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Comment More than Arrogance, Marketing. (Score -1, Troll) 114

by inTheLoo on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @12:37AM (#29361913) Attached to: Microsoft, Cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw

Another sorry lie by M$. They fixed these things in Windows 7 RTM, but not earlier versions of Windows, so that they could lie about Windows 7 having better "security" than Vista and XP. Very simple and very evil and also very obvious. The new SMB2 failure blows their little lie up even for the most ignorant of users. M$'s reputation can't get much lower.

Journal Journal: Vista 7 Fail Videos 1

Journal by twitter on Saturday August 08, 2009 @10:32PM

Despite all the hype, it is easy to predict that Windows 7 will go the same way Vista did. Vista was a failure in every way, so a pretty new face was made to sell the same buggy and customer hostile core and the Microsoft hype machine was turned on full blast. No

Feed Engadget: Verizon's HTC Whitestone leaks out, along with the HTC Mega and Tachi (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Friday August 07, 2009 @12:12PM

We've been hearing about Verizon's upcoming HTC Whitestone for a while now, and it looks like a new pic and specs for the upcoming dual-mode CDMA / GSM Touch Diamond2 variant have leaked out. Seems like a mixed bag -- the revised case with a larger 3.6-inch WVGA display is impressive, but inside you're looking at Windows Mobile 6.1 running on a 528MHz Qualcomm processor with 256MB of RAM, so you've certainly lived through this experience before. That's pretty much the same case with the HTC Mega, which also leaked today: although it'll ship with WinMo 6.5 and that hot new version of TouchFLO 2D, it's a lower-end device with a 2.8-inch QVGA display, a three megapixel camera and yet another 528MHz Qualcomm proc with 256MB of RAM running the show. Oh, and just to round things out, there's a pic of the Dopod-branded HTC Tachi, which probably means this one's headed for China. Always nice to put a face to a name, though isn't it? Pics of the Mega and Tachi after the break.

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Feed news.com: Podcast: Twitter attacker had Georgia in mind (cnet.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Friday August 07, 2009 @01:12AM

CNET Internet security reporter and blogger Elinor Mills says that the denial of service attacks against Twitter, Facebook, and other sites may have been politically motivated

Feed The Register: Researcher: Twitter attack targeted anti-Russian blogger (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Thursday August 06, 2009 @08:52PM

Joejobbing Cyxymu

As Twitter struggled to return to normal Wednesday evening, a trickle of details suggested that the outage that left 30 million users unable to use the micro-blogging service for several hours, at least in part, may have been the result of a spam campaign that targeted a single user who vocally supports the Republic of Georgia.

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Submission + - Sandia Studies Botnets in 1M OS Digital Petri Dish

Submitted by

Ponca City, We love you

on Monday July 27, 2009 @07:49PM

Ponca City, We love you writes: "The NY Times reports that researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are creating what is in effect a vast digital petri dish able to hold one million operating systems at once in an effort to study the behavior of botnets. To stalk the botnets, Sandia Scientist Ron Minnich, the inventor of LinuxBIOS who specializes in computer security and his colleague Don Rudish have converted a Dell supercomputer to simulate a mini-Internet of one million computers. The researchers say they hope to be able to infect their digital petri dish with a botnet and then gather data on how the system behaves. "When a forest is on fire you can fly over it, but with a cyberattack you have no clear idea of what it looks like," says Minnich. "It's an extremely difficult task to get a global picture." The Dell Thunderbird supercomputer, named MegaTux, has 4,480 Intel microprocessors running virtual machines with Wine, making it possible to run 1 million copies of Windows without paying licensing fees to Microsoft. MegaTux, a reference to Tux, the penguin character that is the official mascot of the Linux operating system, is an example of a new kind of computational science, in which computers are used to simulate scientific instruments that were once used in physical world laboratories. "One of the advantages of such a system is that we can stop the simulation at any point and look for patterns," says Rudish. "It's one of the neat things you can do when you crash a simulation of a 747 on a supercomputer.""

Submission + - open source software in the military meeting (mil-oss.org)

Submitted by

JohnMoD

on Friday July 17, 2009 @04:04PM

JohnMoD writes: "with the advent of forge.mil, etc. the military seems to be getting on board with free and open source software. A working group meeting is going to be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta 12th — 13th August 2009. Pretty good line up of speakers including a Marine from Iraq-Marine Expeditionary Forces, Future Operations, Commo / IMO, who was on the ground and saw the agility oepn source gave him and his soldiers. A number of OSS projects are going to have meeting there: Delta 3D (www.delta3d.org), OpenCPI (www.opencpi.org), FalconView, OSSIM (www.ossim.com), RedHat, etc. There look to be some good projects and discussion to be had."

Comment Lame Excuses, Seen it Before. (Score -1, Troll) 626

by inTheLoo on Friday December 12, 2008 @04:43PM (#26095489) Attached to: Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux"

The "there could have been anything on those CDs" is a really lame excuse and it's one that's M$ propagated. You can say the same thing about books and speech. Want to ban those in school too? Imagine, "He was handing out notes to his clasmates. I immediately assumed they contained drugs and porn and steped in to uphold the law. My suspicions were only increased when I learned this Constitution was written by adults." I ran into the same objections when I tried to hold a Free Software demonstration in my school. It's a war on sharing, they want you to trust them more than your neighbors.

Fear and ignorance are used to keep you helpless and divided. Its a lie, trust your neighbors.

