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Submission + - The human race is likely to split into two races 5

Submitted by Colin Smith on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @08:44PM

Colin Smith writes: Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6057734.stm

Presumably most Slashdot readers are already in the process of evolving into Morlocks.

Submission + - Apple Adds Memory Randomization (ALSR) to Leopard

Submitted by

.mack

on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @06:49PM

.mack writes: "Apple has announced plans to add code-scrambling diversity to Mac OS X Leopard, a move aimed at making the operating system more resilient to virus and worm attacks. The security technology, known as ASLR (address space layout randomization), randomly arranges the positions of key data areas to prevent malware authors from predicting target addresses. Another new feature coming in Leopard is Sandboxing (systrace), which limits an application's access to the system by enforcing access policies for system calls."

Submission + - Microsoft Does 180 on URI Protocol Handing Flaw (technet.com)

Submitted by a-twitter on Thursday October 11, 2007 @10:03AM

a-twitter writes: After months of insisting there is nothing to patch, Microsoft has done a complete 180 on the URI protocol handling vulnerability, announcing in a security advisory that a Windows update will be released to revise URI handling code within ShellExecute() to be more strict. The MSRC blog explains the background and offers more details on this issue.

Submission + - UK Judge Finds Nine Errors In Al Gore Documentary 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11, 2007 @06:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: A British High Court judge has identified nine significant errors in Al Gore's Oscar-winning global warming documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth'. Mr Justice Burton agreed with Gore that climate change was caused by man-made greenhouse gases, but found that some of Gore's claims were exaggerated and motivated by politics rather than science. The judge ruled that the documentary can be shown to British school children, but only if it was accompanied by guidance notes to balance its views.

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