Articles for April 3rd, 2009

NorthPark Center Is Suicide Scene

The Morning News is reporting a jumper today at NorthPark Center.

Friday Afternoon Random Question: Best Year Ever, Man

What’s the best year ever? Confining myself to the Zac Crain Era (1974-2051), my list looks a little something like this:

1. 1977

2. 1974

3. 2000

4. 2004

5. 1986

Conficker FTW

Listen, I’m not going to pretend to understand any of this Conficker business. But the folks over at Gizmodo do, and they’re basically saying the following: hold on to your effin’ hat.

“And here’s why that is deeply, deeply scary. As we explained, Conficker has built a zombie botnet infrastructure by registering hundreds of spam DNS names (askcw.com.ru, and the like), which it then links up and uses as nodes for infected machines to contact for instructions. In its earlier forms, Conficker attempted to register 250 such DNS names per day. But with the third version of the software, the Conficker.c variant which has been floating around for the last month or so, the number of spam DNS takeovers was boosted to 50,000 per day—a number security pros can no longer keep up with.

What the April 1 update did was simple: It provided instructions for linking up with the thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of new nodes registered by Conficker.c over the last few weeks, effectively growing the size of the p2p botnet to a point where it can not be stopped.”

What To Do When The Smoking Ban Comes For You

You could always try electronic cigarettes. Say what? Yeah, not quite sure myself, and I still feel as though “smoke without nicotine” is some sort of prank, even though I’ve heard of similar products for years. But, if you’ve ever wanted to look like you’re smoking a Bic pen, by all means, keep reading.

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Rangers/Stars Owner Tom Hicks: “We Want The Banks To Be Reasonable”

Rangers/Stars owner Tom Hicks has elected not to make the interest payment on a loan of more than $500 million relating to his two sports teams. For the news and Hicks’ exclusive comments, go here.

Leading Off (3/03/09): Twitter Edition

1. TrinityRivPrjct I’m in truble agin! City may not b able 2 use all fed funds to fix me, cuz i’m so broken. P.s., just added @JSchutze as follower. Uh oh!

2. KunkleStud NICE work officer @Quattlebaum!!! U SAVED man @ Anatole trying to k-mit suicide. Needed + pub this week. U pick me up sliders from Nana, LOL?

3. H8hummers Got 5 yrs probation 4 keying HUMMERS in S-lake parking lot. I SHOULD GET A MEDAL! I’M 72! I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS! kddng last part love bill ferrell.