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Comment Re:4 years and malware like tactics (Score 4, Informative) 169

by oopsilon on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:20PM (#59149886) Attached to: Windows 10 Passes 50% Market Share, Windows 7 Falls To 30%

Probably too late for you, but wufuc has been pretty handy to keep several Windows 7 installs updated on Ryzen systems.

https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

Definitely not looking forward to EoL day when I'm forced to jump over for security updates.

Comment Re:I'll rather wait for FF7 (Score 3, Informative) 247

by oopsilon on Friday August 12, 2011 @07:17PM (#37075230) Attached to: Firefox 6 Ships Next Week, 8 Blocks Sneaky Add-Ons

Well, shit, because I still have a PowerPC Mac on my desk. It's stuck with Firefox 3.6 because they dropped PowerPC support in Firefox 4.

Firefox is being kept alive on PowerPC:
http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/
http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/

Confusion Surrounds UK Cookie Guidelines 143

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @02:23AM from the cookie-is-for-me dept.

pbahra writes "The Information Commissioner's Office has, with just over two weeks to go, given its interpretation on what websites must do to comply with new EU regulations concerning the use of cookies. The law, which will come into force on 26 May 2011, comes from an amendment to the EU's Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive. It requires UK businesses and organizations running websites in the UK to get informed consent from visitors to their websites in order to store and retrieve information on users' computers. The most controversial area, third-party cookies, remains problematic. If a website owner allows another party to set cookies via their site (and it is a very common practice for internet advertisers) then the waters are still muddy. And embarrassingly for the Commission — it's current site would not be compliant with its new guidelines as it simply states what they do and does not seek users' consent."

Sony: 10 Million Credit Cards May Have Been Exposed 251

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, 2011 @07:04PM from the translucency-failure dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "The LA Times is reporting that Sony has revealed that 10 million credit card accounts may have been exposed two weeks ago when a hacker broke into the company's computers in San Diego and stole data from 77 million PlayStation Network accounts. Sony said it will provide credit card protection services for the 10 million customers whose data were compromised. Sony last week said it had encrypted credit card data, but not other account information, including names, addresses, email addresses and birth dates."

Comment Re:I'm confused (Score 1) 237

by oopsilon on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @12:47AM (#23399252) Attached to: A View From Inside the OLPC Project

OLPC doesn't care about Sugar -- or at least Nicholas Negroponte doesn't. Per the article:

The whole "we're investing into Sugar, it'll just run on Windows" gambit is sheer nonsense. Nicholas knows quite well that Sugar won't magically become better simply by virtue of running on Windows rather than Linux. In reality, Nicholas wants to ship plain XP desktops. He's told me so. That he might possibly fund a Sugar effort to the side and pay lip service to the notion of its "availability" as an option to purchasing countries is at best a tepid effort to avert a PR disaster.

This leaves me wondering if there will be any official releases beyond the Update.1 release candidate posted on the OLPC Wiki. Heck, at the rate its going, Update.1 might not even make it out. Which would really be a shame, since its much improved over the builds that shipped with the G1G1 laptops.

Submission + - Apple Adds Memory Randomization (ALSR) to Leopard

Submitted by

.mack

on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @06:49PM

.mack writes: "Apple has announced plans to add code-scrambling diversity to Mac OS X Leopard, a move aimed at making the operating system more resilient to virus and worm attacks. The security technology, known as ASLR (address space layout randomization), randomly arranges the positions of key data areas to prevent malware authors from predicting target addresses. Another new feature coming in Leopard is Sandboxing (systrace), which limits an application's access to the system by enforcing access policies for system calls."

Submission + - MIT's SAT Math Error

Submitted by

theodp

on Sunday September 23, 2007 @06:28PM

theodp writes: "The Wall Street Journal reports that for years now, MIT wasn't properly calculating the average freshmen SAT scores (reg.) used to determine U.S. News & World Report's influential annual rankings. In response to an inquiry made by The Tech regarding the school's recent drop in the rankings, MIT revealed that in past years it had excluded the test scores of foreign students as well as those who fared better on the ACT than the SAT, both violations of the U.S. News rules. MIT's reported first-quartile SAT verbal and math scores for the 2006 incoming class totaled 1380, a drop of 50 points from 2005."

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