Cska Sofia - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:No Skype makes sense, No GPLv3 is annoying... (Score 1) 800

by Cska Sofia on Tuesday March 11 2008, @11:38AM (#22717286) Attached to: iPhone SDK Rules Block Skype, Firefox, Java ...

there isn't a "no competing browsers" restriction - it's an assumption based on the "no interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application" clause, which other browsers' plugin architectures would presumably violate.

Russian Hackers Hijack Search Results-> 0

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TechLuver

on Thursday November 29 2007, @08:41AM

TechLuver writes "A huge campaign to poison web searches and trick people into visiting malicious websites has been thwarted. "The booby-trapped websites came up in search results for search terms such as "Christmas gifts" and "hospice". Windows users falling for the trick risked having their machine hijacked and personal information plundered. The criminals poisoned search results using thousands of domains set up to convince search index software they were serious sources of information. While computer security researchers have seen small-scale attempts to subvert search results before now, the sheer scale of this attack dwarfed all others. "This was fairly epic," said Alex Eckelberry, head of Sunbelt Software — one of the firms that uncovered the attack. ( http://techluver.com/2007/11/29/russian-hackers-hijack-search-results-in-coordinated-web-attack/ )"
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gcc basic math error, corrected.-> 1

Submitted by 12357bd on Thursday November 29 2007, @03:51AM

12357bd writes "Just some days ago there was a firehose entry about a serious math bug (wrong sign for some abs() expressions) on gcc for wersions 3.x to 4.1, but never reached the main /. page. Such an important information for developers should not pass without proper announcement.

The bug was detected Nov 17, and has been already fixed."
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Verizon redirecting Google to some Verizon search 1

Submitted by Jflatnote on Thursday November 29 2007, @01:30AM

Jflatnote writes "Is this the start of more Verizon troubles? I have had www.google.com as the starting page in my browser for years. Tonight, any attempt to get to the Google home page redirects to a Verizon search page that says it is searching google and yahoo, etc. I can get to Google Scholar, but when I click on "web" from that page, I get the Verizon search page again. No matter what I do, it goes to Verizon. Is this the beginning of more Verizon strong-arming?"

How PALS Help Secure Nuclear Weapons 0

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Friday November 23 2007, @10:22AM

Hugh Pickens writes "The BBC reported last week that until 1998 no code or dual key system was required to arm British nuclear weapons. Bombs were armed by inserting a bicycle lock key (video) into the arming switch and turning it 90 degrees. Permissive Action Links (PALs) were introduced in the 1960s in America to prevent a mad General or pilot launching a nuclear war on their own and to control nuclear weapons that were at least partially controlled by other nations but as late as 1974, when an armed quarrel broke out between two members of NATO, Greece and Turkey, the Secretary of Defense learned that many tactical nukes were still not equipped with PALS. It has been reported that PALs have been installed on Pakistan's nuclear weapons to disarm or disable their triggering mechanism if the wrong code is entered or if the bomb is tampered with in any manner. But "there is an urgent need to improve the technical skills of personnel charged with the security of [Pakistan's] nuclear installations and develop an institutional security culture," warned a report two years ago by retired Pakistani army Major-General Mahmud Ali Durrani at the Sandia Labs in New Mexico."

Turkish Internet Censorship Board starts operation-> 0

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unity100

on Friday November 23 2007, @04:33AM

unity100 writes "As of today, the new law on "Preventing 'catalog' crimes on internet" have taken full effect with the Censorship Board starting official duty in Turkey. Law states that access to entire websites that are found with 'objectionable' content can be prevented without court order, only with approval of the board. The catalog crimes are as follows ; 'Crimes against personality of Ataturk on internet', 'Encouraging people to suicide', 'Sexual abuse of children', 'Drug encouragement and providing', 'Providing health-hazard materials', 'Obscenity', 'Prostitution', 'Gambling'. The board members themselves are going to decide whatever falls in any category, especially 'obscenity'. A lot of sites with filesharing content was blocked as soon as the board started operation. Law shuts down even entire sites due to a single 3 word text comment found objectionable. (The news didnt make cnn website yet, its in local cnn affiliate's site)"
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Monitor draws zero power in standby 0

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fifthace

on Thursday November 08 2007, @06:36AM

fifthace writes "A new range of Fujitsu Siemens monitors don't draw power during standby. The technology uses capacitors and relays to avoid drawing power when no video signal is present.

With political parties all over Europe calling for a ban on standby, this small development could end up as one of the most significant advances in recent times. The British Government estimates eight percent of all domestic electricity is consumed by devices in standby."

Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic-> 0

Submitted by haibijon on Tuesday October 23 2007, @08:02AM

haibijon writes "The executive declined to talk in detail about the technology, citing spammers or other miscreants who might exploit that knowledge. But he insisted the company was not stopping file transfers from happening, only postponing them in certain cases. He compared it to making a phone call and getting a busy signal, then trying again and getting through."
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How to make Mathematics interesting? 1

Submitted by dsb on Thursday September 06 2007, @05:42AM

dsb writes "I love the mathematics stories, askslashdot, explanations here on slashdot and elsewhere. But quite often some of the material is just way over my head. For example, the recent submission about someones quest to study waves? Personally, I found it fascinating. So my question is how do we teach maths to be interesting to those that 'have to take college algebra' so they can get their degrees?"

realtime ASCII Goggles-> 0

Submitted by jabjoe on Thursday September 06 2007, @05:31AM

jabjoe writes "Russian artists from Moscow have created goggles with image filtering, interestingly ascii. This allows you to view the world in real time as ascii. Pointless but cool. Link"
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