18 Mar 2009
People with strong religious beliefs 'fight death the hardest'

Isn't this interesting? You would think that a firm belief in a (presumably happy) afterlife would have the exact opposite effect, eh? The implication here is that the studies subjects were Christian, but that's never actually said.

I know my beliefs have certainly changed my outlook on death - in fact, I have a whole essay on the topic of death, culture and religion that's currently gracing my desktop. With any luck, I'll get around to finishing it - and posting here someday.

People with strong religious beliefs appear to want doctors to do more to keep them alive

(link) [BBC News]

18:24 /Asatru | 0 comments | permanent link

Card-Sniffing Malware On Diebold ATMs

Why in the world would anyone use Windows as the OS for an ATM? What were they thinking?

Diebold has released a security fix for its Opteva automated teller machines after cyber-criminals apparently broke into the systems at one or more businesses in Russia and installed malicious software. Diebold learned of the incident in January and sent out a global security update to its ATM customers using the Windows operating system. It is not releasing full details of what happened, including which businesses were affected, but said criminals had gained physical access to the machines to install their malicious program. Arrests have reportedly been made.

(link) [Slashdot]

06:11 /Technology | 1 comment | permanent link