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Submission + - RIRs launch Resource Certification (RPKI) service (h-online.com)

Submitted by 8-Track
8-Track writes: On January 3, 2011, three of the five Regional Internet Registries — RIPE NCC, LACNIC and AfriNIC — launched a Resource Certification service (APNIC already had a system in place, ARIN will follow later in 2011). Resource Certification, or RPKI as it's also known, is aimed at making Internet routing more secure by issuing a digital certificate along with the registration of Internet Number Resources (i.e. IP addresses and AS Numbers). Using this certificate, ISPs can authorise a particular Autonomous System to announce a certain block of their IP addresses by creating a Route Origin Authorisation (ROA) object. Because only the legitimate holder of a block of IP addresses can create a valid ROA, anyone on the internet can verify if a route announcement is coming from the rightful user of the address space. This could mitigate problems like the hijacking of YouTube by Pakistan Telecom in 2008. The system is based on IETF standards coming out of the Secure Inter-Domain Routing working group.
Cellphones

Submission + - T-Mobile and Orange in UK merger (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by EthanV2
EthanV2 writes: T-Mobile and Orange plan to merge their UK businesses, creating a mobile phone giant with 28.4 million customers. If completed, a deal between Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and Orange owner France Telecom would see a firm with sales of 9.4bn euros (£8.2bn; $13.5bn).
The Internet

Submission + - VirginMedia re-directing invalid URLs

Submitted by
EthanV2
EthanV2 writes: "It seems that VirginMedia in the UK has started redirecting invalid URLs to their own search page, which we have seen happen to several ISPs in the US in the last year. It's quite strange since I've only noticed it now (1AM in the UK), so they seem to have rolled this out at a time that not many people are online. Perhaps to make sure no one notices?"
Graphics

Typography On the Web Gets Different 378

Posted by CmdrTaco from the but-i-miss-comic-sans dept.
bstender writes "Most major browsers — including the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera — recognize a CSS rule known as @font-face. What that means, in brief, is that Web developers can now easily embed downloadable fonts in their pages. To see an example, load up Firefox 3.5 or Safari 4 and learn more. You'll see three new typefaces — Liza, Auto, and Dolly — used in the body text and headlines." No doubt the licensing issues are just as complex as the font nerd potential.

Comment Re:My Kingdom for a Datagrid Element! (Score 1) 541

by EthanV2 (#28059587) Attached to: HTML 5 As a Viable Alternative To Flash?

When's the last time you laid out a site without a table element on every page?

I don't know about anyone else, but when I design website layout I try to avoid tables unless I really have to, like for displaying data correctly. For all of my design work, I use CSS and div tags, it's much easier to maintain and much more customisable.

Comment Re:Java and not javascript (Score 5, Informative) 306

by EthanV2 (#28023735) Attached to: Mac OS X Users Vulnerable To Major Java Flaw

Though I'm not sure why this whole discussion is under the title "Mac OS X users vulnerable..." when as the submission says the issue affects everybody. Other than to start yet amother boring FUD/flamebait war, of course.

Maybe it's because everybody else has patched it

FruitWorm writes in with word of a vulnerability in Java that has been patched by everyone but Apple.
The Courts

Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 265

Posted by timothy from the seems-charitable-to-sco dept.
Xenographic writes "SCO has finally lost to Novell, now that Judge Kimball has entered final judgment against SCO. Of course, this is SCO we're talking about. There's still the litigation in bankruptcy court, which allowed this case to resume so that they could figure out just how much SCO owes, which is $3,506,526, if I calculated the interest properly, $625,486.90 of which will go into a constructive trust. And then there's the possibility that SCO could seek to have the judgment overturned in the appeals courts, or even the Supreme Court when that fails. Of course, they need money to do that and they don't really have much of that any more. Remember how Enderle, O'Gara and company told us that SCO was sure to win? I wonder how many people have emailed them to say, 'I told you so.'"

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