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Submission + - 10 Reasons why you should not rely on Windows Defe (windvis.com)

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Nick Zara
Nick Zara writes: "Windows Defender is a free antispyware software (it comes with Windows XP and Vista) that is supposed to protect your pc against spyware. But why do so many people choose other third party software? Today it's time to reveal 10 reasons that make Microsoft's program not good enough to deliver effective protection."
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Submission + - Newton Predicts World Will End No Sooner than 2060 (cnn.com)

Submitted by Sean H
Sean H writes: Writings of Isaac Newton recently made public include a prediction that the earth will end no sooner than 2060 — among other observations made from interpretations of the Old Testament.
The Internet

Submission + - Wikipedia Plans Its Own Search Engine

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John H. Doe
John H. Doe writes: "The search engine to be would be called Wikiasari, and would rely on the crowd mentality to go head to head with those giants Google and Yahoo. Could it be possible that relevance would be better served by the meatspace than cyberintuition?"
Wii

Submission + - wii kiosks require credit card as collateral

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An anonymous reader writes: When I was at the local EB games I noticed something strange, their wii kiosk was turned off. In addition, no controller was present. After asking about it, an employee told me that EB games does not allow people to play their wii kiosks unless they provide a name and a credit card. He says this is to prevent theft of the wireless controller. So there it remains Wii unit turned off and missing the controller. What happens to kids who don't have a credit card? Could this hurt sales, and why don't they fix this problem? Will other retailers adopt a similiar stance? Why not simply have a tethered controller for the kiosks?
Biotech

Submission + - A vaccine to prevent every strain of flu?

Submitted by Shivetya
Shivetya writes: British scientists may have come up with a vaccine that can prevent every type of Influenza A by concentrating on a protien known as M2. This protein has hardly changed within the last 100 years and has been found in the current bird flu and the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish flu. The story, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/hea lth/healthmain.html?in_article_id=425227&in_page_i d=1774 , also reports a Swiss group doing similar research. Combine this story and recent ones on Slashdot concerning diabetes, http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/1 6/218236 , perhaps this decade will see to the end of some of the worlds most vexing health problems?

The NSFW HTML Attribute 273

Posted by Zonk from the thought-provoking dept.
phaln writes "Over at The Frosty Mug Revolution, PJ Doland makes a compelling case for a new HTML attribute in the spirit of the highly-regarded 'nofollow' attribute promoted by Google — the NSFW attribute (rel='nsfw'). His original idea has been refined and expanded by positive comments from readers, resulting in a semantic solution to the issue he raises in the original post. From the article: 'Content creators can apply the attribute to paragraph tags, div tags, or any other block-level element. Doing so will indicate that the enclosed content is not safe for work. Visitors will be able to configure their browsers to block display of just the content enclosed by the flagged block-level element. This isn't about censorship. It is about making us all less likely to accidentally click on a goatse.cx link when our boss is standing behind us. It is also about making us feel more comfortable posting possibly objectionable content by giving visitors a means of easily filtering that content.'"
The Internet

Submission + - AT&T Yields To Neutrality, Sets Major Preceden

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Mediacitizen
Mediacitizen writes: "AT&T's concession to adhere to a neutral network as part of its BellSouth merger sets a major precedence that exposes as myth previous company talking points that Net Neutrality is 1. undefinable, 2. untenable and 3. bad for business. AT&T's agreement last night to honor neutrality proves that it's not. It also shifts the debate on Capitol Hill from whether Net Neutrality should become the law to how and when Congress will act."

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