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Comment Re:We've already seen this before (Score 4, Informative) 170

by aron_wallaker on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:10PM (#18574967) Attached to: Web 2.0 Under Siege

There are ways to deal with this. Joe Walker, author of Direct Web Remoting (DWR), talks about the GMail problem and ways to solve it:

http://getahead.org/blog/joe/2007/01/01/csrf_attac ks_or_how_to_avoid_exposing_your_gmail_contacts.ht ml

Of course, DWR 2.0 will have all this goodness built in. :)

Submission + - Presidential candidate bold stand on privacy right

Submitted by Alsee on Sunday January 28, 2007 @03:25PM

Alsee writes: Wired News reports "electronic civil libertarians' hearts a twitter" over US Presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton's bold speech on the subject of digital-era privacy rights in front of the American Constitution Society, arguing privacy an important right. Topics included electronic surveillance, consumer opt-in vs opt-out, cyber-security, commercial and government handling of personal data, data offshoring, data leaks, and even genetic discrimination. Senate.gov has the full text or video(.wmv) of the speech.

Submission + - Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age to be miniseries

Submitted by fmackay on Monday January 15, 2007 @06:51PM

fmackay writes: Neal Stephenson's novel The Diamond Age is to be adapted for a Sci Fi Channel miniseries. George Clooney is producing and Stephenson writing the screenplay.

Submission + - Fighting child porn vs. ruining innocent lives

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Monday January 15, 2007 @12:44PM

netbuzz writes: "ABC News has the story of a horrifying example of how legitimate societal concerns about child pornography are leading to overzealous prosecutions that can upturn if not ruin the lives of innocents. In this case, the innocents are a teenage boy and his parents, who have been so traumatized by the injustice that they've taken the drastic though understandable step of disconnecting their PC from the Internet. What can other parents do to lessen the chances of this nightmare happening to their families? And what can technologists contribute to the cause of sorting true child porn traffickers from those who are merely unwitting hosts? http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1046 0"

Submission + - Why "upgrade" to Office-2007

Submitted by

walterbyrd

on Sunday January 14, 2007 @05:52PM

walterbyrd writes: "IMO: Office-2007 is a contender for the least useful upgrade in the history of computing. It's expensive, has a steep learning curve, and it's default format is even less compatible with anything else. Stan Beer discusses the "upgrade" in his article: Question: why do I need to upgrade to Office 2007?."

Java Virtualization for Server Consolidation 97

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 06, 2006 @05:37PM from the cuppa-server-joe dept.

Steve Wilson writes "Cassatt Corporation has released new software that enables administrators with large J2EE farms to much more efficiently use their resources. In order to do this, it leverages the virtualization capabilities inherent in the JVM to create a single shared pool of hardware resources which which all J2EE applications can draw."

Firefox Community, Sickly Out of Control 339

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 06, 2006 @12:38PM from the how-to-promote-yourself dept.

darlingbuddy writes "After users started reporting Firefox's 150 million+ downloads, this article mentions why it's a bad move on the community's part. The author writes, "I'm proud of the community that pitched in enough donations for Firefox to get a full-page advertisement in The New York Times print edition, and I'm delighted to see them think of creative ideas for promotion, but reporting total downloads every so often and immaturely degrading Internet Explorer is ridiculous. The thing with these numbers is that they are misleading at best, and the only thing they accomplish is immature fanboyism. It's a fact that Internet Explorer is inferior to Firefox with its extensive collection of extensions and ability to support qualified web standards, but does the community need to resort to using third-class promotional tactics with total downloads number?"

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