2890373
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lazyforker writes:
A NYTimes blog post reports the results of security researcher Kate McKinley's tests of various browsers' (FireFox, Chrome, IE, Safari) privacy protection mechanisms. Specifically she tested their cookie handling. She also examined their handling of Flash's cookies. In summary: Safari on Mac OS X (in the "private browsing" mode) is not so private ("quirky"). Safari on XP is not private at all. Flash behaves awfully everywhere.
Here's the NYTimes article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/adobes-flash-and-apples-safari-fail-a-privacy-test/
Here's McKinley's report: http://www.isecpartners.com/files/iSEC_Cleaning_Up_After_Cookies.pdf
Here's how to clean up after Adobe's Flash: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=52697ee8&sliceId=1
1340789
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lazyforker writes:
According to Gizmodo one can pay a small fee to get your G1 unlocked immediately instead of waiting for the T-Mobile 90 day unlock policy. The article also mentions a contest to win a free unlock code.
283899
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lazyforker writes:
This short article describes IBM's research into novel forms of data storage technologies. In particular the lab is working on a type called "racetrack memory". This racetrack is a lot smaller than your local dog track. Promises of huge amounts of data in tiny form factors are made.
This research is being led by the man who brought us GMR — consequently I think there's a chance this could work.
192901
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lazyforker writes:
Jobs opened Apple's WWDC today. His keynote mostly focussed on Leopard. Looks slick. Wired blogged the speech and of course Apple's website has an updated description. Games from EA can be expected; and it looks like ID is building a while new game technology that will be demonstrated on multiple platforms later this year (Mac, PC, PS3 and Xbox).
Wired says that 10 of Leopard's new features (of 300!) were demonstrated by Jobs. Here's a brief summary:
- New Desktop — Core animation, Stacks, more prominent active window
- New Finder — Coverflow! Seearch anywhere on the network! "Back to my Mac" sync utility
- "Quick Look" — instant preview of any document/file without opening app.
- 64 bit throughout
- Core animation everywhere
- Boot Camp
- "Spaces" — seems like multiple desktops
- Updated Dashboard (not 3D) with ability for user to create widgets from any web content
- iChat — tabbed chats, easy file transfer, cool effects (including a "green screen" style tool)
- Time Machine — backup
Incidentally — it looks like Apple's whole website has a shiny new look and feel. Presumably based on Leopard.
93358
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lazyforker writes:
IBM has created a new type of on chip memory dubbed eDRAM (embedded Dynamic Random Access Memory) that "improves on-processor memory performance in about one-third the space with one-fifth the standby power of conventional SRAM (static random access memory)". IBM anticipates the technology will be in production in early 2008. The article is light on tech data — but apparently this memory is designed to be used with multi-core processors.
