David E. Smith - Slashdot User

Submission + - All Air Travel To/From U.S. Now Requires Passport

Submitted by

s31523

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @09:54AM

s31523 writes: "It may come as a surprise to some, but in previous years travel to/from the United States to/from neighboring countries did not require a passport for re-entry into the U.S. Not anymore, as new regulations go into effect today that will require a passport for travelers entering the U.S. from neighboring countries like Canada, Mexico, and various Caribbean islands. U.S. territories are the only exception. The new rule even applies to children, as noted on the U.S. Dept. of State website."

Submission + - IE7 on Vista blocks www.mozilla.com

Submitted by gropix on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @09:52AM

gropix writes: Just try going to www.mozilla.com in Vista and it hangs. Shows the title, fetches the info but just hangs. Haven't found anyother website that is similarly blocked and changing the sub-domain gets round the problem. Interesting way of steming the tide of new firefox users, most consumers have no way of getting Firefox except via IE.

Submission + - Zone-H.org domain got hijacked

Submitted by

Willem de Groot

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @09:30AM

Willem de Groot writes: "The domain of Zone-H, a major archive of website defacements, got hijacked today at 12:15:26 UTC. The crackers changed DNS servers and are directing traffic to an US server instead of the Estonian Zone-H servers. It is as yet unclear how the crackers could achieve control of the domain. The old http://www.zone-h.org/ site (at 213.219.122.11) doesn't mention anything about the hijack yet."

Submission + - No, You Can't Stream Any IPTV Content over Xbox

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @06:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: During Microsoft's CES keynote, Bill Gates and his cohorts announced the new Microsoft TV IPTV Edition and demonstrated some of its more compelling features. At the end of that segment, the Microsoft presenters let us know that their IPTV demonstration was performed on an Xbox 360. The audience cheered. They cheered because they assumed you could use an Xbox 360 to deliver any old IPTV content to the television. You can't. It only works if you subscribe to an ISP that provides services using Microsoft TV IPTV Edition. Even then, you can only watch that provider's content, not any old TV show streamed over the Internet.

Submission + - Put yourself on the Google Map

Submitted by

E-Tray

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @05:34AM

E-Tray writes: "Google Australia is celebrating Australia Day 2007 by photographing Sydney Harbour from the air on January 26th, and they want to make sure as many as possible squeeze into the picture."

Submission + - The Death of Domain Parking

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @02:37AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Is Richard Rosenblatt, the former MySpace CEO, about to revolutionize the domain industry? Quote: "I thought, it can't be that easy. So I talked to some domainers, and they said, 'We own 300,000 domains, we make $20 million a year, we have just four employees and some servers in the Caymans.'" Rosenblatt wants to use millions of currently unused domains to create a new vertical Web 2.0 empire.

http://www.dailydomainer.com/news/200733-200733-de ath-of-domain-parking.html"

How to get a Refund on Your Unwanted Windows 409

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 05, 2007 @04:21PM from the breaking-the-window-and-climbing-out dept.

lisah writes "Serge Wroclawski recently contacted Dell to request a refund on the unwanted copy of Windows XP that came pre-installed on his computer. Somewhat surprisingly, Dell complied. Wroclawski admits that the $52.50 refund was more of a victory in principal than anything else, but it was a success nonetheless. Using his tips and techniques readers can try their hand at getting a refund of their own. Wroclawski cautions that you should be prepared for a long haul: the process could take hours." Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

Give an Internet Freedom Disk 342

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 17, 2006 @07:45PM from the real-holiday-cheer dept.

An anonymous reader, perhaps the blogger himself, writes to tell us about a new blog aimed at getting non-techies excited over the idea of running from a Live CD. The blogger doesn't call it that, preferring instead "Internet Freedom Disk"; Linux is never mentioned. The submitter adds: "This is just a great gift to drop on your non-geek friends and potentially wake up a sleeping giant." Cheap, last-minute, and you can make them yourself. The blogger isn't selling anything; he provides links to Ubuntu and Knoppix Live CDs. Or pick your favorite.

