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Wednesday, January 05, 2005 |
VXers creating 150 zombie programs a week, by John Leyden, The
Register [via ISN]
Malicious programs capable of turning home PCs into zombies
controlled
by hackers are growing at between 150 to 200 per week. McAfee's
Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team (AVERT) reports
that bots (now numbering over 7,000) and mass mailing viruses are the
greatest threat to enterprises. Meanwhile exploits and adware account
for over 60 per cent of the malicious threats impacting consumers.
Already Windows PCs submitted to online scanning by McAfee contained
an average of 13 adware components. It warns that spam encoded to take
advantage of the latest exploits to install spyware will ramp up
consumer security risks even higher.
9:41:12 AM 
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REVOLUTIONARY RADIO
While staying with friends over the festive season I was very taken by their Freeplay radio.
The clockwork radio isn't new. It's been around for almost a decade and more than three million of them have been sold. Still, as someone who makes a living from making radio programmes, I was struck by the power of the idea.
With a wind-up or solar powered radio -- especially one with shortwave reception -- anyone can enter the world of ideas.
With just a few cranks of the handle, news, sport, vital health or weather information or language courses can be accessed by the most remote and inaccessible village.
In many parts of the world, radio is still a hugely influential medium. Unfortunately, like any form of media, it has been used to spread hate as well as knowledge -- such as in the case of the infamous Rwandan radio station Radio Milles Collines.
Freeplay is using self-powered radio technology to fantastic effect through the Freeplay Foundation.
Like all the best ideas, its mission is brilliantly simple -- to supply parts of the developing world, where electricity is often non-existent and batteries are unaffordable, with wind-up radios.
The Foundation's Lifeline radio looks like it has been made by Fisher Price -- but that's exactly the point. It's designed specifically for children living on their own and is made to withstand the harshest conditions and climates.
Media doesn't get more grassroots than this.
Wind-up laptops, anyone? - Stuart
[BEYOND NORTHERN IRAQ: STUHUGHESIRAQ@MAIL.COM]
7:26:31 AM
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Stats that make you go hmmmm.
One of the tools, and I emphasize the words “one of”, that we use to better understand how the Mavs are performing is an advanced Plus Minus and Impact analysis. Similar to traditional plus minus systems, we also add a special sauce that also defines the impact of the plus or minus. A simple way to look at it is that scoring or giving up a score when you are down 30 with 2 minutes to play is far different than when then when its tied with 2 minutes to play.
We take this information by player and combine it into lineups to determine not just our best lineups, but our best lineups against the lineups against us. The information is useful as one component of many more.
[continued at the site]
[Blog Maverick]
(Looks like one of those stats is a way of accounting for value . . . )
7:23:52 AM
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PressThink's Top Ten Ideas for 2004: Introduction.
These are my top ten ideas for the year 2004. The year in press think, as it were. I chose not the "best" ideas, but the ones most useful to me in figuring out what's going on. They weren't necessarily born in '04, either. But they emerged this year. Some have authors; usually it is many authors. Ready?
For example:
Top Ten Ideas of '04: "What Once Was Good--or Good Enough--No Longer Is.". "Decline in quality caused by staying the same: In the commentary and opinion category, standards have gone up because of competition from the blogs and other venues, especially the political mags. Compare 10 minutes of scrolling with Atrios to 10 minutes with a Richard Cohen column."
[PressThink]
7:21:48 AM
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