It must be a slow news month, but the media is absolutely eating up this Conficker virus. Why? Because it’s pulling the old 1990’s “on this popular holiday X, this virus will activate and wipe your hard drive or do some other dastardly deed” schtick. This worm / virus has been out for about six…
What’s So Great About Open Source, Anyway?
Today an article on Slashdot talks about how Sun is (finally) fully open-sourcing Java within this calendar year. For those not familiar, Java is a programming language used by a lot of different programmers and companies. You probably use Java at work or at home in some shape or form and don’t even know it.…
The Apocalypse is Nigh: Navy Tests Futuristic Rail-Gun
According to an article posted to Digg, Fox news reports the US Navy is testing a high-powered futuristic rail-gun weapon that can fire a projectile at speeds up to Mach 5! Of course, the language chosen, “railgun,” seems to be carefully chosen to accurately describe the weapon, but also incites some sci-fi and video game…