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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* California Balks At Internet Sales Tax
* The Prospects For Virtualizing OS X
* Interview With Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf
* Web Censorship Proposed For Norway
* Building a Silicon Brain
* Bird Flu Pandemic Could Choke the Net
* Sign Language Via Cell Phone
* Free Linux Kernel Driver Development FAQ
* Study Finds P2P Has No Effect on Legal Music Sales
* Google Loses Cache-Copyright Lawsuit in Belgium
* Michael Crichton on Why Gene Patents Are Bad
* The Pirate Bay, Featured in Vanity Fair
* Auditors Report FBI Fails in Tracking Lost Laptops
* Wikipedia Founder Introduces Wiki Magazine Sites
* HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken
* When Malware Attacks Malware
* RIAA Admits ISPs Have Misidentified "John Does"
* Sun Offering Optimized AMP Stack On Solaris
* "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design
* Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs
* Captain Copyright Expires
* The State of Video Connections
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| California Balks At Internet Sales Tax |
| from the what's-$2B-among-friends dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, @19:06 (The Almighty Buc|
| http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/12/2252242 |
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[0]bob_calder writes "California has [1] walked away from $2 billion a
year in revenue by declining to get on board with a group working to
standardize tax rates so a national tax on Internet sales could
eventually be implemented by Congress. Supporters of the tax think they
still have a chance in New York, Texas, and Florida. At the moment the
largest states pursuing the Streamlined Sales Tax Initiative are New
Jersey, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. California didn't want to give up
its autonomy in setting taxes to a coalition of smaller states."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/12/2252242
Links:
0. http://dysplastic-brain.blogspot.com/
1. http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/02/12/story3.html?f=et169&b=1171256400%5E1415069&hbx=e_vert
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| The Prospects For Virtualizing OS X |
| from the not-holding-our-breath dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, @20:16 (OS X) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/12/2322220 |
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seriouslywtf writes in with a look at the current state of the question:
will people eventually be able to run Mac OS X in a virtual machine,
either on the Mac or under Windows? Ars Technica has articles outlining
the positions of two VM vendors, [0]Parallels and [1]VMWare. Both have
told Ars unequivocally that they won't enable users to virtualize OS X
until Apple explicitly gives them the thumbs up. First, Parallels: "'We
won't enable this kind of functionality until Apple gives their blessing
for a few reasons,' Rudolph told Ars. 'First, we're concerned about our
users ?€? we are never going to encourage illegal activity that could open
our users up to compromised machines or any sort of legal action. This is
the same reason why we always insist on using a fully-licensed, genuine
copy of Windows in a virtual machine ?€? it's safer, more stable, fully
supported, and completely legal.'" And from VMWare: "'We're very
interested in running Mac OS X in a virtual machine because it opens up a
ton of interesting use cases, but until Apple changes its licensing
policy, we prefer to not speculate about running Mac OS X in a
virtualized environment,' Krishnamurti added."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/12/2322220
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/2/9/6983
1. http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/2/11/6995
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| Interview With Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf |
| from the alarm-clock dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, @21:29 (The Courts) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/0039247 |
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Video blogger and independent journalist [0]Josh Wolf has been in a
federal jail for 170 days for refusing to turn over to a federal grand
jury a video of a San Francisco demonstration. On Feb. 6 Wolf's length of
incarceration set a new record for US journalism. "Democracy Now!" has an
[1]interview with Josh Wolf from his jail cell. If federal authorities
can [2]jail bloggers with impunity, it does not bode well for the future
of citizen journalism.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/0039247
Links:
0. http://www.joshwolf.net/
1. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/12/1540208
2. http://freejosh.pbwiki.com/
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| Web Censorship Proposed For Norway |
| from the great-firewall dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, @22:36 (Censorship) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/011233 |
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Aqwis writes "A [0]Norwegian Web filtering system (link in Norwegian),
comparable to the Great Firewall of China, has been proposed to the
Norwegian legislature. It would, if enacted, block all Web sites and
servers that contain hate material (racial hate, pro-Nazi sites, hate
towards the government, etc.), most kinds of pornography (not only child
pornography), foreign gambling sites, and sites that share copyrighted or
other material that it is not legal to share (such as most BitTorrent
sites and services such as LimeWire). Reactions have been mixed; however
they are mostly negative."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/011233
Links:
0. http://www.dagbladet.no/dinside/2007/02/12/491719.html
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| Building a Silicon Brain |
| from the million-neuromimes dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @00:21 (Science) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/0159220 |
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[0]prostoalex tips us to an article in MIT's Technology Review on a
Stanford scientist's plan to [1]replicate the processes inside the human
brain with silicon. Quoting: "Kwabena Boahen, a neuroengineer at Stanford
University, is planning the most ambitious neuromorphic project to date:
creating a silicon model of the cortex. The first-generation design will
be composed of a circuit board with 16 chips, each containing a
256-by-256 array of silicon neurons. Groups of neurons can be set to have
different electrical properties, mimicking different types of cells in
the cortex. Engineers can also program specific connections between the
cells to model the architecture in different parts of the cortex."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/0159220
Links:
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=18164&ch=infotech
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| Bird Flu Pandemic Could Choke the Net |
| from the edge-cannot-hold dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @03:15 (The Internet) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/0118233 |
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[0]PetManimal writes "If a pandemic were to occur, many companies and
organizations would ask their staffs to work from home. The impact of
millions of additional people using the Internet from home [1]might
require individuals and companies to voluntarily restrain themselves from
surfing to high-bandwidth sites, such as YouTube. If people didn't
comply, the government might step in and limit Net usage. The scenario is
not far-fetched: last year at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, a
group of telecom and government officials conducted a [2]pandemic
exercise based on a hypothetical breakout of bird flu in central Europe.
