I just read that two boston woman allegedly offered sex in exchange for an Xbox 360 in an ad on www.craigslist.org. The posting seems to have been removed.
But what amazes me is that even women want an Xbox 360!
Please let me know what you think about this by leaving a comment.
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Recent market share numbers released by site tracker NetApplications saw the number of Firefox users inch close to the 10 percent figure (9.57 percent, to be exact) in December 2005, a nearly 1 percent jump from November 2005.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) still dominates the browser world at roughly 85 percent of the market. But that figure is a drop from NetApplication’s November 2005 statistics, which put IE at 86 percent of the market.
Opera experienced a negligible gain from .53 percent to .55 percent in the same time frame while Netscape dropped from 1.25 percent of the market to 1.24.
These numbers show that, while there are a number of browsers available today for end users, it’s likely going to come down to a two-horse race between IE and Firefox.
Source: Techbulletin
A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft’s MSN Messenger has begun circulating, antivirus company F-Secure said on its blog Tuesday.
The virus, which F-Secure calls Virkel.F, comes as a file called BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE that can be downloaded from a Web site. Running the program installs not a new MSN Messenger beta, but rather a virus that sends download links to a computer user’s MSN Messenger buddies. The virus falsely labels the link as “MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA.”
“It also connects your machine to a botnet server,” F-Secure warned, meaning that a person’s computer can be controlled remotely to attack other machines or send spam.
Malicious software that uses instant messenger programs is growing more common. A November study by Akonix Systems identified 62 examples.
And Microsoft’s instant-messenger infrastructure is the most popular conduit for attack, IMlogic said in an October study.
Source: Techbulletin
Christian evangelical group Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc., saying a blog hosted through Google’s Blogspot service infringes its trademark.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, seeks to force Google to give Jews for Jesus control of the site as well as unspecified monetary damages.
Susan Perlman, associate executive director with Jews for Jesus, says that Google has allowed the use of their name on Blogspot without their permission and that their reputation is now at stake.
The disputed blog, http://jewsforjesus.blogspot.com, was started in January 2005 by someone taking the name “Whistle Blower” and airing critical views of the San Francisco-based organization, which seeks to convert Jews to Christianity.
Comments on the blog showed that Jews for Jesus attempted to persuade Whistle Blower to transfer the domain to the group but was rebuffed.
A Santa Claus worm has hit popular IM networks namely MSN, AOL and Yahoo! and is attempting to trick its users into clicking a file that uploads malicious software to a victims’s computer.
The worm, IM.GiftCom.All, attempts to fool users into thinking that an acquaintance has sent them a link to a harmless Santa Claus file, according to a security advisory by IMlogic.
On clicking the file people will see an image of Santa and will unknowingly get rootkits installed on their computer.
A rootkit is a tool designed to go undetected by security softwares and is used to gain control of a computer after an initial hack. The malicious attacker can then distribute messages to the user’s IM contacts, using a similar technique to lure the unsuspecting acquaintance to click on the link.
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To recall memories, your brain travels back in time via the ultimate Google search, according to a new study in which scientists found they can monitor the activity and actually predict what you’ll think of next.
The work bolsters the validity of a longstanding hypothesis that the human brain takes itself back to the state it was in when a memory was first formed.
The psychologist Endel Tulving dubbed this process “mental time travel.”
How it works
Researchers analyzed brain scans of people as the test subjects watched pictures on a computer screen. The images were divided into three categories: celebrities like Jack Nicholson and Halle Berry, places like the Taj Mahal and the Grand Canyon, and everyday objects like tweezers and a pocket mirror.
To make sure the subjects were paying attention, they were asked a question about each image as it came up, like whether they liked a certain celebrity, how much they wanted to visit a certain place or how often they used a certain object.
Later, without any images and while their brains were still being scanned, the subjects were asked to recall as many of the images as they could.
The researchers found that the patterns of brain activity associated with each picture “reinstated” themselves seconds before the people could verbally recall the memories. On average, the time between beginning brain activity associated with the memory and the subjects verbally stating the memory was about 5.4 seconds.
“When you have an experience, that experience is represented as a pattern of cortical activity,” explained Sean Polyn, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and leader of the study. “The memory system, which we think lives in the hippocampus, forms a sort of summary representation of everything that’s going on in your cortex.”
Googling your brain
The process can be compared to the way web crawlers work to browse and catalogue web pages on the Internet. Web crawlers are automated programs that create copies of all visited pages. Search engines like Google then tag and index the pages.
In the same way, as we’re trying to remember something, our brains dredge up the memory by first recalling a piece of it, scientists say.
When trying to remember a face you saw recently, for example, you might first think broadly about faces and then narrow your search from there, enlisting new details as you go, Polyn explained. It’s like adding more and more specific keywords to a Google search, until finally you find what you want.
Scientists call this process “contextual reinstatement.”
“The memories that came up would be hits and the ones that most match your queries would be the ones that came up first,” Polyn told LiveScience.
Reading your mind
The researchers were even able to do a little mind-reading by watching the search in progress.
By comparing the brain scans of the subjects while they tried to remember the images they’d seen with those collected when they first viewed the images, the researchers were able to correctly conclude whether the people were going to remember a celebrity, place or object.
“We can see some evidence of what category the subject is trying to recall before they even say anything, so we think we’re visualizing the search process itself,” Polyn said.
A similar mind-reading effort was announced earlier this year, when researchers found they could predict where a patient would move his hand based on brain activity the instant prior.
Scientists think that contextual reinstatement is unique to memories that involve personal experiences, so-called “episodic” memories, but that similar processes might be at work in other forms of memory.
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Google is planning to launch PCs for markets in India and China. According to the report by India’s leading newspaper, Hindustan Times, (Report not available online) Google will be launching the PCs with California based Wyse technology.
The PCs won’t have CPU; they will be bundled with Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor. The PC will connect to the hosted system on their server and the remote OS will manage storage and functioning of the PC. This will keep PC away from virus and also provide secure solution for storage of the user data.
The PC will run on software created by Google; hardware and other technicalities will be managed by Wyse technology.
The PCs will be available for Rs. 9,000 (INR) i.e. approximately $200
This opens door for much talked Google OS, GBrowser and Google’s office application.
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Google has created a special version of its Gmail e-mail service that provides mobile phone subscribers with quick access to their e-mail, the company said on Friday.
Details on the mobile e-mail service, which currently is only available to U.S. cellphone users at http://m.gmail.com.
The service works on the subset of more advanced mobile phones that offer an Internet browser. Users can view attached photos and documents from their phone, and reply-by-call to people whose phone number is stored in their Gmail account.
Gmail messages are automatically synchronized between their mobile phones and computer accounts, regardless of whether Gmail is accessed from Gmail Mobile or the Web.