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(Gallery: Scientists react to Hadron success)

(Gallery: Scientists react to Hadron success)Coilliding protons is nothing newAnd nothing to worry about. Humans have been doing it for years, and Nature has been doing it for much longer.As far as the LHC, they have accomplished what they set out to do: build a functioning collider which uses higher...

Tags: Hadron, Doomsday Machine, LHC

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

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Zombie PCs: 'Time to infection is less than five minutes'

Zombie PCs: 'Time to infection is less than five minutes'Ok, agreed, OpenBSD is more secure.But, NOT Windows!!!Have to agreeJust stay away from Porn and warez, and you are pretty much immune to this stuff, regardless of what platform you are using.you ought to read the articlebefore posting. The article...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Zombie PC, infection, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, UAC

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

Stephen Hawking: LHC vital, absolutely safe

Note: Replaced still from Hawking on Star Trek with this clip -- so much fun Since the geniuses at CERN have failed to assuage amped-up if entirely unfounded fears that the Large Hadron Collider is actually a doomsday machine, they have reached up to the mountain to...

Tags: Black Hole, LHC, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forward

Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forwardHere's what's going to happen:Here's what's going to happen:Someone will turn on a switch and we'll learn something new. What's going to happen in the LHC happens [i]trillions[/i] upon [i]trillions[/i] of times every day. If the...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, move forward

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Data corruption is worse than you know

Data corruption is worse than you knowOpportunity for software designers, maybe ...Maybe this is an opportunity for software designers to create and implement data integrity applications similar to the rise of security applications that are all the rage today. By and large, most software today does not have any data...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, data integrity, software, virus, Unix, server, disk, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

Realtek network driver silently corrupts data

Realtek network driver silently corrupts datathanksThat clears up a couple of blue screen mysteries that went away after changing a NIC.Not just the driverGeorge, TCP/IP is [b]supposed[/b] to be robust in cases like this -- bitflips lower in the stack [b]should[/b] be caught at the datagram level.If a driver error...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, SECURITY, NIC Driver, network, WHQL, virus, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-07-29

Microsoft to patch zero-day DNS flaw

Microsoft to patch zero-day DNS flawMicrosoft to patch zero-day DNS flawThere were workarounds and there are now patches so the flaws were really nothing to worry about. I see these patches as a way to seal the deal to know for certain that the flaws can't be exploited any...

Tags: Domain names, SECURITY, Servers, NETWORKING, DNS, server, flaw, DNS server, Microsoft Windows, zero-day DNS flaw, RPC, DNS flaw, vulnerability, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-03

Fair use, Xbox hacking, and how far will Linux users go to get a cheap PC?

Fair use, Xbox hacking, and how far will Linux users go to get a cheap PC?You need to be better informedWow, some real doozies in your article.---The thing with fair use is that there's a huge gray area between legitimate fair use (say, copying a CD for use in a...

Tags: Game players, X-Box, Microsoft Xbox, fair use, Microsoft Corp., Linux, IS IT, business model, hacking

Discussion threads 2006-06-22

OSX.Leap.A: a near miss for Mac users

OSX.Leap.A: a near miss for Mac usersOh so true!User ignorance can run the whole security thing off the rails. I think Apple, experienced users and Mac-based journalists should get the word out -- pronto and loud. The OS is very solid, but it just takes one naive user a second...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, OSX, operating system, Nothing, virus

Discussion threads 2006-02-17

Microsoft patches may break Web sites

Microsoft patches may break Web sitesDoesn't effect meI use Firefox on my laptop and Konqueror on my desktop. I have Internet Explorer blocked from the internet by my firewall. Also any application that attempts to access Internet Explorer is blocked from doing so.Isn't a part of the 'web'...

Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Web browsers, Patches, Microsoft Internet Explorer, ActiveX, Microsoft Corp., patch management, Web, Linux, Web site

Discussion threads 2005-11-02

California lawmaker introduces RFID bill

California lawmaker introduces RFID billGood to seeEven if this bill does not make it through, at least this is finally being brought to mass public attention. This will at least push the issue more to the forefront where some other bill may finally pass.You want to bet...........................Ashcroft is taking a...

Tags: RFID tag, Ashcroft, RFID

Discussion threads 2004-02-24

Watch your backup

Watch your backupDoomsday ScenarioI always wondered what would happen if someone who really knew what they were doing created a cross platform polymorphic virus admittedly not easy to do that was fairly benign, except it very gradually corrupted data. Just in minor ways. A character substitution here and...

Tags: Backups, backup

Discussion threads 2004-01-28