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New iMac, Mac Mini Benchmarks Show Changes Are Slight 200

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @04:53PM from the increment-weather dept.

jfpoole writes "Primate Labs has posted some preliminary benchmarks of the new iMacs and Mac minis. They found that processor speed is virtually unchanged between the older and newer models. Clearly these new Macs are minor updates rather than the major upgrades many Mac users were hoping for." As reader olddotter points out, there are changes, also slight, to the new Mini's case.

SSLStrip Now In the Wild 208

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 23, 2009 @10:51AM from the not-the-marisa-tomei-kind dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Moxie Marlinspike, who last week presented his controversial SSL stripping attacks at Black Hat Federal, appears to have released his much-anticipated demonstration tool for performing MITM attacks against would-be SSL connections. This vulnerability has been met with everything from calls for more widespread EV certificate deployment to an even more fervent push for DNSSEC."

A Real Bill Gates Rant 293

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 23, 2009 @10:08AM from the well-that's-not-so-bad dept.

lou ibmix XI submitted an email written by Bill Gates a few years ago and turned over to the feds as part of the government's antitrust case. Great quotes like 'Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?' and 'The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind.' We like to think of him as an abstract, but I think this is interesting stuff. Also, this might seem familiar. Oops.

Comment Re:won't last (Score 5, Informative) 253

by Carraway on Wednesday November 02, 2005 @12:59PM (#13933191) Attached to: GUBA makes Usenet search easy as Google

Yeah, because Easynews and the hundreds of companies like them were shut down so fast for the exact same thing.

The difference here is GUBA is shouting from the rooftops that they're hosting copyrighted files. Easynews, Giganews, etc., all kept it relatively obscure, just saying "we index all of Usenet" which was understood by smart users and generally ignored by everyone else. Now all of the basic users who are just now figuring out how Bitorrent works are going to say, "Wha? I can get music and movies on Usenet?" and, frankly, where the basic users go, so goes the RIAA.

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