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Submission + - Mono Silverlight plugin for Linux makes its debut (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by monocode on Friday June 22, 2007 @09:39AM

monocode writes: A group of Mono developers at Novell voluntarily worked weekends and 12 to 16 hour per day during an epic 21-day "hackathon" to produce a functioning prototype of Moonlight, a Linux-compatible open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight development framework and browser plug-in. The Moonlight XAML canvas component doesn't depend on Mono and can even be used in native Linux desktop applications without requiring any C# or managed code. "Moonlight is a monumental achievement with broad implications for the Linux desktop. Novell developers have already begun to investigate ways that the Moonlight rendering canvas can be used in desktop applications and other projects."

Submission + - New Vidoop Authentication Scheme Broken

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @08:23AM

An anonymous reader writes: A new web authentication scheme Vidoop, was announced at Web 2.0 recently that is supposedly invulnerable to "all prevalent forms of hacking" (according to their TV commercial on YouTube). Harvard and CommerceNet researchers report that they broke the scheme in a few hours, and they posted a video of the attack. The attack is related to the attack on Bank of America's Sitekey by the boarding pass guy and to the Harvard study on SiteKey that shows how easily users get phished.

Submission + - Wind farms might not reduce pollution

Submitted by

catbutt

on Sunday May 06, 2007 @09:45PM

catbutt writes: "According to a NYTimes article, which references a National Academy of Sciences study, wind farms may not be effective at reducing polution. The logic seems a bit odd, though, because it says that the reason it won't reduce certain types of pollutants is that there "was already a cap on sulfur emissions and one on nitrogen oxides was likely to follow. Is is possible such caps are a bad idea, then, if they cause people to not bother reducing their output of pollutants, since all it would end up doing is allowing someone else to pollute more?"

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