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PC Weenies: Behind Door #1
Sometimes it makes sense to listen to your subordinates...
Chicken Soup for the Geek Soul: The Saviors
I struggled to breathe as the boulders that pinned me to the ground slowly crushed my chest. I told my friends that we shouldn't explore the cave. I said it looked too dangerous, that we should just cut through the woods, but I was outvoted.
Daily Links - 3/10/10
blockquotepa href=http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2010-03-04-dinos05_N.htm target=_blankAsteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs/anbsp;- CONFIRMED!/p pa href=http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-program-license-agreement-all target=_blankAll Apps are Apple's/anbsp;- The iPhone developer license agreement./p pa href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsixMZ1hqwfeature=player_embedded target=_blankYouTube Closes Down/anbsp;- YouTube ends for the night./p pa href=http://www.slate.com/id/2246107/?from=rss target=_blankExit Sign War/anbsp;- The international war over the EXIT sign./p pa href=http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html target=_blankGeek Test/anbsp;- A rather extensive (and somewhat dated) geek test./p pa href=http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/03/08/j-michael-straczynski-to-write-superman-and-wonder-woman-starting-in-july/ target=_blankJMS Superman/anbsp;- Yes, that's true, J. Michael Straczynski is taking over writing duties for the Superman comic./p pa href=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/14/2771062.htm?section=justin target=_blankPain Reducer/anbsp;- Ripping off a bandage fast has been scientifically proven to be less painful./p/blockquote

HumorFeed.com Headlines - 03-10-2010
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How to Fix the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Music Games + REAL Instruments = Power Gig
After the ever-declining sales of music games, there has been a frantic quest for pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CWyI8jnwKZWwl9ZiX1KWxzjtJQ0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CWyI8jnwKZWwl9ZiX1KWxzjtJQ0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CWyI8jnwKZWwl9ZiX1KWxzjtJQ0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CWyI8jnwKZWwl9ZiX1KWxzjtJQ0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/XySq4KHVvNk" height="1" width="1"/
Paramedics Hail 4th-Grader's Heroism In Deadly Bus Crash
A fourth-grader hurt in a horrific bus accident is being hailed as a hero after he helped rescuers communicate with injured passengers who could not speak English. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6BIY2FWWKg7drzzm683NcibfCXg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6BIY2FWWKg7drzzm683NcibfCXg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6BIY2FWWKg7drzzm683NcibfCXg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6BIY2FWWKg7drzzm683NcibfCXg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/wptXD9G7WAA" height="1" width="1"/
Government No-Fly List Includes the Dead
You may be dying, figuratively, to get off the government's no-fly list, but death won't guarantee removal. The government's no-fly list includes the names of dead suspects, according to government officials who spoke with the Associated Press, to help catch people who may try to assume the suspect?s identity... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EjaaQKUgIyehQf1wPR24k8KDJ9c/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EjaaQKUgIyehQf1wPR24k8KDJ9c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EjaaQKUgIyehQf1wPR24k8KDJ9c/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EjaaQKUgIyehQf1wPR24k8KDJ9c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/W44qmsJfGDc" height="1" width="1"/
PlayStation Move motion controller launched at GDC!
No surprise here: Sony just officially announced the PlayStation Move at GDC 2010, saying that it's the most precise solution on the market. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hRcGGPp13_asPkdC_BXYfG58leM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hRcGGPp13_asPkdC_BXYfG58leM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hRcGGPp13_asPkdC_BXYfG58leM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hRcGGPp13_asPkdC_BXYfG58leM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/-GOtHIL3SLI" height="1" width="1"/

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Lady Gaga trash mosaic by Jason Mecier
Lady Gaga, a "trash mosaic portrait" by San Francisco-based artist Jason Mecier, who has shows coming up in LA and SF. Richard Metzger has more at Dangerous Minds....br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2b52a48ce194d4e73cc1e0f651b701bfp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2b52a48ce194d4e73cc1e0f651b701bfp=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226"/
Fight terrorism with science: Scott Atran
"We are fixated on technology and technological success, and we have no sustained or systematic approach to field-based social understanding of our adversaries' motivation, intent, will, and the dreams that drive their strategic vision, however strange those dreams and vision may seem to us."mdash;Anthropologist Scott Atran, who believes the quest to end violent political extremism needs more science. (edge.org)...br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=092cb15ab7a0e180dfd000d6edf291a3p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=092cb15ab7a0e180dfd000d6edf291a3p=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226"/
Quote of the day: 7-year-old boy, calling 911 when armed men attacked home
"Bring cops... a lot of them!... And soldiers too."mdash;A brave 7 year old boy from Norwalk, California, calling 911 after armed attackers broke into his home and threatened to kill his family....br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=aa0f7bf9eb5674c29e0b0592064ddb12p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=aa0f7bf9eb5674c29e0b0592064ddb12p=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226"/

