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Should you listen to overpaid celebrities?
Or the people parodying the overpaid celebrities?
Well, this robot is supposed to increase productivity and hygiene, however, there’s one little detail that I found interesting: the workers feeding the pancakes to the machine are doing so with their bare hands, they are not wearing gloves. That does not compute if you are actually trying to increase hygiene.
‘Sinister’ Integral Energy virus outbreak a threat to power grid — Cripes!
A virus outbreak is wreaking havoc with Integral Energy’s computer network, forcing it to rebuild all 1000 of its desktop computers before the “particularly sinister” bug spreads to the machines controlling the power grid. A spokesman for Integral Energy, a major energy supplier, confirmed that the company had called in external information security experts to “rebuild all desktop computers to contain and remove the virus”.
The malware had not affected power supplies to customers or business data and was “contained within Integral Energy’s information technology network”, the spokesman said. But Chris Gatford, a security consultant at Hacklabs who has conducted penetration testing on critical infrastructure, said there was often “ineffective segregation” or “more typically none at all” between the IT network and the network that monitors and controls the infrastructure.
Found by Mark.
Here is the latest conversation I had with money manager Andrew Horowitz…. new insights for anyone who invests in anything. This week the highlight is a discussion about the Fed, minerals, tech and the Dollar. Interesting!
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- ICANN getting a moderate amount of independence.
- nVidia Fermi is one fantastic chip.
- New Win7 logo program is underway.
- More aspects of Apple Tablet leaking out. I see a nefarious scheme.
- Banking Trojans are robbing you.
- Ballmer’s pay cut.
- Sony Opens up the e-book platform.
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GM to Wind Down Saturn Brand, Dealerships on Penske Decision – Bloomberg.com — Some deal’s afoot is my guess. For cheap cars, that is.
Penske Automotive Group Inc. said it has terminated its discussions with General Motors Co. to acquire the Saturn brand. GM responded by saying it will wind down the brand and its dealership network.
Penske said it had concerns directly related to the future supply of vehicles beyond the supply period it had negotiated with GM.
“This is very disappointing news and comes after months of hard work by hundreds of dedicated employees and Saturn retailers who tried to make the new Saturn a reality,” GM Chief Executive Officer Fritz Henderson said in a statement on GM’s Web site. Henderson said the schedule for the wind down “will be communicated shortly.”
You can download the PDF of this ground breaking white paper.
Abstract
Since Time immemorial, man has sought to explain the powers of Kal- El, a.k.a. Superman. Siegel et al. Supposed that His mighty strength stems from His origin on another planet whose density and as a result, gravity, was much higher than our own. Natural selection on the planet of krypton would therefore endow Kal El with more efficient muscles and higher bone density; explaining, to first order, Superman’s extraordinary powers. Though concise, this theory has proved inaccurate. It is now clear that Superman is actually flying rather than just jumping really high; and His freeze-breath, x-ray vision, and heat vision also have no account in Seigel’s theory.
In this paper we propose a new unified theory for the source of Superman’s powers; that is to say, all of Superman’s extraordinary powers are manifestation of one supernatural ability, rather than a host. It is our opinion that all of Superman’s recognized powers can be unifed if His power is the ability to manipulate, from atomic to kilometer length scales, the inertia of His own and any matter with which He is in contact.
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Dwarfed by the jetliner, they look little more than a smattering of black dots.
But this flock of birds could have brought the plane crashing down in seconds.
They flew straight into the path of the Germania airlines flight to Kosovo as it took off from Dusseldorf airport with 80 on board.
‘The pitch of the engine said it all,’ said plane-spotter Juergen Kienast, who took these dramatic pictures.
‘It was like sticking a bit of metal pipe into a blender.’
Once airborne, the pilot reported engine damage and circled for almost 45 minutes before landing safely.
I wonder how they counted them?
Malware hunters at Symantec have discovered a direct link between a malicious file embedded in pirated copies of Apple’s iWork 09 software and what appears to be the first Mac OS X botnet launching denial-of-service attacks.
