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Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain 270

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 25, 2010 @12:12PM from the friends-and-really-good-friends dept.

ectotherm writes "According to Professor Peter Kelly, a director of Public Health in Great Britain: 'There has been a four-fold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected, with more young women being affected.' Why the increase? People meeting up for casual sex through Facebook. According to the article, 'Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex. There is a rise in syphilis because people are having more sexual partners than 20 years ago and often do not use condoms.'"

Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:03PM from the non-obfuscated dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"

Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @07:49PM from the type-A-negative-personality dept.

trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."

Comment Re:Same Exploit from July? (Score 1) 281

by zozie on Thursday November 05, 2009 @09:55AM (#29994128) Attached to: Bug In Most Linuxes Can Give Untrusted Users Root

The first Windows (1.0) in existence had no NULL pointer protection at all. Real mode Windows up to 3.0 neither.

All mainstream i386 Windows versions (not x64) allow DOS programs to access the zero page in NTVDM. Thus, if a NULL pointer vulnerability were found in Windows it would be sufficient to write a DOS program to exploit (that is, if Windows does not use segmentation to separate user from kernel space, I don't know about that).

Comment Re:It's too damned early here (Score 1) 460

by zozie on Monday October 24, 2005 @11:15PM (#13868887) Attached to: DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL

1) OpenDOS was licensed using something entirely incompatible with the GPL.

2) Yes, he (Udo Kuhnt) modified the source code, but was bound by the Caldera license. See also the opinion of Pat Villani, the original FreeDOS kernel developer
here
It is not possible to relicense something GPL-incompatible as GPL without permission of all copyright holders.

3) Yes

4) Yes, and they are able to do so (snatching) because their license allows them to do so. "stolen", as used on the freedos site is not the right word to use IMHO, because Udo Kuhnt could read in the OpenDOS license that this was possible.

5) This is about two utilities only (only these and not the kernel are GPL), and well it looks like DRDOS Inc has done something about it here: "Portions are licensed under GPL (SYS v2.6 and FDXXMS v.92) or other licenses."

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