kuleiana - Slashdot User

Submission + - Best practices to avoid Ajax security threats

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @05:53PM

An anonymous reader writes: This article, provided an overview of different ways in which Web 2.0 applications avoid the same-origin policy. It also demonstrated how this opens up some new attack vectors to Web applications. It discusses some common types of attacks and the results that attackers can obtain. Finally, it concluded with a best practices section, which you can use to avoid some of the most common Ajax application attacks.

Submission + - iPhone Safari launch capabilites revealed (iphone-geek.com)

Submitted by dr00g911 on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @05:36PM

dr00g911 writes: Some notes from the WWDC iPhone development session have leaked today (and abruptly taken down), but have yielded extremely useful bits of development info about browser capabilities, (lack of) Flash support and more. Assuming that several of these keypoints are true (notably the 5 second Javascript, Flash and 480px), many developers who have gotten a headstart into writing apps may have to rethink things a bit.

Submission + - Users rage against China's 'Great Firewall'

Submitted by

slugo

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @05:35PM

slugo writes: "Yang Zhou is no cyberdissident, but recent curbs on his Web surfing habits by China's censors have him fomenting discontent about China's "Great Firewall"."

Submission + - Illegal Monitoring at School

Submitted by

WyllDez

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @05:30PM

WyllDez writes: "I had an incident today an a high school in Toronto (Northern Secondary School), and I am unsure how to act. The computers in our library are monitored using Net Support School (http://www.netsupportschool.com/ ). I was completely unaware until our librarian came up to me, showed me a print out of my browsing history, programs I ran, and all of my key strokes, including my passwords to several websites. I have talked to quite a few students at our school, and all of them where unaware that they have been monitored. I looked throughout the library, and there are no signs anywhere mentioning that they are being monitored. In our usage agreement, it said that we would be monitored at the board level, and only browsing history would be monitored through the board proxies. It should also be noted that all of the key logs are available to anyone who finds the folder! What can we do about this?"

Submission + - AMD considering getting out of fabrication busines (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

mytrip

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @05:16PM

mytrip writes: "2007 has not been kind to AMD. The company saw its workstation market share slip, has taken on $2 billion of new debt and lost almost $1.2 billion over the past two quarters.

Speculation is building in the analyst community that AMD will attempt to further cut costs by outsourcing more — or all — of its chip making as early as 2008. One Citigroup analyst is predicting a "transformational move" that would result in AMD's lower-end CPUs being manufactured by a third party and possibly selling off part or all of its Dresden, Germany facility. Another report from Goldman Sachs outlines the investment firm's belief that the company will leave manufacturing completely in the hands of third parties.

Getting out of manufacturing is certainly a plausible — if not likely — scenario for AMD"

The Quest for the Car of the Future 434

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @05:10PM from the zippy-go-fast dept.

Lux writes "Where will the car of the future come from? It's unlikely to come from anywhere you'd expect it to. Wired's money is on the car of the future coming from NASA. 'New technology that promises to revolutionize the automobile as we know it is emerging from research institutions and startups — and these innovations won't set you back $100,000 like a Tesla will... One experiment involves small electric motors located in the wheels of the CityCar, a tiny, nimble and practically silent vehicle with wheels that turn 360 degrees, enabling it to slip neatly into tight urban parking spaces. Others are looking to revolutionize the automobile's engine, not replace it.'"

Submission + - Youtube International (bizzeh.com)

Submitted by

Bizzeh

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @04:37PM

Bizzeh writes: "Youtube has recently anounced that they plan to go international. The video site, owned by Google, has launched nine versions across Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK. Each of which have been translated into the countrys home language."

Submission + - Google Gets Political with Public Policy Blog (toptechnews.com)

Submitted by

Raver32

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @02:51PM

Raver32 writes: "One sure sign of Google's growing importance in Washington is the fact that the Googleplex — Google's Mountain View, California campus — is becoming a popular stop on the campaign trail. Several candidates and potential candidates have stopped by to discuss technology policy. Now Google is throwing open the doors to the internal debates that have helped shape the company's public policy stances. On Monday morning, Andrew McLaughlin, Google's Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, announced the official launch of the company's "Public Policy Blog," and invited the public to join in the discussion by posting comments."

Submission + - spamhouse.org block Austrian Registry nic.at

Submitted by cccc828 on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @02:50PM

cccc828 writes: The german news site heise.de reports, that spam block list spamhouse blocks the mailservers of the Austrian Registry nic.at. In January Spamhouse asked nic.at to delete 15 .at-phishing domians. Nic.at refused to delete the domain, because it was against the law and the registry contract. To raise the preassure on nic.at spamhouse put their e-mail servers on their list as "spam supporters".

