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Submission + - New version of reporting tool for Flex and PHP (softpressrelease.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Stimulsoft Company, a software vendor, announces the release of new versions of Reports.Fx product line.

"In version 2010.3, we have made a real breakthrough in the development and improvement of products, — said Vladimir Hotchenko, a Reports.Fx project manager. — Customers feedback was impact on the development of the project. Among important innovations are implementing the Chart component, Total functions, sorting data before output, expressions, formatting numbers, dates, times, and variables in a report. All this greatly improves our products Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Flex and Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for PHP, makes it easier for developers to create reports, and consequently accelerates this process. "

The List of Changes should be continued.
In versions 2010.3 of software products Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Flex and Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for PHP the Royal TPG Post KIX 4-State barcode was added. This barcode is used for postal purposes in the Netherlands.
Each variable in the data dictionary has the ReguestFromUser property. Now, if to set this property, the report generator will request the value of the variable from a user in the window of the report viewer, using the appropriate control.
If you do not want to store your username and password database in a report, you can change them before running a report from the code. Also you can use the new connection property which is PromptUserNameAndPassword. If to set this property to true, the report generator will request a username and password for the connection before the report rendering.

Changes specific for Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for PHP
In addition to loading images by a hyperlink, it is possible to display images in a report from the database.
Support for SQL parameters in Reports.Fx for PHP is implemented. Parameters are supported by all database adapters

The list of implemented features is much broader. Read more about this at http://www.stimulsoft.com/AllNews.aspx .

Documentation
With the new version of the product updated documentation is delivered. A large number of new articles, Step-by-step instructions on creating reports are added. Work with documentation has become much easier. Also, please see the Quick Start for Reports.Fx Videos on our website page. Six new movies which are specific to the Reports.Fx product line appeared. Updated and reorganized FAQ pages on software products Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Flex and Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for PHP will help customers to start working with the product and avoid common mistakes.

Pricing and Special Offers
Stimulsoft Company offers a flexible licensing policy for Reports.Fx product line. Reporting tools are available for purchasing with source code or without it. A type of licensing depends on the number of developers which develop an application and work directly with the software.
When purchasing the software, the user gets the right to obtain technical support and free minor and major versions for the period of one year.
Stimulsoft Company has special Christmas and New Year offers to their customers. For new users there is a proposal to buy any reporting tool and get a 24-month subscription program instead of the standard 12 months. Detailed description of the offer can be found at http://www.stimulsoft.com/ShowNews.aspx?id=1630 .

About Company
Stimusoft Company is a leading provider of development tools and components to generate reports. The main principle of the company is creating the most user-friendly software products based on extensive experience in building reports and ongoing contact with users, which is based on analysis of their wishes and requirements.

To get more information about a product, documentation, video tutorials, and download the demo versions of products please visit the company website at http://www.stimulsoft.com/ .

Product page link: http://www.stimulsoft.com/ReportsFx.aspx
Download link: http://www.stimulsoft.com/Downloads.aspx
Company website: http://www.stimulsoft.com/Home.aspx
Television

Submission + - Nature TV shows rely on dirty tricks (mongabay.com) 2

Submitted by terrancem
terrancem writes: Wildlife filmmaker Chris Palmer says animal documentaries rely on various tricks including the use of trained animals, staged scenes, and harassment. “If you see a close-up of a bear standing on his hind legs and roaring, what is likely going on is there is a trainer behind the scenes who is telling it what to do,” he confesses. But Palmer says these shows serve an important purpose: promoting wildlife conservation.
Businesses

Submission + - Baggage Fees Send Airline Profits Soaring (chicagotribune.com)

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Pickens
Pickens writes: "The Chicago Tribune reports that the 20 largest U.S. carriers collected $906.4 million in baggage-related charges during the third quarter, a 23 percent jump from 2009 results, according to data released Monday by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. New baggage fees for international routes, a rebound in air travel and passenger frustration over limited overhead space in airplane cabins all contributed to the skyrocketing fee income, observers said. The volume of luggage handled by American Airlines has leveled off this year, averaging 0.8 to 0.9 checked bags per passenger, or roughly 205,000 checked bags per day, down from about 1.1 checked bags in 2008, when American and other major carriers turned to fees to offset losses prompted by high oil prices and the recession. And while analysts question what else carriers can do to wring greater baggage income from passengers, no carrier has followed Spirit Air Line's example and begun charging passengers for carry-ons. Spirit's new policy appears to have reaped rewards for the ultra-low-cost carrier. After Spirit rolled out the new charges Aug. 1, its baggage fee revenue rose to $22.9 million during the third quarter, up 36 percent from the previous quarter."
Java

Submission + - Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for OSX 1

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jasonmanley
jasonmanley writes: "Good news all around! Oracle and Apple announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical client. OpenJDK will make Apple's Java technology available to open source developers so you can access and contribute to the effort.

Furthermore, the JCP Executive Committe has approved the JSR "quartet" for Java SE 7 and Java SE 8. With this ratification, the Java standard will progress through the JCP while the open source reference implementation will be delivered through the OpenJDK project. See you on OpenJDK!"
Television

Submission + - Comcast combines Internet and TV with Spectrum (tekgoblin.com)

Submitted by tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: It appears that Comcast is testing a new service that combines both TV and Internet. Sounds familiar doesn't it (WebTV). Users will be able to access a wide variety of web-videos (YouTube?), on-demand content, live broadcasts, and recorded content. The new service however will not provide direct Internet access but will allow users to comment on TV shows and movies and allow access to social networks.
Privacy

Submission + - Sheriff's online database leaks info on Informants (npr.org)

Submitted by Tootech
Tootech writes: A Colorado sheriff's online database mistakenly revealed the identities of confidential drug informants and listed phone numbers, addresses and Social Security numbers of suspects, victims and others interviewed during criminal investigations, authorities said.

