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IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347

Posted by samzenpus on Friday December 10, 2010 @02:19PM from the bad-idea dept.

aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."

Blizzard Unveils Custom StarCraft 2 Game Types, Encourages Map Design 83

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 23, 2010 @01:30PM from the my-pancakes-for-aiur dept.

StarCraft 2 launched in July, and since most of the developers' efforts since then have gone into tweaking balance issues, fixing bugs and further developing Battle.net integration, the second part of the trilogy is still quite a ways off. So, in lieu of announcements about Heart of the Swarm, the devs are using Blizzcon to showcase the map-editing tools and encourage the community to get more involved with custom maps and game types. Using the map editor, they created internally four custom games for StarCraft 2, which they’ll soon be releasing over Battle.net for free alongside three fan creations that won a recent contest. Read on for more details.

Comment It's a question of policy (Score 2, Insightful) 330

by koh on Monday August 16, 2010 @03:50PM (#33267292) Attached to: San Francisco Just As Guilty In Terry Childs Case

Frisco's policy in this case is: "Punish what you can't understand".

The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed 342

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 13, 2010 @03:14PM from the long-live-illumos dept.

ywlke writes "A few hours ago, an internal Oracle memo was leaked to the osol-discuss mailing list at opensolaris.org. It details Oracle's plans for Solaris and OpenSolaris; namely that OpenSolaris, the distribution, is dead. Solaris Express has come back from the grave, and source code will still be CDDL, but won't be released to the public until some time after it is incorporated into a binary release. What happens to the community now is anybody's guess." The full text of the memo is available on the mailing list, as well as apparent confirmation from an Oracle employee. That said, no official announcement has yet been made.

Comment Re:Business as usual (Score -1, Redundant) 149

by koh on Monday August 02, 2010 @08:36AM (#33108882) Attached to: Microsoft's Ad Team Trumps IE Developers' Privacy Aims

You mean like the "-private" command line switch in IE (http://www.windowsvalley.com/internet-explorer-8-useful-command-line-arguments/)? Looks the same to me...

Comment Business as usual (Score 2, Insightful) 149

by koh on Monday August 02, 2010 @08:15AM (#33108732) Attached to: Microsoft's Ad Team Trumps IE Developers' Privacy Aims

Microsoft built its browser so that users must deliberately turn on privacy settings every time they start up the software.

And how exactly is this different than what Chrome or Firefox does? Last time I checked, you had to actively enable the privacy feature for each session in all browsers...

Comment Re:Inadvertent Or Not ... (Score 1) 267

by koh on Sunday June 20, 2010 @06:10PM (#32635110) Attached to: Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent

Well, I live in Europe, so I don't have a States Vehicle Code. Not yet, anyway, but for now traffic law mostly remains in the hands of each member state.

So, if you'd like to visit someday and dive around a little, please keep in mnd that hitting a pedestrian always results in full responsibility on your part, even if said pedestrian is drunk out of his mind and throws himself on your vehicle. We have that thing in our Code that says "the driver MUST remain in control of his vehicle AT ALL TIMES", and they really mean it.

That may sound stupid, but it's not, actually. We also have 30 km/h (<20 mph) speed limits around most residential areas. That helps a lot.

Comment Re:Inadvertent Or Not ... (Score 1) 267

by koh on Sunday June 20, 2010 @05:24PM (#32634780) Attached to: Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent

Not where I live. Here, the old lady may be walking, jaywalking, dancing, tumbling or crawling, be it inside or outside of crossing sections, if you hit her, you're fully responsible.

Makes sense, actually. What about young children? Is it also their responsibility to yield where you live?

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 267

by koh on Sunday June 20, 2010 @04:57PM (#32634608) Attached to: Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent

Of course they did. And I did not kill this man, I just failed to keep him alive.

WordPress 3.0 Released 79

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 17, 2010 @03:21PM from the now-even-wordier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download and comes with 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements. Major new features in this release include a new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them easily to implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies."

Facebook Bug Lets Hackers Delete Friends 89

Posted by timothy on Monday May 24, 2010 @06:33AM from the friends-don't-let-friends dept.

swandives writes "There's lot of talk about Facebook and privacy at the moment, but a bug in Facebook's website lets hackers delete Facebook friends without permission. Steven Abbagnaro, a student from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, reported the flaw, writing proof-of-concept code that scrapes publicly available data from users' Facebook pages and deletes all of their friends, one by one. The victim first has to click on a malicious link while logged into Facebook. Abbagnaro's code exploits the same underlying flaw that was first reported by Alert Logic security analyst M.J. Keith who discovered a cross-site request forgery bug, where the website doesn't properly check code sent by users' browsers to ensure that they were authorized to make changes on the site."

Comment Re:News for nerds. (Score 0, Offtopic) 763

by koh on Thursday May 06, 2010 @06:49PM (#32118772) Attached to: How Do You Handle Your Keys?

Timothy.

Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses 559

Posted by timothy on Friday April 23, 2010 @08:17AM from the cannot-see-basements dept.

An anonymous reader points to this story at The Register that says "Google is collecting more than just images when they drive around for the Street View service. 'Google's roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it's got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users' unique MAC (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along.' There's a choice quote at the end: 'Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said Internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide.'"

France Bans Use of 2.0 114

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 01, 2010 @10:47AM from the stranger-things-have-happened dept.

illybilly writes "French President Nicholas Sarkozy was mad about what was called a 'version 2.0' website redesign for the presidential palace in Paris. So he pushed through legislation that bans the use of the term '2.0' in France."

Microsoft Adopts SVG For Internet Explorer 9 152

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 27, 2010 @02:48AM from the what-will-child-services-say dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SVG has been a published standard for almost a decade. Microsoft has had nothing to do with it, even while every other major browser adopted SVG as a supported format and interface. Just in the last few weeks, though, Microsoft has thrown a surprising amount of its weight behind SVG." This means for IE 9, but it's a start.

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