Boycott Novell Protesters Manhandled In India 360

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 16, 2008 @11:14PM from the opposite-of-freedom dept.

James Mathew writes "This is an interesting story from Kerala, India, where the ruling Communist Party organized a national conference in its efforts to hijack the Free Software Movement, which has enviable roots in the state. They got Novell to sponsor it. On the second day of the conference, a few free software activists who displayed posters against Novell were manhandled by the organizers and police — typical of what is expected from them. Most of the snaps taken during the scuffle were forcefully deleted by the organizers, after seizing the protesters' mobile phones. Still they couldn't delete all. Here is another blow-by-blow account."

Ballmer Admits Google Apps Are Biting Into MS Office 293

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 17, 2008 @09:58PM from the legacy-of-clippy dept.

twitter points out coverage of a discussion between Steve Ballmer and two Gartner analysts in which the Microsoft CEO admits that Google Apps is enjoying an advantage over Office by users who want to share their documents. He points to Office Live as their response to Google, and adds, "Google has the lead, but, if we're good at advertising, we'll compete with them in the consumer business." Whether or not they're good at advertising is still in question, if their recent attempts are any indication. Ballmer also made statements indicating some sort of arrangement with Yahoo! could still be in the works, but Microsoft was quick to step on that idea. Regarding Windows Vista, he said Microsoft was prepared for people to skip it altogether, and that Microsoft would be "ready" when it was time to deploy Windows 7.

Denmark Becomes Fourth Nation To Protest OOXML 171

Posted by kdawson on Sunday June 01, 2008 @10:47PM from the i-do-believe-it's-a-convoy dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The rumors of a fourth OOXML complaint turned out to be true. Denmark has become the fourth nation to protest the ISO's acceptance of OOXML, and Groklaw has a translation of their complaint. They now join India, Brazil, and South Africa. There are going to be plenty of questions about deadlines, because people have been given two different deadlines for appeals, and the final DIS of OOXML was late in being distributed and not widely available. In fact, that seems to be one of Denmark's complaints, along with missing XML schemas, contradictory wording, lack of interoperability, and troubles with the maintenance of DIS29500. In other words, we should expect a lot of wrangling over untested rules from here on out, and Microsoft knows how to deal with that."

Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection 222

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 28, 2008 @06:04PM from the little-bobby-tables-strikes-again dept.

Titus Germanicus writes to tell us that a recent attack has compromised somewhere in the neighborhood of 500,000 pages with a SQL injection attack. The vulnerability seems to be limited to Microsoft's IIS webserver and is easily defeated by the end user with Firefox and "NoScript." "The automated attack takes advantage to the fact that Microsoft's IIS servers allow generic commands that don't require specific table-level arguments. However, the vulnerability is the result of poor data handling by the sites' creators, rather than a specific Microsoft flaw. In other words, there's no patch that's going to fix the issue, the problem is with the developers who failed follow well-established security practices for handling database input. The attack itself injects some malicious JavaScript code into every text field in your database, the Javascript then loads an external script that can compromise a user's PC." Ignoring corporate spin-doctoring, there seems to be plenty of blame to go around.

Microsoft is the Industry's Most Innovative Company? 421

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 20, 2007 @04:21PM from the even-if-it-doesn't-work-vista-is-awful-pretty dept.

mjasay writes "According to a recent analysis by IEEE, Microsoft's patent portfolio tops the industry in terms of overall quality of its patents. And while Microsoft came in second to IBM in The Patent Board's 2006 survey, its upcoming 2007 report has Microsoft besting IBM (and even its 2006 report had Microsoft #1 in terms of the "scientific strength" of its patent portfolio). All of which begs the question: Just where is all this innovation going? To Clippy? Consumers and business users don't buy patents. They buy products that make their lives easier or more productive, yet Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to turn its patent portfolio into much more than life support for its existing Office and Windows monopolies. In sum, if Microsoft is so innovative, why can't we get something better than the Zune?"

Vista Sales Rate Fell Last Quarter 449

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 28, 2007 @12:58PM from the peaked-too-early dept.

Microsoft is not directly mentioning Vista demand while they brag about how much money they made last quarter, because sales fell. "[Microsoft] shipped approximately 28 million copies of Vista in the latest quarter ended September, or 9.3 million copies per month. Though the Windows developer pointed to 27 percent growth in business licenses and noted that many home users were buying the more lucrative Vista Home Premium or Ultimate editions, the rate represents a decline from the 10 million per month reported early in summer."

Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early 596

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 12, 2007 @03:24PM from the papers-papers-please dept.

twitter wrote to mention that the TSA (Transport Security Administration) has released a new set of proposed rules that is raising quite a stir among groups ranging from the ACLU to the American Society of Travel Agents. Under the new rules airlines would be required to submit a passenger manifest (including full name, sex, date of birth, and redress number) for all flights departing, arriving, or flying over the United States at least 72 hours prior to departure. Boarding passes will only be issued to those passengers that have been cleared. "Hasbrouck submitted that requiring clearance in order to travel violates the US First Amendment right of assembly, the central claim in John Gilmore's case against the US government over the requirement to show photo ID for domestic travel. [...] ACLU's Barry Steinhardt quoted press reports of 500,000 to 750,000 people on the watch list (of which the no-fly list is a subset). 'If there are that many terrorists in the US, we'd all be dead.' TSA representative Kip Hawley noted that the list has been carefully investigated and halved over the last year. 'Half of grossly bloated is still bloated,' Steinhardt replied."

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