Comment Widgets on main screen (Score 1) 579
It is possible to move OS X widgets to the main screen. It's silly that it's a hidden feature, but it does work.
Comment Flying pasties (Score 1) 560
Comment Re:some amount of secrecy is warranted (Score 1) 489
Wikileaks is currently withholding another 15000 documents precisely because they contain sensitive information that needs to be redacted before releasing them.
Comment Independent Counsel (Score 1) 489
Investigations can turn into witch hunts. Remember Ken Starr? He couldn't find anything in Whitewater to pin down the Clintons, so he made a brouhaha out of the Lewinsky story.
Submission + - WiFi WPA2 vulnerability found (networkworld.com)
BobB-nw writes: Perhaps it was only a matter of time. But wireless security researchers say they have uncovered a vulnerability in the WPA2 security protocol, which is the strongest form of Wi-Fi encryption and authentication currently standardized and available.
Malicious insiders can exploit the vulnerability, named "Hole 196" by the researcher who discovered it at wireless security company AirTight Networks. The moniker refers to the page of the IEEE 802.11 Standard (Revision, 2007) on which the vulnerability is buried. Hole 196 lends itself to man-in-the-middle-style exploits, whereby an internal, authorized Wi-Fi user can decrypt, over the air, the private data of others, inject malicious traffic into the network and compromise other authorized devices using open source software, according to AirTight.
"There's nothing in the standard to upgrade to in order to patch or fix the hole," says Kaustubh Phanse, AirTight's wireless architect who describes Hole 196 as a "zero-day vulnerability that creates a window of opportunity" for exploitation.
Malicious insiders can exploit the vulnerability, named "Hole 196" by the researcher who discovered it at wireless security company AirTight Networks. The moniker refers to the page of the IEEE 802.11 Standard (Revision, 2007) on which the vulnerability is buried. Hole 196 lends itself to man-in-the-middle-style exploits, whereby an internal, authorized Wi-Fi user can decrypt, over the air, the private data of others, inject malicious traffic into the network and compromise other authorized devices using open source software, according to AirTight.
"There's nothing in the standard to upgrade to in order to patch or fix the hole," says Kaustubh Phanse, AirTight's wireless architect who describes Hole 196 as a "zero-day vulnerability that creates a window of opportunity" for exploitation.
Comment Re:What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit By A Bus? (Score 1) 239
Then it would be a Bus Error.
Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 133
... and fax machines still exist because some processes require signatures.
Comment Re:Dell: The Ryanair of Servers (Score 1) 326
Don't diss Southwest Airlines. They may have a cheap image, but one thing they don't do is nickel-and-dime. They are one of the few remaining airlines that have a two-piece luggage allowance included in the price of a ticket. And they serve free non-alcoholic drinks on board.
Comment No luggage? (Score 1) 432
Everyone knows that only terrorists travel with no luggage.
Comment Re:And if they are hydrated again? (Score 1) 93
Dry clean only!
Comment Apple to sell unlocked iPhones in Canada (Score 1) 359
In related news, Apple plans to sell iPhones unlocked in Canada. The Canadian cell-phone market has started becoming competitive this year, with Bell/Telus deploying HSPA networks compatible with the Rogers/Fido network. (They wanted to cash in on roaming visitors during the Olympics and the iPhone fad, no doubt.) Factory-unlocked iPhones are also available in Belgium, France, Italy, the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand. We laugh at you Americans who are stuck with AT&T, and who keep wishing for a Verizon iPhone. You don't seem to realize that Apple doesn't care to produce a special CDMA model just for one carrier in one country, when it is already selling one GSM phone worldwide faster than it can make them.
Comment Linux or *BSD (Score 5, Informative) 163
It's also OpenSource [...] Meaning if Linux or *BSD wanted to they too could also have it too.
They could, if it weren't patented.
Comment New "feature" in 10.1: DRM (Score 4, Interesting) 272
There is a new clause in the Flash 10.1 EULA that was not present in 10.0:
7.6 Content Protection Technology. If you Use the Adobe Runtimes to access content that has been protected with Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server or Flash Access software (“Content Protection”), in order to let you play the protected content, the Software may automatically request media usage rights and individualization rights from a rights server on the Internet, and may download and install required components of the Software, including any available Content Protection Updates. You can find more information on Content Protection at http://www.adobe.com/go/protected_content.
You have to download a 3.3 MB PDF with 280 pages to find this kind of stuff. There's no telling how far these updates will go (remember TurboTax DRM?).
Comment Safari 5 fixes 48 security holes! (Score 2, Informative) 308
Users should also be aware that Safari 5 fixes 48 security holes in Safari 4.0. Therefore, if you are using Safari 4.0, you should upgrade as soon as possible. For Mac OS 10.4, there is Safari 4.1 available instead of Safari 5.0.
Comment Re:IOS (Score 1) 1184
Ha! I predicted iOS half a year ago, when the iPad was first announced and Fujitsu was going to sue.
