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Submission + - Coverity Scan Turns 1

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gQuigs
gQuigs writes: "Coverity's Scan has helped developers find and fix 6,035 defects in open source code. Today they launched it anew for Scan's birthday.
100 New projects were added including dbus, cups, flac, gnupg, and many other libraries. Go check it out and see if the project you like is covered.
The New 100 are listed here: http://scan.coverity.com/rung0.html
Number of Defects not included (yet)."
Windows

Submission + - Evolution for Windows port challenger to Microsoft

Submitted by Tookis
Tookis writes: Evolution for Windows exists, it's easy to install and it works! No sooner had the ink dried on an article I had penned bemoaning the fact that OpenOffice.org on the Windows platform does not include an equivalent to Microsoft's Outlook, when a poster pointed me to a very exciting non-project. There is actually an offical Evolution port but this one actually can be downloaded and used by mere mortals. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/10201/1023/
Google

Submission + - Microsoft Attacks Google on Copyright

Submitted by
loid_void
loid_void writes: "In remarks prepared for delivery on Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers, New York Tims reports that the associate general counsel of Microsoft, Thomas Rubin, argues that Google's move into new media markets has come at the expense of publishers of books, videos and software. Mr. Rubin's comments echo arguments at the heart of a 16-month-old copyright lawsuit against Google brought by five book publishers and organized by the Association of American Publishers, an industry trade group. David Drummond, Google's senior vice president for corporate development and its chief legal officer, said in response that Google worked with more than 10,000 publishing partners to make books searchable online and had recently added the BBC and N.B.A. as YouTube video partners."
Windows

Submission + - Vista Download Disaster

Submitted by
SkinnyGuy
SkinnyGuy writes: "Downloading Windows Vista sounds like a great idea — until you actually do it. Looks like Microsoft hasn't thought out all the fine details. PC Magazine's own publisher gave it a shot and recounts his sorry tale to columnist Lance Ulanoff. Some other tales of woe appear in the associated forum."
Patents

Submission + - E-auction Company Uses Patent to Sue Nashville PD

Submitted by Synistar
Synistar writes: GovDeals, an Ebay-like government auction company, is using a patent that they were awarded on a "tiered method for auctioning government assets over a computerized network, such as the Internet"to sue the Nashville Police Department . Apparently GovDeals was rejected in their bid to become a contractor for the city government. They warned the city that they were in process of obtaining a patent and that the city would be in violation of it if they did not hire GovDeals. When they lost the bid and were awarded the patent they then turned around and sued the Police Department for violating it. So were patents intended as a means to wrangle government contracts and punish those who don't hire you?
Google

Submission + - Vint Cerf on Net Security, Hacking, and Acting

Submitted by ancientribe
ancientribe writes: Father of the Internet Vint Cerf talks candidly in this article about his being a Googler, and the biggest problems with Internet security and what he sees as the most promising solutions. He says that he's only done a little casual hacking, and that the term 'hacker' no longer comes with the honor it once did. Cerf also reveals in this personal look at the Internet icon that his real dream was to be an actor.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=118 596&WT.svl=news1_1
Operating Systems

Submission + - Which OS did you teach/raise your children on?

Submitted by
crypticalias
crypticalias writes: "I have a daughter who is almost two, she loves using my computer (to the extent she can) whenever she gets a chance. I would like to build her a machine of her own and was thinking about which OS to install on it. Windows would obviously be easier to learn but I think learning some *NIX based system would be much better. Have any of you parents out there done any testing of this type of situation? Which OS did you choose and how easily were your children able to pick it up?"
HP

Submission + - H.P.'s statuatory damages funding anti-piracy? WTF

Submitted by bhance
bhance writes: Will Slashdot please post something regarding this weird twist in the H.P. pretexting case? According to the New York Times — the vast bulk of H.P.'s statuatory damages will not be spent to help consumers maintain their privacy, or even to compensate those whose privacy was violated — but instead to help fight movie and music piracy?

