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Feature: VMWare: New kid on the block->

From feed by macworldfeed on Wednesday April 18 2007, @11:53AM

VMWare has been providing virtualization software for Windows users for years. VMWare Fusion, which has been available as a free public beta since late December 2006, is the company's first Mac product.

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Shared Files? No Security Clearance for You

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Noah Shachtman

on Wednesday April 18 2007, @11:53AM

Noah Shachtman writes "Have you downloaded a couple of tunes from LimeWire? Shared TV show torrents? Then don't bother applying to work at the NSA. At a recent college recruiting session, an Agency type told potential spooks that "illegal file-sharing" would keep them from getting a security clearance. So would a stint in the Peace Corps."

LASIK For Older Adults - Benefits And Problems->

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday April 18 2007, @11:52AM

Medical researchers report on the safety, efficacy and predictability of laser eye surgery -- laser in situ keratomileusis or LASIK -- in patients 40-69 years old.
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Student finds hole in ISP routers, gets booted

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2007, @11:33AM

An anonymous reader writes "Student Sid Karunaratne found a serious vulnerability in the routers supplied by fast UK ISP BeThere, and published the details in a post on securiteam blog. Shortly after, BeThere stopped Sid's account, claiming that, because people had not been aware of the vulnerability before he had released the details, Sid had somehow caused the possible breach through 'illegal means'. Comments on the securiteam blog suggested that there could be as many as 14,000 affected customers, yet, after two months, BeThere has yet to take action on the vulnerability."

The Math of Text Readability

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2007, @11:01AM

An anonymous reader writes "Wired magazine has an article that explains The Law of Optical Volumes, a formula for spacing the letters on a printed page that results in maximum readability. Wired's new logo (did anyone notice?) obeys the law. Unfortunately, Web fonts don't allow custom kerning pairs, so you can't work the same magic online as in print. Could this be why some people still prefer newspapers and magazines to the Web?"