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Comment It is not the server load (Score 1) 208

by Kakao (#34040476) Attached to: How To Protect Against Firesheep Attacks
It is that it makes pages load slower because browsers do not cache SSL content unless the Cache-Control HTTP header is set to Public. When some of the content in a SSL page, like images, have that header set to Public the browser will show a warning stating that some of the content on that page is not secure frightening the user. So what will a site owner do? 1) Use SSL without browser caching and make the site much slower; 2) Use SSL setting some content as cacheable and risking loosing its users or; 3) Send everything in the open making the ignorant user happier?
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Dogs Can Be Pessimistic 99

Posted by samzenpus from the dog-in-black dept.
Not that it will change anything, but researchers at Bristol University say that your dog might be a gloom-monger. In addition to the downer dogs, the study also found a few that seemed happy no matter how uncaring the world around them was. "We know that people's emotional states affect their judgments and that happy people are more likely to judge an ambiguous situation positively. What our study has shown is that this applies similarly to dogs," said professor Mike Mendl, an author of the study and head of animal welfare and behavior at Bristol University.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How to survive a click fraud attack? (google.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: I have just been throw out of Google AdWords by a click fraud attack by a competitor. Suddenly the conversion cost was multiplied by 5 which is far from viable. Google does not offer a single communication channel other than the AdWords Forum where nobody answered. I have seem other similar topics answered with what basically comes down to denialism. The clicks come from diverse IPs and not a few ones.
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Doubled Yield For Bio-Fuel From Waste 97

Posted by timothy from the what-about-the-oil-from-anything-guy? dept.
hankwang writes "Dutch chemical company DSM announced a new process for production of ethanol from agricultural waste. Most bio-fuel ethanol now is produced from food crops such as corn and sugar cane. Ethanol produced from cellulose would use waste products such as wood chips, citrus peel, and straw. The new process is claimed to increase the yield by a factor of two compared to existing processes, thanks to new enzymes and special yeast strains."
IBM

Submission + - IBM Breaks Open Source Patent Pledge (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Jay Maynard
Jay Maynard writes: IBM has broken the pledge it made in 2005 not to assert 500 patents against open source software. In a letter sent to Roger Bowler, president of TurboHercules SA, IBM's Mark Anzani, head of their mainframe business, claimed that the Hercules open-source emulator (disclaimer: I manage the open source project) infringes on at least 106 issued patents and 67 more applied for. Included in that list is two that it pledged not to assert in 2005. In a blog entry, the NoSoftwarePatents campaign's Florian Mueller said that "IBM is using patent warfare in order to protect its highly lucrative mainframe monopoly against Free and Open Source Software." I have to agree: from where I sit, IBM likes Open Source only as long as they don't have to compete with it.

Feed Science Daily: Toxicologist warning to parents: Look for signs of K2 -- 'fake marijuana' (sciencedaily.com)

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In the last month, a professor of toxicology at Saint Louis University has seen nearly 30 cases involving teenagers who were experiencing hallucinations, severe agitation, elevated heart rate and blood pressure, vomiting and, in some cases, tremors and seizures. All of these teens had smoked a dangerous, yet legal substance known as K2 or "fake weed."

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