"... The fund is to finance the investigation of consumer privacy violations and of intellectual-property theft, including the copying of movies and music ..." (emphasis mine)

Why is this money not being spent to, say, combat consumer identity theft? Or to dissuade other companies from invading the privacy rights of individuals? Or defend the legions of innocents from frivolous lawsuits from litigation-happy IP rights organizations?
Security

Submission + - Why can't registrars filter out blatant phishers?

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "(Note to Slashdot editors: There are now three followup posts to the orignal submission, which I see is still pending. Thought you might want to consider the package in total. Thanks.)

Can't registrars just say no to blatant phishers?

Security expert Mikko Hypponen asks an interesting question: Why can't domain name registrars simply refuse to accept the business of individuals who are trying to register names that would only be used for phishing? Example: directNIC's granting to a "Craig Smith" the obviously phishy "signin-ebay-c.com."

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9540

Head of the Anti-Phishing Working Group says ICANN policies are responsible for enabling much of the abuse, and hence the issue is "complex."

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9565

DirectNIC's CEO defends his company's anti-fraud practices, acknowledges the system isn't perfect, and suggests a measure that might help make it better.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9573

Finally, directNIC's CEO accuses Network World of throwing stones while working in a glass office building because he registered on the magazine's site using the same telltale sign — eBay — that got his company dinged in the press. Editor explains the difference."
Security

Submission + - Do-it-yourself Service Pack

Submitted by
juct
juct writes: "Christmas time means visiting family — and quite often spending hours to fix your dad's or auntie's computer. Save time with Offline Update, that builds a CD containing all Microsoft updates and an installation script to get those windows systems up to date without internet connection."
Classic Games (Games)

Submission + - Deep Fritz Beats Chess World Champion

Submitted by The Saint (ST)
The Saint (ST) writes: Computer chess program Deep Fritz (http://www.chessbase.com) scored a clear victory (4-2) against the chess World Champion V.Kramnik in a match of six games that finished on Dec.5, 2006. This victory is considered more profound than the one of Deep Blue against Kasparov in 1997, because Deep Fritz is actually a commercial product (although running on a very fast computer). More about the duel here: http://www.kramnik.com/default.aspx and here: http://www.chessbase.com/eventlist.asp?eventname=K ramnik%20vs%20Deep%20Fritz

Feed Backstage With a Text Actress (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
Horny housewives want to meet you now? Maybe not, but they do enjoy flexible hours and the ability to work from home -- even if the pay is crap. Commentary by Regina Lynn.


Feed New Rubber Lets Sweat Out (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
Scientists develop a light, breathable material for hazmat suits that keeps toxins out while letting water vapor escape. This could be the new Gore-Tex. By Cyrus Farivar.


Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Locating a server in your home

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: It's going to be 41 degrees C here tomorrow. At the moment my server (with 5 hard disks) is located temporarily in a room on it's own, mostly because no one wants to be in the same room as all those fans and disk motors. This is not a wise allocation of limited house space :-} (Yes — you guessed it — I am single) Q: Where do folks locate their servers in suburban homes? Q: Whats your best tricks and tips for making that server more house friendly? I am thinking about security, heat, noise, space, access...I guess in cooler climates any cupboard will do....
Announcements

Submission + - Free Multilingual guide VoIP in developing regions

Submitted by
Alberto Escudero
Alberto Escudero writes: "The "VoIP-4D Primer" is a free guide available in four major languages (english, french, arabic and spanish) under Creative Commons. The booklet is an effort to disseminate the use of telephony over the Internet in developing regions.

The 40-page guide targets both technical and non-technical readers. The first part presents the essentials of telephony over the Internet. For those interested in the more technical details, hands-on guidelines and configuration files are included in the second part. The examples provide essential background to build your own low-cost telephony system.

More info, media coverage and free PDF downloads are available here: http://voip4d.it46.se/"

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