The breach potentially affects some 200,000 people, and Mesa County sheriff's deputies have been sifting through the database to determine who, if anyone, is in jeopardy.

"That in itself is probably the biggest concern we have, because we're talking about people's personal safety," Sheriff Stan Hilkey said.

The FBI and Google Inc. are trying to determine who accessed the database, the sheriff said. Their concern: That someone may have copied it and could post it, WikiLeaks-style, on the Internet.

"The truth is, once it's been out there and on the Internet and copied, you're never going to regain total control," Hilkey said.

Thousands of pages of confidential information were vulnerable from April until Nov. 24, when someone notified authorities after finding their name on the Internet. Officials said the database was accessed from within the United States, as well as outside the country, before it was removed from the server.
Security

Submission + - US voting machine researcher held at India's borde (gnumonks.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: J Alex Halderman was held for 18 hourse at the Indian border before being accepted into the country. He is one of the authors of the study India's EVMs are vulnerable to fraud which a number of international experts on electronic voting machine security had published in order to warn the Indian government about the flaws in their voting machines.

Submission + - Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online (chronicle.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Colleges that wouldn't dare put up a new building without wheelchair access now routinely roll out digital services that, for blind people, are the Internet equivalent of impassable stairs.

Submission + - Marvel Pinball (PS3) Review (brutalgamer.com)

Submitted by averyzoe
averyzoe writes: Spiderman. Iron Man. Wolverine. Blade. The heavy hitters of Marvel comics are here.and they want to play some pinball. Zen Studios brings you Marvel Pinball, an incredibly realistic pinball experience on PS3 and XBox360. I was lucky enough to give the PS3 version many hours of my time, and I must say I am quite impressed with the experience.
Patents

Submission + - On-Line Flight Planning Under Attack via Patent (aero-news.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: FlightPrep an Oragon based aviation company was pounded by the aviation community for threatening legal action against http://www.runwayfinder.com/ a popular non-profit web base flight planning site. Many aviators use the site to construct flight scenarios and try out different routes to find the safest and most efficient way to fly from point A to B

From the article:
"The damage appears to be heavy as far as FlightPrep is concerned. A massive amount of support rallied to the defense of RunwayFinder.com, while the patent holder, 'FlightPrep' attempted to post their defense/rationale on their corporate blog, shortly thereafter... but WITHOUT allowing comments onsite (and judging by comments elsewhere, they probably got tired of the invective... as for the moment, it would be hard to find a more unpopular aero-company than FlightPrep)."
Earth

Submission + - Ukraine to Open Chernobyl Area to Tourists (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by
Pickens
Pickens writes: "The Washington Post reports that Ukraine plans to open up the sealed zone around the Chernobyl reactor to visitors who wish to learn more about the tragedy that occurred nearly a quarter of a century ago. Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova says experts are developing travel routes that will be both medically safe and informative.. "There are things to see there if one follows the official route and doesn't stray away from the group," says Yershova. "Though it is a very sad story." The ministry also says it hopes to finish building a new safer shell for the exploded reactor by 2015 that will cover the original iron-and-concrete structure hastily built over the reactor that has been leaking radiation, cracking and threatening to collapse. About 2,500 employees maintain the remains of the now-closed nuclear plant, working in shifts to minimize their exposure to radiation and several hundred evacuees have returned to their villages in the area despite a government ban."
IBM

Submission + - IBM to build 3 petaflop supercomputer (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "The global race for supercomputing power continues unabated: Germany's Bavarian Academy of Science has announced that it has contracted IBM to build a supercomputer that, when completed in 2012, will be able to execute up to 3 petaflops, potentially making it the world's most powerful supercomputer. To be called SuperMUC, the computer, which will be run by the Academy's Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching, Germany, will be available for European researchers to use to probe the frontiers of medicine, astrophysics and other scientific disciplines."
Government

Submission + - US Government spying on T-Mobile VOIP subscribers?

Submitted by stavrica
stavrica writes: I found a new entry in my T-Mobile @Home Linksys routing table I hadn't seen before:

10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.3.4.186 / WAN (Internet)

Strange routes showing up uninvited in static routing tables is definitely a BAD THING, particularly on a firewall. An ARIN lookup on 7.3.4.186 shows it's owned by the DoD Network Information Center (DNIC).

The T-Mobile @Home router at my church routing table likewise shows the following similar entries:

10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.2.145.46 ppp0
10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.2.130.7 / ppp0

There is no way to remove these routes. Suddenly, re-flashing the Linksys firmware was beginning to seem like a really good idea. If only... It turns out that T-Mobile has been auto-updating the firmware on all their @Home routers, first to version 1.00.20 --and then to 1.00.21, prompting one poster to even beg:

Please for the love of GOD stop the auto updating, udnp completely fails making my whole pc run snail like... on .15 it's fine like it has been for ages, but i can only keep that on for about 5-10 minutes before it's updated again......

To mitigate this invasion of privacy, I split the 10.160.18.0 network into two subnets, and routed them to an unused private address:

10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.128 / 192.168.255.123 / WAN (Internet)
10.160.18.128 / 255.255.255.128 / 192.168.255.123 / WAN (Internet)>

Can anyone else with a T-Mobile @Home Linksys VOIP router corroborate my observations? Both T-Mobile @Home routers are registered to my account. It's possible that I'm being monitored, but I doubt it.
Google

Submission + - Google's DataWiki Aims For Twitter Integration (crn.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apart from showing off its Chrome OS, Google last week placed something called DataWiki on its Google Labs page. Among other things, DataWiki seeks to provided easy input/output of outside data, including, it says, Twitter. It already does this with Buzz, among other things, but DataWiki would appear to be more geared toward large enterprises than individual users.

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