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Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine 343

Posted by timothy from the many-humans-do-the-same dept.
fsufitch writes "Wine has advanced enough to make Linux not immune to Windows viruses. However, just like many Wine applications, it takes a bit of effort to get the program off the ground. Also, just like some Windows programs running via Wine, not all features may work — in this case, the crippling of the system, immunity to the task manager, identity theft, etc."
Cellphones

iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy 789

Posted by kdawson from the fair's-fair-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder dept.
All is not sweetness and light in the wake of the Apple WWDC kickoff announcements, especially concerning the evolution of the iPhone. Reader Hugh Pickens writes: "AT&T will offer the new iPhone 3G S when it debuts later this month at a cost of $199 and $299 for the 16GB and 32GB models, but only to new customers and those who qualify for the discounted price. AT&T subscribers with an iPhone 3G who are not eligible for an upgrade — those not near the end of their two-year contracts — will have to pay $200 more — $399 for the 16GB model and $499 for the 32GB model. 'This is ridiculous and slap in the face to long-time loyal iPhone customers like me who switched from T-Mobile and the only reason was the iPhone,' writes one unhappy iPhone customer. 'We have to mount a vigorous campaign to change this policy. Call your local AT&T and ask for the manager and complain. Send e-mails and post in forums everywhere.' The issue is spurring heavy debate on support discussion forums, with some customers supporting AT&T. 'The option you have is to honor the contract you freely committed yourself to,' says one forum member. 'If you want to upgrade early then you will have to pay full price with no subsidy discount. You can't blame anyone but yourself for your predicament.'"

Comment Re:Good News! (Score 2, Interesting) 569

by zefram cochrane (#27281161) Attached to: Programming Language Specialization Dilemma

Parent has a good point. I have taken my fair share of programming coursework, but learned most of my current skill-set on my own. This did not include C#, but did include C++, Java, Perl, Python, and Fortran. When interviewing for a job, these languages interested the company. However, when they came back with an offer, it was for coding in C# for a particular need they had.

If you already know a bit of C++ and Java, C# is not difficult to pick up, and is used heavily with the .NET environment in many businesses today. I'll be the first to admit...as a diehard Mac/Linux user, it hurt to have to program for the Windows environment and using M$ tools...but it's really not as bad as I originally made it out to be.

Also important, is to realize that no company that will be hiring a graduate straight out of a BS/BA will expect them to be able to write a massive program immediately or on their own. Most programming houses will have you working in a development team, of which you will slowly integrate, and will only be working on small pieces of a much larger program.

Comment Re:I dunno.. (Score 1) 359

by zefram cochrane (#25287979) Attached to: 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked
Not a bad article? If you click off of page one, things go downhill pretty fast. Last time I checked, XPs hibernate mode wrote the RAM image to disk and turned the machine off. And when is the last time you saw a laptop that had a NiCd battery pack???
Science

Replacement For Aging Doppler Radar Being Tested 105

Posted by kdawson from the sounds-like-a-freight-train dept.
longacre writes "Due to its limited range and slow scan times, the backbone of weather prediction in the US since the early 1990s, the NEXRAD radar system, is deeply flawed in the eyes of meteorologists. A new system being tested by researchers at the NOAA and four universities called the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) network aims to fill the holes left by NEXRAD, using radar nodes piggybacked onto existing infrastructure, such as rooftops and cell towers. From the article: 'Based on faster and more comprehensive data collection, [Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing] processing can refocus the CASA radars on a particularly interesting part of a storm (like an area that looks like it might develop a tornado) without losing track of an entire storm cell. "The system is continuously diagnosing the atmosphere and reallocating resources using wireless Internet as a backbone," says [the CASA team director].' Testing has begun in Oklahoma, Houston, and Puerto Rico, and initial installations could begin in 5 years."
Microsoft

Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users 571

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the at-least-they-are-being-honest dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "At the 2008 RSA security conference, Microsoft's David Cross was quoted as saying, 'The reason we put UAC into the platform was 'to annoy users. I'm serious.' The logic behind this statement is that it should encourage application vendors to eliminate as many unnecessary privilege escalations as possible by causing users to complain about all the UAC 'Cancel or Allow' prompts. Of course, they probably didn't expect that Microsoft would instead get most of the complaints for training users to ignore meaningless security warnings."
Security

Vista's Troublesome UAC is Developer's Fault? 228

Posted by Cliff from the sh'yeah-right dept.
MythMoth wonders: "We've heard all about the pain and discomfort of working with Windows' User Account Control (UAC) switched on, but now Ian Griffiths is explaining that the developers are the problem — they brought it on themselves. In earlier articles we have heard that Microsoft think that everyone should do it like this — Ian does acknowledge that things are better in the Unix world, but is he right? Is the onus now on the developers to help fix a problem that they did not cause?" Rather than ask the user for permission on every operation, what other ways could Microsoft have improved Vista's security?
Biotech

Journal Journal: Temporary blood vessel shunt to be used to save limbs in war 157

Journal by Stile 65

The FDA has just approved for military use a shunt which allows partially-severed limbs to continue to get circulation. According to the article, "For most, it won't be a matter of saving a limb outright but rather salvaging the quality of a wounded leg or arm." This is because "The tubelike device is designed to connect the two ends of a severed blood vessel, providing a temporary bridge or shunt around a wound to restore blood flow to an
AMD

Submission + - AMD's showcases Quad-Core Barcelona CPU

Submitted by Gr8Apes
Gr8Apes writes: AMD has showcased their new 65nm Barcelona quad-core CPU. It is labeled a quad-core Opteron, but according to Infoworld's Tom Yeager, is really a redefinition of x86. Each core has a new vector math processing unit (SSE128), separate integer and floating point schedulers, and new nested paging tables (to vastly improve hardware virtualization). According to AMD, the new vector math units alone should improve floating point operation by 80%. Some analysts are skeptical, waiting for benchmarks. Will AMD dethrone Intel again? Only time will tell.

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