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Submission + - Microsoft Kills IE6 (windowsteamblog.com)

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pimpsoftcom
pimpsoftcom writes: "Microsoft has finally decided to kill off Internet Explorer 6. In a windows team blog post on the official microsoft owned windows team blog site, they recently posted that they will now be doing silent upgrades of IE world wide "real soon now".

While the option was given to allow IE7 and IE8 to linger if corporate policy required it, no such option was given for IE6.

http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-start-automatic-upgrades-across-windows-xp-windows-vista-and-windows-7.aspx

Could this finally be the end of everybody's favorite browser to hate?

As a web developer, I can't help but hope so."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft's Most Exploitable Vulnerability of 2011 (esecurityplanet.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: We all know that Microsoft has spread it's share of FUD over the years, though in this case it was likely un-intended. Microsoft rated the MS11-020 vulnerability as having an exploit index of 1 earlier this year, their highest possible rating. Nine months later and no exploits.

"This bug was potentially a wormable remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows SMB stack," Tom Cross, manager of IBM's X-Force research group said. The SMB (Server Message Block) network protocol provides shared access to resources and communication between nodes on Windows networks. Microsoft gave the MS11-020 vulnerability an exploitability score of 1, which meant that they expected public exploitation to happen quickly.
Politics

Submission + - White House responds to abolish TSA petition (whitehouse.gov) 1

Submitted by ajclements
ajclements writes: The White House has, via John Pistole the head of the TSA, responded to the potion to abolish the TSA with a predictably vague 'no'. Pistole explains lists reasons the TSA exists, and explains some of its 10 roadmap.
Earth

Submission + - How Often Does Your Car Really Need an Oil Change?

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The LA Times reports that quick-lube companies have done such a good job convincing consumers that they need to change the oil in their cars every 3,000 miles that drivers are wasting millions of gallons of oil annually because they have their vehicles serviced too often as improvement in oils, friction proofing and car engines have lengthened the oil-change interval, typically 7,500 miles to 10,000 miles for most vehicles. "Our survey data found that nearly half of California drivers are still changing their oil at 3,000 miles or even sooner," says Mark Oldfield, a spokesman for the California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery, which has launched a website, checkyournumber.org, where drivers can look up the suggested motor-oil change interval number for their vehicles. Ford Motor Co. recommends oil changes for most of its new vehicles at 10,000 miles, although some still require the service at 7,500 miles. "Our new generation of engines have tighter internal tolerances, which reduces the amount of carbon and other products from combustion that gets into the oil," says Richard Truett, a Ford spokesman. Both Honda and Acura are equipped with a maintenance minder system that recommends oil changes and other services based on a number of vehicle-usage factors, including mileage and climate and other manufacturers have similar systems that alert drivers to the need for an oil change. "The idea is to prevent either over- or under-maintaining a car by following a set schedule," says Chris Martin, a Honda spokesman. "Now, there is no guesswork.""
Android

Submission + - Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text (darkreading.com)

Submitted by nut
nut writes: The much-hyped payment application from Google on Android has been examined by viaForensics and appears to store some cardholder data in plaintext. Google wallet is the first real payment system to use NFC on Android. Version 2 of the PCI DSS (the current standard) mandates the encryption of transmitted cardholder data encourages strong encryption for its storage. viaForensics suggest that the data stored in plain text might be sufficient to allow social engineering to obtain a credit card number.

Comment Acer Iconia W500 (Score 1) 277

by mescobal (#38339092) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet For Running a Real GNU/Linux Distribution?
I have an Acer Iconia W500 with Kubuntu and I'm very happy with it. KDE was the best DE I've found (after trying Unity, Gnome 3, XFCE, etc.). Okular is jus amazing to read PDFs and browse using touch interface. You have to make some adjustmenst (third button emulation). GTK based DE have the problem of the new scrollbars (not touch-friendly). KDE has Plasma and you can make an Android-like interface with few clicks. I have few tips about it : http://conalambre.wordpress.com/
Google

Submission + - Your location 'extremely valuable' to Google

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google recently wrote off concerns about its mobile devices sending precise user location data back to its servers, but recently uncovered emails illustrate that user location is instrumental in its strategy. Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google wrote to Larry Page, founder and now CEO, explaining that location data from mobile phones was "extremely valuable to Google," especially given the privacy blow-up concerning its Street View cars at the time.

 
Transportation

Submission + - AF 447 Flight Recorder Found in the Atlantic (bea.aero)

Submitted by romiz
romiz writes: The memory of the flight recorder for the Air France 447 flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed on June 1st 2009, has been found on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean, and brought back to the surface in good shape. This is the data recorder, that saves the flight parameters. The search is still continuing in hope of finding the voice recorder containing the sounds recorded in the plane's cockpit.

Submission + - windfarms paid to not generate electricity (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by doperative
doperative writes: Six Scottish windfarms were paid up to £300,000 to stop producing energy, it has emerged. The turbines, at a range of sites across Scotland, were stopped because the grid network could not absorb all the energy they generated.

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