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Submission + - RFID Powder

Submitted by microsage
microsage writes: Engadget is carrying a short article about a new RFID technology with some worrisome privacy implications.

From the article:
"As if the various other permutations and teensyness of RFID weren't wild enough, here comes Hitachi with its new "powder" 0.05mm x 0.05mm RFID chips. The new chips are 64 times smaller than the previous record holder... and yet still make room for a 128-bit ROM that can store a unique 38-digit ID number. "
Education

Submission + - Kansas Adopts New Science Standards

Submitted by porcupine8
porcupine8 writes: The Kansas State Board of Education has changed the state science standards once again, this time to take out language questioning evolution. This turnaround comes fast on the heels of the ouster given this past election to the ultra-conservative Board members who originally introduced the language. "Science" has also been re-redefined as "a human activity of systematically seeking natural explanations" (the word "natural" had been previously stricken from the definition).

If you'd like to see the new standards, a version showing all additions and deletions is available from the KS DOE's website (PDF).
Censorship

Submission + - Ethics of proxy servers

Submitted by
Mav
Mav writes: "I was recently asked to host a website for free in return for a lot of advertising. After querying them about how they knew the site would produce traffic they stated the site was going to be running PHPProxy (an open source web proxy). The traffic was a result of him and his contacts (nearly one thousand of them) using the site to bypass his school's firewall in order to view their MySpace pages and get access to their MSN messengers. Given all the attention social networking sites have recently received and the various laws attempting to block or control access to them I feel guilty and unsure making this available. Are there legal implications that I need to worry about? Could I be held liable if one of the students got in trouble? Most importantly, what's the moral thing to do?"
User Journal

Journal Journal: Not So Global Warming

Journal by OverlordQ

A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models. This comes soon after the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that strongly supports the conclusion that the Earth's climate as a whole is warming, largely due to human acti
Announcements

Submission + - Not so Global Warming

Submitted by OverlordQ
OverlordQ writes: A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models. This comes soon after the latest report by the that strongly supports the conclusion that the Earth's climate as a whole is warming, largely due to human activity. David Bromwich, professor of professor of atmospheric sciences in the Department of Geography, and researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, reported on this work at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at San Francisco.
Mozilla

Submission + - Firefox flaw could let sites fake being "trust

Submitted by thirty-seven
thirty-seven writes: According to an article on the CBC website, a Firefox bug could be exploited to make it look like users are connected to a trusted site when they are not. Apparently, by exploiting a flaw in the way that Firefox manages data written to the browser's "location.hostname" DOM property, a site could manipulate the authentication cookies for trusted websites such as an online bank, thereby appearing trusted itself.
Security

Submission + - A new security distro is our, Codename "ProTec

Submitted by
M4sterguru
M4sterguru writes: "Techm4sters team is proud to inform is first release of a security distro.
Codename " ProTech ". This distro in turn to networks administrators,
pentesters and others towards to security. The platform is perfect, it's
based on the latest ubuntu feisty. It's user friendly, and newbies are
welcome to this edition. A real swiss knife, the must have cd, that can be
use to many network operations. See with your eyes, and check http://www.techm4sters.org./"
Biotech

Submission + - power of the MUD

Submitted by
justelite
justelite writes: "This clock is powered by earth, no batteries or other power needed. Just mud... We need more mud for a computer powered by mud."
Biotech

Submission + - Minority Report: Brain Scan Predicts Action

Submitted by latenews
latenews writes: Excerpt: 'Researchers have demonstrated that brain scans can reveal peoples' intentions. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences' Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin recently demonstrated that algorithms, coupled with an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), can determine whether study participants planned to add or subtract groups of numbers. "It has never before been possible to read out of brain activity how a person has decided to act in the future," a statement from the center explained. The participants chose one of the two math functions and held the thought in their minds while getting an MRI. The images revealed fine-grained patterns of activity and computers read their covert intentions, before participants received sets of numbers and performed the math problems. The computers, programmed to recognize patterns that commonly occur with specific thoughts, determined participants' intentions 70 percent of the time. The computers use a method called multivariate pattern recognition to pick up brain activity across extended regions to determine what a person has decided to do. ' The full article at InformationWeek
Mozilla

Submission + - Over 27% of Firefox patches come from volunteers

Submitted by
dolphinling
dolphinling writes: "Everyone knows the Mozilla Corporation makes a lot of money and employs a lot of people now. Google has full-time employees working on Firefox too, as do a number of other places. Yet despite that, in the six months up to Firefox 2 "27% of the patches to Firefox and Gecko and other key projects were submitted by key volunteers, [and] those patches represent 24% of changes made to the source code". What's more, those numbers only counted contributers with 50 patches or more, so the actual numbers are probably quite a bit higher. It's good to see that even as Mozilla does so well in the business world, it can still keep its ties to the community so strong."
The Internet

Submission + - Baidu is the Google of China and booming

Submitted by thefickler
thefickler writes: Most news services concentrate, when it comes to search engines, on Google. But in China, soon to be the largest Internet market in the world, Google does not really rate. The company to watch is Baidu which is booming.

Chinese Web search leader Baidu says its fourth-quarter net profits quintupled, but cautioned that revenue growth was likely to decelerate sharply in the first quarter of 2007. To look at a statement like that you can easily pass over that word 'quintupled'. As in it became five times bigger. Not even Google in its best quarter came near that.

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