The date has been dubbed “Internet Doomsday” because everyone still using those servers will lose pretty much all access to the Web once the FBI takes them down. The name is a little hyperbolic, given that only a few hundred thousand people are still on the servers. Still, it’s probably best to make sure you aren’t one of them.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Internet doomsday: How to check if you're infected with DNS changer malware
Internet doomsday: How to check if you're infected with DNS changer malware ;... MONDAY JULY 09.... That’s the website of the DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG), set up by court order to fix a bunch of servers that had been taken over by an Estonian crime ring. The ring, which was busted last November, had been using the servers to redirect millions of Internet users to rogue websites when they tried to visit normal websites. The FBI took over the servers and cleaned them up, but it doesn’t particularly want to be in the business of running DNS servers permanently—so it’s shutting them down on July 9.
Higgs Boson announcement from CERN: why the god particle is so important. - Slate Magazine
Higgs Boson announcement from CERN: why the god particle is so important. - Slate Magazine ;.. YES, ... Who would have believed it? Every now and then theoretical speculation anticipates experimental observation in physics. It doesn’t happen often, in spite of the romantic notion of theorists sitting in their rooms alone at night thinking great thoughts. Nature usually surprises us. But today, two separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva reported convincing evidence for the long sought-after “Higgs” particle, first proposed to exist almost 50 years ago and at the heart of the “standard model” of elementary particle physics—the theoretical formalism that describes three of the four known forces in nature, and which to date agrees with every experimental observation done to date.
The LHC is the most complex (and largest) machine that humans have ever built, requiring thousands of physicists from dozens of countries, working full time for a decade to build and operate.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Less July 4 sparkle over U.S. as fireworks displays snuffed | Reuters
Less July 4 sparkle over U.S. as fireworks displays snuffed | Reuters ;.... INDEPENDENCE Celebration is for just-like the BUTTERFLY leaving the coocoon plus comfort zone, ... MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU !
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The Wonder Clock App Tells Women When Their Biological Clocks Will Run Out
The Wonder Clock App Tells Women When Their Biological Clocks Will Run Out ;.. EMPOWERMENT AND LOVING OURSELVES !
Monday, July 2, 2012
Is Singapore turning into a xenophobic society? - Yahoo! News Singapore
Is Singapore turning into a xenophobic society? - Yahoo! News Singapore ;.. The way out is to mitigate and assimilate ....“My fear is that unless we start talking about these issues and unless we have a real dialogue, there’s a real danger that we may go in that direction.”
In the two-hour discussion for Online/ Offline: Digital Citizens on Xenophobia, Loh was quick to clarify that the event was “not an anti-xenophobia movement” but an honest discussion about the anti-foreigner sentiments that have been bubbling in Singapore in recent years.
In the two-hour discussion for Online/ Offline: Digital Citizens on Xenophobia, Loh was quick to clarify that the event was “not an anti-xenophobia movement” but an honest discussion about the anti-foreigner sentiments that have been bubbling in Singapore in recent years.
FT Alphaville » The China OMG moment
FT Alphaville » The China OMG moment ;.. And why she thinks the falling below 8 per cent will be a problem:
Instead, I think the 8% target was all about marketing China as an investment destination. And now that the official number has dropped ever so slightly below 8, it turns out that the political goal was right: once investors stopped believing that China’s economy would always “maintain 8,” they started to focus on the blemishes.
She adds that, “as China’s export surge receded, the rocks below were exposed”.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Redefining Success and Celebrating the Unremarkable - NYTimes.com
Redefining Success and Celebrating the Unremarkable - NYTimes.com ;.. SEE THE WORLD, not that we want to LET THE WORLD SEE US !