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Submission + - Santangelo's kids attacked by Record Label's

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Patricia Santangelo may have fought off the first round with the RIAA, but now the rest of the sharks are circling, as to use their case as an example. Read the story here
Wireless Networking

Submission + - FCC strikes down Logan's ban on private Wi-Fi

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: FTA: A two-year effort by Logan International Airport officials to shut down private alternatives to the airport's $8-a-day wireless Internet service was decisively rejected yesterday by federal regulators, who blasted airport officials for raising bogus legal and technological arguments.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles /2006/11/02/fcc_rebukes_logan_says_continental_can _offer_wifi/
Once in a while, government agencies actually do the right thing...
Biotech

Submission + - Compound in red wine reverses fatty diet's effects

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AgentPaper
AgentPaper writes: "A recent study from the Harvard Medical School indicates that resveratrol, an antioxidant compound found in red wine, significantly reduced the effects of a high-fat diet on mice, as well as significantly extended their lifespans. The catch? The mice were dosed with 24 milligrams per kilogram of the stuff — and since the average red wine contains 1.5-3 mg of resveratrol per liter, that equates to consuming 560-1120 liters of wine a day in the average 70-kg human. Bottoms up!"
KDE

Submission + - Krita 1.6: State of the art

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brendan0powers
brendan0powers writes: "The KOffice raster image editor Krita reached version 1.6 along with the rest of the office suite earlier this month. But don't be misled; although Krita comes bundled with KOffice, it is not a second-tier productivity accessory like Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Krita is a fully-loaded raster graphics workhorse that stands on its own. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/23/18532 20"
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Opens the Windows CE Kernel

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Urban Strata
Urban Strata writes: "As expected, Microsoft Chief Strategy Officer Craig Mundie announced the formal release of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 this morning in Redmond. What wasn't expected, however, is that Microsoft has decided to make the CE kernel 100% shared source. "Developers can now access shared source code for the Windows CE kernel — as well as certain device drivers and application-level components — directly from within the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 distribution package," reports WindowsForDevices.com. "To do this, they click on a function in the IDE that installs the shared source, and indicate their acceptance of the associated shared source license." Is this the beginning of a new generation of openness at Microsoft?"
Security

Submission + - Boarding pass printing webpage- FBI ensues

Submitted by thermowax
thermowax writes: The Washington Post is running an article- scary on several levels- about an IU student who created a web page capable of printing look-alike NorthWest boarding passes, ostensibly to draw attention to the no-id-required-at-the-gate-loophole. Predictably, the jackbooted thugs have seized everything he owns that has an LED. Schneier weighs in with his opinion of the absurdity. Article is at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/10/31/AR2006103101313.html
United States

Submission + - BinLaden Costume gets a Lawyer Arrested

Submitted by spikedvodka
spikedvodka writes: Believe it or not, Someone dressed up as Bin Laden, and got himself arrested on Halloween. Read the article here To make things better, he is a lawyer, and the one who tipped the press off to President Bush's Drunk Driving record in 2000. Of course, the best part was his statement "There was a First Amendment this morning when I woke up. I don't know how it evaporated with the dawn"

Now he did have a squirt gun, and some plastic grenades with him... but it will be interesting to watch where this leads. He is scheduled for a court appearance in December, and is out on $500 bail
The Internet

Submission + - Will the US lose control of the Internet?

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MattSparkes
MattSparkes writes: "The first UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting is taking place next week in Athens, which aims to "contribute to a better understanding of how the internet can be used to its full potential." It is likely that several countries will object to the US monopoly on Internet governance, as they did at the last meeting, where the US cited fears of a loss of freedom of speech as the reason for retaining power. Other topics to be discussed include online security, access for non-English users and spam."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Razer's First Keyboard- The Tarantula

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Tarantula is what Razer calls the "first definitive keyboard created by gamers for gamers". Based on their experience with mice, the Tarantula is something to keep an eye on if you don't think a standard keyboard offers all the gaming features you would like. The keyboard's cool features include a modular docking system for accessories, anti-ghosting so you can press multiple keys at once, on-board memory to store profiles, 10 macros keys, swappable keys, blue LED lighting, and drivers that can set up to 100 profiles and can reprogram every key.
Networking (Apple)

Submission + - U.S. Army says Mac OS is alternative to Windows XP

Submitted by
Reverend Darkness
Reverend Darkness writes: "It seems that the boys at Cupertino are keeping the news that the U.S. Army has deemed the Mac OS worthy of "peer" status with Windows XP rather quiet.

The caveat?

They install a third party Active Directory client,ADmitMac for CAC, to make sure that they meet the minimum security requirements... requirements that Apple simply cannot meet."
Input Devices

Submission + - Fewer Calories Mean Healthier Monkeys

Submitted by
lylet
lylet writes: "So this NYT article in Tuesday's Paper "One for the Ages: A Prescription That May Extend Life" explains some research about calorie intake as it relates to aging. I like the graphic with the serving sizes, but think that if the 3,000 calorie guy cut out the bacon, butter, half of the fries, and the skeezy looking cafeteria dinner, he might just be ok. What is a good (and do-able) 1800 or 2000 calorie day for a male? Toast, fruit, salad with chicken, fruit, and then a normal, but small dinner perhaps. And why are the monkeys scowling? I'll bet it's because they have to eat those little pellets, and one of them is hungry."
Software

Submission + - becoming a software developer affordably

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An anonymous reader writes: How is it possible to break into the programmer field to become a software developer? Most job ads I see, even for junior positions, are asking for 2-4 years experience in each technology listed (and list a giant laundry list). Generally HR drones filter me completely out of the running. I interviewed with one place and was offered the job, but they clearly stated they wanted to underpay me and I was expected to work a lot of overtime. The good places to work just don't seem interested in interviewing me. My work experience is mostly with databases, so DBA jobs are pretty easy, however it is my dream to become a superb software developer and in order to accomplish this goal I need to practice the craft all day at work. I have a college degree in computer science with a 4.0 GPA however that doesn't seem to help me be any closer to becoming a software developer. It is looking like a big waste of time where I should have been developing instead of going to college.

Is there a way to find such a job without having to go down to making 30,000 per year? Currently I make 70,000 per year and I do need the money as I have a family to support. I figure I can go down to 65,000 (in the New York/Northern NJ area). What I really want is a good job to break me into the field of programming (any object oriented language at this point .NET, Java, C++, etc.) so that I can get object oriented development/design experience. People can suggest open source projects, but ultimately a little programming in your spare time is no substitute for doing it full time and working on a really large system. In order to become really good it is necessary to practice 40+ hours per week.
Security

Submission + - Old bugs blight shiny new browsers

Submitted by
magmf
magmf writes: ""An old security bug provides a way to crash Firefox 2.0, security researchers have discovered. The memory corruption vulnerability involving the handling of JavaScript code has been known about since June 2006 and Firefox version 1.5.0.7 was supposed to fix the problem. Despite this, Firefox 2.0 remains vulnerable to this issue. Due to code reuse, other Mozilla products are also likely to be affected, a posting on Bugtraq warns. The flaw might be used to inject hostile code into vulnerable systems, but so far nothing more dangerous than an ability to crash the browser has been demonstrated."
Read More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/30/ie_firefox _vulns/
And i found this link http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffoxdie_orig.html to test the this flaw in brazilian website UnderLinux"

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