Comment Re:The wheel 2.0... (Score 2, Funny) 216
Well, Theo Jansen did a TED presentation on his improvement on te wheel.
Submission + - Facebook Censorship Won't Let Me Sign Up 3
dustinhigh writes: "Just thought this was funny... My name is Dustin High and I was told to sign up for a facebook account. After I hit sign-up it came back with an error saying my name is unacceptable. Well their name is unacceptable. What kind of a name is facebook anyway."
Submission + - Microsoft Warns of Excel Zero-Day Attack
greyMatter writes: "eWEEK has a story about a new, undocumented vulnerability in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program that is being used to launch computer attacks against specific targets, according to a warning from the software maker. The vulnerability, rated "extremely critical" by Secunia, is being exploited to load a keylogger Trojan on select targets, according to an anti-virus analyst tracking the latest attack. From the article: The attackers are using booby-trapped Excel documents, sent by e-mail to the target's mailbox. If a rigged .xls document is launched, the exploit happens silently in the background, infecting the machine with a Trojan downloader that opens a backdoor and waits for instructions from a server controlled by the attacker."
Submission + - First official release of GNU IceCat
Germany Says Copying of DVDs, CDs Is Verboten 230
Billosaur writes "In what can only be seen as the opening salvo in an attempt to control what users can do with content, the German parliament has approved a controversial copyright law which will make it illegal to make copies of CDs and DVDs, even for personal use. The Bundesrat, the upper part of the German parliament, approved the legislation over the objections of consumer protection groups. The law is set to take effect in 2008, and covers CDs, DVDs, recordings from IPTV, and TV recordings." A few folks have noted that this story is incorrect. The original link seems to be down now anyway. Sorry.
Journal Journal: Hopping the Pond 6
So if flying over the Atlantic is "Hopping the Pond," should flying over the Pacific be "Hopping the Lake?"
