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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack
* Japan to Start Fingerprinting Foreign Travelers
* Comcast Targets Unlicensed Anime Torrenters
* Honeybees Might Prompt Faster Internet Server Technology
* Murdoch's New Internet Strategy for the WSJ
* Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged
* THG Labs In Depth With AMD Spider
* 90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista
* Is Apple Tracking iPhone Users Through IMEI?
* Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC
* 10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets
* Judge Rules That I Own Slashdot
* Scientists Trap a Rainbow
* Mass Effect Review
* Why Trolls and Flames Happen
* FBI Doesn't Tell Courts About Bogus Evidence
* Riding Shotgun With the Google Street View Beetle
* FSF Reaches Out to RIAA Victims
* The Fastest Processor You Can't Run
* Boing Boing Founder Warns of "Internet AIDS"
* The Fine Line Between Security and Usability
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| Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack |
| from the using-numbers-for-evil dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 18, @21:31 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/0240210
|
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[0]netbuzz writes "First we learn from Bruce Schneier that the NSA may
have [1]left itself a secret back door in an officially sanctioned
cryptographic random-number generator. Now Adi Shamir is warning that
[2]a math error unknown to a chip makers but discovered by a tech-savvy
terrorist could lead to serious consequences, too. Remember the Intel
blunder of 1996? 'Mr. Shamir wrote that if an intelligence organization
discovered a math error in a widely used chip, then security software on
a PC with that chip could be "trivially broken with a single chosen
message." Executing the attack would require only knowledge of the math
flaw and the ability to send a "poisoned" encrypted message to a
protected computer, he wrote. It would then be possible to compute the
value of the secret key used by the targeted system.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/0240210
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=buzzblog
1. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/15/184204&tid=172
2. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22026
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| Japan to Start Fingerprinting Foreign Travelers |
| from the welcome-to-the-country-you-get-to-leave-a-piece-behind d|
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 18, @23:42 (Privacy) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/0436218
|
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[0]rabiddeity writes "If you're planning to visit Japan sometime in the
near future, you should be aware of the welcome you'll get. Last year,
Japan's parliament [1]passed a measure requiring foreigners to submit
their fingerprints when entering the country. The measures, which apply
to all foreigners over 16 regardless of visa status, [2]take effect
tomorrow. The worst part: the fingerprints are stored in a national
database for an "unspecified time", and will be made available to both
domestic police and foreign governments."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/0436218
Links:
0. http://www.randomwisdom.com/
1. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/05/17/fingerprints-japan.html
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| Comcast Targets Unlicensed Anime Torrenters |
| from the hard-to-get-your-jpop-fix-without-it dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday November 19, @01:23 (Anime) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/0442202
|
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[0]SailorSpork writes "According to a thread on the forums of AnimeSuki,
a popular anime bittorent index site, Comcast has [1]begun sending DCMA
letters to customers downloading unlicensed fan-subtitled anime shows via
bittorrent. By 'unlicensed', they mean that no english language company
has the rights to it. The letters are claiming that the copyright holder
or an authorized agent are making the infringement claims, though usually
these requests are also sent to the [2]site itself rather that individual
downloaders. My question is have they really been in contact with
Japanese anime companies, or is this another scare tactic by Comcast to
try and reduce the bandwidth use of their heavier customers now that
their [3] previous tactics have come under [4]legal [5]fire?"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/0442202
Links:
0. mailto:sailorspork@gmail.com
1. http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=58005
2. http://www.animesuki.com/doc.php/legal/mediafactory.html
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/19/1417238&tid=95
4. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1910235&tid=95
5. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/14/2330202&tid=123
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| Honeybees Might Prompt Faster Internet Server Technology |
| from the heard-the-buzz-about-it dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday November 19, @03:20 (The Internet) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/0544204
|
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[0]coondoggie writes "The Georgia Institute of Technology is working on
the theory that [1]honeybees can give us hints about how to improve the
speed and efficiency of Internet servers. Honeybees somehow manage to
efficiently collect a lot of nectar with limited resources and no central
command. Such swarm intelligence of these amazingly organized bees can
also be used to improve the efficiency of Internet servers faced with
similar challenges." This has some similarities to the [2]rules of the
swarm discussion we had last week.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/0544204
Links:
0. http://networkworld.com/
1. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Honeybees_inspire_efficient_servers/articleshow/2549111.cms
2. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/2319204&tid=14
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| Murdoch's New Internet Strategy for the WSJ |
| from the strange-days-for-the-paper dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday November 19, @05:36 (The Media) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/0558226
|
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[0]Reservoir Hill writes "Once Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of Dow Jones
& Company is completed later this year, Murdoch plans to [1]provide free
access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site, trading subscription fees
for anticipated ad revenue. The WSJ web site, one of the few news sites
to successfully introduce a subscription model, currently has around one
million subscribers and generates about $50 million annually in user
fees. Murdoch's decision to move to an advertising based model comes amid
reports that newspaper's [2]online profits margins are skyrocketing
worldwide. Murdoch's previous internet initiative, his acquisition of
MySpace [3]has worked out very well. He actually first discussed this two
years ago when he spoke before the American Society of Newspaper Editors
on the [4]role of newspapers in this digital world.""
