31English ALANBAA Wednesday, 12 February, 2014 Research Cyberspace Women prefer taller men, most EU frets over evolving men don’t mind a taller date cybercrime threat UPI - The European tional security threat. Union said it expects The EU last year called the threat from cyber- on member states to col- criminals to evolve as lect data on cyberattacks Internet connectivity and to coordinate more expands and changes openly with relevant au- globally. thorities to combat the A report from the EU issue. said Monday it expect- Internet security pro- ed to see more cyber- vider Trend Micro has attacks from southeast warned that political Asia, Africa and South leaders are aware of the America. growing dangers of cy- The threat itself, bercrime but efforts are the report added, will restricted in terms of change as more con- expertise and a general sumers start to access lack of resources. the Internet through mo- European leaders ex- bile devices. pressed concern about “Criminal behavior is their own state computer changing fast, exploit- networks last year when ing technological devel- former U.S. National Se- UPI -- Nearly half of women Lead author George Yancey of opments and legal loop- curity Agency contrac- want to date only men taller than the University of North Texas and holes,” Commissioner inals will continue to we must be able to keep tor Edward Snowden they are, while a lesser percentage study co-author Michael Emer- for Home Affairs Ce- be creative and deploy up with them.” leaked details about a of men want to date only shorter son, co-director of Rice Univer- cilia Malmstrom said sophisticated attacks to Cyberattacks are be- U.S. surveillance sys- women, researchers say. sity’s Kinder Institute for Urban in a statement. “Crim- make more money, and coming a growing na- tem to the media. The main reasons women gave Research, conducted their study for wanting to date taller men in two parts. were they wanted to feel protect- The participants answered ed and that they felt more femi- open-ended questions in an on- Games nine with a taller date. line survey. The study found 37 “As the girl, I like to feel deli- percent of men wanted to date cate and secure at the same time,” only women shorter than they said a 5-foot-3 woman who par- were, while 55 percent of female Popular game Flappy Bird ticipated in the stud. “Something respondents wanted to date only just feels weird in thinking about men taller than they were. looking ‘down’ into my man’s Yancey said being tall is a per- eyes. There is also something sonal asset for men and a person- flies no more to be said about being able to al liability for women. He said Reuters - The devel- tive told Reuters.. wear shoes with high heels and the study’s finding that height oper of Flappy Bird, One gaming compa- still being shorter. I also want matters more to women supports the former most pop- ny manager said Dong’s to be able to hug him with my the social system of patriarchy, ular free mobile game decision to take down arms reaching up and around in which males are the primary on the Apple Inc App the game was wise. his neck.” authority figures. Store and Google Inc’s “Dong is taking one Some men said they preferred “The masculine ability to of- Android Play store, took step back to avoid le- shorter women, but not so short fer physical protection is clear- the game down at mid- gal risk because it’s too that it would cause problems with ly connected to the gender ste- night on Sunday as he difficult to deal with le- physical intimacy. reotype of men as protectors,” announced he would do gal issues himself if it “I like it when the body of Yancey said. “And in a society 22 hours earlier. happens,” said Duy your partner fits yours,” a 5-foot- that encourages men to be dom- The game is no lon- Doan, a senior manag- 11 man told the researchers. “It inant and women to be submis- ger available to down- er at VTC Online, one also makes it easier to kiss, hold sive, having the image of tall load for either Apple or of Vietnam’s leading hands and do other activities with men hovering over short wom- Google users, but its fans game companies. your partner.” en reinforces this value.” still can have fun with Dong said earlier the bird if they already that he was not look- downloaded the game ing for any investors to their devices. and would not sell the Sport Nguyen Ha Dong, a game. One expert said Hanoi-based game de- games on both Apple few nights, he said on investors would not be veloper, announced the and Google’s online Twitter earlier. interested. grounding of the addic- stores. The game, which he “Flappy Bird is not to Sochi drone shooting tive game in a Tweet Users have to steer said was inspired by Nin- the taste of many game at 1900 GMT on Sat- a bird between green tendo’s Mario Bros, has investors because it’s urday in which he also pipes. The Android ver- been earning on average just hit-based which Olympic TV, not terrorists apologized to Flappy sion has been down- $50,000 a day from ad- will bring very uncer- Bird players. “Twenty- loaded up to 50 mil- vertising, Dong said in tain cash flow and no AP - That drone you might of all the events at the games and two hours from now, I lion times and attracted a media interview. recurring,” said Nguyen have spotted hovering and zip- is using one drone in Sochi. will take ‘Flappy Bird’ more than half a million Two friends of Dong Hieu Linh, investment ping around the Sochi Olympic Q: Couldn’t a drone crash onto down,” Dong said, add- reviews. said Nintendo had sent manager at the Japanese slopes isn’t searching for terror- the crowd? ing “it is not anything re- Unlike other suc- him a warning letter, but CyberAgent Ventures ists or protesters hiding behind the A: It could, but so could a much lated to legal issues. cessful game makers the Japanese game mak- Inc. “I doubt he needs fir trees. It’s being used to trans- heavier helicopter. “I cannot take this like Rovio Entertain- er said it was not con- to fund raise as he’s al- mit live video of snowboard and Masima said chances of drone anymore,” he wrote. ment, which produced sidering a lawsuit. ready earned a certain ski jump competitions to a screen crashes are close to zero when a Flappy Bird caused the hugely popular An- “It sounds very much amount of money and near you. Unlike military drones, drone is handled by an experi- a sensation after rising gry Birds game and has like a rumor and if it is, he doesn’t need more which often look like a remote- enced pilot, because the drones from obscurity to be- hundreds of program- we certainly can’t com- help to make this kind controlled airplane, the creature are programmed to return to base come one of the most mers, Dong made Flap- ment on that,” Ninten- of mini game,” Linh floating around Sochi resembles at the slightest problem — such downloaded mobile py Bird by himself in a do’s media representa- added. a huge flying spider. Drones are as a low battery, rough winds or increasingly common at sporting a malfunction. events, and these Olympics is the There have been mishaps, how- highest-profile showcase yet for ever. In one case last year, a drone Technology their use in broadcasting. filming an imitation version of Here’s a few questions and some Spain’s running of the bulls in answers about the drone and its Virginia crashed and injured a place at the Sochi Games. few spectators. Google makes climate Q: Why use a drone to film Q: Could hackers divert a Olympic events? drone? A: “We can go really, really A: It’s possible. While mili- close. And we are really quiet, so tary drones use encrypted GPS data more accessible nobody is distracted,” said pilot and signals for navigation, the GPS UPI -- Researchers in ers in UK aren’t alone cameraman Remo Masima, who signals used by civilian drones the UK have embedded in their attempts to en- has used drones to film skiers in don’t have that protection. climate data onto the gage the broader pub- Switzerland for commercials. A team at the University of Tex- Google Earth platform, lic on climate change. And it’s cheaper than a cam- as successfully hacked a drone in allowing users to visu- American environmental era crew on a helicopter. an experiment in 2012 through alize changes in weath- advocates are working A drone with mounted cam- something called “spoofing,” er and temperature over toward similar ends. era can cost anywhere from a or sending the drone incorrect time, and in some in- Polls suggests more few thousand dollars to $37,000 information about its location. stances reference records and more Americans are for a top-of-the-line Ikarus from Todd Humphreys, head of the as far back as 1850. convinced that climate Britain’s Heliguy, which is ad- school’s Radionavigation Lab, The project, carried chance is happening -- vising broadcast clients in Sochi told a Congressional hearing it out by climate scien- 61 percent, by one count. on using drones, said Heliguy’s would be very difficult for an or- tists at the University But only a little more Justin Pringle.