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Submission + - 9 Most annoying Vista "Features"

Submitted by
firenurse
firenurse writes: "Fox news has an interesting story titled "Microsoft Windows Vista's Nine Most Annoying Features". According to the article, "Windows Vista tries hard to protect us from ourselves. One unintended consequence is that it will sometimes block actions that we purposefully generated — and not even recognize that we selected the option." The link is here. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250344,00.html "
Biotech

Submission + - Cheap, safe, patentless cancer drug discovered

Submitted by
PyroMosh
PyroMosh writes: "The New Scientist is reporting that researchers working at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have discovered that an existing drug called dichloroacetate (DCA) is effective in killing cancer cells, while leaving the host's healthy cells unharmed. DCA has already been used for years to treat metabolic disorders, and is known to be fairly safe. Sounds like great news, is it too good to be true? Why is the mainstream news media failing to report on this potential breakthrough? The University of Alberta and the Alberta Cancer Board have set up a site with more info, where you can also donate to support future clinical trials."
User Journal

Journal SPAM: The EFF Cracks Secret FBI Printer Tracking Codes 2

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius

Almost all printers secretly print dots without your consent, which are invisible to the naked eye. Apparently Xerox (Docucolor series), and possibly others, have included this technology. This is being used by the FBI to keep an eye on groups such as Greenpeace and United for Peace and Justice. As an effort of their Machine Identification Code Technology project, the EFF has cracked the code, and provided a
Biotech

Submission + - Iranian scientists claim to have cured AIDS

Submitted by
user317
user317 writes: "The Iranian government's boasts of "great achievements", included an announcement on Saturday that Iranian scientists have "introduced an AIDS cure". After seven long years of arduous work, Iranian scientists here on Saturday introduced a herbal medicine which cures Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). "The drug named 'IMOD' is completely effective and safe with no proven side effects," Iran's Minister of Health Kamran Bagheri Lankarani claimed during a ceremony."
Windows

Submission + - Apple tells iTunes users to stay away from Vista

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: From the article:

Beta users of Vista have long reported problems running version 7.02 of iTunes, the most recent release. Apple has now formally acknowledged that issue on its site, posting the following recommendation: "iTunes 7.0.2 may work with Windows Vista on many typical PCs. Apple recommends, however, that customers wait to upgrade Windows until after the next release of iTunes which will be available in the next few weeks." Problems which Vista users can experience include an inability to play tracks purchased from the iTunes store, inability to synchronise calendars, random changes to iPod settings and occasional complete corruption of the device.
Space

Submission + - Global Warming Deniers Speak Out

Submitted by Attila
Attila writes: A respected climatologist speaks out about how the scientific findings of his committee were twisted for political purposes by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (part 5 of a series from admittedly conservative Canadian newspaper The National Post).
Operating Systems

Submission + - A Dad Seeking Vista Gets More Than He Asked For

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: My father heard about Vista coming on the news. Since he was interested in getting it, he asked me to obtain it and install it on his computer and he would give some cash in return. I told him I was going to do that, but instead I burned an Ubuntu CD and installed it. Later, when he came home from work, I showed him his new "Vista" install, complete with the latest Office and Solitaire. Well, it's been a few days since that and now he says Bill Gates is better than Steve Jobs and brags about how OS X on my iMac is obsolete compared to Vista on his PC. I will continue with the prank for some weeks, after which I'll tell him the truth and give him back his money.
Quickies

Submission + - Global Warming No Big Deal for Earth

Submitted by anthemaniac
anthemaniac writes: Officials from 113 nations meeting in Paris have reportedly agreed to language that says global warming was "very likely" caused by human activity and is causing stronger hurricanes. Meanwhile, Scientists say Earth will survive just fine, as it has in the past when biology drove even more dramatic changes in climate. The question, they ask, is whether humans will make it.
The Internet

Submission + - Ask Wikipedia Founder Your Questions

Submitted by
MattSparkes
MattSparkes writes: "There's an interview with Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, and the chance to ask him your own questions. My first question wuold have been, 'You gave away one of the most valuable websites in the World for free. Are you ok?', but that one has already been asked. It's a shame that the questions aren't being submitted on a wiki, that would have been a nice touch."
Windows

Submission + - Dvorak on Vista - Nothing Solved

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dvorak's thoughts on Vista:

"Since the early days of DOS (and even with the Mac OS), there has been a slow shift within the operating-system concept from increased functionality to increased featurism, neither of which are needed."

"Now we have Vista. It turns out to be nothing like what was promised. What a shock. It has a few new features, but I'd question if it's actually more functional than what we've had before."

"So what happens now? We start by playing with Vista and listening to the inevitable complaints and praises. But this OS is not designed to be a good candidate for upgrading older systems. This is something of a new phenomenon. Thus, people about to phase out old machines might be a little more experimental. And that means trying Linux."
United States

Submission + - An "Atmosphere of Pressure" in Federal Sci

Submitted by proud american
proud american writes: The union of concerned scientists testified before congress that there is political interference in federal climate science. "Almost 60 percent of the scientists who responded to the survey said they had personally experienced such an incident in the last five years, the report says, and those who said their work was most closely related to climate change experienced the most interference."

Their survey was sent to 1600 scientists at seven federal agencies. 279 responded.
Of the 279, six reported they experienced interference in the past five years (question 33). 21 responded they experienced no interference.

Is the reported 'almost 60%' number justifiable given the actual survey results?
Does such a small response produce a statistically valid survey?

UCS web site article, survey, results: http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/interfe rence/atmosphere-of-pressure.html
NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/washington/31int erfere.html
Security

Submission + - How Prevalent Are XSS Vulnerabilities

Submitted by chikenshak
chikenshak writes: Last year, Michael Sutton discussed an experiment which leveraged the Google Search API to identify web sites vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Looks like he's at it again, but this time he's leveraging Google to identify sites vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS). He discusses automating a process which found 17.3% of the sites that he looked at to be vulnerable and further states that once the methodology and tool were in place that it took 'less than five minutes...to identify 47 vulnerable websites'. While he doesn't name names, he does state that the vulnerable sites included 'a major sports network and one of the largest newspapers in the US'.
Upgrades

Submission + - DragonFly Release 1.8 Released

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: 1.8 is the fifth major DragonFly release. DragonFly's policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches. The biggest kernel change in this release is the addition of virtual kernel support and a virtual kernel build target (VKERNEL). Virtual kernels are systems-in-a-box... you can run a complete kernel as a userland process. All standard non-hardware-specific applications will run inside the virtual kernel. Performance depends on how heavily an application interacts with the VM system and how often it makes system calls, since these operations have to be forwarded by the real kernel to the virtual kernel. DragonFly CDs are 'live', which means that the CD will boot your system and let you log in as root (no password). You can use this feature to check for hardware compatibility and play with DragonFly a little before actually installing it on your hard drive. http://www.dragonflybsd.org/community/release1_8.s html

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