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Submission + - 2 JavaScript holes (with exploits) this week

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Double strike this week for Michal Zalewski, who published JavaScript based exploits for two new web browser vulnerabilities. The one disclosed on Monday allows attacker to read sensitive local files on your computer without your explicit permission, and affects both IE 7 and Firefox 2.0.0.1. The other one allows malicious websites to manipulate authentication cookies for third-party sites, and to possibly do other nasty things as well. A patch for the latter bug, notified to Mozilla on Wednesday, has already been developed and will likely be available in a 2.0.0.2 security upgrade. Obviously enough, users of the NoScript Firefox extension are immune from both these attack vectors.
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Submission + - Americans are NOT stupid

Submitted by
justelite
justelite writes: "So what if they dont know how many sides a triangle have? Or who Tony Blair is? That is not fair...just because their president is as intelligent as a door, it doent mean theyre all like that...if you still think american people are stupi, watch this video and change your mind :)"
Education

Submission + - Kansas Adopts New Science Standards

Submitted by porcupine8
porcupine8 writes: The Kansas State Board of Education has changed the state science standards once again, this time to take out language questioning evolution. This turnaround comes fast on the heels of the ouster given this past election to the ultra-conservative Board members who originally introduced the language. "Science" has also been re-redefined as "a human activity of systematically seeking natural explanations" (the word "natural" had been previously stricken from the definition).

If you'd like to see the new standards, a version showing all additions and deletions is available from the KS DOE's website (PDF).
Biotech

Submission + - power of the MUD

Submitted by
justelite
justelite writes: "This clock is powered by earth, no batteries or other power needed. Just mud... We need more mud for a computer powered by mud."
PHP

Submission + - The right way to read files with PHP

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One of the joys of dealing with modern programming languages like PHP is the amount of options available. PHP could easily steal the Perl motto, "There's more than one way to do it," especially when it comes to file processing. Learn how to use the different file functions of PHP. Review basic file functions, such as fopen, fclose, and feof; learn reading functions, such as fgets, fgetss, and fscanf. And discover functions that process entire files in one or two lines of code.
Networking

US Lags World In Broadband Access 608

Posted by Zonk from the get-cracking-tube-layers dept.
An anonymous reader writes "When It Comes To Broadband, U.S. Plays Follow The Leader says a story in IWeek. Their thesis is that, while broadband access in the United States rose from 60 million users in March 2005 to 84 million in March 2006, the US is well behind countries like England and China. Indeed, what you may not realize is that the U.S. ranks a surprisingly poor 12th in worldwide broadband access, a situation which could threaten its ability to maintain its technological lead. The federal government is no help: the FCC has almost no data on the rate of hi-speed adoption, or of what the speed and quality of those services are. Broadband is more expensive here than in other nations, as well, almost 10 times as expensive by some estimates. The cost and poor quality of service aren't from population density, aren't from lack of interest, and are not from lack of technical know-how. So, what is holding us back?
Microsoft

Submission + - Case against russian teacher dropped

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "The case against a Russian teacher (wikipedia link), accused of using pirated Microsoft software in school computers was dropped, 'Due to insignificance of damage" done to Microsoft. Here's a link to the russian article explaining some details.
Makes you wish American courts thought the same way when it comes to music copyright violations."
Windows

Submission + - Vista first look: Bugs and confusion

Submitted by
SeanAD
SeanAD writes: "The Register has an article of its impressions of Vista. With the many articles comparing it to OS X, this article also deals with expectations of what a new OS should include. The closing paragraph is pretty telling: "It does benefit from a lot of good ideas, many of them Apple's, of course, but good nevertheless. It simply doesn't work very well, unfortunately. There are serious problems with execution; it's not polished; it's not ready. It should not be on the market, and certainly not for the outrageous prices being charged. Don't buy it, at least until after the first service pack is out. Don't pay to be a beta tester.""
Media (Apple)

Music Execs Think DRM Slows the Marketplace 224

Posted by kdawson from the well-duh dept.
MacGod writes "From BBC News comes a story about a Jupiter Research survey conducted before Steve Jobs's anti-DRM essay, indicating that most music industry execs see DRM-free music as a way to expand sales on digital tracks. The survey covered large and small record labels, rights bodies, digital stores, and technology providers. To summarize: 54% of music execs think that current DRM is too restrictive and 62% think selling unencumbered music would be a way to boost sales. Even limiting the survey to the record labels themselves, 48% believe this. Yet, many also believe it's not going to happen without significant governmental intervention — even though most insiders think DRM is harmful, the labels are keen to stick with it. Is this yet another sign of the typical media industry 'head in the sand, refuse to change' approach, or might we be seeing the early stages or some actual change?"
Supercomputing

Quantum Computer Demoed, Plays Sudoku 309

Posted by kdawson from the more-qubits dept.
prostoalex writes "Canadian company D-Wave Systems is getting some technology press buzz after successfully demonstrating their quantum computer (discussed here earlier) that the company plans to rent out. Scientific American has a more technical description of how the quantum computer works, as well as possible areas of application: 'The quantum computer was given three problems to solve: searching for molecular structures that match a target molecule, creating a complicated seating plan, and filling in Sudoku puzzles.' Another attendee provides some videos from the demo." Anyone want to guess how long before "qubit" gets compressed to "quit" (as "bigit" became "bit" in the last century)?
The Internet

Charter Implements SiteFinder-Like DNS 206

Posted by kdawson from the fun-and-games dept.
paulbiz writes "Charter Cable's DNS servers have just started resolving all invalid hostnames and pointing them to their own error page. The About page states: 'This service automatically eliminates many of the error pages you may encounter as you surf the web. No software was installed on your computer for this service to work.' It has an 'opt-out' page, but when you use it Charter simply sets a cookie that makes their page redirect errors to Microsoft Live Search instead!" One more reason to use OpenDNS, where you can actually opt out of the custom error page.

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