Comment Don't give them any ideas... (Score 1) 159
Today your SQL injection tools, tomorrow your nmap?
Why did you have to tell them about nmap for?
FarmVille Now Worth More Than EA 344
tekgoblin writes "Zynga, the creators of the popular hit Facebook game FarmVille, should be happy today as the company's worth has passed that of EA (Electronic Arts)."
Comment Re:Creator and Overseer of Android Responds (Score 1) 864
Yes. Nexus One is the third developer phone with (slightly modified versions of) HTC Dream and HTC Magic being the first and the second.
Comment Re:Great idea. (Score 2, Informative) 215
There is at least one Swedish company that does deny them, SF Bio (the largest movie theater chain in Sweden). However, in their case there is a good reason; to get the tickets you've bought online with your credit card you have to swipe the same card in their ticket printing machines. You could definitely come up with another way to get the tickets once they are bought, but as long as you have to have the credit card with which you paid to get the tickets, one-time cc numbers are probably out of the question.
Comment Best election campaign ever? (Score 5, Interesting) 224
"The Swedish Pirate Party did its best election campaign ever. We had more media, more articles, more debates, more handed-out flyers than ever"
How does he figure that? I (a Swede) haven't heard or seen anything from them since the election for the European parliament. I think it would be more correct to call it their worst election campaign ever.
Comment Re:Units (Score 1) 363
Both deci-metre (dm) and deci-litre (dl) are really common units of measurement in Sweden at least.
Comment Re:J2ME (Score 1) 57
Firefox for J2ME would mean Mozilla would have to run a server containing a specialized Gecko renderer that outputs a simplified form of the page as simple markup, plus a J2ME client that would finish rendering from the simplified output. Great concept but too many problems.
How do you figure that? There is nothing saying that you have to do it the way Opera Mini et al are doing it. Of course you can implement a complete web browser in J2ME (it might however not be practical depending on the specifications of the target devices).
Comment Re:I'm moving to Sweden (Score 2, Insightful) 288
Prostitution (i.e. selling sex) is legal, buying it, however, is not.
Comment But, does it have... (Score 3, Interesting) 198
But, does it have a good text editor?
Comment Research paper (Score 2, Insightful) 600
Why should this be any different from what research scientists do all the time (with actual security holes to boot)? Just write up a research paper (or a blog post or whatever) and describe the problem and give some thoughts to possible solutions (user not being mindless idiots anymore) and release it. There is definitely nothing ethically wrong with it in my book (and there shouldn't be in anyone else's either).
Kaspersky CEO Wants End To Online Anonymity 537
Andorin writes "Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of well-known computer security company Kaspersky Labs, is calling for an end to the anonymity of the Internet, and for the creation of mandatory 'Internet passports' for anyone who wishes to browse the Web. Says Kaspersky, 'Everyone should and must have an identification, or internet passport ... the internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the US military. Then it was introduced to the public, and it was wrong ... to introduce it in the same way.' He calls anonymity 'the Internet's biggest security vulnerability' and thinks any country that doesn't follow this regime should be 'cut off.' The EFF objects, and it's likely that they won't be the only ones."
First Black Hole For Light Created On Earth 244
An anonymous reader writes "An electromagnetic 'black hole' that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time. The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity. A theoretical design for a table-top black hole to trap light was proposed in a paper published earlier this year by Evgenii Narimanov and Alexander Kildishev of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Their idea was to mimic the properties of a cosmological black hole, whose intense gravity bends the surrounding space-time, causing any nearby matter or radiation to follow the warped space-time and spiral inwards."
Comment It's even worse in Sweden (Score 1) 554
Here in Sweden a blogger (without any income from the blog at all) got the verdict that blogging is an occupation and therefore he must either quit blogging or loose his unemployment check.
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/arbetslos-bloggare-kraver-besked-om-a-kassa-1.842969
Windows Server Trusts Samba4 Active Directory 182
Darren Ginter writes "A group of Samba v4 developers recently spent a week in Redmond to work with Microsoft on Active Directory interoperability(?!). The result? Windows Server will now join, trust and replicate a Samba-based Active Directory using Microsoft-native protocols. Although Samba v4 is still in the alpha stages, this is a huge step for open source. Or it could be a trap."
Intel Core i7 For Laptops — First Benchmarks 196
Barence writes "PC Pro has benchmarked the first Intel Core i7 processors for laptops. The chips mark the debut of Intel's Turbo Boost technology, which ramps up the speed of the working cores if two or more cores are sitting unused. For the quad-core i7-820QM, this can take the stock speed of 1.73GHz up to a maximum of 3.06GHz. The 2D benchmarks show comparable performance to Core 2 Extreme chips running at 2.53GHz. Power consumption and processor temperature is dramatically lower, which should lead to significant improvements in laptop battery life."