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/0558226
Links:
0. http://reservoirhill.org/
2. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003669684
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/business/media/29carr.html?ref=business
4. http://www.mail-archive.com/zestmedia@yahoogroups.com/msg00240.html
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| Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged |
| from the going-to-need-handcuffs dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday November 19, @06:10 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/0554235
|
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[0]E5Rebel writes "The UK's data protection watchdog has called for
legislation that would punish corporate or government officials with
access to the public's personal data ... who lose it. Unencrypted laptops
with this personal information which are lost or stolen will see their
owners [1]facing criminal charges. 'HM Revenue and Customs is among the
organisations that have recently suffered high profile data security
breaches as a result of laptops being lost or stolen. The HMRC laptop
containing taxpayer data was encrypted - but other organisations have
often failed to encrypt their machines.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/0554235
Links:
0. mailto:E5RebelNO@SPAMyahoo.co.uk
1. http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/data-control/news/index.cfm?newsid=6241
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| THG Labs In Depth With AMD Spider |
| from the caught-you-in-my-web dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 19, @08:34 (AMD) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1326215
|
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The Last Gunslinger writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has published detailed
results of their laboratory [0]analysis of AMD's recently released Spider
platform, including the Phenom 9500 and 9600 running on 790FX chipsets.
Amongst other interesting details, the 2.4GHz Phenom 9700 has been pushed
back to Q1 2008. The 2.3GHz Phenom 9600 benchmarks on average 13.5% lower
than Intel's Q6600 quad-core CPU...and the MSRP for the Phenom is about
13.6% less as well. Much is made of the AMD OverDrive utility, by which
the THG labs were able to OC the Spider platform by 25% (3.0GHz) using
air cooling alone."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1326215
Links:
0. http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/19/the_spider_weaves_its_web/
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| 90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista |
| from the oh-so-sad dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 19, @09:15 (Windows) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1341253
|
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A [0]survey by King Research has found that Ninety percent of IT
professionals have concerns using Vista, with compatibility, stability
and cost being their key reasons. Interestingly, forty four percent of
companies surveyed are considering switching to non-Windows operating
systems, and nine percent of those have already started moving to their
selected alternative. "The concerns about Vista specified by participants
were overwhelmingly related to stability. Stability in general was
frequently cited, as well as compatibility with the business software
that would need to run on Vista," said Diane Hagglund of King Research.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1341253
Links:
0. http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/infrastructure/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=6258
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| Is Apple Tracking iPhone Users Through IMEI? |
| from the putting-on-the-foil-hats dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 19, @09:54 (Cellphones) |
|
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1345250
|
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[0]ariefwn writes ""As I sit here applying a new layer of Reynolds tin
foil to my international hat of conspiracy, its been proven that [1]Apple
tracks iPhone usage and tracks IMEI numbers of all their iPhones
worldwide. Hidden in the code of the 'Stocks' and 'Weather' widgets is a
string that sends the IMEI of your phone to a specialized URL that Apple
collects. I wonder if there will be any implications to owners of hacked
iPhones..."