The results weren't pretty." From the latter article: "'We assumed total
absentees of 30% to 60% trying to work from home, which would have
overwhelmed the Internet,' said [one] participant. 'We did not assume
that the backbone would be gone, but that the edge of the network...
would be overwhelmed... The conclusion [of imminent collapse] was not
absolute, and the situation was not digitally simulated, but the idea of
everyone working from home appears untenable,' [he] said."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/0118233
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/blog/19
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011125
2. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001491&source=NLT_MW&nlid=43
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| Sign Language Via Cell Phone |
| from the can-you-see-me-now? dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @06:09 (Communications)|
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/0213259 |
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[0]QuatumCrypto writes "A project is underway at the University of
Washington to enable [1]real-time sign language communication via cell
phone. Because of the low-bandwidth wireless cell phone network, a new
compression scheme is necessary to capture only the bare essential
components of signing to minimize data transfer. Although text messaging
is a viable alternative for everyone, signing ?€? like speech ?€? is a much
faster and more convenient form of communication."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/0213259
Links:
0. http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/
1. http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/MobileASL/
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| Free Linux Kernel Driver Development FAQ |
| from the following-up dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @08:04 (Slashback) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/0220233 |
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schwaang writes "The recent [0]announcement by Linux Kernel Developer
Greg Kroah-Hartman that 'the Linux kernel community is offering all
companies free Linux driver development' seems to have stirred up some
interest as well as some questions ?€? see the [1]Slashdot discussion about
the announcement. Greg K-H addresses some of the questions raised here,
and raises a few more, in a [2]new Free Linux Driver Development FAQ on
his blog. An excerpt: 'Q: Are companies really going to do this? A: Yes,
already we have received a number of serious queries from companies about
producing Linux drivers for their devices. More information will be
available later when details are firmed up."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/0220233
Links:
0. http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html
1. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/30/044203&tid=162
2. http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers_faq.html
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| Study Finds P2P Has No Effect on Legal Music Sales |
| from the everybody-feign-deep-shock dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 13, @09:15 (Music) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1332214 |
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[0]MBrichacek writes "The Journal of Political Economy is running the
results of a study into P2P file-sharing, reports Ars Technica. The study
has found that, contrary to the claims of the recording industry, there
is [1]almost no effect on sales from file-sharing. Using data from
several months in 2002, the researchers came to the conclusion that P2P
'affected no more than 0.7% of sales in that timeframe.' 803 million CDs
were sold in 2002, according to the study, which was a decrease of about
80 million from the previous year. While the RIAA has been blaming that
drop (and the drop in subsequent years) on piracy, given the volume of
file-sharing that year the impact from file sharing could not have been
more than 6 million albums total. Thus, 74 million unsold CDs from that
year are 'without an excuse for sitting on shelves.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/1332214
Links:
0. http://www.cyclingforacause.com/
1. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070212-8813.html
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| Google Loses Cache-Copyright Lawsuit in Belgium |
| from the no-convenience-for-you dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 13, @09:51 (Google) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1344248 |
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[0]acroyear writes "A court in Belgium has found that Google's website
caching policies are [1]a violation of that nation's copyright laws. The
finding is that Google's cache offers effectively free access to articles
that, while free initially, are archived and charged for via
subscriptions. Google claims that they only store short extracts, but the
court determined that's still a violation. From the court's ruling: 'It
would be up to copyright owners to get in touch with Google by e-mail to
complain if the site was posting content that belonged to them. Google
would then have 24 hours to withdraw the content or face a daily fine of
1,000 euros ($1,295 U.S.).'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/1344248
Links:
0. mailto:jws-slashdot@aboutjws.info
1. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070213.w2belggoogle0213/BNStory/Business/home
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| Michael Crichton on Why Gene Patents Are Bad |
| from the life-finds-a-way dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 13, @10:35 (The Almighty Buck)|
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1352222 |
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[0]BayaWeaver writes "Michael Crichton, author of The Andromeda Strain
and Jurassic Park has made [1]a strong case against gene patents in an
op-ed for the New York Times. Striking an emotional chord, he begins with
'You, or someone you love, may die because of a gene patent that should
never have been granted in the first place. Sound far-fetched?
