Submission + - Facebook and LinkedIn TOS are your worst privacy n (forbrukerportalen.no)
jogrim writes: User terms at major social network sites like Facebook and Twitter are highly questionable, according to a survey by the Norwegian Consumer Council.
Submission + - Windows 8: 2012 Release Date? (msftkitchen.com) 1
msftkitchen writes: Contained in a road map slide, Windows 8 Server is noted to release sometime around 2012. This would put Microsoft on a 3-year release schedule with major releases, thus making Windows 7 merely an updated release. What does this mean for what's in store for Windows 8? Perhaps we'll find out in 2012. /insert obligatory 2012 reference here.
Submission + - Nvidia's DX11 GF100 graphics processor detailed (techreport.com)
J. Dzhugashvili writes: While it's played up the general-purpose computing prowess of its next-gen GPU architecture, Nvidia has talked little about Fermi's graphics capabilities—so much so that some accuse Nvidia of turning its back on PC gaming. Not so, says The Tech Report in a detailed architectural overview of GF100, the first Fermi-based consumer graphics processor. Alongside a wealth of technical information, the article includes enlightening estimates and direct comparisons with AMD's Radeon HD 5870. The GF100 will be up to twice as fast as the GeForce GTX 285, the author reckons, but the gap with the Radeon HD 5870 should be "a bit more slender." Still, Nvidia may have the fastest consumer GPU ever on its hands—and far from forsaking games, Fermi has been built as a graphics processor first and foremost.
Submission + - Can Ubuntu reach over 16,000 anime lovers in April (thesilentnumber.me)
shadowmage13 writes: "After months of planning, i am happy to finally announce that the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team will be preparing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention. We need support from the community to secure a booth and print materials including copies of the Ubunchu! manga. I really believe the Anime fandom is a perfect match for Ubuntu, and they are by nature very much in line with open source and remix culture."
Submission + - Major IE8 flaw makes 'safe' sites unsafe (theregister.co.uk)
intrudere writes: "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/internet_explorer_security_flaw/
Exclusive The latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser contains a bug that can enable serious security attacks against websites that are otherwise safe.
The flaw in IE 8 can be exploited to introduce XSS, or cross-site scripting, errors on webpages that are otherwise safe, according to two Register sources, who discussed the bug on the condition they not be identified. Microsoft was notified of the vulnerability a few months ago, they said."
Exclusive The latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser contains a bug that can enable serious security attacks against websites that are otherwise safe.
The flaw in IE 8 can be exploited to introduce XSS, or cross-site scripting, errors on webpages that are otherwise safe, according to two Register sources, who discussed the bug on the condition they not be identified. Microsoft was notified of the vulnerability a few months ago, they said."
Comment Re:Not consistent (Score 1) 427
All three are my own actually - one of the perks of SA roles, you get machines to play with.
Comment Re:Not consistent (Score 1) 427
It's not just the firewall protecting them here. Both group policy prevents that in the first place, plus the script won't connect successfully with the firewall in the way. That's tested against both 64 and 32 bit Windows 7 installs done from the RTM build, by the way.
Comment Not consistent (Score 5, Interesting) 427
Having actually tried this on three windows 7 machines now, it doesn't seem to work on every machine. (Actually, it's yet to work on any here, although I hear tell that it does work on some). There's something more to this than just "that data crashes it every time".
Australia To Block BitTorrent 674
Kevin 7Kbps writes "Censorship Minister Stephen Conroy announced today that the Australian Internet Filters will be extended to block peer-to-peer traffic, saying, 'Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial.' This dashes hopes that Conroy's Labor party had realised filtering could be politically costly at the next election and were about to back down. The filters were supposed to begin live trials on Christmas Eve, but two ISPs who volunteered have still not been contacted by Conroy's office, who advised, 'The department is still evaluating applications that were put forward for participation in that pilot.' Three days hardly seems enough time to reconfigure a national network."
At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs 273
The NYTimes reports that Atlantic is the first major label to report getting a majority of its revenue from digital sales, not CDs. Analysts say that Atlantic is out in front — the industry as a whole isn't expected to hit the 50% mark until 2011. By 2013, music industry revenues will be 37% down from their 1999 levels (when Napster arrived on the scene), according to Forrester. "'It's not at all clear that digital economics can make up for the drop in physical,' said John Rose, a former executive at EMI ... Instead, the music industry is now hoping to find growth from a variety of other revenue streams it has not always had access to, like concert ticket sales and merchandise from artist tours. ... In virtually all... corners of the media world, executives are fighting to hold onto as much of their old business as possible while transitioning to digital — a difficult process that NBC Universal's chief executive ... has described as 'trading analog dollars for digital pennies.'"
Submission + - Cambridge researchers break chip-and-pin... again (lightbluetouchpaper.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Now-infamous University of Cambridge security researchers Ross Anderson, Saar Drimer, and Steven Murdoch, who last year showed us Tetris on a payment terminal, have now shown how a paperclip can be used to bypass the UK banks' snake-oil "tamper-resistance" in their paper at the IEEE Security and Privacy conference. Why does this matter? Because the banks were sticking their customers with the bills when cloned cards were used, since the system was supposed to be invulnerable. Despite the banks' claims, the devices weren't even certified! The BBC featured the attack on the news last night. Hopefully this will lead to thousands of customers getting their money back.
Comment Re:vista only (Score 1) 540
There's no such thing as "properly scaling" between 720 and 766/768 (I think the hardware resolution's 766 not 768 if I remember right; either way, 2 pixels don't matter - the video mode on the PC is certainly 768 though). They're far too close together to scale without beat frequency issues. Not accepting the native resolution I'd agree is a definite failing of the product, but I honestly can't criticize the scaler - it does as good a job as can reasonably be expected i.e. bloody awful. At the end of the day, to scale between these resolutions means inserting 48 extra lines into the display *somewhere*. It doesn't matter how nicely you do this, or how intelligent the algorithm, it's still going to mess up display of text or any fine-detailed horizontal pattern.
The inability to set the native resolution I suspect may be part of some misguided effort to avoid confusing anything connected to it - at least it's safe to tell games consoles etc. that it does 720p and 1080p; I assume they'd ignore an extra 768 resolution, but I wouldn't be too amazed if that messed something up on some product somewhere.
The inability to set the native resolution I suspect may be part of some misguided effort to avoid confusing anything connected to it - at least it's safe to tell games consoles etc. that it does 720p and 1080p; I assume they'd ignore an extra 768 resolution, but I wouldn't be too amazed if that messed something up on some product somewhere.