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1345250
Links:
0. mailto:gundul@gmail.com
1. http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/11/12686/
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| Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC |
| from the i-knew-advertising-was-bad-for-us dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 19, @10:36 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1517209
|
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The worst-case scenario used to be that online ads are pesky,
memory-draining distractions. But a new batch of banner ads is much more
sinister: [0]They hijack personal computers and bully users until they
agree to buy antivirus software. And the ads do their dirty work even if
you don't click on them.The malware-spiked ads have been spotted on
various legitimate websites, ranging from the British magazine The
Economist to baseball's MLB.com to the Canada.com news portal. Hackers
are using deceptive practices and tricky Flash programming to get their
ads onto legitimate sites by way of DoubleClick's DART program. Web
publishers use the DoubleClick-hosted platform to manage advertising
inventory." CT: Link updated to original source instead of plagerizer.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1517209
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/11/doubleclick
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| 10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets |
| from the wanna-buy-a-bridge dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 19, @11:21 (It's funny. La|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1616248
|
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[0]The Byelorussian Strikes Again writes "Wired offers up [1]10 of the
most awesome snake oil gadgets, from industrial cables sold as $200
ionized pain-relieving bracelets to a plastic chip that cures anything,
improves gas mileage and cleans swimming pools. One truly sad
development: the infamous $500 wooden volume knob is no longer on sale."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1616248
Links:
0. mailto:spamtrapspamtrap@gmail.com
1. http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/11/10-awesome-gadg.html#more
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| Judge Rules That I Own Slashdot |
| from the now-wait-a-minute dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 19, @12:00 (Spam) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1333244
|
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[0]Bennett Haselton wrote in with this weeks amusing and shocking story
of high finance, judicial discretion, and oh so much more... he writes
"People still ask me if I make enough money suing spammers in Small
Claims court to make it worthwhile. I say: What about the entertainment
value? Recently I received an e-mail with the subject line: 'Reminder:
Link exchange with your site http://slashdot.org' Finally, I thought,
someone else who agrees that I'm carrying the site's entire success on my
shoulders. I even hurried off to check the registration of the
slashdot.org domain to see if they had made the transfer official in
honor of my contributions, but apparently the domain is still being
squatted by some outfit calling itself "SourceForge"." I'm shocked that a
legitimate businessman would make such an error. Read on to see what
Bennett does about it.
This story continues at:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1333244
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1333244
Links:
0. mailto:bennett@peacefire.org
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| Scientists Trap a Rainbow |
| from the i-can-c-the-light dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 19, @12:44 (Supercompu|
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1653208
|
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An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Physicists from both the
University of Surrey and Salford University have devised a method to
[0]trap a multi-colored rainbow of light inside a prism. "Previous
attempts to slow and capture light have involved extremely low or
cryogenic temperatures, have been extremely costly, and have only worked
with one specific frequency of light at a time. The technique proposed by
Professor Hess and Mr Kosmas Tsakmakidis involves the use of negative
refractive index metamaterials along with the exploitation of the Goos
H��nchen effect, which shows that when light hits an object or an
interface between two media it does not immediately bounce back but seems
to travel very slightly along that object, or in the case of
metamaterials, travels very slightly backwards along the object."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1653208
Links:
0. http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/portal/page?_pageid=799,1772670&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
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| Mass Effect Review |
| from the embrace-eternity dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday November 19, @13:23 (Role Playing (Games|
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/0858206
|
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Some two years after the 'next generation' of console games began, I've
finally had a 'next-gen' experience. I've never met a BioWare game I
didn't like (even liked [0] Jade Empire , if you'll recall), and the much
anticipated, hotly discussed Mass Effect is my game of the year ... which
is not to say it's perfect. Gamers hoping for crystalline purity will be
disappointed by, among other things, graphical pops, lengthy load times,
and some occasionally stupid AI. It doesn't matter. Warts and all, this
voyage to the edge of the galaxy and back is some of the best
storytelling I've ever experienced in a game. It's like living a movie, a
good one, where you decide the ending in a deeply meaningful way. Read on
for my impressions of humanity's first steps onto the galactic stage.
