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 | UK national ID card cloned in 12 minutes |
Anonymous writes "The prospective national ID card was broken and cloned in 12 minutes, the Daily Mail revealed this morning.
The newspaper hired computer expert Adam Laurie to test the security
that protects the information embedded in the chip on the card.Using a Nokia mobile phone and a laptop
computer, Laurie was able to copy the data on a card that is being
issued to foreign nationals in minutes.
He then created a cloned card, and with help from another technology
expert, changed all the data on the new card. This included the
physical details of the bearer, name, fingerprints and other
information. read full story on Computer Weekly
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Posted by icecold on Saturday, August 08 @ 11:26:53 BST (68 reads)
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 | Ooh La La!!! |
titan writes "Peak Oil: Bugatti Makes a Car for the Ages
You want to buy a camera? We can pit it against three others with
nearly indistinguishable features, no problem. Blu-ray players? We'll
compile a three-axis matrix that triangulates the perfect combination
of image quality, connected functionality and price.
But if you're
considering the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, we can't do much for
you.
Comparing it to any other car is pointless, because there is nothing
else in its $2.1-million (based on current exchange rates) class.
Read full story and see the pictures
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, July 07 @ 09:22:01 BST (78 reads)
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 | Connecting my opensuse 11 with LAN adapter Edimax Ew-7711UTn |
bzidler writes "Some time ago I explained how you could use a Safecom adapter based on the Zydas 1211B chipset. I have given this one away and decided to buy a nicer one, the Edimax Ew-7711UTn. This one comes with a usb flexible extension, that can be useful. The adapter is supposed to be the smallest in the world. And indeed it is really small, but surprisingly good. You can find the specifications on
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http://www.edimax.co.uk/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=280&pl1_id=1&pl2_id=44
One of the interesting feature (that I did not test) was the ability to use the 802.11n draft standard, allowing a connection at 150Mb/s, to a router such as the Netgear DGN2000. "
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Posted by icecold on Thursday, June 11 @ 15:39:32 BST (447 reads)
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 | French court savages "three-strikes" law, tosses it out |
titan writes "France's groundbreaking "three strikes" law
that would disconnect repeat Internet file-swappers has been overturned
by the country's Constitutional Council. "Innocent until proven guilty"
still means something in France.
By
Nate Anderson
| Last updated June 10, 2009 12:01 PM CT The French Constitutional Council has ripped into the new Création et Internet law
which would disconnect repeat online copyright infringers, calling the
basic premise unconstitutional. "Innocent until proven guilty" remains
a central principle of French law, and it cannot be bypassed simply by
creating a new nonjudicial authority. Better known as the "three strikes" law, Création et Internet
set up a High Authority in France that would oversee a graduated
response program designed to curb online piracy. Rightsholders would
investigate, submit complaints to the High Authority (called HADOPI,
after its French acronym), and the Authority would take action.
Warnings would be passed to ISPs, who would forward them to customers;
after two such warnings, the subscriber could be disconnected and
placed on a nationwide "no Internet" blacklist. Read full story at ARS Technica "
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Posted by icecold on Thursday, June 11 @ 10:59:40 BST (93 reads)
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 | A bevy of new desktop processors arrives From $87 to $999 |
titan writes "So far, 2009 has been a year of
renewed competition in desktop processors, as a resurgent AMD has
rolled out portions of its 45nm CPU lineup with reasonable success. For
its part, Intel has responded by dropping prices on its own Core 2
processors to remain competitive, while riding high on the Core i7's
undisputed performance leadership at the top of the market.
Tighter competition means better choices for consumers, but in
technology, it almost always means more choices, as well. That
principle was on ample display last week as AMD introduced several new
products that essentially complete its transition to 45nm technology.
Meanwhile, Intel has countered by quietly freshening up its low-end and
mid-range offerings a bit and trumpeting the release of a new flagship
CPU, the Core i7-975 Extreme.
With these moves, you have, uh, five.. no, four... wait, maybe it's six
different strata of desktop CPUs from which to choose. Not counting the
low-power versions. We have new processors to test that fit into... uh,
I think four of those categories.
Marketing is hard, folks. Especially when you're on the receiving end of it.
Read the full article at The Tech Report
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Posted by icecold on Wednesday, June 10 @ 11:59:45 BST (75 reads)
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 | Novell ponders "open-source apps store" |
titan writes "Novell plans to bring the wealth of open-source software to everyday users through an "open-source apps store".
The vast amount of free
software available to open-source users has long been one of the major
benefits of switching to a Linux distro such as Ubuntu, or openSUSE.
The problem has always been in explaining this to customers reared on a
Windows diet.
However, with the growing popularity of Linux on netbooks and the
public's familiarity with apps stores on smartphones, Novell believes
offering an "open-source apps store" could solve this problem for
vendors. The fruits of this strategy are set to appear in the openSUSE
edition of the Moblin OS. Read full article at PC Pro"
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Posted by icecold on Wednesday, June 10 @ 11:49:16 BST (76 reads)
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 | Ubuntu 9.04 Released |
Anonymous writes "The Ubuntu team has released the release candidate for Ubuntu 9.04;
'The Ubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. This is their latest result, the Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate, which brings a host of excellent new features.' The various other Ubuntu-derived distributions, like Kubuntu, have also had their RCs released."
Click here to visit download site. "
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Posted by icecold on Sunday, April 19 @ 19:57:19 BST (111 reads)
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 | Something to keep you amused over Easter. |
Anonymous writes "With the long weekend of Easter approaching, here's a top list of entertainments to keep us all amused.
