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Submission + - Pakistan lifts Facebook ban, gets apology (skunkpost.com)

crimeandpunishment writes: Facebook is back in Pakistan. The Pakistani government says it lifted its ban Monday after officials from Facebook apologized for the "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" page, and removed it from the site. The page caused outrage and protests among Pakistan's Muslim population, and led to the ban two weeks ago. A spokesman for Pakistan's office of information technology said Facebook assured the government "nothing of this sort will happen in the future".

Submission + - Self-Assembling proteins to revolutinize computing

parallel_prankster writes: EETimes reports on Clathrin, a protein found in every cell of the human body, could become a self-assembler of future information processing systems that are smaller, faster and cheaper than today's computer circuitry, according to a company investigating the technology. Boston-based ExQor Technologies has demonstrated that Clathrin Proteins can be formed into nano-sized biolasers suitable for transmitting information. It expects the technology will initially be used in medical applications. The precision of clathrin's self-assembly process , and ultra-small size also could be used to improve solar cells and batteries with nanoscale electronic and photonic properties not possible with silicon.

Submission + - "Using C++ in GCC is OK" (gnu.org)

An anonymous reader writes: CodeSourcery's Mark Mitchell wrote to the GCC mailing list yesterday reporting "...that the GCC Steering Committee and the FSF have approved the use of C++ in GCC itself. Of course, there's no reason for us to use C++ features just because we can. The goal is a better compiler for users, not a C++ code base for its own sake."

Submission + - Iran repeatedly offering aid in BP Oil Disaster (upi.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Iran offers to assist with Oil Spill, mysteriously kept out of mainstream media...they offered help almost a month ago and then recently renewed this offer. I would think, that with the repetitive failures of BP and the private sector to clean this up, that the US govt would at least be receptive to listen to Iran, what gives?
Google

Submission + - Only Atheists should be allowed to teach religion, (gizmodo.com) 1

Dan541 writes: I trust Google with a lot of things, but when in doubt I always fall back on good-old common sense. Lauren Rosenberg did not. She walked onto a highway because Google told her to and got hit by a car.

Rosenberg, who apparently takes things very literally, was reading the directions on her Blackberry and thus wasn't privy to the warning that shows up when you access walking directions on a computer:

Comment Do a "code rewrite" (Score 1) 504

Leave the university and do a "code rewrite", as long as they can't prove you copy and pasted the work that you did under their employment, they have little legal standing and unless this is a real programming gem I doubt they will send the lawyers after you... just look at what happenned to SCO.

Comment Re:But are they secure? (Score 1) 394

Or maybe just one person logged onto each of the un-encrypted ones and turned on the encryption. :-)

I remember I had some issues in my old apartment (too many wifi's around me and mine seemed to have trouble getting a channel), I logged onto each of the unprotected routers and reduced their transmit power until I couldn't find them anymore.

Comment OMG (Score 1) 344

Not that anyone will necessarily listen to me, though obviously they must be listening to Rupert.

I have not bought a newspaper, watched Sky (for anything other than football) for the best part of seven years. Why the hell do they think that I might get my credit card out in order to listen what they have to say, they should pay me for the benefit of listening to them.

Comment Re:Starting with TWM, (Score 1) 432

Every now and then in all of this, I really just miss TWM and vaguely consider going back.

Oh - yes - I know exactly what you mean. I started with twm and then tvtwm and for the minimalist who just needs to get things done it was perfect (with the added advantage of the virtual sized desktop). Editing a .twmrc is probably beyond most these days... though anyone who has a nice conky setup will probably love it.

Security

MD5 Proven Ineffective for App Signatures 117

prostoalex writes "Marc Stevens, Arjen K. Lenstra, and Benne de Weger have released their paper 'Vulnerability of software integrity and code signing applications to chosen-prefix collisions for MD5'. It describes a reproducible attack on MD5 algorithms to fake software signatures. Researchers start off with two simplistic Windows applications — HelloWorld.exe and GoodbyeWorld.exe, and apply a known prefix attack that makes md5() signatures for both of the applications identical. Researchers point out: 'For abusing a chosen-prefix collision on a software integrity protection or a code signing scheme, the attacker should be able to manipulate the files before they are being hashed and/or signed. This may mean that the attacker needs insider access to the party operating the trusted software integrity protection or code signing process.'"
The Courts

Submission + - U.S. May Kidnap Wanted British Citizens

Frosty Piss writes: "
A lawyer for the U.S. government has told the British Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the Supreme Court has sanctioned it, making it clear in a British court that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington. The lawyer said that if a person was kidnapped by the U.S. authorities in another country and was brought back to face charges in America, no U.S. court could rule that the abduction was illegal and free him.
This is the first I've heard of this outrageous idea applied outside equally questionable "terrorist renditions". Many nations of the world may be surprised to learn the U.S. no longer believes in sovereignty."

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