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wiredmikey writes:
After switching to a Mac recently, I decided to put my old laptop up for sale to help recoup a little of the Mac cost. I received an email almost immediately from a girl named Rebecca and we had this email exchange
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Dzonatas writes:
Facebook Credits, announced after the news of Facebook Gift Shop being shut down in August, is being made ready for the public this September. The credits will initially be good for online games, yet they also plan to allow purchase of physical products. Jonathon Lyon, social media strategist at marketing agency Wunderman, said brands would find the best opportunity if the currency is used in Facebook Connect. “The real opportunity is within Facebook Connect. If it can integrate with that, it will mean a much broader network of sites can implement the currency. With other virtual currencies that have real world physical good transactions, it seems there needs to be tradable assets across markets (i.e. Linden Dollars and LindeX). Will this allow people to buy a new fashion outfit from Perfect World to trade for bonus points in Mafia Wars? Seriously, what about taxes in the global market?
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dw writes:
IANA IPv4 exhaustion, which refers to the day in which ICANN distributes its last 5 large chucks of addresses to the regional registries, is now anticipated to occur within the next 12 months. Year to date, it has already distributed 10 of its 26 /8s, with 16 remaining, and there are signs depletion may be accelerating. Despite IANA exhaustion in about a year, most consumers should not notice immediate impacts, as each regional registry and each ISP will have their own dwindling pools of addresses to utilize. Appropriate or not, the press will likely find IANA exhaustion as a convenient Y2K-like date to doom and gloom about, which should have a much more direct impact on IPv6 (or alternative) implementations, as Executives decide that action is urgent.
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TravisTR writes:
A new analysis by Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd argues that Facebook's success is due in part to "white flight" from MySpace.
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Trailrunner7 writes:
After years of dominance in the vulnerabilty-count metric, Microsoft has now given way to Apple as the software maker with the most reported vulnerabilities. Apple's products now have more vulnerabilities than those of any other major vendor. Perhaps more importantly, though, is the fact that third-party applications now account for the vast majority of flaws on most computers, according to a new report. The report covers the first half of 2010 and shows that while Apple has the highest number of vulnerabilities in its products, Microsoft, Adobe, Mozilla and Oracle are right in the mix, as well. Secunia doesn't break out the exact number of vulnerabilities reported in each of the vendors' products, but instead simply ranks them by volume of CVEs. A quick search of the CVE database shows about 189 CVEs involving Apple so far in 2010 and about 146 involving Microsoft.
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shikaisi writes:
A rather more balanced and in-depth portrait of Julian Assange than you usually get in the media. "We have values. I am an information activist. You get the information out to the people. We believe a richer intellectual and historical record that is fuller and more accurate is in itself intrinsically good, and gives people the tools to make intelligent decisions."
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tugfoigel writes:
In the wake of Consumer Reports announcing that it would not be recommending the iPhone 4 due to the much-discussed antenna problems, there have been calls for Apple to recall the device.
While a recall could be damaging to Apple's reputation, it would also be a costly endeavor, according to some calculations made by Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi. In a research note on Tuesday, Sacconaghi estimated that while "a full product recall of the iPhone 4 (is) highly unlikely," it would cost Apple $1.5 billion, or 3.5 percent of its total cash on hand.
What would be more likely--and cheaper--is that Apple could issue a free rubber bumper case with each phone. That would prevent a person's hand from coming into contact with the phone's antenna, which is built into its exterior metal strip. Although Apple charges $29 at retail for the rubber cases, Bernstein estimates that giving them away to iPhone 4 customers would cost the company $1 per unit.
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subtropolis writes:
KOMO News in Seattle is reporting that a recently-deported 23-yr-old Russian man "appears to have ties to the recently-exposed Russian counterintelligence" (according to unnamed Feds). The article states that he admitted to unspecified immigration violations and was promptly shown the door on Tuesday. It also says that, "Microsoft confirms Karetnikov worked as an entry-level software tester for less than a year." So, I'm thinking that MS had better take a really good at their logs for that time. He may have got in at "entry-level" but his abilities may have been a fair bit beyond that. OTOH, we've read how l33t their IT situation was over on the East Coast, so maybe his mission was meant to be very long term and the Russians couldn't afford to send any of their really good talent.
Interestingly, his admission to mere "violations" and swift departure would be right in line with how this swap has gone down. The four Russians who were flown to Britain and the US had to first sign a confession before President Medvedev granted them pardons. But (IF he's at all related to the spy ring), was he uncovered only after the spy swap? Or did the FBI not have the proof they needed? Or, were the Feds deliberately holding him back just so as to rub it in?
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echolinux writes:
Frustrated by Oracle's refusal to interact with the OpenSolaris community or speak with the OpenSolaris Governing Board, the OGB has issued an ultimatum to Oracle: designate a liaison to the OGB by August 16th or the board will “take action at the August 23 meeting to trigger the clause in the OGB charter that will return control of the community to Oracle.”
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Mattpw writes:
PassWindow is a credit-card sized piece of plastic with no working parts but a transparent segment, upon which are printed some vertical or horizontal lines. Meaningless in themselves, but align them on the screen over an image, and some of them form recognizable digits. That's the authentication code.
