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Submission + - Linux Users Can't Sell On eBay (ubuntuforums.org) 2

Submitted by bobintetley
bobintetley writes: Many Linux/Firefox users are reporting problems uploading images to eBay. Having tested this myself, it is indeed completely broken. Why eBay would break standard HTTP uploads by using IE specific javascript to "check the file exists" boggles the mind. This problem has been reported to eBay since late October, but so far with no resolution. eBay have since stated that only IE is supported. I guess when you have no real competition you can pull stunts like this.
The Internet

Submission + - Net Neutrality Issues Facing Canada Now (neutrality.ca)

Submitted by cyberbian
cyberbian writes: It seems that Net Neutrality is also becoming a problem for Canadian Businesses and Consumers. The Progressive(?) Conservative Party have already pushed for deregulation plan for telecommunications in Canada, despite the objection of a Parliamentary Committee that was formed to study the issue.

Given the importance of internet communication to a country as large as Canada, it's imperative that we increase awareness of the net neutrality issue, and ensure that the public is raising its voice against the profiteering telecoms.

"When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end" — Sir Tim Berners Lee.
The Internet

Submission + - Hack MySpace Using Simple CSS (hacknmod.com)

Submitted by HacknMod.com
HacknMod.com writes: Use this code to delete EVERYTHING on a Myspace page and replace it with anything you wish. This code, for example, displays a link reading "get facebook."
Books

Submission + - Book copies Wikipedia; Publisher aggressive on IP. (wikipedia.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Two pages of a book, Black Gold: The New Frontier in Oil for Investors, consist of a direct copy from the English Wikipedia article on the Khobar Towers Bombing. The book is published by John Wiley and Sons, the same publisher who, earlier this year, threatened a blogger with legal action over a clear case of fair use commentary.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft delays release of Office for Mac 2008

Submitted by Chelsea
Chelsea writes: Mac users must wait until next year for fresh versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint: Microsoft has moved its intended launch of Office for Mac 2008 to January from the second half of this year. "We had hoped to hit the Christmas selling season, but now we hope to target Macworld" in January, said Craig Eisler, who became general manager of the Mac business unit at Microsoft six weeks ago. "We, as a group, were not satisfied with product quality."
Communications

Submission + - Developer of Reverse Directories Dead at 87 (hughpickens.com)

Submitted by
Pcol
Pcol writes: "Reverse directories, listing residents sorted by address and phone number, are invaluable to detectives, debt collectors, telemarketers and anyone who needs to find someone. Although the first reverse directories were compiled in the 1780s by trudging door to door, recording the residents of every building on every block, what IBM sales representative Jack Cole did, starting in 1947, was to streamline the process, using punch cards to turn an ordinary telephone book into what today would be called a searchable database. Cole hired typists to keyboard the entire Dallas telephone book onto punch cards. Directories for other cities soon followed, with Mr. Cole drawing on census records, tax rolls and other data to supplement the information in the phone book. As cellular phones have become more popular, there has been debate about releasing cell phone numbers into public 411 and reverse number directories. Right now, cell phone numbers are not available in any reverse-number directories. However, several information companies provide reverse cell phone lookups that are obtained from utility resources, and are available online."

Submission + - Keeping track of all your systems

Submitted by FrodoTeeBagins
FrodoTeeBagins writes: Managing multiple servers, programs, and updates is something that IT professionals do everyday. Keeping track of all the servers, passwords, software versions, update history, and logs is becoming a chore that builds up and becomes more complex day by day. What program or method do you use to keep track of all your systems information?
Media

Submission + - Australian Labour Party going for a big net impact

Submitted by rtb61
rtb61 writes: The Australian Labour Party pushing for net aware youth with a flashy personality orientated web site http://www.kevin07.com/. I got it in my email, I suppose I must have registered at one stage or other in way or other. A site complete with pro-youth links to Youtube, Myspace and Facebook. Personally I have never been into team politics and think it is a stupid way to align yourself politically as an individual, always pursue the policies and leave the rah rah for the jock straps and sport, at least there are some policies on the site. I still wonder whether it is appropriate for parties to indirectly promote commercial web sites by linking to them, as for 'KMail', perhaps a little political correctness with a polite point to the people at KDE. The Facebook link it is likely a very bad idea as they have no control on who or what they are now promoting.
Power

Submission + - Plastic solar cell reaches 6.5% efficiency (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by
mdsolar
mdsolar writes: "The MIT Technology Review reports on work published in Science about a tandem polymer solar cell that achieves 6.5% efficiency, a new record for this potentially inexpensive form of photovoltaic cell.

Until now, however, the tandem architecture spoiled plastic photovoltaics such as Heeger's, which are "printed" by spraying solutions of conductive plastics and other materials onto a plastic film. Layers of different plastics sprayed on top tended to mix, degrading rather than enhancing power output. Heeger and his colleagues beat the mixing problem by finding an effective spray-on separator to keep the layers in place.
Given other developments in this field, achieving 10% efficiency may be within reach."
The Matrix

Submission + - Iraq base plans left on open servers

Submitted by Just.... wow...
Just.... wow... writes: Reporters trawling un-indexed FTP servers have recently been able to download large amounts of secret US military data, it has been revealed. Documents found included plans of a new military prison camp in Iraq and a fuel dump in Afghanistan — both likely to be targets for insurgents. Associated Press hacks who carried out the investigation suggested that less tech-savvy people in the US military-industrial complex thought it safe to put the files on open FTP(File Transfer Protocol) machines because they were not crawled by search-engine bots and thus could not be Googled. However, the AP scribes could get to the files in many cases by simply substituting "ftp" for "http" in their browser address bars. And I thought Military and Intelligence were hand in hand.
Security

Submission + - 26 Arrested in Poste Italiane Phishing Attack (net-security.org)

Submitted by smitty
smitty writes: Members of an alleged international phishing gang have been arrested following an investigation by Italian police. The Guardia di Finanza apprehended 18 Italian citizens and eight foreign nationals from Eastern Europe in an operation dubbed 'Phish & Chip', following a widespread phishing campaign that targeted internet users of Italian postal operator Poste Italiane's home-banking services. The gang is alleged to have spammed out messages directing users to a bogus Poste Italiane website that stole their login information.
Security

Submission + - Disney club members are today's data-theft victims 1

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "Letters have been sent to members of the Disney Movie Club informing them that their credit-card info was sold by an employee of a Disney contractor to an undercover agent conducting a Secret Service sting. One of the club members is a database security expert who forwarded his letter to attrition.org, which forwarded a copy to Network World. The letter says customers shouldn't fret because the info wasn't misused or sold to anyone else. ... Permission granted to fret anyway.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1741 6"
User Journal

Journal Journal: Ask Slashdot: Any good OpenGL primer for the novice? 11

Journal by Marxist Hacker 42
It occurs to me that the one thing missing is a good kid's programming language- no good sound & graphics generating language like we had on early 1980s microcomputers. While I could teach my kid TI Basic using the Classic 99 TI/99-4A emulator, I'd much rather teach him something good. Anybody know of any good OpenGL For Dummies (type, not actual title) books?

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