Gypsy Rose Lee's Future Not So Rosy

Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said he personally does not believe astrologers' prediction that there will be chaos after Dec 23 election.

Gen Surayud's statement came after several astrologers predicted on Thursday that unrest will occur after the election.

Gen Surayud said he sees things in a different light, explaining that the mistakes of yesterday are a lesson to fix things so tomorrow will be better.

He urged political parties to follow His Majesty the King's advice that they should think of the country before themselves.

"If we do good deeds today, there is no need to consult fortune-tellers," he said. [via Bangkok Post]

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• Noi's Bar on The Darkside (Soi Khao Noi) is putting on a show Sunday morning for Hatton v Mayweather - free sausage butties; no price hike on drinks; 70" Screen; air conditioned; comfy sofas; open 7.45am. If you work it right, you can fall in to Noi's on the way home from Insomnia.

• Witherspoon's Charity Night, 8.00pm, Saturday Dec 8. Located at the Soi Diana / Soi Buakao crossroads.

• Sisterz Go Go Party, Walking Street, 9.30pm, Saturday Dec 8

• Pattaya Cross Country and Downhill Mountain Bike Championships 2007 which will take place on the 15th and 16th December on the Pratamnuk Hill area. Total prize money for the event is 180,000 Baht and registration for the event is open to both Thais and Foreigners and if you would like to enter or require further information please call Khun Tidipong on 086 355 4913. [via Pattaya City News]

• Loaded's Globe Awards

• Two Israelis were arrested Tuesday in Thailand after police found 23,000 Ecstasy pills in their possession, the foreign ministry said Friday. [via Haaretz]

• Secrets have come up with a great idea for Dec 23rd when all the bars will be closed for the election. Secrets will host a PRIVATE all you can eat, all you can drink, bar fine free party at the Secrets Villa with all Secrets staff in attendance to take care of your every need. Limited tickets available so get round to Secrets now to reserve yours. Cost - 7,000 Baht per person

• Virus Bulletin did another “in the wild” test to see how many of the best antivirus solutions available would be able to catch every known virus they threw at it. Normally out of the 30+ apps that are tested 5 or 6 of them fail, but this time around over 50% of them came up short.

I know I know, there are a lot of no name antivirus programs out there that are seemingly doomed to failure, but some of the most widely used programs couldn’t even get things right. The complete list of failed programs is below, but among them are Avast!, AntiVir, Kaspersky, Norman, Sophos, and Trend Micro. All big names that couldn’t even identify viruses the entire world knows about. It’s not like they created their own viruses just for the test.

Here are the results of the test, which were all done on a Windows 2000 machine:

Antivirus Applications that Failed VB100:

1. AEC Trustport Antivirus - 7 misses
2. Avast! - 2 false positives
3. Avira AntiVir - 4 false positives
4. CA Antivirus - 40 misses
5. Doctor Web - 22 misses and 4 false positives
6. Fortinet Forticlient - 4 misses
7. Frisk F-PROT
8. Ikarus Virus Utilities - 18 misses and 26 false positives
9. Iolo Antivirus - 66 misses
10. Kaspersky Anti-Virus - 1 miss
11. Kingsoft AntiVirus - 120 misses
12. Norman Virus Control - 14 misses and 6 false positives
13. PCTools Spyware Doctor - 2 false positives
14. Redstone Redprotect - 2 misses
15. Rising Antivirus - 3 misses and 3 false positives
16. Sophos Anti-Virus - 8 misses
17. Trend Micro - 4 misses
    

Antivirus Applications that Passed VB100:

1. Agnitum Outpost
2. BitDefender AntiVirus
3. Bullguard
4. CA eTrust
5. ESET NOD32
6. F-Secure Anti-Virus 2008
7. GDATA Anti-virus
8. Grisoft AVG
9. McAfee VirusScan
10. Microsoft Forefront
11. MWTI eScan
12. PCTools Anti-Virus
13. Quick Heal
14. Symantec
15. VirusBuster

Looking back through the history of the VB100 awards ESET NOD32 has one of the best track records with 47 successful tests and only 3 failures (not counting the ones that have only been tested a handful of times). Here are some of the stats for the antivirus applications that have been tested over 40 times:

• Avast! - 24 successes and 20 failures (55% success)
• CA eTrust - 32 successes and 13 failures (71% success)
• Doctor Web - 25 successes and 22 failures (53% success)
• ESET NOD32 - 47 successes and 3 failures (94% success)
• F-Secure - 27 successes and 13 failures (68% success)
• Grisoft - 19 successes and 22 failures (46% success)
• Kaspersky - 40 successes and 15 failures (73% success)
• McAfee - 34 successes and 19 failures (64% success)
• Norman - 38 successes and 14 failures (73% success)
• Sophos - 39 successes and 14 failures (74% success)
• Symantec - 41 successes and 6 failures (87% success)

So it looks like from the VB100 tests that ESET NOD32 and Symantec are the best performers when it comes to catching viruses that are already in the wild! [via Cybernet]

• I've been very impressed with what I've read about the Japanese educational system and this video only strengthens my belief that the Japanese excel like no others in this particular field...

• Liquorish Allsorts were a favourite of mine from my youth so I thought I'd treat you to the Asian equivalent, Japanese Allsorts

• A Scotsman phones a dentist to enquire about the cost for a tooth extraction.

"£85 for an extraction, sir" the dentist replied. "£85!!! Huv ye no'got anythin' cheaper?"

"That's the normal charge," said the dentist . "Whit aboot if ye didnae use any anesthetic?"

"That's unusual, sir, but I could do it and knock £15 off".

"Whit aboot if ye used one of your dentist trainees and still without an anesthetic?"

"I can't guarantee their professionalism and it'll be painful, but the price could drop to £40".

"How aboot if ye make it a trainin' session, ave yer student do the extraction with the other students watchin' and learnin'?"

It'll be good for the students", mulled the dentist "and it's going to be very traumatic, but I'll charge you $5."

"Och, now yer talkin' laddie! It's a deal," said the Scotsman. "Can ye confirm an appointment for the wife next Tuesday then?"




• Why men don't design Christmas wrapping paper.....
  

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