Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws 493

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 05, 2009 @11:06AM from the more-is-better-right dept.

nandemoari writes "Mozilla may be this year's winner in the 'browser battles' as they ready the next beta version of their tour-de-force, Firefox 3.1. Mozilla is resolving eight critical vulnerabilities found in the current version of Firefox — a move sure to garner applause from devoted Firefox users. As this year's crop of new browsers emerges, enhanced features are becoming secondary to one thing: speed. Mozilla is nearly ready to release the next beta version of Firefox 3.1 to the public for testing, and insiders predict that it will outpace even Safari 4, which has been the fastest browser in wide release since its beta began last week." It looks like they also will be upping the next major release to v3.5 to better show the significance of the release.

Abused IT Workers Ready To Quit 685

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 09, 2009 @06:31PM from the thankless-jobs dept.

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that new research is suggesting as many as a quarter of all IT staff in small to medium businesses have suffered some sort of abuse and are looking for careers elsewhere (PDF). "The study also found that over a third have suffered from sleepless nights or headaches as a result of IT problems at work, while 59 percent spend between one and 10 hours a week working on IT systems outside normal hours. ... The biggest cause of stress among IT staff is problems arising from operational day-to-day tasks, the survey found. Another major cause came from loss of critical data, according to Connect."

Comment Re:What a dumb crime. (Score 3, Insightful) 846

by boojit on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @03:03PM (#25301825) Attached to: Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted

No.

Listen, I am no lover of the McCain-Palin ticket I can assure you, so this is not a partisan slant. But I'll say this: what this dumbass did is _completely_ out of line and he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We don't allow this sort of behavior to go unpunished in a civilized society.

This stance does in no way let Palin off the hook for transgressing her government's policies on using outside email for business work, but that's not the point. Her privacy was violated in an illegal manner, and this cannot be tolerated for an instant. How can a person stand against government electronic surveillance while at the same time say the behavior of this individual is acceptable?

I've been a email server administrator for years. Privacy is extremely important to me, and I consider the attack on Palin's privacy to be an attack against us all. We should work to protect everyone's privacy, and in particular, stand up for the privacy rights of those with whom we do not agree. This is called "taking the high road."

OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System 293

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 07, 2008 @02:34PM from the warped-minds dept.

Grayskull writes "The OS/2 and eComStation community are trying to get open source software ported to that platform by opening bounties and allowing people to chip in with prize money. Currently the most important open bounties are Java 6 port, Icon routines in OS/2, VirtualBox port, Extend multimedia and OpenWengo ports."

Building an Effective Information Security Policy Architecture 70

Posted by samzenpus on Friday June 13, 2008 @02:26PM from the protect-ya-neck dept.

Ben Rothke writes "Security policies are like fiber, that is, the kind you eat. Everyone agrees that fiber is good for you, but no one really wants to eat it. So too with information security policies. They are sorely needed, but most users don't go out of their way to comply with them. And in many firms, they are not even trained in what they have to do. But failure to have adequate information security policies can lead to myriad risks for an organization." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.

Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity 1766

Posted by timothy on Monday April 21, 2008 @08:26AM from the ben-stein-is-smarter-than-you dept.

eldavojohn writes "Painting the current scientific community as just as bad as the Spanish Inquisition, an extended trailer of Ben Stein's "Expelled" has a lot of people (at least that I know) talking. It looks like his movie plans to encourage people to speak out if they believe intelligent design or creationism to be correct. In the trailer he even warns you that if you are a scientist you may lose your job by watching 'Expelled.' Backlash to the movie has started popping up and this may force the creationism/evolutionist debate to a whole new level across the big screen and the internet." adholden points out a site called Expelled Exposed, which asserts that 'Expelled' "is simply an anti-science propaganda film aimed at creating controversy where none exists, while promoting poor science education that can and will severely handicap American students."

Teachers Fake Gunman Attack 863

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 14, 2007 @09:33AM from the stop-crying-teacher-would-never-really-kill-you dept.

Anti_Climax writes "Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables. It'll be interesting to see what happens to these teachers after the charges brought against students in recent months."

Journal Journal: Pudge is 73.2% dumbass 14

Journal by Profane MuthaFucka on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @10:23AM

Pudge, if you're reading this, I've got a question for ya. In your personal consideration, do you believe that it is worse to be brave but a slave, or fearful and free?