Slashback: Benchmarks, Sobig, Blob 285
A good excuse to file purchase orders, too. Eug writes "Writing in this Ars thread, Craig Hunter of NASA gives details about his much-quoted dual-G5 Power Mac benchmarks listed here. This should answer some of the questions posed around the net about the methodology and potentially the validity of his benchmarks."
The lines between viruses and spam is thin enough already. Joe Stewart writes "There have been a lot of news stories lately about how Sobig and spam are tied together. I actually revealed this in a paper two months ago. Now with the widespread Sobig.e, it seems to have become a topic again. However, the major antivirus companies have once again left out the whole story - most of them currently rate Sobig.e as 'low damage.' This is because they haven't fully understood how the real payload of Sobig.e is delivered. I've written a followup paper describing the entire mechanism that Sobig.e uses to facilitate spam, identity theft and bank fraud. Sobig has evolved, and it is much harder to stop than before."
Is this the beginning of a long goodbye? inertia@yahoo.com writes "Microsoft has updated their Mactopia Web Site to include a section on Virtual PC. It's taken them since February 2003 to do this. On the site, they mention, 'In August 2003, Virtual PC for Mac will be available through standard Microsoft channels of distribution.' So it looks like they aren't killing it after all."
Simplicity itself is a nice ideal. webword writes "Building Accessible Websites by Joe Clark is now available online. As you might recall, Joe was interviewed on Slashdot back in December. Good stuff if you care about accessibility."
Not yet billions and billions served, but getting there. nzilla writes "The Internet Book List, which announced its creation earlier this year on /. has now reached 10,000+ entries and is still going strong. The Internet Book List (IBList) strives to be the IMDb of books. IBList is maintained exclusively by volunteers around the world."
Girlfriends drive strange endeavors. ceejayoz writes "This interesting article on MSNBC.com details the Degree Confluence Project - a project to gather a photographic record of the points on Earth where latitude and longitude lines meet. The article has links to some of the more interesting points. The project's website also has an interesting map showing all the completed confluence points."
We mentioned this project quite some time ago, and it's progressed quite a bit since then.
Uh, sir, you have some blubber on your collar there. Scoria writes "Chilean scientists have determined that a 12-meter mass of flesh discovered recently on a Pacific beach is actually a sperm whale, not an obscure 'giant octopus' as many researchers speculated. Scientists performing research at the Museum of Natural History in Santiago were the first to develop this conclusion after observing the presence of dermal glands unique to the species."
Code that pays tribute to the money in television. mondainx writes "Following(?) in the footsteps of Linksys, Tivo has made their source available for versions 2.0 through 4.0. Get the GPL source here. Sweet!"
Don't logitude and latitude meet everywhere? (Score:1, Funny)
Poor Sperm Whales (Score:3, Funny)
And in other news... (Score:5, Funny)
VPC (Score:5, Funny)
No, they're just going to mediocre it to death.
Re:And in other news... (Score:5, Funny)
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Zealots! All of you! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Whales (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Poor Sperm Whales (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And in other news... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Poor Sperm Whales (Score:3, Funny)
hmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
How about that.... (Score:5, Funny)
of flesh discovered recently on a Pacific beach is actually CmdrTaco.
See [misterhouse.net]
What [studentplanet.com]
I [narod.ru]
Mean? [ispep.cx]
Re:And in other news... (Score:2, Funny)
available for a nominal fee (Score:3, Funny)
And how would you enforce that part of the GPL in court? This haziness isn't the fault of Tivo, but rather of the FSF. Maybe as far as the company is concerned it takes several hours of labor at $50 an hour to get you that c.d. of code, so would have to pay $300?
Anyhoo, I think that everyone will just download the code off the website as it's there for free.
The IBList (Score:5, Funny)
The only problem is that 9,500 of the books are about unicorns or elves.
Re:Poor Sperm Whales (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The IBList (Score:2, Funny)
That's nothing. (Score:3, Funny)
(waits for a goatse link)
Re:Where is everyone? (Score:5, Funny)
In Mary Pride's book The Way Home, she calculated that you could give every person in the world 2,000 square feet (which is larger than most homes) and everyone would fit into the state of Texas.
Yeah, but you'd really, really have to hate everyone in the world to put them all in Texas.
Hey! (Score:3, Funny)
A reading from the holy book, as written by the prophet Adams, you insenstive clod!
Re:Wonder no longer! (Score:4, Funny)
just like last time...
And they said, "what are the odds of *THAT* happening twice?"
Re:Where is everyone? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Poor Sperm Whales (Score:3, Funny)
I find this highly doubtful. Surely they must have noticed the stuff before that.
Re:And in other news... (Score:1, Funny)
The Dolphins