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Submission + - China launches probe in Asian race for moon (google.com)

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kfz versicherung

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @09:36AM

kfz versicherung writes: "According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, China successfully launched its first lunar probe on Wednesday. The Chang'e I blasted off at about 6:05 pm on a Long March 3A carrier rocket from the No. 3 launching tower in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. The mission named after a Chinese goddess who, in a popular fairy tale, lives on the Moon, carries a satellite based on China's Dongfanghong 3 telecommunication satellite platform and reportedly carries a 280-pound (127-kilogram) payload of science instruments for its planned one-year mission."

Submission + - Apple Adds Memory Randomization (ALSR) to Leopard

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.mack

on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @06:49PM

.mack writes: "Apple has announced plans to add code-scrambling diversity to Mac OS X Leopard, a move aimed at making the operating system more resilient to virus and worm attacks. The security technology, known as ASLR (address space layout randomization), randomly arranges the positions of key data areas to prevent malware authors from predicting target addresses. Another new feature coming in Leopard is Sandboxing (systrace), which limits an application's access to the system by enforcing access policies for system calls."

Comment If the gum is not sticking (Score 2, Interesting) 96

by pkvon on Saturday September 15, 2007 @04:28AM (#20614289) Attached to: Virtually Non-Stick Gum Created

While according to TFA its taste and texture is similiar to normal gum, if this gum is not sticking to surfaces as hard - will it still clean up all the plaque from your teeth? I mean if its not sticking to a wall, it might as well not stick to the dirt in between your teeth.

Submission + - Massive Skype outage - first details emerging (seclists.org) 1

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kfz-versicherung

on Friday August 17, 2007 @06:33PM

kfz-versicherung writes: "Details are scarce, but a recent posting to Bugtraq suggests the now 24 hour Skype-network outage is caused by users calling a specially crafted number, causing a cascade of dead servers."

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