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Comment Re:Umm... (Score 1) 362

by maroonhat (#32337876) Attached to: Tabnapping Scams Around the Corner?

and if you couple this attack with the slightly older "make the address bar show a slightly wrong thing" attack...
you know, the PayPal.com vs PayPaI.com (one's an L one's an I, can you tell with the default font?)...adjusted for font collisions, or making use of the way a browser falls back on installed fonts when you try and show a different script style...

This could be very bad...

Comment Re:is he right? (Score 1) 409

by maroonhat (#31159822) Attached to: Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs

1%er is a reference to criminally bikers, from an AMA (American Motorcycle Association) publication ('91 I think) claiming that 99% of bikers are law abiding citizens. The suggestion of 15%er is that in AU there are many more criminal bikers than in the US, so many that it might be an acceptable form of shenanigans, like soccer hooligans in GB.

Submission + - Sony Ericsson Developes Motion Headphones (pcworld.com)

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TechnologyResource
TechnologyResource writes: "Sony Ericsson has just introduced the MH907 headphones. The headphones will pause or play your music based on contact; eliminating the use of a pause or stop button. Removing one ear bud will pause the music. Removing both ear buds will stop the music. Both ear buds have to be in your ear to play the music. According to Sony Ericsson, this will allow you to "play your music and answer phone calls just by inserting the buds into your ear or taking them out." Oh, by the way, make sure you have your phone on vibrate since you won't hear it ring."
Cellphones

Submission + - FCC Proposes Net Neutrality For Cell Phones (pcworld.com)

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rhathar
rhathar writes: "FCC chairman Julius Genachowski delivered Monday on President Obama's promise to back "net neutrality". But he went much further than merely seeking to expand rules that prohibit ISPs from filtering or blocking net traffic — he proposed that they cover all broadband connections, including data connections for smartphones.

"The Internet's creators didn't want the network architecture — or any single entity — to pick winners and losers," Genachowski said, embracing what is known as the end-to-end principle. "The principles that will protect the open Internet are an essential step to maximize investment and innovation in the network and on the edge of it — by establishing rules of the road that incentivize competition, empower entrepreneurs, and grow the economic pie to the benefit of all."

Genachowski has proposed two rules: Broadband providers cannot discriminate against services or applications by slowing them down and broadband providers must tell customers how its engineers manage the network when it gets congested"

Submission + - IT Departments Preparing for Pandemic 2

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greenmars
greenmars writes: "I've been asked to attend a meeting this afternoon with HR and Facilities to talk about what we're doing to prepare for the H1N1 pandemic. Other than making sure that the VPN works and people can work remotely, what else are IT departments doing to prepare?"
Data Storage

Submission + - Seagate Ships 2TB 6Gb SATA Barracuda XT

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Seagate today announced that they're now shipping their
Barracuda XT 7200 RPM
SATA 6Gb drive. The new 'Cuda is a four-platter drive featuring an areal
density of 368 Gigabits per square inch that also delivers burst speeds of up to
6 Gigabits per second over the

new 6Gb SATA interface. It also maintains backward compatibility with the SATA 3Gb/second and SATA 1.5Gb/second interfaces, and uses the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration and upward migration. The drive has a 64MB on board cache and is set to retail at $299 for
the 2TB model."
The Internet

Submission + - FCC Chair Proposes Net Neutrality Principles

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adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: "The Net neutality debate got another boost Monday when FCC chairman Julius Genachowski proposed the addition of two Internet policy principles that would require reasonable and transparent network management. Genachowski proposed expanding the FCC's Internet policy principles, a set of four principles released by the agency in 2005 that serve as a framework for broadband Internet access. The first addition would prevent ISPs from discriminating against particular Internet content or applications. The second addition would ensure that ISPs are transparent about network management."

Comment Re:This crew (Score 1) 108

by nolesrule (#29478125) Attached to: Crew For Final Scheduled Space Shuttle Mission Selected

Not really. Many astronauts get assigned that sort of managerial duty between flight assignments. You gotta keep them busy when they aren't training for a flight. Three of them are recent/current residents of the ISS.

As for science, it's not a science flight. In fact, the last science flight was STS-107. It's a final delivery flight to the station. So the crew composition makes sense for the tasks.
Linux

Submission + - LG Electronics Alleged To Be Violating The GPL?

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lazyeye
lazyeye writes: "According to this post on reddit, LG Electronics refuses to release the source code to their Linux-based TVs. Reddit user anarchytoday states, "I asked for the source code at their support site and they said it was unavailable. Emails also go unanswered at opensource@lge.com (tech support said to try that email address.) LG refuses to honor their GPL obligations.""

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