Unfortunately, it's only too real.' From there, he moves on to use logic,
statistics, and his way with words to make his point. Arguing against the
high costs of gene therapies thanks to related patents, he eventually
offers hope that one day legislation will de-incentivize the hoarding of
scientific knowledge. As he points out: 'When SARS was spreading across
the globe, medical researchers hesitated to study it ?€? because of patent
concerns. There is no clearer indication that gene patents block
innovation, inhibit research and put us all at risk.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/1352222
Links:
0. mailto:bayaweaver@gmail.com
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/opinion/13crichton.html
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| The Pirate Bay, Featured in Vanity Fair |
| from the everybody's-a-little-bit-famous dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 13, @11:16 (The Internet) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/152257 |
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[0]koregaonpark writes "Via the [1]TorrentFreak site, an article in the
latest issue of Vanity Fair about [2]BitTorrent, movie piracy and The
Pirate Bay. The Vanity Fair piece is lengthy, and covers the MPAA's
struggle to stamp out piracy, Hollywood's increasing losses, and how the
'heartfelt testimony of Ben Affleck, a man who was paid $12.5 million to
star in Gigli,' didn't help one bit. 'Pirates of the Multiplex' covers
the saga of Pirate Bay in a very high-level, mass-market fashion. Did you
ever think you'd be reading about TPB in Vanity Fair?"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/152257
Links:
0. http://smarandayal.com/
1. http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-featured-in-vanity-fair/
2. http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/features/2007/03/piratebay200703
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| Auditors Report FBI Fails in Tracking Lost Laptops |
| from the keep-your-eye-on-the-prize dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 13, @11:52 (Security) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/155201 |
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An anonymous reader writes "The Department of Justice's Office of
Inspector General is reporting that the [0]FBI has lackluster performance
when it comes to tracking data lost on missing laptops. In a recent
44-month audit (ending in Sept. 2005), the FBI reported 160 lost or
stolen machines. Of those, ten were confirmed to have sensitive info. A
startling 51 of these machines had unknown information ?€? in other words
the FBI never knew what they lost. Some of these machines likely
contained some of the most sensitive security information the FBI has, as
there were several in the bunch that belonged to members of the
Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Divisions. But the FBI was never
able to properly respond to these losses because someone didn't fill out
the right paperwork. The OIG has [1]a copy of the audit (pdf) for public
consumption."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/155201
Links:
0. http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/article/632384/doj-report-fbi-unable-properly-track-51-lost-laptops
1. http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a0718/final.pdf
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| Wikipedia Founder Introduces Wiki Magazine Sites |
| from the wiki-wiki-wiki-wiki-world dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 13, @12:31 (The Media) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1621259 |
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KingJawa writes "Wikipedia blew away Encyclopedia Brittanica, but can the
model be used to upset the magazine industry? Jimmy Wales, founder of
Wikipedia, thinks so. His company, [0]Wikia, today announced [1]three
open-source magazine-style sites where users can write about news,
opinion and gossip ?€? one magazine wiki each for [2]politics,
[3]entertainment, and [4]local interests. Each open-source magazine hands
total editorial control to the readers, allowing them to read, write,
edit, and dictate the editorial feel for each topic."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/1621259
Links:
0. http://www.wikia.com/
1. http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_opens_new_%22magazine_rack%22_websites
2. http://politics.wikia.com/
3. http://entertainment.wikia.com/
4. http://local.wikia.com/
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| HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken |
| from the open-season dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 13, @13:12 (Movies) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1724238 |
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gEvil (beta) writes "According to an article at BoingBoing, the
processing keys for the AACS encryption scheme used by both HD-DVD and
Blu-Ray video discs have been extracted, and a crack has been released.
What this means is that there is [0]now a method to extract the
copy-protected content of any HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc out there. This is
different from Muslix64's previous crack, which only extracted the volume
key for each disc. This new method bypasses this step and allows anyone
to extract the data without first requiring the volume key."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/1724238
Links:
0. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/13/bluray_and_hddvd_bro.html
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| When Malware Attacks Malware |
| from the internecine dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @14:05 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/181249 |
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[0]PetManimal writes "Researchers say that the Storm Trojan/Peacomm worm
has been [1]tweaked to spread via IM programs and attack rival malware.