Waxy.org Links

Steamshovel Harry
not sure how I missed this one last year, metagaming with music by Brad Sucks  
El Fin Del Mundo by Alberto González Vázquez
there's so much I love about this, I can't quantify it all [via] 
Wired Reread, blogging the best ads from 90s-era Wired
also, the complete SPIN archives are on Google Books  

Gizmodo
Gizmodo, the gadget guide. So much in love with shiny new toys, it's unnatural.

Sony Motion Controller is Called PlayStation Move, Launches Fall 2010 (Hands ...
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Sony Motion Controller is Called PlayStation Move, Launches Fall 2010 (Hands On!)" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/playstationmove/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"playstationmove/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Sony Motion Controller is Called PlayStation Move, Launches Fall 2010 (Hands On!)" href="http://gizmodo.com/5490508/sony-motion-controller-is-called-playstation-move-launches-fall-2010-hands-on" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Sony Motion Controller is Called PlayStation Move, Launches Fall 2010 (Hands On!)" alt="Click here to read Sony Motion Controller is Called PlayStation Move, Launches Fall 2010 (Hands On!)" src="http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/160x120_psmove.jpg"/ /a/div /div Sony's finally put a name to their a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/motioncontroller"motion controller/a, and it's called a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #playstationmove" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #playstationmove" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/playstationmove/"PlayStation Move/a. bUpdated with hands on./b a href="http://gizmodo.com/5490508/sony-motion-controller-is-called-playstation-move-launches-fall-2010-hands-on" title="Click here to read more about Sony Motion Controller is Called PlayStation Move, Launches Fall 2010 (Hands On!) [Playstation Move]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" / br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e539ed1ca91bcaf19511353e7ab43ac7p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e539ed1ca91bcaf19511353e7ab43ac7p=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226"/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=PQovP0ry8Lg:q9Nre-go_LU:H0mrP-F8Qgo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=PQovP0ry8Lg:q9Nre-go_LU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=PQovP0ry8Lg:q9Nre-go_LU:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=PQovP0ry8Lg:q9Nre-go_LU:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=PQovP0ry8Lg:q9Nre-go_LU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=PQovP0ry8Lg:q9Nre-go_LU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/PQovP0ry8Lg" height="1" width="1"/
Sex, Blood, and Post-Its: A Short Film Shot Entirely On a Scanner [Film]
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read Sex, Blood, and Post-Its: A Short Film Shot Entirely On a Scanner" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/film/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"film/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read Sex, Blood, and Post-Its: A Short Film Shot Entirely On a Scanner" href="http://gizmodo.com/5490412/sex-blood-and-post+its-a-short-film-shot-entirely-on-a-scanner" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read Sex, Blood, and Post-Its: A Short Film Shot Entirely On a Scanner" alt="Click here to read Sex, Blood, and Post-Its: A Short Film Shot Entirely On a Scanner" src="http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/160x120_6359800.jpg"/ span class="play_icon"/span /a/div /div !-- videoId: 6359800 --!-- /videoId: 6359800 --It's one thing to shoot an entire short film on a Canon flatbed computer scanner. It's another to do it emwell/em. With ema class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #memoirsofascanner" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #memoirsofascanner" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/memoirsofascanner/"Memoirs of a Scanner/a/em, a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #mindfruitfilms" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #mindfruitfilms" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/mindfruitfilms/"Mindfruit Films/a pretty much nailed it. a href="http://gizmodo.com/5490412/sex-blood-and-post+its-a-short-film-shot-entirely-on-a-scanner" title="Click here to read more about Sex, Blood, and Post-Its: A Short Film Shot Entirely On a Scanner [Film]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" / br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2e3d6e763241e8dbe1ede6766dc38648p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2e3d6e763241e8dbe1ede6766dc38648p=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226"/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=B-TqqASCL2c:V57xiTYLzrs:H0mrP-F8Qgo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=B-TqqASCL2c:V57xiTYLzrs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=B-TqqASCL2c:V57xiTYLzrs:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=B-TqqASCL2c:V57xiTYLzrs:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=B-TqqASCL2c:V57xiTYLzrs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=B-TqqASCL2c:V57xiTYLzrs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/B-TqqASCL2c" height="1" width="1"/
This Fuel-Injection System Might Increase Fuel Efficiency By Up To 50% [Cars]
div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;" !-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;"a title="Click here to read This Fuel-Injection System Might Increase Fuel Efficiency By Up To 50%" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/cars/" style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;"span style="color: white;" class="hash"#/spanspan style="color: white;"cars/span/a/div -- diva title="Click here to read This Fuel-Injection System Might Increase Fuel Efficiency By Up To 50%" href="http://gizmodo.com/5490361/this-fuel+injection-system-might-increase-fuel-efficiency-by-up-to-50" class="pp_image" img style="border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;" height="120" width="160" title="Click here to read This Fuel-Injection System Might Increase Fuel Efficiency By Up To 50%" alt="Click here to read This Fuel-Injection System Might Increase Fuel Efficiency By Up To 50%" src="http://cache-04.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/160x120_transonictechnologdemonstrator3.jpg"/ /a/div /div The most fuel efficient hybrid for sale in the US gets 51 MPG, but a startup called a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #transoniccombustion" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #transoniccombustion" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/transoniccombustion/"Transonic Combustion/a claims they can improve that. They claim their fuel-injection system will get 64 MPG. a href="http://gizmodo.com/5490361/this-fuel+injection-system-might-increase-fuel-efficiency-by-up-to-50" title="Click here to read more about This Fuel-Injection System Might Increase Fuel Efficiency By Up To 50% [Cars]"Morenbsp;raquo;/a br style="clear: both;" / br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6a50dc239b9ec73ca05420002636bd99p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6a50dc239b9ec73ca05420002636bd99p=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226"/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=kGTTJOk9ON4:tQRvyxH8V9E:H0mrP-F8Qgo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=kGTTJOk9ON4:tQRvyxH8V9E:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=kGTTJOk9ON4:tQRvyxH8V9E:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=kGTTJOk9ON4:tQRvyxH8V9E:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=kGTTJOk9ON4:tQRvyxH8V9E:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=kGTTJOk9ON4:tQRvyxH8V9E:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/kGTTJOk9ON4" height="1" width="1"/

