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Submission + - Android master key attacks begin (scmagazine.com.au) 1

Submitted by mask.of.sanity on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @09:57PM

mask.of.sanity writes: Attackers have begun exploiting a major Android vulnerability that allows them to take over a victim's phone without altering the digital signature of a targeted app. The attacks targeted Chinese-speaking Android users and exploited the master key flaw found by researchers earlier this month that affected most Android phones released in the last four years.

Festo's Drone Dragonfly Takes To the Air 45

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:15PM from the little-flyer dept.

yyzmcleod writes "Building on the work of last year's bionic creation, the Smart Bird, Festo announced that it will literally launch its latest creation, the BionicOpter, at Hannover Messe in April. With a wingspan of 63 cm and weighing in at 175 grams, the robotic dragonfly mimics all forms of flight as its natural counterpart, including hover, glide and maneuvering in all directions. This is made possible, the company says, by the BionicOpter's ability to move each of its four wings independently, as well as control their amplitude, frequency and angle of attack. Including its actuated head and body, the robot exhibits 13 degrees of freedom, which allows it to rapidly accelerate, decelerate, turn and fly backwards."

US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word 403

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @08:13AM from the somebody's-not-having-a-good-day dept.

oranghutan writes "A judge in a Texas court has given Microsoft 60 days to comply with an order to stop selling Word products in their existing state as the result of a patent infringement suit filed by i4i. According to the injunction, Microsoft is forbidden from selling Word products that let people create XML documents, which both the 2003 and 2007 versions let you do. Michael Cherry, an analyst quoted in the article, said, 'It's going to take a long time for this kind of thing to get sorted out.' Few believe the injunction will actually stop Word from being sold because there are ways of working around it. In early 2009, a jury in the Texas court ordered Microsoft to pay i4i $200 million for infringing on the patent. ZDNet has a look at the patent itself, saying it 'sounds a bit generic.'"

Piracy and the PSP 272

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @10:57PM from the arrr-ye-hearties dept.

In a lengthy interview with Gamasutra about the state of the Playstation brand in 2009, Sony's senior vice president of marketing, Peter Dille, made some interesting comments about how piracy has affected their popular portable console, the PSP. He said, "we're convinced that piracy has taken out a big chunk of our software sales on PSP," a platform that was slow to start anyway due to the lack of early interest from game developers. Dille mentions that while they can fight piracy with hardware upgrades in new versions, that doesn't do anything to help the roughly 50 million PSPs already out there. He goes on to address other aspects of the PlayStation line, including complaints about the pricing and exclusivity.

Interviewing Experienced IT People? 835

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @05:19PM from the experience-is-not-just-a-euphemism dept.

thricenightly writes "After more than 20 years in IT I've learned that the most valuable people in a team are frequently the old timers. Young pups straight out of college might (think they) know all the latest buzzwords and techniques, but in the real world, where getting working products delivered on time and on budget is of paramount importance, people who have been doing the job for a decade or two tend to be the people I'd rather be working alongside. I've recently been elevated to a position where I get to interview and choose those who get hired in my department. Although I'm very much focused on choosing the right person for the role regardless of age, experience or whatever, it's probably fair to say the more mature applicants will get a more sympathetic hearing from me than they might from most other interviewers for IT roles. The question is, what do I ask older applicants to get them to demonstrate the value of their experience? My current gambit is something like 'IT is seen as a young man's game. My next applicant after you is 23 years old. What do you know that he doesn't?' This gets responses ranging from the vague to the truly enlightened. All next week I'm interviewing for a number of senior software designer and developer roles. What should I be asking of the more experienced applicants, and what responses should I be looking out for?"

Comment Thank you all (Score 1) 36

by sushant on Monday September 05, 2005 @02:22AM (#13481504) Attached to: Looking for Portable MPI I/O Implementation?

Hello friends Thank you all for your responses. I have looked into your suggestions. As for HDF5, I agree that would be a good one, but due to some other constraints, I had to choose MPI. Now, the question is, If I can't get a portable MPI I/O implementation, what can I do to make it portable.The software I am working upon, can do it by storing the macine information in the file and then having its own converter [for serial I/O ]. I wanted to avoid all that task and was relying on MPI interface to do the job. [ That is why the external32 representation. ] I am sorry if I am posting it too late, coz I get access to net only from my office.

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