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Submission + - Nintendo may introduce Blu-ray enabled Wii (blorge.com)

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fdmendez

on Friday July 27, 2007 @07:48PM

fdmendez writes: "An unsuspecting informant accidentally stumbled upon a Blu-ray enabled Wii while visitng Nintendo's R&D facility. Apparently the bathroom wasn't that easy to find.

While searching for the bathroom, the unnamed informant took a wrong turn Willy Wonka style and opened the wrong door. Upon entering the room, he noticed a small group of Nintendo employees (engineers?) watching a movie on what looked like a Nintendo Wii. The informant recounted the details to the Sarcastic Gamer, but made it unclear if the movie playing abilites were a hardware add-on, a software upgrade, or a brand new Wii model. Regardless, he took several mental notes about the situation."

Submission + - OpenBSD patched BIND9 10 years ago (heise-security.co.uk) 1

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juct

on Friday July 27, 2007 @07:07PM

juct writes: "News from the "they-could-have-known-better-department": As heise Security reports OpenBSD changed the buggy implementation of the pseudo random number generator before switching from BIND 8 to Bind 9 back in 1997. So OpenBSD was not affected by the recent Cache Poisoning problem in Bind 9. According to Theo deRaadt the OpenBSD team even told ISC that their PRNG was flawed — but "the didn't listen"."

Submission + - ISPs inserting ads on webpages (seanreiser.com)

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DrNibbler

on Friday July 27, 2007 @07:07PM

DrNibbler writes: "Back in June, there was a post from someone to thinking he was infected by spyware since he was getting additional ads from a company called "Fair Eagle" inserted on all the pages he visits. After a little analysis he found this happened from his home but not from his office and mentioned that his ISP is MoonOverAddison and it appeared that they were inserting the advertisements. This is an article describing the issue and some of the effects for content providers."

Submission + - How to learn anything (businessofsoftware.org)

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neilgd

on Saturday July 14, 2007 @12:11PM

neilgd writes: "In 1974, Ted Nelson (internet visionary and inventor of the term 'hypertext') wrote Dream Machines. In one section he describes how to learn anything. 'A lot of people are afraid to ask questions because they're afraid of looking dumb. But the dumb thing is not asking questions ...'"

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