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CA To Buy Nimsoft For $350 Million
Acquisition of the system monitoring firm is a move toward growing CA's customer base in the cloud and managed service provider space.



GDC: iPhone Developers Face Hidden Risks
Most iPhone developers don't fully understand the regulatory compliance challenges that accompany app distribution.



FCC Plan May Seek Free Broadband
Given that Congress shot down an earlier proposal for free spectrum, what will it do with a new proposal?

The Register
Biting the hand that feeds IT

Mozilla open source license set for facelift
h410-year-old shows her age/h4 pMozilla is updating its open source license after more than 10 years of use.?/ppa href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/859/atth0s1n.pdf?td=rss"The power of collaboration within unified communications/a/p
Zeus botnets suffer mighty blow after ISP taken offline
h4One quarter of Camp;C channels vanish/h4 pAt least a quarter of the command and control servers linked to Zeus-related botnets have suddenly gone quiet, continuing a recent trend of takedowns hitting some of the world's most nefarious cyber operations.?/ppa href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/859/atth0s1n.pdf?td=rss"The power of collaboration within unified communications/a/p
Intel's redemos six-core Gulftown
h4Gamers watch and wait/h4 pIntel has given developers another peek at its upcoming Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor.?/ppa href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/859/atth0s1n.pdf?td=rss"The power of collaboration within unified communications/a/p

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Palm Inc. teeters in crowded smart phone market (AP)

AP - Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market it pioneered: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smart phone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software.

Global agency reconsiders `.xxx' for porn sites (AP)

AP - A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a .xxx domain name as an online red-light district where porn sites can set up shop away from the wandering eyes of children and teenagers.

OnLive game streaming service to start in June (AP)
AP - In an industry first, a new gaming service will start allowing people to stream popular high-end games such as Assassin's Creed II over the Internet in June, using a mechanism similar to watching TV shows or listening to music online.

Hack a Day
Fresh hacks every day

Coffee powered Car-puccino
We can only imagine how amazing this coffee burning car smells at it speeds down the highway at a maximum of 60mph. Don’t jump out of your seat so quick to get your own, while the idea sounds fantastic, the mileage will bring you back to earth rather quick. At 3 miles per kilo of [...]
50MHz to 100Mhz scope conversion
[Ross] is the proud owner of a 50 MHz Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope. He’d like to have the 100 MHz version but the $400 difference in price puts it out of his reach. After some extensive poking around on the PCB and pouring over datasheets, he managed to reverse engineer the design and upgrade to a [...]
Jeri makes integrated circuits
[Jeri Ellsworth] made this silicon inverter at home, by hand. It took her two years to get the process figured out and achieve something we didn’t think was possible. The complexity of manufacture, and the wide range of tools and materials needed seem insurmountable but she did it anyway. Her home chip fab Flickr set [...]

