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wiredmikey writes:
Adobe today announced its new Acrobat X Family of products, In the new release, Adobe is adding an entirely new security strategy by introducing a new “Protected Mode” — Protected Mode utilizes "sandboxing" technology based on Microsoft’s “Practical Windows Sandboxing technique ” – a method of isolating the application from the rest of the operating system and tightly controlling its resources.
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mayberry42 writes:
The Number Resource Organization, the coordinating mechanism for the five Regional Internet Registries or RIRs, this morning announced that less than 5% of the world’s IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses remain unallocated. The IPv4 pool first dipped below 10% in January 2010, and in the next nine months some 200 million addresses have subsequently been allocated from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to the RIRs.
NRO anticipates to allocate the last IPv4 address blocks to the registries within months.
17064692
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McGruber writes:
Another day, another major story about privacy breaches at Facebook... this time Rupert Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal has the scoop.
17064614
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aunt edna writes:
Here's one for your management to get their teeth into. I say 'your' because it's not proving an appetizing dish here where I am, not at all.
My proposal is to increase productivity through shortening the working day. I'm arguing that 10 to 4, with a half-hour for lunch, will actually boost productivity: the boost happens for various reasons, such as the condition the employee finds his or herself in on arriving to and departing from work: more relaxed (and a relaxed person works better) and positively looking forward to work because the slog has been removed. Having just 5.5 hours to work means a clearer vision & evaluation of what's important: prioritizing efficiently could be automatic.
Less stress, less illness, more loyalty, better work — what more could they want?
Well, it seems 'management' might just be a little stretched here — they just don't get it. Don't or won't. I think they are stuck with the idea that time = productivity, whereas anyone knows it's work = productivity.
Come on — what's the way forward with this?
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Matt_dk writes:
Observations with NASA's Chandra, Swift, and Rossi X-ray observatories, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, and ESA's XMM-Newton have revealed that a slowly rotating neutron star with an ordinary surface magnetic field is giving off bursts of X-rays and gamma rays. This discovery may indicate the presence of an internal magnetic field much more intense than the surface magnetic field, with implications for how the most powerful magnets in the cosmos evolve.
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frontwave writes:
The new Skype for Windows includes a Facebook tab. This means that for the first time Skype users can keep up-to-date and interact with their Facebook news feed including posting status updates, commenting and liking directly from Skype. And if your Facebook friend is also a Skype contact, then users can make free Skype-to-Skype calls
