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An 80-year-old German motorist obediently following his navigation system ignored a motorway “closed for construction” sign and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand further down the road, police said Monday.

It looks like this past Friday, the United States Commerce Department admitted this past friday that they have been the target of a DDoS attack for more then a month now.  The attack has originated from Chinese IP addresses and it is so bad that the commerce department is looking to replace hardware in an attempt to harden it’s systems.  One popular theory regarding this attack is that it is a botnet of home machines that may not of even been controlled from within the country.

I hate it when people don’t take the time to secure their systems.

The federal government’s Commerce Department admitted Friday that heavy attacks on its computers by hackers working through Chinese servers have forced the bureau responsible for granting export licenses to lock down Internet access for more than a month.
An attack against computers of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) — the branch of Commerce responsible for overseeing U.S. exports which have both commercial and military applications — forced BIS to turn off Internet access in early September.
An unnamed senior Commerce official also said the department has decided it could not trust the computers — which were infected with rootkits — and will replace them rather than try to clean them. In the meantime, BIS workers have been hampered by the inability to easily communicate with other federal and state agencies, or with the companies applying for export licenses.

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This basically just looks like a reskinned version of what’s out now.  I know this will shatter many people’s world view but I think Microsoft has a complete inability to innovate.

Windows Mobile 5 is the current OS of choice for Windows Mobile users however the next iteration, codenamed Crossbow, has shown its face, check out the full Pocket PC homescreen shown above! It has a glossy title bar and soft keys and will feature Vista-esque folder icons etc…

I fear what would happen if a speed boat went down that river.

If you have a really annoying child and you want to have some time for yourself now and then, then put him/her in a ball and throw it on the water. The Chinese turned these balls into a theme park attraction for which they charge you $1.25 per 3 minutes.

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You would think this would just be common sense.

As of Oct 1, Windows Server Datacenter Edition operating system customers will have the right to run “an unlimted number of virtualized Windows Server instances.” This policy applies to licenses covering new servers and previous licenses upgraded with new version rights. All told, it means that you pay to run Windows Server Datacenter Edition on a server with a set number of processors and can then divvy that box up with any combination of Windows Server Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and/or Datacenter Edition without needing to count the number of virtual machines being created or pay for extra Windows Server licenses. 

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