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Child Abuse Verdict Held Back By MS Word Glitch 191

Posted by samzenpus from the messy-verdict dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Last week several defendants including one high-profile TV presenter were sentenced in Portugal in what has been known as the Casa Pia scandal. The judges delivered on September 3 a summary of the 2000-page verdict, which would be disclosed in full only three days later. The disclosure of the full verdict has been postponed from September 8 to a yet-to-be-announced date, allegedly because the full document was written in several MS Word files which, when merged together, retained 'computer related annotations which should not be present in any legal document.' (Google translated article.) Microsoft specialists were called in to help the judges sort out the 'text formatting glitch,' while the defendants and their lawyers eagerly wait to access the full text of the verdict."

Comment Re:Some Helpful Advise (Score 1) 528

by sumdumgai123 (#32444504) Attached to: Microsoft Talks Back To Google's Security Claims
Your Zone-H argument is comparing apples to oranges. The Zone-H page you link to shows web page defacements. Web sites can be insecure on whatever OS they are running. They don't even rely on the underlying OS. You can take a website with poor security and run it on the most secure OS in the world and it can be defaced. That doesn't say anything about the security of the OS! Just because you can deface a web page does not mean the OS is vulnerable. None of the data you point to has any relevance to this discussion.
You don't know how secure any OS is until you have written kernel level modules for that OS. I have for both Windows and Linux and Windows security is a joke.
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Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy 572

Posted by samzenpus from the paging-doctor-manners dept.
Administrators at England's Worthing Hospital are insisting that doctors say the magic word when writing orders for blood tests on weekends. If a doctor refuses to write "please" on the order, the test will be refused. From the article: "However, a doctor at the hospital said on condition of anonymity that he sees the policy as a money-saving measure that could prove dangerous for patients. 'I was shocked to come in on Sunday and find none of my bloods had been done from the night before because I'd not written "please,"' the doctor said. 'I had no results to guide treatment of patients. Myself and a senior nurse had to take the bloods ourselves, which added hours to our 12-hour shifts. This system puts patients' lives at risk. Doctors are wasting time doing the job of the technicians.'"
PlayStation (Games)

US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update 349

Posted by Soulskill from the sounds-like-an-act-of-terrorism-to-me dept.
tlhIngan writes "The US Air Force, having purchased PS3s for supercomputing research, is now the latest victim of Sony's removal of the Install Other OS feature. It turns out that while their PS3s don't need the firmware update, it will be impossible to replace PS3s that fail. PS3s with the Other OS feature are no longer produced since the Slim was introduced, so replacements will have to come from the existing stock of used PS3s. However, as most gamers have probably updated their PS3s, that used stock is no longer suitable for the USAF's research. In addition, smaller educational clusters using PS3s will share the same fate — unable to replace machines that die in their clusters." In related news, Sony has been hit with two more lawsuits over this issue.
The Courts

Games Workshop Sues Warhammer Online Fansite 182

Posted by Soulskill from the don't-anger-your-base-again dept.
chalkyj writes "WarhammerAlliance.com (run for the last five years as one of the leading fansites for the MMORPG Warhammer Online) is being sued by Games Workshop for the use of the 'Warhammer' name, 'cybersquatting' and 'unfair competition.' This lawsuit is yet another in Games Workshop's disturbing pattern of suing their fans and hobbyists, this time going after a legitimate fansite for their MMORPG franchise. The full complaint (PDF) has been posted online."
Privacy

Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale 232

Posted by timothy from the so-what's-a-few-snapshots-anyhow dept.
PSandusky writes "A report issued by the Lower Merion School District's chosen law firm blames the district's IT department for the laptop webcam spying scandal. In particular, the report mentions lax IT policies and record-keeping as major problems that enabled the spying. Despite thousands of e-mails and images to the contrary, the report also maintains that no proof exists that anyone in IT viewed images captured by the webcams."
Power

MIT Unveils First Solar Cells Printed On Paper 125

Posted by timothy from the let's-give-them-some-post-unveiing-privacy dept.
lucidkoan writes "MIT researchers recently unveiled the world's first thin-film solar cell printed on a sheet of paper. The panel was created using a process similar to that of an inkjet printer, producing semiconductor-coated paper imbued with carbon-based dyes that give the cells an efficiency of 1.5 to 2 percent. That's not incredibly efficient, but the convenience factor makes up for it. And in the future, researchers hope that the same process used in the paper solar cells could be used to print cells on metal foil or even plastic. If they're able to gear efficiencies up to scale, the development could revolutionize the production and installation of solar panels."
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Japanese Company Turns Diapers Into Energy Source 65

Posted by samzenpus from the smells-like-power dept.
greenrainbow writes "A Japanese company called Super Faith has developed a new machine that turns used adult diapers into a clean fuel source in about 24 hours. You simply place the bag of dirty diapers in the machine, and once set it motion it pulverizes, sanitizes and dries the material in the diapers and then forms it into small pellets that contain 5000 kcal of heat per kilogram and are meant to be used in biomass heating and electricity systems. Super Faith has reportedly installed two SFD systems at a hospital in Tokyo's Machida area. Each is capable of turning 700 pounds of used diapers — and everything they hold — into fuel every day."
Piracy

Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down 634

Posted by kdawson from the single-point-of-well-you-know dept.
ZuchinniOne writes "With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM."

Comment Re:Tax Credit? (Score 1) 577

by sumdumgai123 (#31374238) Attached to: Microsoft VP Suggests 'Net Tax To Clean Computers
HAHA... So any software you install is a virus??

Did you even read the links you posted? The lupper was patched years ago. Same for XMLRPC. See this link here: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14088/solution.

One of your great links is just a forum of people who say Linux is vulnerable. No documentation of any virus.

Also, these threats hardly count as virii. They are injection attacks on the web server. Most desktop users are not even running a web server. They don't infect OS files, just PHP scripts. If we count PHP injection as virii, then Windows has thousands more vulnerabilities to include.

Lots of the virii noted for Linux are proof of concept code that have never been seen in the wild and only the anti-virus companies seem to have any knowledge of it at all. Maybe because it is in their best interest to find Linux virii. And to spread these virii requires an unsecured system and a priveleged user to run the infected program.

There are plenty of Windows virii that do not require a privileged user to run the virus code. Any user can just connect to a website with code that can infect Windows.

You may be too young to remember, but there are virii for MS that you just have to stick an infected floppy in your drive and it will infect the system all by itself. No program needs to be executed by the user at all.

Comment Re:Tax Credit? (Score 1) 577

by sumdumgai123 (#31347982) Attached to: Microsoft VP Suggests 'Net Tax To Clean Computers
Ok. Just to satisfy you, I did search for "Linux Virus" on Google. There is not a single link to a Linux virus. Lots of discussion about how there will be more Linux virii in the future. The only malware attributed to Linux requires the user to run an untrusted application as a privileged user. THAT does not make a virus, but a stupid user. So again I say, post a link to proof of this "Linux Virus" you speak of. Or else you are full of bs?

Comment Re:A Christian's take (Score 1) 1252

by sumdumgai123 (#31119134) Attached to: Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War
Ok, is the theory of Gravity proven? No. But we have a pretty good idea that it exists. One (evolution) has an enormous history of scientific study and experimentation validated by peer research.
The other (Christian Creation) is believed by a bunch of people that have no evidence verified by any experimentation and in fact has plenty of scientific evidence to the contrary.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1072638.ece.
So how about in Science class we study the information gathered by the scientific method and leave faith to the people who choose to believe things not in evidence?

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