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Submission + - Lou Dobbs Swears E.T. Is Not An Illegal Alien (proudtoliveinamerica.com)

Submitted by

phillybeans

on Wednesday December 26, 2007 @04:46PM

phillybeans writes: "In an interview for his website, Dobbs predicated "a successful manned mission to Mars in the next twenty years". He envisioned colonizing the Moon and farming minerals from various planets and asteroids. Would this "invasion" (a term Dobbs often uses to refer to Mexicans entering the USA) and colonization of neighboring planets make our astronauts "illegal aliens"? Would our space program expect English to be spoken throughout the universe? How difficult will it be to fill these dirty farming jobs on distant planets when right here on planet earth we can't find anyone to wash dishes or mow lawns? http://proudtoliveinamerica.com/Forms/Main/Default.aspx?L=en-us&P=Editorials3"

Submission + - Gmail vulnerability causes domain to be stolen.

Submitted by jmange on Wednesday December 26, 2007 @04:36PM

jmange writes: A vulnerability in Gmail leads to this designers website being hijacked. He details how it was done and the ordeal he has gone through in his blog. http://www.davidairey.co.uk/google-gmail-security-hijack/

Submission + - Top 10 weird data disasters (silicon.com)

Submitted by mightysquirrel81 on Thursday December 06, 2007 @08:47AM

mightysquirrel81 writes: Check out some of the oddest data retrieval missions data recovery company Kroll Ontrack has had to deal with in 2007. From ant infestations to fixing a squeaking hardrive by pouring oil on it, these need to be seen to be believed.

Submission + - Idan Raichel Project - An Unexpected Musical Succe (israel-on-blog.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday December 06, 2007 @08:41AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "The Idan Raichel Project burst onto the Israeli music scene in 2002, changing the face of Israeli popular music and offering a message of love and tolerance that resonated strongly in a region of the world where the headlines are too often dominated by conflict. here you can read and see a video from one of the famous songs of Idan Raichel Project."

Submission + - OpenISO.org Review of OOXML

Submitted by

nb

on Thursday December 06, 2007 @08:30AM

nb writes: "Concerned about the implications of the intolerable and closed processes of Ecma and ISO/IEC and the obvious corruption of several national decision-making committees, one member of a national standardization body has decided to step out of the confines of the ISO/IEC process and launch OpenISO.org with a Call For Participation for creating a "problem report" document about OOXML that can help ISO/IEC national member bodies with evaluating whether the changes that will be decided at the OOXML "Ballot Resolution Meeting" (BRM) in February are sufficient to address OOXML's most serious problems. After the BRM, national ISO/IEC member bodies have the opportunity of changing their vote."

Submission + - Most americans have false sense of online security (net-security.org) 1

Submitted by BaCa on Thursday December 06, 2007 @08:23AM

BaCa writes: More than half of computer users who think they are protected against online threats like spyware, viruses and hackers actually have inadequate or no online protection, according to an independent research study conducted for Verizon. While 92 percent of participants thought they were safe, the scans revealed that 59 percent were actually vulnerable to a variety of online dangers. Ninety-four percent of those surveyed said they would find it helpful to be able to diagnose or check their online security status on a regular basis to make sure their PCs were safe.

Submission + - Eve-Online patch deleted boot.ini

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06, 2007 @08:22AM

An anonymous reader writes: Last nights Trinity patch to eve-online contained a bug that removed the boot.ini. Being effected or not depended on when you patched and the method you used. http://www.eve-online.com/news/newsOfEve.asp?newsID=500

Submission + - Microsoft shuts down Santa for being naughty (kirotv.com)

Submitted by

Josh Fink

on Thursday December 06, 2007 @08:15AM

Josh Fink writes: "While Santa might know if you are naughty or nice, but what do you do when Santa is naughty to you over Windows Live Messenger and encourages you to talk about oral sex? Thats right folks. Once again Microsoft has encouraged kids all around the world to speak to Santa again this year via Northpolelive.com, however this time, Santa has had his AI beefed up it seems. From the article: "Microsoft's holiday cheer soured this week when a reader of a United Kingdom-based technology news site, The Register, reported that a chat between Santa and his underage nieces about eating pizza prompted Santa to bring up oral sex." I am beginning to wonder if Microsoft ever bothered to do a QA test, or check words in its Santa response database."

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