ZFS On Linux - It's Alive! 281

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @02:47PM from the insert-mad-science-laugh-here dept.

lymeca writes "LinuxWorld reports that Sun Microsystem's ZFS filesystem has been converted from its incarnation in OpenSolaris to a module capable of running in the Linux user-space filsystem project, FUSE. Because of the license incompatibilities with the Linux kernel, it has not yet been integrated for distribution within the kernel itself. This project, called ZFS on FUSE, aims to enable GNU/Linux users to use ZFS as a process in userspace, bypassing the legal barrier inherent in having the filesystem coded into the Linux kernel itself. Booting from a ZFS partition has been confirmed to work. The performance currently clocks in at about half as fast as XFS, but with all the success the NTFS-3g project has had creating a high performance FUSE implementation of the NTFS filesystem, there's hope that performance tweaking could yield a practical elimination of barriers for GNU/Linux users to make use of all that ZFS has to offer."

Submission + - China (washington.edu)

Submitted by

mounce

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @02:43PM

mounce writes: "Richard McCormack of Manufacturing News[1] reports that a professor of aeronautics engineering at the University of Michigan[2] says his university is engaged in transferring sensitive military technologies to China and that the practice is encouraged by the university's faculty and administrators. "We are transferring every bit of knowledge and knowhow that we have to the People's Republic of China," says tenured aeronautics engineering professor William Kauffman.[3] "This has been happening for at least a decade. It is done by having many of [China's] undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students, who pay out-of-state tuition, here in Ann Arbor and having University of Michigan campuses staffed by University of Michigan faculty in the PRC." The University of Michigan isn't happy with Kauffman and his claims. It has had him arrested by campus police; it has tried to revoke his tenure; and it has cancelled all of his classes that he teaches on explosives, internal combustion engines, gas turbine engines, rockets and propellants. He says the university's dean, provost, president and his department chair have placed him in "Siberia," but that he can no longer sit idly by and watch as the university opens campuses in China, allows faculty engaged in Defense Department research to meet with delegations of Chinese defense researchers, and ignores the plight of Michigan's industrial economy and its blue-collar workforce.

[1] http://www.manufacturingnews.com/index.html
[2] http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/index.html
[3] http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/ka uffman/"

Submission + - Apple Finally Opens iTunes Plus, iTunes U

Submitted by

jwisser

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @12:06PM

jwisser writes: "Apple has finally started selling higher-quality, DRM-less music in a new service called iTunes Plus. The selection is currently limited, but as more small labels sign up for the service, the offerings will hopefully increase. iTunes has also opened iTunes U to the general public, enabling everyone running iTunes to download lectures from schools like Stanford and Berkeley. iTunes Plus requires the new iTunes 7.2 to use. Non-iTunes links to Apple's press releases are here (iTunes Plus) and here (iTunes U)."

Submission + - How to fight spam with Thunderbird's Saved Search

Submitted by

on Sunday May 27, 2007 @03:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: A comment I hear quite often is "my spam filter is really good, so I only check the spam-folder once a week or so". What's the point of having a spam-filter, when you're still looking through all those unwanted emails? That is why I use Thunderbird's Saved Search feature so that I have to spent almost no time at all on spam.

http://www.alex3d.de/2007/05/27/how-to-fight-spam- with-thunderbirds-saved-search-feature/

Submission + - Brutal Violence Against Russian Homosexuals

Submitted by

reporter

on Sunday May 27, 2007 @02:55PM

reporter writes: "Another brutal suppression of a public demonstration in Russia has occurred. This time, however, the Russian public actually helped the Russian police to beat up the protestors. According to a BBC report, "A gay rights demonstration in Moscow degenerated into violence for the second year running as right-wing and orthodox extremists attacked gay rights activists and supporters of the unauthorised demonstration. GayRussia leader Nikolai Alexeyev was bundled into a police van and driven away moments after arriving outside the offices of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who has called homosexuals 'satanic'." Some Western European politicians joined the demonstration in support of the activists. However, Russian bigots attacked them violently, and the Russian police smiled approvingly. "'Where are the police? Why aren't you protecting us?' Mr Cappato [an Italian legislator] shouted as nationalists gathered nearby, prompting officers to take the MEP away and drive him to a police station." A French reporter even snapped a photo of a Russian bigot just before before he punched a British gay rights activist in the face. What, the hell, is happening to Russian society?"

Submission + - An Introduction to Haskell

Submitted by

blackbearnh

on Sunday May 27, 2007 @02:11PM

blackbearnh writes: "Over at O'Reilly's ONLamp site, a two part series is running that introduces the Haskell functional programming language. From the article:

Of course, it's not necessary to use a functional programming language to use these techniques. Because ideas from the functional programming world are appearing in mainstream languages, it is more important than ever to understand these techniques. Tom Christiansen said it best:

A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative, functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.

Many programming languages offer a mixture of styles. Most object oriented languages have an imperative core, where classes, objects and methods provide a thin veneer over a language that is little more than a slightly improved version of C. Many functional programming languages mix functional, imperative, and object-oriented styles together in a manner that makes it difficult to tell them apart.

Haskell, on the other hand, is a purely functional language that restricts itself to the functional style of programming. Learning and using Haskell makes it easy to see the power and benefits of lambda calculus and functional programming.

"

Slashdot Top Deals