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Journal Journal: You Can be a Rocket Man

Journal by Alien54 on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @12:26AM

The world's first commercially-available rocket pack is now on the market - for £130,000. Its inventor, Juan Manuel Lozano, who owns Mexican-based Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexican (TAM), describes the Rocket Belt as "the most spectacular flying machine ever developed". The 52-year-old said the main difference between his belt and the James Bond version is the

Submission + - Intel Mac Performance Comparison

Submitted by jfpoole on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @12:21AM

jfpoole writes: Primate Labs has a processor performance comparison of almost all the Intel Macs Apple's shipped over the past sixteen months (the only omission being the new Xeon-based Xserve). It's interesting to see just how little processor performance varies across the entire Intel Mac lineup (except for the quad-core Mac Pro, of course).

Submission + - Gaim is being renamed to "Pidgin IM"

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @12:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: After some legal threats from AOL, the GAIM project is undergoing a name change in preperation for the 2.0 release. The project will now be known as Pidgin IM, and libgaim will now be known as libpurple, according to discussions on the GAIM project mailing lists

The new site will be located at http://www.pidgin.im/ , and the developers site is at http://developer.pidgin.im/

Submission + - Firefox also vulnerable to Windows cursor exploit

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @11:42PM

Stony Stevenson writes: Computerworld is reporting that the unpatched Windows vulnerability involving cursor animation files that caused Microsoft to release an out-of-sequence patch on Tuesday also affects Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 browser.

From the article: "Contrary to other reports, Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 is vulnerable to attackers armed with the Windows animated (ANI) cursor exploit, a researcher said Tuesday.

Alexander Sotirov, the vulnerability researcher at Determina who discovered the ANI flaw last December and notified Microsoft of it later that month, yesterday posted a demonstration of an ANI exploit that hijacks a PC when Firefox users are conned into visiting a malicious site.

An identical attack against Firefox 2.0, however, gave Sotirov complete and total access to the PC's drive. "Since Firefox does not have a low-privilege mode, similar to the protected mode in IE, we'll be able to overwrite files as well," he said."

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