t know in advance.”"
Submission + - Mobile 'Remote Wipe' Thwarts Secret Service (zdnet.com.au)
bennyboy64 writes: Smartphones that offer the ability to 'remote wipe' are great for when your device goes missing and you want to delete your data so that someone else can't look at it, but not so great for the United States Secret Service, ZDNet reports. The ability to 'remote wipe' some smartphones such as BlackBerry and iPhone was causing havoc for law enforcement agencies, according to USSS special agent Andy Kearns, speaking on mobile phone forensics at a security conference in Australia.
Submission + - Duke to close Usenet server (duke.edu)
DukeTech writes: This week marks the end of an era for one of the earliest pieces of Internet history, which got its start at Duke University more than 30 years ago.
On May 20, Duke will shut down its Usenet server, which provides access to a worldwide electronic discussion network of newsgroups started in 1979 by two Duke graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis.
Read more: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html
On May 20, Duke will shut down its Usenet server, which provides access to a worldwide electronic discussion network of newsgroups started in 1979 by two Duke graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis.
Read more: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html
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