Symantec sounded the alarm, and says that the exploit launches in AOL,
Google Talk, and Yahoo Messenger windows that are already open, making it
appear to be a legitimate message from a known user. The worm has
modified the code from last year's [2]Nuwar worm, and when activated,
enables a DDoS attack against any site, including antispam services and
servers supporting rival malware: 'Systems hijacked by Peacomm have also
conducted DDoS attacks against at least five domains used by the creators
of the noted Warezov (or Stration) worm. After a busy September and
October, Warezov was credited by some analysts as the genesis of 2006's
massive fourth-quarter spike in spam volume.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/181249
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/blog/19
1. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011146&intsrc=hm_list
2. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9008910
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| RIAA Admits ISPs Have Misidentified "John Does" |
| from the record-keeping dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @14:45 (The Courts) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1833245 |
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA has sent out a letter to the
ISPs telling them to [1]stop making mistakes in identifying subscribers,
and offering a 'Pre-Doe settlement option' ?€? with a discount of '$1000 or
more' ?€? to their subscribers, if and only if the ISP agrees to preserve
its logs for 180 days. Other interesting points in [2]the letter (PDF):
the RIAA will be launching a web site for 'early settlements,'
www.p2plawsuits.com; the letter asks the ISPs to notify the RIAA if they
have previously 'misidentified a subscriber account in response to a
subpoena' or become aware of 'technical information... that causes you to
question the information that you provided in response to our clients'
subpoena'; it notes that ISPs have identified 'John Does' who were not
even subscribers of the ISP at the time of the infringement; and it
requests that ISPs furnish their underlying log files, not just names and
addresses, when responding to RIAA subpoenas."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/1833245
Links:
0. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
1. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/02/riaa-adopts-new-policy-offers-pre-doe.html
2. http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=ISP%20Letter
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| Sun Offering Optimized AMP Stack On Solaris |
| from the LAMP=~s/L/S/ dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @15:24 (Sun Microsystem|
| http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/197252 |
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[0]tbray writes "This is your friendly local Sun corporate drone
reporting that we're going to be building and optimizing and DTrace-ing
and shipping and [1]supporting the AMP part of LAMP ([2]details here). I
think that basically the whole tech industry, excepting Microsoft, is now
at least partly in the AMP camp."
Discuss this story at:
http://apache.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/197252
Links:
0. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
1. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/02/13/AMP
2. http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/amp/index.html
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| "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design |
| from the she-said-he-said dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @16:07 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1922237 |
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[0]Cuts and bruises writes "Hacker Joanna Rutkowska has flagged a
[1]"very severe hole" in the design of Windows Vista's User Account
Controls (UAC) feature. The issue is that Vista automatically assumes
that all setup programs (application installers) should be run with
administrator privileges ?€? and gives the user no option to let them run
without elevated privileges. This means that a freeware Tetris installer
would be allowed to load kernel drivers. Microsoft's Mark Russinovich
acknowledges the risk factor but says it was a 'design choice' to balance
security with ease of use."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/1922237
Links:
0. http://www.insecure.org/
1. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=29
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| Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs |
| from the importing-friends dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @16:44 (The Internet) |
| http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1854250 |
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[0]prostoalex writes "Business Week magazine is looking at [1]social
networking sites opening their APIs to third-party developers to enable
social applications not supported by the network itself. Facebook is
setting an example by [2]releasing their API from beta into 1.0, and many
others are expected to follow the suit. Quoting from the article: 'Since
Facebook, a network of 17 million college students, started a pilot
program last summer, third-party developers have created some 100 new
applications. Now a Facebook user name and password can be used to log in
to content-sharing and chat site Mosoto, and to automatically import
Facebook friends into Mosoto's buddy list for chat. Facebook itself does
not offer a chat function.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/1854250
Links:
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog
1. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070213_172619.htm
2. http://developers.facebook.com/
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| Captain Copyright Expires |
| from the don't-let-the-door-hit-you dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @17:24 (User Journal) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1934254 |
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The Canadian superhero [0]Captain Copyright has finally expired, not due
to pirates or to the passage of 50 years after the death of the author,
but because "the current climate around copyright issues will not allow a
project like this one to be successful." The cartoon was intended to
provide an education in copyright law for children, but it became a focus
for criticism when even the Canadian Library Association condemned it for
lacking balance because it ignored issues like Fair Dealing (Canada's
version of Fair Use). Personally, I was hoping we'd see them get sued by
DC & Marvel, who claim to [1]own the trademark on the word "superhero",
and vanish in a puff of logic.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/1934254
Links:
0. http://www.slyck.com/story1396.html
1. http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8650
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| The State of Video Connections |
| from the so-many-plugs dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @18:00 (Displays) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/213241 |
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[0]mikemuch writes "Joel Durham provides a nice rundown on [1]what's
happening in video interfaces as we leave VGA behind and move through the
DVI flavors, visit HDMI along the way, and look forward to UDI and
DisplayPort."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/13/213241
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2094291,00.asp
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