Comment 24.. (Score 1) 77
Get Jack, They have the CIP Device!
Submission + - SPAM: VR study says 40% of us are paranoid
Roland Piquepaille writes: "UK researchers have recently used virtual reality (VR) to check if people had paranoid thoughts when using public transportation. Their VR tube ride experiment revealed that 40% of the participants experienced exaggerated fears about threats from others. Until now, researchers were relying on somewhat unreliable questionnaires to study paranoid thoughts which are often triggered by ambiguous events such as someone laughing behind their back. With the use of VR, psychiatrists and psychologists have a new tool which can reliably recreates social interactions. As said the lead researcher, VR 'is a uniquely powerful method to detect those liable to misinterpret other people.' But read more for additional references and pictures showing computer people (avatars) on a simulated underground train."
Comment The war (Score 0, Flamebait) 891
The war on Scientology, led by the same people who said "Google Ron Paul"
Submission + - Google purges thousands of suspected malware sites (itnews.com.au) 1
Stony Stevenson writes: "In response to a concerted effort by cyber criminals to infect the computers of Google users with malware and make them unwitting partners in crime, Google has apparently purged tens of thousands of malicious Web pages from its index. Alex Eckelberry, CEO of Sunbelt Software, noted that many search results on Google led to malicious Web pages that expose visitors to exploits that can compromise vulnerable systems. Sunbelt published a list of search terms that returned malicious pages, the result of search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns by cyber criminals to get their pages prominently ranked in Google — Sunbelt refers to this as "SEO poisoning."
Let's hope Google has done its research and hasn't purged legitimate sites."
Let's hope Google has done its research and hasn't purged legitimate sites."
Submission + - First use of RIPA to demand encryption keys (theregister.co.uk)
kylehase writes: The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) is being used for the first time to force an animal activist to reveal encryption keys for encrypted files she claims to have no knowledge of. According to the article, she could face up to two years if she doesn't comply.
Submission + - Thai company to mass produce rewritable Blu-ray
Lucas123 writes: "Ritek Corp. plans to start mass producing BD-RE and HD DVD-RE next quarter, which should significantly impact the pricing of high-def recording discs, which will currently set you back $10 per platter. So what will we all do with 25GB and 20GB discs — four times what current DVD platters hold?"
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