Orkut having issues?
Yeah I like orkut but are the hackers winning?

Wanna bet we don't pick up our own trash
Mars rover spotted life yesterday, signs of OUR existance. There was trash found on Mars, how much you wanna bet that this isn't the last time.
Evidence of life on Mars? Sadly, no. The two objects in the centre of the photo are clearly artificial - the parachute and backshell discarded by NASA's rover Opportunity just before it bounced down on January 25.

Opportunity snapped the photo this week so NASA could pinpoint where the craft landed, with the help of photographs from the Mars orbit. The backshell and parachute, recorded by Opportunity as it peeked over the rim of the crater in which it landed, are about 442 metres away, NASA says.

Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, are focusing on the Martian soil and rocks to discover if lakes, rivers and oceans once were a feature of the now bone-dry Red Planet.

Interest has centred on Opportunity's discovery of tiny spherical objects in a rock dubbed "snout" by mission scientists. The tiny spheres were embedded in the rock like "blueberries in a muffin", said mission scientist Steven Squyres, who called the images of snout "wild-looking stuff". They may have been formed by running water, scientists said, although they could also have been formed through volcanic activity.
Signs of life on Mars - but don't get excited - Science - www.theage.com.au

New 'Doomjuice' Worm Emerges, Targets Microsoft
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A new worm dubbed "Doomjuice" targeting Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O Web site emerged on the Internet on Monday, which security experts said slowed parts of the software maker's home page.

Doomjuice, which some are describing as a variant of the MyDoom worm, spreads via e-mail systems already infected with the first version, which became the fastest-spreading virus ever when it was unleashed on the Internet at the end of January.

"It's only looking for machines that are compromised by MyDoom A or B," said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of the anti-virus emergency response team at Network Associates Inc. NET.N . He said it was not spreading as rapidly as the initial MyDoom worms.

Because Doomjuice spreads directly between infected computers, rather than via e-mail, experts said that it would not be accurate to call it a variant of MyDoom, which accounted for as many as one in five e-mails at its peak in late January.

But some computer security companies and Microsoft have taken to describing Doomjuice as a variant of MyDoom, naming it "MyDoom.C."

The MyDoom worm, as well as its variant MyDoom.B, were designed to entice e-mail recipients to click open an attachment, which then installed malicious software on a personal computer. The worms then instructed infected PCs to flood the Web sites of the SCO Group Inc. SCOX.O and Microsoft in an effort to shut them down.

Doomjuice, which experts said was most likely created by the same author as MyDoom, is designed to flood Microsoft's web site for request for data in an effort to bring it down, an attack known as a distributed denial of service.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said that "all Microsoft.com web properties are stable and available to customers."

Security experts noted, however, that Microsoft's Web site was slower and was intermittently unavailable over the weekend.

The Web site of SCO, a small software maker based in Utah, has been shut down for more than a week after being hit by MyDoom. SCO has drawn the ire of advocates of Linux, the freely available operating system, for claiming to own the copyright on some parts of Linux and demanding licensing fees from users.

Microsoft's Web site http://www.microsoft.com remained up and running on Monday while http://www.sco.com remained offline.

The companies have also set up alternate Web sites at https://information.microsoft.com and http://www.thescogroup.com are each offering a $250,000 bounty for information leading to the capture of MyDoom's author.

Sad news for Tech TV
So I heard this this week while watching Tech TV. Michaela Pereira has left Tech TV. She said on air that she will be joining the staff at KTLA here in Los Angeles. I know she will be a welcome edition to the channel and she is more than capable for the position. I would have hoped that she would have joined the others who have gone to CNN but I don't think Alanta is that great of a place any way. Good luck Michaela.
TechTV | Meet Michaela Pereira