Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Is Big Labor Green?
Ezra Klein asserts that unions "push back on business models that they don?t consider sustainable for their workers or, increasingly, for the environment." Wilkinson counters: Private-sector unions and big business come to blows over a cutting-the-cake problem. But the interests...
BlackHole RAT Mac OS X backdoor Trojan virus mimics password prompt
Fortunately, the virus doesn't seem to be very malicious. It allows a remote controller to reboot or shutdown an infected computer, or pop up a fake 'Administrator Password' box that can be used to phish a user's password -- but for the most part, it actually seems to be a proof of concept; a warning to Mac users that their OS can be infected.
One of BlackHole RAT's functions pops open a full-screen dialog with only a 'reboot' button, and the following, vaguely sociopathic message:
"I am a Trojan Horse, so i have infected your Mac Computer. I know, most people think Macs can't be infected, but look, you ARE Infected!You kind of expect 'muhahaha!!1' to be at the end.
I have full controll over your Computer and i can do everything I want, and you can do nothing to prevent it.
So, Im a very new Virus, under Development, so there will be much more functions when im finished."
As for how the virus is distributed, it is probably via the usual channels: pirate downloads, or vulnerable browser plug-ins. Sophos notes that its Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition, which is a free download, identifies and removes the virus. You should probably run it, just to make sure you're not infected.
BlackHole RAT Mac OS X backdoor Trojan virus mimics password prompt originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Fantastic Fargo and Great Grand Forks!
What a great day. Started with bang in Fargo at Babb's Coffee shop, then a quick drive to Grand Forks for a talk with a very engaged group of prospective entrepreneurs at the Ina Mae center; topped off by a truly wonderful town hall in downtown Grand Forks at the Coffee Company. Sarah and her crew were wonderful - completely rearranging every piece of furniture in the room to accommodate a big crowd - even more people showed up than had RSVP'd. A serious group of power users. Two gents had driven 2.5 hours from Canada! We even borrowed chairs from the fitness club and the women's hair salon next door! One of the many great advantages of hosting these in smaller towns and special thanks to the 94.7FM DJs who knew the proprietors and helped us with the chairs - fortunately they were Pandora fans :)
We also just ran way over on our RSVPs for Omaha on Thursday, so we've moving the event to the Durham Museum (801 South 10th Street).
Gotta get some sleep for the long drive to Sioux Falls tomorrow.
This is fun!
Tim (Founder)
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Utopian Totalitarianism
James Traub describes how the Libyan dictator appealed to many: Qaddafi did in fact succeed in destroying Libya's political and economic institutions -- though only, of course, to remove obstacles to his own brand of despotism. Arab elites came to...
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Oscars 2011: All the fun of the Vanity Fair party ? in pictures
The great, the good and the garishly dressed all gathered for Vanity Fair's fashionable post-Oscars bash. Take a look at the night's second red carpet ...
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PJ Harvey ? review
Troxy, London
Polly Harvey has been denying for years that she's an autobiographical songwriter. Her war-themed new album Let England Shake should finally rest her case. Even a listener hellbent on blurring singer and song would have to admit that she didn't actually fight in Gallipoli. In this new stage of her career, which began with 2007's White Chalk, Harvey celebrates craft not catharsis; the action on stage belongs as much to the world of theatre or visual art as it does to rock'n'roll.
She strides out enrobed in black with a feathered headdress, like a sorceror in a Terry Gilliam film, clutching her autoharp as if a widow's memento. Her three-man band form a semi-circle several feet away from her, playing antiquated equipment. Given Harvey's commitment to her theme, they're lucky she didn't make them dress as Anzacs.
The Let England Shake material is experimental in conception, but simple in execution, with emotionally direct melodies and deliberately rudimentary playing. Disembodied samples of voices from 20s Iraq and 70s Jamaica rise up like ghosts. To call the songs anti-war, just because of the bloodshed they describe, would be to ignore the macabre relish with which Harvey sings some of the most brutal lines. In performance, as on record, these songs are an unsettling puzzle, not congratulations for being on the right side. Events in Libya add a fresh twist to the bitter black humour of the Eddie Cochran-quoting refrain of Words That Maketh Murder: "What if I take my problems to the United Nations?"
Older songs enter the main set only when they are sympathetic to the mood: the phantom wail of The Devil or the eerie sensuality of The River. Every move is precisely controlled and contained. During several songs, Harvey stands stock still; at the end of England she cocks her head in the spotlight to catch the dying notes of a long-gone Kurdish folk singer. She doesn't say a word to the audience until the encore, which is the first time tonight seems at all like a conventional, communal rock show. She introduces the band in soft, polite Dorset tones and cranks up the distortion for a liberating blast through Meet Ze Monsta. You might try and find in this sudden loosening up the "real" PJ Harvey, but she would no doubt tell you to stop looking. The truth of this extraordinary performer lies in the stories she tells.
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Survival Lab is a fun pixelated game where dying doesn't matter
In most games, dying is a bad thing. You have to start all over again, or at least revert to the last save point and lose some progress. Not so in Survival Lab: in this pixelated gem you play as a lone individual pitted against ruthless weapons in a sealed chamber. You have to run, jump and duck, collecting little yellow things (I have no idea what they're called).
For each donut-like yellow thing you pick up, you gain a bit of experience. If you manage to collect several in a row without getting hit, this counts as a combo. You can see my mad combo skills in the screenshot, of course. Collecting combos is a good thing, because a ten-point combo gives you for more experience than just collecting ten dounts one by one (getting hit in-between).
Having experience is useful, because once you die, you get to a screen where you can upgrade your skills. You can learn to run faster, double-jump (and then double-jump higher), and duck. You can also gain more armour so that getting hit won't kill you so quickly.
What makes this simple game so addictive is that when you die, your experience doesn't reset. You just go back to the same level, or another level of your choosing, and keep accumulating more and more experience. Lots of fun, especially if you're into the whole retro-gaming thing.
For each donut-like yellow thing you pick up, you gain a bit of experience. If you manage to collect several in a row without getting hit, this counts as a combo. You can see my mad combo skills in the screenshot, of course. Collecting combos is a good thing, because a ten-point combo gives you for more experience than just collecting ten dounts one by one (getting hit in-between).
Having experience is useful, because once you die, you get to a screen where you can upgrade your skills. You can learn to run faster, double-jump (and then double-jump higher), and duck. You can also gain more armour so that getting hit won't kill you so quickly.
What makes this simple game so addictive is that when you die, your experience doesn't reset. You just go back to the same level, or another level of your choosing, and keep accumulating more and more experience. Lots of fun, especially if you're into the whole retro-gaming thing.
Survival Lab is a fun pixelated game where dying doesn't matter originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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