Vasco Bardo - Slashdot User

Comment In the meantime there is always things like: (Score 1) 168

by Vasco Bardo on Saturday May 26, 2007 @06:34AM (#19281575) Attached to: EU Questions Google Privacy Policy

TrackMeNot I am in no way affiliated with these guys but I think the concept is pretty elegant, in a brute force way. Essentially your real searches become invisible again in a sea of random searches.

Hybrid Cars No Better than 'Intelligent' Cars 883

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @12:57PM from the i-can't-do-that-dave dept.

eldavojohn writes "There's no doubt been a lot of analysis done recently on energy consumption, especially on the road. Now, a study released today reveals that cars with traffic flow sensors built into them can perform just as efficiently as hybrids. The concept of an 'intelligent' car that communicates with the highway or other cars is an old idea, but the idea of them using sensors to anticipate braking could vastly reduce fossil fuel consumption. From the article, 'Under the US and European cycles, hybrid-matching fuel economy was reached with a look-ahead predictability of less than 60 seconds. If the predictability was boosted to 180 seconds, the newly-intelligent car was 33 percent more fuel-efficient than when it was unconverted.' Now, the real question will be whether or not you can convince consumers that the three minutes of coasting up to a red light or halted traffic is worth the 33 percent less gas and replacing your brake pads/cylinders less often."

Microsoft Patches 19 Flaws, 6 in Vista 307

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @12:23PM from the many-patches-makes-os-work dept.

Cheesy Balogna writes "Microsoft has just released seven advisories — all rated critical — with patches for at least 19 vulnerabilities affecting the Windows operating system, the widely deployed Office productivity suite and the dominant Internet Explorer browser. Six of the 19 vulnerabilities affect Windows Vista. 'There are patches for 7 different vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution attacks against Word, Excel and Office. Users of Microsoft Exchange are also urged to pay attention to one of the critical bulletins, which cover 4 different flaws. A cumulative IE update addresses six potentially dangerous bugs. There are the six that apply to IE 7 on Windows Vista. The last bulletin in this month's batch apples to CAPICOM (Cryptographic API Component Object Model) and could also put users at risk of complete system hijack attacks.'"

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