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A critical software bug has been discovered in several of the most widely used anti-virus programs. It could be exploited to take control of a computer or to steal information, according to an analysis produced by the independent security analyst who made the discovery. The glitch affects 39 different Symantec products - including both home and enterprise versions of its anti-virus software. It resides within the Symantec anti-virus library, which is used by all of the packages. The analyst, Alex Wheeler, discovered that a critical error occurs when the Symantec anti-virus library decompresses files from "RAR" format for analysis Symantec...

Sober Helps Catch Child Porn Offender By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews December 20, 2005, 3:13 PM For once the never-ending Sober worm actually did some good. A 20 year-old child porn offender turned himself in earlier this week after mistaking a message generated by the worm as an actual communiqué from Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office. The e-mail said "an investigation was underway," which apparently spooked the man into believing the authorities were aware of his online activities. He was charged after police found pornographic images of children on his computer. A spokesman for the Paderborn, Germany police credited the worm...

NEW YORK - In the year 2009, on the 25th of April, a man named Greg is supposed to get an e-mail. The e-mail will remind Greg that he is his best friend and worst enemy, that he once dated a woman named Michelle, and that he planned to major in computer science. "More importantly," the e-mail says, "are you wearing women's clothing?" The e-mail was sent by none other than Greg himself — through a Web site called FutureMe.org. The site is one of a handful that let people send e-mails to themselves and others years in the future....

[...] Today, Souvaine chairs the Tufts University computer science department, which has more female professors than male. But few younger women have followed in her generation's footsteps. Next spring, when 22 computer science graduates accept their Tufts diplomas, only four will be women. Born in contemporary times, free of the male-dominated legacy common to other sciences and engineering, computer science could have become a model for gender equality. [...] When Tara Espiritu arrived at Tufts, she was the rare young woman planning to become a computer scientist.[...]The same men always spoke up, often to raise some technical point that meant...

Company Introduces Full-Function Computer on a Flash Drive by KYW's tech reporter Bob Bicknell By now you’ve seen those thumb-sized "flash drives" you can just stick into your computer’s USB port and use like a portable hard drive. But now, that same little device can do a whole lot more. No longer are flash-memory hard drives reserved for just documents or MP3 files. Now, thanks to the folks at Fingergear, you can carry a mini computer with you. The aptly named "Computer on a Stick" is a small, lighter-sized USB drive that carries its own operating system (Linux), a complete...

A systematic effort by hackers to penetrate US government and industry computer networks stems most likely from the Chinese military, the head of a leading security institute said. The attacks have been traced to the Chinese province of Guangdong, and the techniques used make it appear unlikely to come from any other source than the military, said Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, an education and research organization focusing on cybersecurity. "These attacks come from someone with intense discipline. No other organization could do this if they were not a military organization," Paller said in a conference call...

I am looking to put a new motherboard and processor in my desktop. I am looking to have the best I can get the cheapest possible of course. I have a tower, a 350 watt power sourse, dvd writer, just looking to upgrade. Need an onboard video card, or advice on how to go

Besides housing the apes in natural habitats for public viewing, the building houses the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, a zoo-funded research component that employs Ross. Keo was the first ape to be trained to use the screen, in January. Currently Keo is doing a task Ross calls "match to sample." Teaching apes to use computers is not new. Keo was the first ape to be trained to use the screen, in January. Teaching apes to use computers is not new.

  We Support Our Troops!!!!  Thank you for your service!!! Let's hear what YOU want for Christmas this year. If you don't celebrate Christmas, we'd still love to hear what new toy, gadget, gizmo, or whatchamacallit you'd like to have.  If you don't know, Gummy  has some ideas for you!! Just look below.  Some of our Canteeners have offered suggestions, too.       HiJinx Okay, at the top of my political wish list is Zarqawi's head on a spike. At the top of my tech wish list is a top of the line 19" LCD monitor. At the top of...

I'm looking to buy software to monitor computer useage by teens. I'm leaning toward Spector Pro but wanted to get feedback from y'all. Any recommendations or comments?

