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Submission + - VoIP Vulnerability Trends (net-security.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A recent McAfee paper on VoIP vulnerability trends and targets, as well as protocol- and application-level attacks, observed an increase in VoIP vulnerabilities during the end of 2006 and that trend has continued through today. They credit part of this increase to better tools for finding VoIP vulnerabilities, yet this upward trend should be largely attributed to the growing number of VoIP installations.

Submission + - LED trafficlights cause accidents, don't melt snow (engadget.com) 5

Submitted by yakatz
yakatz writes: A number of cold weather American states are reporting their dismay at finding out that LED traffic lights are so energy efficient that they do not produce enough excess heat to dissipate any snow that covers them.

Submission + - DRM prevented 3D-showings of "Avatar" in Germany (heise.de)

Submitted by Fraggy_the_undead
Fraggy_the_undead writes: according to German IT news site heise.de (German, google translation), yesterday several 3D-showings of "Avatar" couldn't take place, because the movies were DRM protected in a way, that there had to be a key per copy of the film, per film projector and per movie server in the theater. The keys supplier by the name Deluxe was apparently unable to provide a sufficient number of valid keys in time.
Moviegoers were offered to get a refund or view an analogue 2D showing instead.

Comment Re:Troubling (Score 1) 2

by Fraggy_the_undead (#30352232) Attached to: Canada Outlaws Talking to Children Online
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. This law will be abused far more often, than it will actually be helpful.
The right way to go about this would be to encourage parents to take interest in what their children are doing online. It's the parents that should have an eye on this and take the necessary precautions.
Somehow governments always tend to base their decisions on "The internet is evil, parents are stupid, we have to do something"...

Submission + - Canada Outlaws Talking to Children Online (www.ctv.ca) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "If you're an adult and if you're having conversations with a child on the Internet, be warned because even if your conversations aren't sexual and even if your conversations are not for the purpose of meeting a child and committing an offence against a child, what you're doing is potentially a crime,"--Mark Hecht, of Beyond Borders
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Submission + - Helsinki to recycle excess heat from data center (idg.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Helsinki public energy company Helsingin Energia will recycle heat from a new data center to help generate energy and deliver hot water for the Finnish capital city. The recycled heat from the data center, being built by IT and telecom services company Academica, could add about 1 percent to the total energy generated by Helsingin Energia's system in the summer."

Submission + - FreeBSD 8.0 Released 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release. Some of the highlights: Xen DomU support, network stack virtualization, stack-smashing protection, TTY layer rewrite, much improved ZFS v13, a new USB stack, multicast updates including IGMPv3, vimage — a new virtualization container, Fedora 10 Linux binary compatibility to run Linux software such as Flash 10 and others, trusted BSD MAC (Mandatory Access Control), and rewritten NFS client/server introducing NFSv4. Inclusion of improved device mmap() extensions will allow the technical implementation of a 64-bit Nvidia display driver for the x86-64 platform. The GNOME desktop environment has been upgraded to 2.26.3, KDE to 4.3.1, and Firefox to 3.5.5.

There is also an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes in FreeBSD 8.0, including a screenshot tour, upgrade instructions are posted here.

You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors (main ftp server) or via BitTorrent. Please consider making a donation and help us to spread the word by tweeting and blogging about the drive and release.

Comment Re:Lenovo x200 (Score 1) 176

by Fraggy_the_undead (#29526541) Attached to: Best Tablet PC For Classroom Instruction?
To stay within the $1000 a x61t might be an option. I got mine half a year ago for roughly 800â, so I think it should be possible to get one in the US for that figure in USD or less. Only thing I'm not sure about, is whether you can find a place where new ones are still sold, they have been phased out. The shop where I got mine doesn't offer it anymore....

Comment Re:So what happens (Score 1) 388

by Fraggy_the_undead (#28784087) Attached to: Laser Ignition May Replace the Spark Plug

Even a very efficient gas burning engine pumps fuel out the tail pipe, which is the reason catalytic converters are required on vehicles in the US.

No, catalytic converters mainly reduce Carbon Monoxide and NOx emissions. It is true, that they also reduce the emission of unburnt hydrocarbons, but to a much lesser extend. In fact, if too much unburnt fuel gets to the catalytic converter, it will break very quickly.

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