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Extreme Twister! [Pic] (Funny)
Right hand, blue--left hand, face!
A Very Early Japanese IBM Keyboard [Pic] (Comp. and Internet)
Forget it... I would just have to quit the internets...
Woman's Biggest Turn-On Are Geeks With Facial Hair (Misc.)
A new survey has revealed that facial stubble and a geeky personality are womens' biggest secret turn-ons.

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"Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup
An anonymous reader writes "We all know about the Mythical Man-Month, the argument that adding more programmers to a software project just makes it later and later. A Linux startup out of MIT claims to have busted the myth, using an MIT holiday month to hire 20 college student interns to get all their work done and quadrupling its productivity."pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/2327236/Mythical-Man-Month-Supposedly-Busted-By-MIT-Startup?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/10/2327236"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F10%2F2327236%2FMythical-Man-Month-Supposedly-Busted-By-MIT-Startup" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=%22Mythical+Man-Month%22+Supposedly+Busted+By+MIT+Startup%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F8ZQeIW" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/2327236/Mythical-Man-Month-Supposedly-Busted-By-MIT-Startup?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TDvp0oTWfg1jw29wkFlqSaq8bs8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TDvp0oTWfg1jw29wkFlqSaq8bs8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TDvp0oTWfg1jw29wkFlqSaq8bs8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TDvp0oTWfg1jw29wkFlqSaq8bs8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/8dtj0zw8Thg" height="1" width="1"/
Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out
itwbennett writes "Niney of the 249 Zeus command-and-control servers were knocked offline overnight when two ISPs, named Troyak and Group 3, were taken offline. Whoever was behind the takedown 'just decided to knock out a large area of cybercrime, and this was probably one of the easiest ways to do it,' said Kevin Stevens, a researcher with SecureWorks. As with the McColo takedown of just over a year ago, Troyak's upstream providers seem to have knocked it off the Internet, Cisco said in a statement. 'The ISP was "De-peered,"' Cisco said. 'Troyak's upstream network providers effectively pulled the plug on Troyak's router, refusing to transmit its traffic.'"pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/2255252/Zeus-Botnet-Dealt-a-Blow-As-ISPs-Troyak-Group-3-Knocked-Out?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/10/2255252"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F10%2F2255252%2FZeus-Botnet-Dealt-a-Blow-As-ISPs-Troyak-Group-3-Knocked-Out" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Zeus+Botnet+Dealt+a+Blow+As+ISPs+Troyak%2C+Group+3+Knocked+Out%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbaFYDr" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/2255252/Zeus-Botnet-Dealt-a-Blow-As-ISPs-Troyak-Group-3-Knocked-Out?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WGztFsib2fpEnw7_IKyzk9uUeSc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WGztFsib2fpEnw7_IKyzk9uUeSc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WGztFsib2fpEnw7_IKyzk9uUeSc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WGztFsib2fpEnw7_IKyzk9uUeSc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/jGn1KyNXGDc" height="1" width="1"/
OnLive Remote Gaming Service Launches In June
adeelarshad82 writes "After eight years of development, remote gaming service OnLive is scheduled to roll out on June 17 for Windows and Mac. The company also announced its service pricing: users will need to pay $14.95 per month, which will allow them access to the service. However, the company did not disclose the price to rent or purchase games. 'It is partnering in this launch with publishers including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, 2K Games, THQ and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The games will also include new releases like Mass Effect 2, Borderlands, Assassinrsquo;s Creed II, as well as a bunch of other titles. Perlman anticipates anywhere from a dozen to 25 titles to be available at launch time, and more after that, depending on how negotiations with other publishers proceed.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/2239224/OnLive-Remote-Gaming-Service-Launches-In-June?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/10/2239224"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F10%2F2239224%2FOnLive-Remote-Gaming-Service-Launches-In-June" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=OnLive+Remote+Gaming+Service+Launches+In+June%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbqDkeM" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/2239224/OnLive-Remote-Gaming-Service-Launches-In-June?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Npgn1BScVunGfF54Sd4MewLyqc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Npgn1BScVunGfF54Sd4MewLyqc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Npgn1BScVunGfF54Sd4MewLyqc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Npgn1BScVunGfF54Sd4MewLyqc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/VpGjv6GZ-NM" height="1" width="1"/

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