Open Systems Journal

AP - Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
,AP IMPACT: Framed for child porn — by a PC virus
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The largest species of stingray has finally been caught on film for the first time.
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One of the things that I think are a bad idea are litmus tests. It doesn’t matter what you’re working on, if there is one single thing that flips the “bozo bit” for you and makes you decide on an issue every time, I think you are being closed-minded.
When I read this quote recently, I [...]

Never going to give you up

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If you’re looking for a simple time-tracking tool with visuals that are easy to read at a glance, Yast fits the bill.
Yast can track multiple projects and tasks each with their own color code. The week-at-a-glance view is great for seeing how projects are unfolding over the week. You can generate reports and save them [...]

diegocgteleline.es writes “One of the most frequently raised arguments against renewable power sources is that they can only supply a low percentage of the total power because their unpredictability can destabilize the grid. Spain seems to have disproved this assertion. In the last three days, the wind power generation records with respect to the total [...]

A security guard checks my driver’s license as I drive into the entrance to Moffet Field, a disused naval airbase that hosts the nascent Singularity University. Night has fallen, but it still feels like entering a top-secret installation out of a James Bond movie, crowned by with strange domed buildings and adorned by sculptures of [...]

AP - Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
,AP IMPACT: Framed for child porn — by a PC virus
(AP)
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The folks over at FireEye report (http://blog.fireeye.com/research/2009/11/smashing-the-ozdok.html) on one of their takedown efforts of the Ozdok (aka Mega-D) botnet. Victims of this infection have pop-up advertisements pushed their system and they are used to send spama significant amount of spam according to M86 Security (http://www.m86security.com/TRACE/traceitem.asp?article=510). More information is available from Joe Stewart: http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/ozdok/.
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YouTube’s a quick source for hearing the occasional music track here and there. With TubeRadio, you can hunt down music on YouTube more efficiently, and even find entire albums, through a helpful search interface.
Unlike the hunt-and-peck searching you get when you use YouTube’s own search for music that interests you, with TubeRadio you can easily [...]