Writing in the current issue of Virus Bulletin (subscription required), researchers Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli found two malware variants — OSX.Iservice and OSX.Iservice.B — using different techniques to obtain the user’s password and take control of the infected Mac machine.
The variants have been found inside bogus copies of iWork ’09 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 which were shared on the popular p2p torrent network. The author of the malware downloaded the original/trial versions of each program and introduced a copy of the malicious binary into the packages. Users who then downloaded and installed the applications from the torrent download would have been infected. It is estimated that thousands of people have downloaded the infected torrent files.
They describe this as the “first real attempt to create a Mac botnet” and notes that the zombie Macs are already being used for nefarious purposes.
It was just a matter of time.
PHYSORG.com – September 30th, 2009 By Bridget Carey
The world of hackers is kind of like the “Star Wars” universe: There’s a light side and a dark side of cracking computers.
Hundreds of hackers on the side of good — or ethical hackers — gathered at the 14th Hacker Halted global conference, held for the first time in Miami, to talk about strategies to thwart cyber terrorists.
Ethical hackers understand how to hack a system in order to better protect against attacks, or to know where the vulnerabilities are in a program.
“A good defense is a good offense,” said Sean Arries, a security engineer at Terremark Worldwide. “If you understand your opponent and you understand how the attacker is going to attack you, then it makes it a lot easier for you to defend yourself.”
Arries gave a cautionary presentation detailing how hackers can take advantage of a vulnerability in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 _ a gateway for hackers that Microsoft hasn’t yet patched.
Arries did a scan of 43,000 domains and found 110 of those sites were vulnerable to that exploit.
 
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Almost like getting elected just so you can help your former employer. Not that Haliburton, via Dick Cheney, ever got an extra contract while he was VP, of course. That would be silly.
A jailed hacker shut down a prison’s entire computer system – after bosses gave him the job of programming it.
Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to £6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet, was approached after governors wanted to create an internal TV station but needed a special computer program written.
He was left unguarded and hacked into the system’s hard drive at Ranby Prison, near Retford, Notts. Then he set up a series of passwords so no one else could get into the system.
The blunder emerged a week after the Sunday Mirror revealed how an inmate at the same jail managed to get a key cut that opened every door.
Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
I thought this was that cut-out of Obama, until I watched his thumb.
Found by William Tildesley.
STONY BROOK, N.Y. (CBS) ―They’re upset over an ultimatum from the health department. Workers are being told to either get the swine flu vaccine or lose their jobs.
New York is the first state in the country to mandate flu vaccinations for its health care workers. The first doses of swine flu vaccine will be available beginning next week. Much of it is reserved for state health care workers, but there is growing opposition to required innoculations.
Health care workers in Hauppauge screamed “No forced shots!” as they rallied Tuesday against the state regulation requiring them to roll up their sleeves. “I don’t even tend to the sick. I am in the nutrition field. They are telling me I must get the shot because I work in a health clinic setting,” said Paula Small, a Women, Infants and Children health care worker. Small said she will refuse, worried the vaccine is untested and unproven, leaving her vulnerable. In 1976, there were some deaths associated with a swine flu vaccination.
Registered nurse Frank Mannino, 50, was also angry. He said the state regulation violates his personal freedom and civil rights. “And now I will lose my job if I don’t take the regular flu shot or the swine flu shot.” When asked if he’s willing to lose his job, Mannino said, “Absolutely. I will not take it, will not be forced. This is still America.”
The protest also shook Albany Tuesday. Hundreds of demonstrators demanded freedom of choice. After all, as health care professionals they argue they’re already constantly washing their hands and aren’t likely to transmit or contract the flu.
This doesn’t exactly instill confidence in the general public does it?
Ric Richardson Loses Microsoft Patent Claim | Uniloc | Australian Inventor — I’d like to see the transcripts of this one.
An Australian inventor, who was set to reap the lion’s share of a mammoth $US388 million $445 million damages award from Microsoft, is now set to get nothing after the US judge hearing the case decided to ignore the jury’s decision and hand victory to Microsoft.
Found by Mark.
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