Category: General

Gathering ‘Storm’ Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets

Paul

The Storm worm first appeared at the beginning of the year, hiding in e-mail attachments with the subject line: “230 dead as storm batters Europe.” Those who opened the attachment became infected, their computers joining an ever-growing botnet.

Although it’s most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It’s also the most successful example we have of a new breed of worm, and I’ve seen estimates that between 1 million and 50 million computers have been infected worldwide.

Now is it me or is something going on with Russia doing all of this? I know I get a lot spam from Russia, is this the new silent war?

Duracell’s Mobile Charger Juices Batteries, USB On The Go

Paul

Duracell’s Mobile Charger not only has a USB port so you can power your iPods and Zunes, but there’s even a slot to put AA/AAA batteries into so you can charge them via wall or car outlet. Those AA batteries work the same way in reverse as well—you use them to charge any USB gadgets you plug in. The charger comes for $24.99, which could be worth it as an emergency phone/music charger that you can use while you’re out or in the car. [Earth Times via Electronista]

Wow this might actually be useful for me!! I will have to go and find it!

Digg exchange gang busted !

Paul

I was just surfing the DigitalPoint Forums today as usual when i saw something going on there. Some people starting frequent threads with titles similar to “Selling DiggBoss Points”, “DiggBoss Invites for free”. Find all of them here . I had a quick look at it what is this DiggBoss actually ? I took a invite from a guy there who sent me a link through PM to a site with URL http://www.diggboss.com. I was confused initially, but after I registered and logged in there, i was shocked to see whats happening. So many people, almost 100+ trading diggs and stumbles there. All they do is, look at the stories listed there and digg them. It works in this way – when a person diggs one story he gets one diggpoint. He can increase his diggPoints this way. When he has enough diggpoints, he can submit his own story and it will be listed there to be dugg by the other members. The system was working perfectly for both digg and stumbles. Not only this, i also find many people collecting diggpoints and selling them there for prices like 5$ for 30 DiggPoints. I thought of giving it a try to see whether it really works or not. I made a sample story and submitted it to digg. Find it by clicking here. purchased around 100 digg points from a guy there. I then added this story to the diggboss campaign, and the system showed they will trade me 50 diggs for 100 diggpoints. I submitted and waited for a few hours. WoW ! 50 diggs and it got the ball rolling. One after the other, it broke around 121 diggs and made to homepage for a few mins (the story was a bit funny, so it gots some natural diggs later). It made me around 1200 unique hits to my site.

But i was really shocked to see how these social networking sites are exploited. Not only this, i can also see people exchanging diggs openly on webmaster forums like DigitalPoint. See the following link –

Check this google search results

Its really disappointing to see exploitation of such social networks!. I guess digg must take serious action to stop this stuff.

Perhaps digg could easily see the above story and ban all those who dugg it, But the big problem is that, the gang was only used to get the ball rolling !.

I knew digg has it’s flaws but that shows you how many flaws they actually do have! : ( I wonder how many are actually done by those people!!

New Episodes of Fox’s House Won’t Be on iTunes

Paul

New episodes of popular Fox show House will not be available on iTunes, a spokesperson for Apple confirmed to B&C.

Despite airing on Fox, House is produced by Universal Media Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal, which is severing its ties with iTunes when their contract expires in December.

House, which has been available on iTunes since May, began its fourth season on Fox last week. The ratings for the season premiere were the best for any returning show on any network so far. The season premiere delivered a 7.7 rating/19 share in the coveted 18-49 demographic.

What is Fox going to do the same thing, I actually like the show House. Isn’t this going a bad sign for Itune’s and Apple? I really do not like the idea of this, because I will not support NBC.

Rocket-Powered 21-Foot Long X-Wing Model Actually Flies (Updated: New Pics Show It Even Has Built-in R2-D2)

Paul

Andy Woerner and his crazy rocketeer friends have built a 21-foot long X-Wing model that can actually fly. Yes, this is a real X-Wing powered by four solid-fuel rocket engines complete with radio-controlled moving wings. It blasts off in California next week, and we talked with Andy about the project, and how they expect it will do. All the details and a full construction gallery after the jump.

Go see the picks this is so nice, You can see R2D2 as the co-pilot! I give them a salute for doing a really good job on making it.