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Comment Antivirus Software (Score 0) 1114

by Portikon on Thursday May 29, 2008 @10:08AM (#23586611) Attached to: What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered?

The company I work for uses (unnamed) antivirus. It's a joke. Our employees believe that if they have it installed they are immune to spyware. I haven't seen a single piece of AV software that stopped even 6 month old spyware. The fact our company has to spend money on this stuff or risk our customers telling us we're "insecure" depresses me.

Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree 531

Posted by kdawson on Sunday July 29, 2007 @01:57PM from the does-this-mean-music-majors-are-free dept.

i_like_spam writes "The NYTimes is running a story about a new trend in tuition charges at public universities throughout the country. Differential pricing schemes are being implemented, whereby majors in engineering and business pay higher tuition rates than majors in arts and humanities. Last year, for instance, engineering majors at the University of Nebraska starting paying an extra $40 per credit hour. One argument in support of differential pricing is that professors in engineering and business are more expensive than in other fields. Officials at schools that are implementing differential pricing are aware of some of the downsides. A dean at Iowa State said he 'thought society was no longer looking at higher education as a common good but rather as a way for individuals to increase their earning power.' And a University of Kansas provost said, 'Where we have gone astray culturally is that we have focused almost exclusively on starting salary as an indicator of... the value of the particular major.'"

Web Contracts Can't Be Changed Without Notice 169

Posted by kdawson on Sunday July 29, 2007 @12:52PM from the late-binding dept.

RZG writes "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on July 18th that contracts posted online cannot be updated without notifying users (PDF of ruling). 'Parties to a contract have no obligation to check the terms on a periodic basis to learn whether they have been changed by the other side,' the court wrote. This ruling has consequences for many online businesses, which took for granted their right to do this (see for example item 19 in Google's Terms of Service)."

Sun Says Project Indiana is Not a Linux Copy 161

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 29, 2007 @11:45AM from the because-we-say-so dept.

eldavojohn writes "Ian Murdock (Debian author & Sun's OS Chief) made some comments about Project Indiana that many have said is an attempt to make Solaris simply "more Linux-like." But Murdock quashes any concerns that this is just another Linux clone — muddying up the waters of distribution selection. He says that it's more a 'best of both worlds' attempt to make an OS that appeals to a broader audience. From the article, "Project Indiana will include a revamped package management system, which should prove popular with developers unaccustomed to Solaris. The OS has some clunky, archaic aspects, and Murdock thinks the new package system will modernize Solaris.""

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