Just in time for the holiday slump! It’s anti-santy!
Ok so worm writers are getting kinda funny. As a follow up to this earlier story about the santy worm; we have the anti-santy worm which is hunting down machines with phpbb and patching them. How nice. Still creepy, but nice.
And I thought everyone loved going to the chiropractor
The University of Florida is set to introduce a school of chiropractic medicine to it’s campus and to say the least, not everyone is happy. A group of professors, arguably some of the most well respected professors in science, have threatened to quit if the University opens the school on the grounds that chiropractic medicine is a pseudoscience.
The threatened resignations…reflect a belief among many in the medical establishment that chiropractic is a “pseudo-science” that leads to unnecessary and sometimes harmful treatments…
The list of critics include FSU’s two Nobel laureates - Robert Schreiffer, a physicist, and Harold Walter Kroto, a chemist - and Robert Holton, the chemistry professor who developed the cancer-fighting drug Taxol, which has brought FSU tens of millions of dollars in royalties. In recent weeks, more than 500 faculty members have signed petitions against the chiropractic school, including about 70 in the medical college, said Dr. Raymond Bellamy, an assistant professor who is leading the charge against the proposal.
I hope the insurance companies don’t see this.
link via boingboing via fark
bbpress, from the makers of WordPress
Matthew Mullenweg, who is one of the lead maintainers of the venerable Word Press project (as seen here on Radioball). Has announced the bbpress forum software project. Looks very interesting; combining the best of the blog world and the best of the community forum world.
The goal of bbPress is to bring some weblog and WordPress sensibilities to forum software. It’s never going to have a tenth of the features of phpBB or vBulletin, but that’s a feature itself. My experience with those packages is they’re like a herd of elephants who evolved on a strange island in bizzare ways, and they tend to foster a type of community that is antithetical to I’m trying to accomplish. We’ve learned a lot in the past few years about how the interactive web works, why do most forums look and act the same they did in 2000? Why is it still so hard to integrate user systems or mesh designs? Why can’t I ping a thread like I can a weblog post? Why can’t I filter by XFN values?
Looks interesting.
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Technology, meet your new social low.
California 911 systems saw a 50% increase in call volume on Christmas morning. Not from do gooders reporting a terrorist attack on the Duck Pond. But from the recipients of new cell phones testing out the gadgets with the first number that came to mind.
“Our phones start exploding with hang-ups (on Christmas),” said CHP Sgt. Wayne Ziese of the Golden Gate division, which patrols the nine-county Bay Area and dispatches its cars and motorcycles from division headquarters in Vallejo. “The operator says, ‘You’ve reached the CHP, and what is your emergency?’ Then ‘click.’ Or they’ll say, ‘I’m just testing out my cell phone. ‘ “
Next Christmas lets just bug moviephone, Ok guys?
What do Arafat and the Dude have in common?
According to this bloomberg report, our formerly alive buddy Yasser Arafat had quite a diverse investment portfolio; including Village hipster hang, Bowlmor Lanes.
worm using Google to spread
‘Santy.a’ is spreading at a pretty impressive clip according to major anti-virus firms. In what may seem like a novel approach to finding a victim, the Santy worm essentially searches google for it’s victims. Attacking a vulnerability discovered last week in variants of phpBB, the worm uses a google search to identify users of the software.
Almost 40,000 sites may have already been infected. Using Microsoft’s Search engine to scan for the phrase “NeverEverNoSanity”–part of the defacement text that the Santy worm uses to replace files on infected Web sites–returns nearly 39,000 hits.
Will the folks at google ever run out of innovative ways to make peoples lives easier? Now they’re even helping script kiddies work more efficiently.
Viva Las Vegas
In a week where even George Carlin is taking a dump on my favorite town, it’s nice to see that Xeni Jardin over at BoingBoing is at least able to acknowledge that Vegas is our future. It may not be the future you were hoping for, but at least it’s well lit.
Word Press security bug
Just a warning to anyone who happens to be using Word Press, take a look at this thread on the WP support forums and make the appropriate adjustments.
Congrats Britney!
Thanks to defamer for the best thing that has happned to me in the last 27 minutes.
Britney Pregnant with a BOY! His name is Cheeto - w4m - 22
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Date: 2004-12-01, 11:38AM PSTBritney and Kevin Federline are having a baby boy, and rumor has it the name will be Cheeto. I think they’re looking for a nanny, so if you are up for it, contact me and I’ll get you in touch with the right people that handle Brit, kevin and Cheeto. I am for real.
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Fear the Iron Penis
The Iron Penis, the most feared of the ancient arts…
I have nothing to add.
With just a half-hour to an hour of practice a day, Master Tu promises quick results. After only one week, your hips will loosen. In two weeks, you will not feel thirsty as easily. After the first month, your vision will become clearer. By two months, your complexion will improve and the bags under your eyes will disappear, and by three months, you will require less sleep and feel powerful all of the time. Eventually, you won’t feel the need to go the bathroom as often and any plaguing maladies will vanish. And what about sex? Master Tu says “Of course! This is really great for sex!” One of his students fathered a new baby at age 82. Another student fathered a son 20 years after the birth of his daughter. Master’s Tu’s most incredible claim is that the highest masters of penis qigong can use it to pull cars, break ice blocks and even cut coconuts.
link Via screenhead