Submission + - Indians use Google Earth, GPS to protect Amazon

Submitted by

Damien1972

on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @10:12PM

Damien1972 writes: "Deep in the most remote jungles of South America, Amazon Indians are using Google Earth, GPS, and other technologies to protect their fast-dwindling home. Tribes in Suriname, Brazil, and Colombia are combining their traditional knowledge of the rainforest with Western technology to conserve forests and maintain ties to their history and cultural traditions. Indians use Google Earth to remotely monitor their lands by checking for signs of miners and GPS to map their lands. "Google Earth is used primarily for vigilance," Vasco van Roosmalen, program director of a nonprofit involved in the project."

Submission + - Copyleft vs Zune

Submitted by

Tag

on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @09:55PM

Tag writes: "Microsoft's competitor to the iPod is proving to be quite the controversy. One point that has been brought up is Zune's ability to wirelessly transfer songs, allowing the recipient to play the song 3 times before it is locked out by Microsoft's DRM (Digital Rights Management) that is added to the file for wireless transfer. This seems like a "wicked smaht" solution to the ongoing bickering by the RIAA & the 'Napsterites'. My problem with this, is if I record my own album and put it onto my Zune, and my music is under a license resembling the Copyleft, providing for the free transfer of music, without allowing the license to change, will Microsoft's DRM violate my rights? Technically it would take my license, and put Microsoft's DRM "3 Play" on it. The best analogy to this is a program under the GNU license, or equivalent being given to someone as shareware (x days before it no longer works). Comments?"

Submission + - Hacking my Passport

Submitted by

choongiri

on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @05:55PM

choongiri writes: "I recently renewed my UK passport, and the new one contains an RFID chip. I have read lots of discussion here and elsewhere about the potential security implications of RFID in passports, and that got me wondering — what would it take to hack my passport? I know very little about how RFID works, so how would I go about reading the data that is held on my passport, and testing it to see if it can really be read with the cover closed, from across the room, and so on? Have any slashdotters tried reading their own passport RFID chips? Finally, is it really true that I could microwave my passport for a couple of seconds to deactivate the chip, and what would the implications of this be for me crossing borders. I live in Canada, so crossing into the US is an issue."

Submission + - PGP is 15 years old

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @05:10PM

An anonymous reader writes: PGP Corporation salutes the 15th anniversary of PGP encryption technology. Developed and released in 1991 by Phil Zimmermann, Pretty Good Privacy 1.0 set the standard for safe, accessible technology to protect and share online information.

Submission + - How to Buy a 65" Plasma TV for $.99

Submitted by

on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @04:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: Think your website is secure? Think again. Many hosting companies still provide their clients with older, insecure shopping carts. Hacking these carts is trivial, even though Visa and Verisign call them "secure." This article discusses common vulnerabilities in many shopping carts. Check your site before the Christmas rush begins.

Submission + - IOmega Backup software fails to recover files

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @04:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: If you back up your files using IOmega, you might think your data is safely secured. But if you happen to choose to compress the backup files (i.e. the default) option, your data will be saved into a format which can't be uncompressed without a configuration file that's stored on your primary HD (i.e. the one that just crashed). You can read about this on IOmega's customer support forum:

http://www.iomegasupportforums.com/phpbb2/viewtopi c.php?t=2453&highlight=recover

I've included the first exchange because I think they will probably remove this thread if it gets too much notice. First, the desperate customer:

"I have my entire hard drive backed up to an external hard drive using Iomega Automatic Backup Pro. Just a few days ago my hard drive crashed, had to get a new hard drive. When I go to recover my files it cant find the configuration files. I did some research and very very oddly....the files required to retrieve my backup were on the hard drive that was backed up and now crashed. Defeating the entire purpose of a backup software. What can I do now to recover my files since the configuration files were destride on the origional drive? Please help!"

Now, the not-so-helpful (nor literate) tech-support:

"If you backed up your files using IAB pro with the compress option. If you moved any of the files on the drive or off the drive then there isn't a way to recover the files. Next time you do a backup make sure you are not compressing the files.

Did you move any of the files on the drive where you backed up the files to?"

Submission + - OpenSSH Server Ported to Windows CE

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @04:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: WindowsForDevices is reporting that the OpenSSH server has been ported to Windows CE, enabling secure remote access to a Windows CE-based device using the SSH (secure shell) protocol. It's currently released at version 0.0.1, under a BSD-style license, and is available in source and binary form on Microsoft's Codeplex, SourceForge-like code sharing website.

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