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Dystopian Rebel writes:
A Stanford U comp-sci student has found a serious bug in Chromium, Safari, Opera, and MSIE. Feross Aboukhadijeh has demonstrated (safe link: http://feross.org/fill-disk/) that these browsers allow unbounded local storage. Aboukhadijeh has logged the bug with Chromium (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178980) and Apple but couldn't do so for MSIE because "the page is broken" (see http://connect.microsoft.com/IE). Oops.
Firefox's implementation of HTML5 local storage is not vulnerable to this exploit.
67756
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Dystopian Rebel writes:
The Financial Times reports that Taiwanese company Luxpro (discussed on Slashdot last year) intends to sue Apple for US$100 m for "lost revenue caused by Apple's abuse of their global power." In 2005, Apple had obtained an injunction against Luxpro's Super Shuffle/Super Tangent but the Taiwanese Supreme Court has overturned the injunction, opening the door to Luxpro's legal action.
From the article: "The {Luxpro} product had almost the same measurements and weight, came in a white plastic casing and had similar buttons on the front. Its name, Super Shuffle, also closely resembled the original."
The Luxpro product has OLEDs on it but visit your optometrist immediately if you don't see other similarities.
Apple has since changed the design of the Shuffle significantly.
43486
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Dystopian Rebel writes:
A New Jersey public-school history teacher was recorded telling his students that they "belong in Hell" if they do not accept Jesus.
The teacher, who is also a Baptist Pastor, lied later when we was asked by the school principle what he said to the students. Unfortunately for this dodge, a student recorded the teacher's "lesson".
Neither the teacher nor the school is reported to have offered an apology.
We've seen several articles about religion on Slashdot recently: Ubergeek Richard Dawkins continues to stir the primordial soup. This is a disturbing example of what can and will happen if we let silly people prate their nonsense unchallenged. Soon you'll have Creationist museums that... oh wait...
