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Stopbadware.org tries to stop "badware"
What a noble goal: a
community watch online for spyware, malware, and adware (the really insidious kind anyway). The stated mission of Stopbadware.org is this: "We will seek to provide reliable, objective
information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download
on to their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread
it, and to become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware."Sounds good, doesn't it? The organizers behind this include the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Consumer Reports WebWatch. There are some corporate sponsors too: Google, Lenovo, and Sun. Hopefully more will jump on board (ahem, Microsoft?) and lend even more power to this movement. Quite frankly, how this got out of hand so quickly is a testament to the power of the internet, and the uneducated masses using said technology. Now that people have been stung though, it's good to give 'em a place to complain. I'm just hoping the complaints turn into real action on the part of netizens. Next time you or someone you know gets hit with badware send them to the site and have them tell their story.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