Gummy Style!            Newsflash:  Gummy Hates to Shop November 22, 2005 I hate to shop.  I know. You are thinking, "She's not normal."  Perhaps I should clarify.  I hate to drive to a busy mall or store, get out, fight the crowds, look in umpteen stores for the best bargain, and come home with nothing but achy feet and head.  When Al Gore invented the internet, he did it for me.  Honest. (Psssst....He would have told you that, but he's afraid you wouldn't believe him.) OK,  you've guessed it...I do all my shopping online.  Below are my best tips for online...

At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and the most thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged, as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. For over three decades, the great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic...

Ok, I bought a puter from WalMart on July 23,2005. Compaq Presario SR1403wm XP SP2 came preinstalled. I have 256 memory 65 gig hard drive. Windoze does not recognize my cd/dvd/rw drive. Gone in BIOS! Got to tinkering around and saw a lot of freaking i tunes crap on there from August 2004????WTF I have NEVER been to i tunes or even opened it??? So did WalFart sell me a refurbished system as a new one? It appears they sold me a HUGE VIRUS w/ a PUTER wrapped around it,,lol. Meanie is MAD!!! tech help sux and I feel smashing...

TUNIS, Tunisia - A U.N. technology summit was focused Thursday on bringing more communications, including Internet access, to developing countries where the cost has been too high and the technology too low-tech. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and Senegalese President H.E. Wade were among the leaders scheduled to address the World Summit on the Information Society, which ends on Friday. At the same time, several companies and organizations were unveiling their plans to bring the world closer and, in a sense, narrow the digital divide, by providing laptops that cost just US$100 (euro85) to portable, satellite-based radios that can pull in...

I have come across some video on a website of my son's platoon in action. Does anyone know of a way to download a videoclip that is imbedded so to speak in a website?

        ~ The FReeper Canteen Presents~Modern Times: My favorite PC or Game Console games are?....   Back to normal for all of you that refuse to write or read backwards. I was thinking about writing everything in Samoan, but MoJo is too lazy to translate everything.          HOWDY!     What we're doing:With Christmas coming, we figured it would be a good idea to do this thread again for those of you that didn't catch it the first time.Besides, the XBox 360 will release at Walmart a week from today. If you are...

First, we're running Windows XP on a HP computer.Ok, so Jr. M is trying to record something through the computer microphone but something isn't working. Thought the old mic didn't work so ran to Walmart for a new one. Bought the only brand they sold - Labtec. Can't find where to install the new mic into "add new hardware" or even if it needs to be installed or if it will work by just plugging it in. Yes, we did plug it into the proper slot - pink cord into pink port. Yes, the volume is on. So, we clicked...

By Andrew Orlowski Published Thursday 9th September 2004 13:36 GMT P2P jail bill moves forward By Andrew Orlowski Published Thursday 9th September 2004 13:36 GMT HR.4077, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, has been approved by the United States' House Judiciary Committee. The bill specifies up to five years' jail for anyone making over a thousand copyrighted works available for download. That's if the infringer is profiting from the action: ordinary P2P users would face up to three years simply for making their collections available. Thwarted by the courts, copyright holders and their lobby groups, notably the Recording Industry Ass. of...

Police are trying to identify a man who robbed the Fairfield Meijer store last Tuesday. Investigators say the man a $14.95 price tag on a $750 computer and made it through checkout. Coincidentally, a sign at the end of the lane said "Best Deal of the Season." Police say the man drove away in a maroon Ford F-150 pickup and possibly has ties to the Dayton, Ohio area. If you can help police identify the man, call CrimeStoppers at 352-3040.

The word "reinvent" is a dumb term, having an overtone of redundancy. After all, when you have invented something, it exists. You can revise it or change it, but you can't "reinvent" it after you have already invented it. I never heard the term when I first entered the workforce. But somewhere in the 1970s or so, corporate executives-began using the word, and using it a lot. Then as now, the nation had its usual economic ups and downs, but suddenly after one downturn, our nation was heavily laden with companies that had reinvented themselves. What happened is that after...