Comment Victory for virus writers (Score 4, Insightful) 245
Who gains from this? Most of all? Virus writers.
Perhaps the real solution is to have the OS never execute code looking anything like this.
Comment EasyDNS rocks (Score 1) 267
As a Sr. Sysadmin, I've used EasyDNS for 4 years for a successful dot com's corporate presence, and also used it to register and provide DNS for a couple of personal domains I own.
They DO NOT DESERVE any bad press. I've always been happy with them, and could recommend them to anyone.
I am not associated with them in any way, and if they sucked I'd say they suck.
Submission + - S. Wozniak: Android will be the dominant platform. (engadget.com) 1
cloudcreator writes: Woz [said] that Android smartphones, not the iPhone, would become dominant, noting that the Google OS is likely to win the race similarly to the way that Windows ultimately dominated the PC world.
Comment Not viable unless it's hot air based (Score 1) 184
All of these dirigible Great Ideas are doomed to fail unless they use hydrogen or hot air as the lifting gas. Helium is going to run out, forever. Helium is a limited non-replaceable resource. We're using it up faster and faster, and when it's gone, it's gone. Replacing helium is as feasable as implementing Mr. Fusion.
US Lab Models Galaxy Cluster Merger 89
astroengine writes "The scales are mind-boggling and the physics is cutting edge, so how do you go about simulating the collision of two galactic clusters? Using some of the most powerful computers in the world, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, the Flash Center at the University of Chicago and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have done just that."
US Says Plane Finder App Threatens Security 524
ProgramErgoSum writes "The Plane Finder AR application, developed by a British firm for the Apple iPhone and Google's Android, allows users to point their phone at the sky and see the position, height and speed of nearby aircraft. It also shows the airline, flight number, departure point, destination and even the likely course-the features which could be used to target an aircraft with a surface-to-air missile, or to direct another plane on to a collision course, the 'Daily Mail' reported. The program, sold for just 1.79 pounds in the online Apple store, has now been labelled an 'aid to terrorists' by security experts and the US Department of Homeland Security is also examining how to protect airliners. The new application works by intercepting the so-called Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcasts (ADS-B) transmitted by most passenger aircraft to a new satellite tracking system that supplements or, in some countries, replaces radar."
Comment Google's blatant ageism (Score 2, Insightful) 602
I predict that one day Google will be crucified by the government for their blatant ageism. And I mean crucified. The racist equivalent would be if 5 African-Americans worked in their entire corporation.
Just wait.
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