This story continues at:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/0858206
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/0858206
Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/28/1339257&tid=10
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| Why Trolls and Flames Happen |
| from the some-things-will-never-change dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 19, @14:06 (The Intern|
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1831237
|
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[0]AnonymousHack writes "New Scientist examines why people are in general
[1]more rude and abusive online. 'Psychologically, we are "distant" from
the person we're talking to and less focused on our own identity. As a
result we're more prone to aggressive behavior' says one psychologist,
who also cites research showing messages received by email are always
perceived more negatively than on the phone." Just more proof for the
[2]Greater Internet F***wad Theory.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1831237
Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/
1. http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/11/dont-flame-me-bro.html
2. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
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| FBI Doesn't Tell Courts About Bogus Evidence |
| from the appelate-court-living-in-fear dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 19, @14:53 (The Courts|
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1859230
|
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dprovine writes "According to a joint investigation by The Washington
Post and 60 Minutes, a forensic test [0]used by the FBI for decades is
[1]known to be invalid. The National Academy of Science issued a report
in 2004 that FBI investigators had given "problematic" testimony to
juries. The FBI later stopped using "bullet lead analysis", but sent a
letter to law enforcement officials saying that they still fully
supported the science behind it. Hundreds of criminal defendants ��� some
already convicted in part on the testimony of FBI experts ��� were not
informed about the problems with the evidence used against them in
court."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1859230
Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/silent-injustice/index.html
1. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/16/60minutes/main3512453.shtml
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| Riding Shotgun With the Google Street View Beetle |
| from the more-fly-than-beetle dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 19, @15:37 (Google) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1944258
|
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[0]longacre writes "Popular Mechanics takes a ride in an [1]Immersive
Media VW Beetle, one of the six cars that drives around America shooting
images for Google Maps Street View. Mounted on the roof is the $45,000
Dodeca 2360 video camera, whose 11 lenses record a 360 degree field of
view at 30 frames per second, sucking up as many as 200 miles of city
scenes per day. The setup takes up the whole back seat and part of the
front passenger seat, and is all controlled with an off-the-shelf
Logitech game controller. Includes a cool interactive [2]raw video of a
drive through Manhattan."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1944258
Links:
0. http://www.nycaviation.com/
1. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4232286.html
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| FSF Reaches Out to RIAA Victims |
| from the armor-for-the-little-guy dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 19, @16:20 (The Courts|
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1948244
|
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In what has been termed the '[1]'RIAA's
worst nightmare', the Free Software Foundation has announced that it is
[2]coming to the aid of the victims of RIAA lawsuits, by establishing an
[3]Expert Witness Defense Fund to assist defendants in RIAA cases. The
purpose of the fund is 'to help provide computer expert witnesses to
combat RIAA's ongoing lawsuits, and to defend against the RIAA's attempt
to redefine copyright law.' The funds will be used to pay fees and/or
expenses of technical expert witnesses, forensic examiners, and other
technical consultants assisting individuals named as defendants in
non-commercial, peer-to-peer file sharing cases brought by the RIAA, EMI,
SONY BMG, Vivendi Universal, and Warner Bros. Records, and their
affiliated companies, such as Interscope, Arista, UMG, Fonovisa, Motown,
Atlantic, Priority, and others."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/1948244
Links:
0. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
1. http://p2pnet.net/story/14045
2. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/11/expert-witness-defense-fund-for-riaa.html
3. https://www.fsf.org/associate/riaa
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| The Fastest Processor You Can't Run |
| from the testing-untapped-potential dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 19, @17:00 (Intel) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/2033256
|
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[0]auld_wyrm writes "Intel is trying to push the news of AMD's Barcelona
launch out of the headlines with the release of the [1]Intel Core 2
Extreme QX9770, a 3.20 GHz CPU that runs on a 1600 MHz front-side bus. It
is the fastest consumer level processor that has come out, but don't plan
on running it anytime soon. The ~$1200 price tag, and the lack of any
motherboards that support a 1600MHz FSB will stop this unneeded answer to
Barcelona from appearing in enthusiast's PCs for Christmas. Still, the
benchmarks from this powerful CPU are something awesome to behold."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/2033256
Links:
0. http://www.pcper.com/
1. http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=484
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| Boing Boing Founder Warns of "Internet AIDS" |
| from the orwell-was-an-optimist dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 19, @17:42 (The Intern|
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/215243
|
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An anonymous reader writes "Cory Doctorow, founder of Boing Boing, says
he doesn't have a problem in principle with the automated network defense
systems that guard the Internet against malware, spamigation bots, and
other network nasties. However, in his article '[0]The Future of Internet
Immune Systems,' he bemoans the problems caused by 'Internet autoimmune
disorder' ��� where the network defenses designed to block network attacks
are automated and instantaneous, but the systems in place to reverse
erroneous lockdowns are manual and unresponsive."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/215243
Links:
0. http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=479&doc_id=139358&
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| The Fine Line Between Security and Usability |
| from the discarding-old-tech dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 19, @18:25 (Security) |
|
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/2121226
|
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[0]SkiifGeek writes to ask, "Where should vendors be [1]required to draw
the line when supporting deprecated file formats and technology? In a
recent case independent security researcher cocoruder [2]found a
[3]critical bug with the JET engine, via the .mdb (Access) file format,
he reported it to Microsoft, but Microsoft's response came as a surprise
to him ��� it appears that Microsoft is not inclined to fix a critical
arbitrary code execution vulnerability with a data technology that is at
the heart of a large number of essential business and hobby
applications."
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/19/2121226
Links:
0. http://www.beskerming.com/
1. http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/11/19/304/The_fine_line_Between_Security_and_Usability
2. http://ruder.cdut.net/blogview.asp?logID=227
3. http://www.beskerming.com/security/2007/11/17/73
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