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An anonymous reader writes “”[The BBC] managed to acquire its own low-value botnet — the name given to a network of hijacked computers — after visiting chatrooms on the internet. The programme did not access any personal information on the infected PCs. If this exercise had been done with criminal intent it would be breaking the law. But our purpose was to demonstrate botnets’ collective power when in the hands of criminals.” The BBC performed a controlled DDoS attack, “then ordered its slave PCs to bombard its target site with requests for access to make it inaccessible.””
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Some anonymous person wrote in to say that Google has relaunched and rebranded GrandCentral as “Google Voice.” The article says it will “revolutionize telephones. It unifies your phone numbers, transcribes your voice mail, blocks telemarketers and elevates text messages to first-class communication citizens.” Sadly, the voicemail didn’t integrate very nicely w/ my phone back in the day, so I guess I should give it a shot.
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An anonymous reader writes “According to its own speed tests, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer loads most websites faster than both Chrome and Firefox when looking at the top 25 websites on the Internet. ‘As you can see, IE8 outperforms Firefox 3.05 and Chrome 1.0 in loading 12 websites, Chrome 1.0 places second by loading nine sites first, and Firefox brings up the rear by loading four sites faster than the other two browsers. Also, in case you missed it, IE loads mozilla.com faster than Firefox, and Firefox loads microsoft.com faster than IE, just for kicks.'”
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The US Department of Homeland Security is studying lies, damned lies, and smells. They hope to prove that human body odor could be used to tell when people are lying. The department says they are already “conducting experiments in deceptive behavior and collecting human odor samples” and that the research it hopes to fund “will consist primarily of the analysis and study of the human odor samples collected to determine if a deception indicator can be found.”
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The Imano restaurant in London’s fashionable SoHo district isn’t known for its splendid food or outstandingly accomodating waitresses.Instead, the new Asian fusion eatery is getting raves for its use of a touchpad-projection system that allows diners to send food orders directly to the chefs and makes the dining experience fully
Apple released a new iPod. Isn’t it a beauty? But note the proprietary headphones.
It’s easier, but it’s far too risky to reuse the same password — but many of us do, security firm reports. A third of web users have admitted to using the same password for a number of different websites. According to the security firm, just 19 percent never use the same password twice.
For years, Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols has been trying to turn Linux into something it is not: A successful and popular desktop operating system. His latest foray into “Linux is the next big thing” is a discussion of Google’s Android operating system running on future netbooks.
