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'America's funniest covert intelligence officer'

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Natalya

on Friday February 02 2007, @12:13AM

Natalya writes "CIA officer, posted one time too many to the Green Zone, freaks. http://www.covertcomic.com/ "If it's a supercomputer, how come the bullets don't bounce off when I shoot it?""

It’s ‘Squawk Box’ Meets ‘Saturday Night Live’->

From feed by nytfeed on Friday February 02 2007, @12:12AM

The popularity of the Wallstrip Web site is only the latest sign of the growing use of video on financial Web sites.
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Next Generation Source Code Search Engine

Submitted by on Thursday February 01 2007, @11:06PM

An anonymous reader writes "Newsforge has an article on a new source code search engine, All The Code which has just launched a public alpha. According to the article, unlike previous generations of source code search engines (such as koders and google codesearch) this new engine "looks at how code is used" to help determine the relevance. The idea being that if a library is used more frequently in a certain context, it is probably more relevant than a less popular library. Unfortunately only supports Java for the time being, but the faq indicates they will be adding more languages once the alpha is completed. I wonder if the other players will adopt this method?"

Wikipedia's Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales Interview

Submitted by rawbytes on Thursday February 01 2007, @11:06PM

rawbytes writes "New Scientist has an interesting interview with Jimmy Wales, founder of www.wikipedia.org. The interview touches on some topics of sensorship in China, source legitimacy, financial and future plans for wikipedia and more."

Free software may be helping war?

Submitted by

tonymercmobily

on Thursday February 01 2007, @10:57PM

tonymercmobily writes "There is a strong ethical motive behind free software. Programmers and users seem to love the collaborating spirit. But there is also a dark side: what if free software is used to help wars? The article talks about the use of free software and war, giving a list of (worrying) examples. Should the GPL 3.0 disallow the use of GPL software in war and weapons"

Debian Router Project

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An Anonymous Tank

on Thursday February 01 2007, @10:50PM

An Anonymous Tank writes "The Debian Router project by Vadim Berkgaut has been around for a bit now, but InfoWorld is writing about it in the story Secure Linux Appliances in the Enterprise. The Debian Router project home page seems geared towards use as a basic Linux router, but the InfoWorld article outlines a lot of alternative uses for the Debian Router Project. Also, Vadim has made some major updates to the project in the past 8 months which gave it an improved build process and support for booting from compact flash, disk-on-module, or USB flash drives."

Mac Developer Mulls Zero-day Security Response 94

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 01 2007, @10:49PM
from the in-the-nick-of-time dept.

1.6 Beta writes "Landon Fuller, the Mac programmer/Darwin developer behind the 'month of Apple fixes' project, plans to expand the initiative to roll out zero-day patches for issues that put Mac OS X users at risk of code execution attacks. The former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group has already shipped a fix for a nasty flaw in Java's GIF image decoder and hints an an auto-updating mechanism for the third-party patches. The article quotes him as saying, 'Perhaps [it could be] the Mac OS equivalent to ZERT,' referring to the Zero-day Emergency Response Team."

Just saw my first green Address Bar...

Submitted by

Panaqqa

on Thursday February 01 2007, @10:35PM

Panaqqa writes "One of the browsers I need occasionally is Internet Explorer 7, complete with its new security features. Today, for the first time, I saw a green address bar reflecting "Class 2 Certification" — GoDaddy had it. Am I alone in my ominous feeling that somewhere down the road, this green address bar will become an expectation for the general public using an ecommerce site, giving an advantage to only incorporated businesses who can afford the large cost?"

NFL won't let church show Sper Bwl

Submitted by bdonalds on Thursday February 01 2007, @09:12PM

bdonalds writes "INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NFL has nixed a church's plans to use a wall projector to show the Colts-Bears Super Bowl game, saying it would violate copyright laws.

NFL officials spotted a promotion of Fall Creek Baptist Church's "Super Bowl Bash" on the church Web site last week and overnighted a letter to the pastor demanding the party be canceled, the church said."

Zune Executive to Leave Microsoft

Submitted by Divebus on Thursday February 01 2007, @09:07PM

Divebus writes "REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — A Microsoft Corp. executive responsible for its newly launched Zune digital music player will leave the company. The software maker said the departure of Bryan Lee, a corporate vice president in Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division, was for personal reasons and "absolutely not" related to sales of the music player, which came out in mid-November to soft reviews.

Right. Absolutely nothing to do with it. Never crossed their minds."