The film Zeitgeist takes first place. Downloadable free by bit torrent from the web. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3842418/ZEITGEIST
The entertaining and thought provoking series of short youtube films by Richard Dawkins http://www.youtube.com/user/richarddawkinsdotnet
Enjoy
If you know of any other choice watching please let us know
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, April 07 @ 11:40:03 BST (108 reads)
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 | Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic |
Anonymous writes "The
ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to two islands in Antarctica has, after just a few of months of close monitoring, finally snapped.
Scientists
say the collapse could mean the Wilkins Ice Shelf itself is on the brink of
breaking away, and provides further evidence of rapid change in the
region.
Sited on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, the Wilkins shelf has been retreating since the 1990s.
Researchers regarded the ice bridge as an important barrier, holding the remnant shelf structure in place.
Its removal will allow ice to move more freely between Charcot and Latady islands, into the open ocean.
Read full article "
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, April 07 @ 11:16:03 BST (119 reads)
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 | BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN VIRTUAL AND REALITY |
Anonymous writes " SYDNEY. 3 March 2009
— The average Australian now spends an hour and a half of their leisure
time online each day, most (79%) login from home daily and many have
met an online acquaintance in person, according to a recent global
digital study conducted by market information group TNS.
The Digital World, Digital Life study, which investigated online
behaviour in 16 countries, found that we spend one-third of our leisure
time online. Globally, the amount of leisure time spent online overall
was similar, but several Asian nations, such as China (44%), Korea
(40%) and Japan (38%), are leading the way in terms of spare time spent
online.
In the UK, people are spending 28% of their leisure time on the
internet, and in the US, people are spending 30% of their spare time in
online pursuits
Read full story on TNS Global Website
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, March 17 @ 15:22:03 GMT (135 reads)
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 | Linux Gaining Strength In Downturn |
titan writes "In an article seen recently on Network Computing
A February survey of IT managers by IDC indicated that hard times
are accelerating the adoption of Linux. The open source operating
system will emerge from the recession in a stronger data center
position than before, concluded an IDC white paper.
Sixty-five percent of the 330 respondents said they plan to increase
Linux server workloads by 10% or more this year. Sixty-three percent
said they will increase their use of Linux on the desktop by more than
10% this year, although such an increase would still probably represent
a miniscule share of all desktops. Forty-nine percent said they expect
Linux will be their primary server platform within five years.
Read full article
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, March 17 @ 15:05:21 GMT (116 reads)
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 | Celebrating 10 Years of Mozilla |
Anonymous writes "Seen this week, an interesting article on lizardwranglar by Mitchell Baker.
The European Commission and Microsoft
Last month the European Commission stated its preliminary conclusion
that “Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating
system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product
innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.”
In my mind, there is absolutely no doubt that the statement above is
correct. Not the single smallest iota of doubt. I’ve been involved in
building and shipping web browsers continuously since before Microsoft
started developing IE, and the damage Microsoft has done to
competition, innovation, and the pace of the web development itself is
both glaring and ongoing. There are separate questions of whether there
is a good remedy, and what that remedy might be. But questions
regarding an appropriate remedy do not change the essential fact.
Microsoft’s business practices have fundamentally diminished (in fact,
came very close to eliminating) competition, choice and innovation in
how people access the Internet. Read more "
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Posted by icecold on Sunday, February 22 @ 12:12:49 GMT (114 reads)
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 | To Linux or not to Linux? |
Anonymous writes "Seen this week on ZDNet by Christopher Dawson.
One request that actually made it past the budget gods for FY10 was 60 convertible Classmate PCs
(30 for each of two schools). These will replace aging stationary labs
in the schools, freeing up needed space and allowing for redeployment
of the older computers for individual classroom and student use.
This
leaves me with a question to answer, though: Do I use Windows XP Home
or Edubuntu?
The teachers largely favor Windows. It’s familiar and they’ll have
enough to do learning the new applications and integrating the tablets
in class, let alone learning a new operating system (or so they say).
Yet Intel has assured me that there will be an equivalent software
stack between the two operating systems, I’ve found that our RTI
software runs quite well under Wine, and Edubuntu itself has quite a
body of educational software available in its repositories.
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Posted by icecold on Thursday, February 19 @ 09:56:36 GMT (133 reads)
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 | LiquidNet Reveals a Free Website Template Download Project |
RossTodoroff writes "LiquidNet (www.liquidnetlimited.com), the famous Linux-based web hosting services provider, announces that it has recently launched Themza.com - a new online project aimed at offering a wide variety of free templates and web design themes for PHP script-based websites such as blogs, image galleries and content management systems. New skins are being continuously added to the list of the Joomla templates, WordPress, Moodle and 4images themes currently available for download in .zip format to all the users contemplating a new personal or business website and searching for an appropriate template to accommodate its contents, as well as to those simply looking for a fresh new theme to replace their current outdated one.
Users can get acquainted with the layout and the functionalities of each particular skin by examining the demo versions provided or by simply clicking on the respective thumbnail image for a larger view. All they have to do is download the preferred template to their personal computer and then upload it to a website of their own, provided that they have already obtained an up-to-date version of the script the template in question pertains to. Users are also given the opportunity to pick an appropriate package optimized to accommodate the various free themes should they still have not found an adequate hosting service for their open source script-based website or in case they are unable to handle the whole script installation process all by themselves. "
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Posted by icecold on Thursday, February 19 @ 09:43:07 GMT (237 reads)
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 | French 'spider-man' scales skyscraper in HK |
Anonymous writes "Associated Press story seen this week on Boston.Com
HONG KONG—A French daredevil scaled a 73-story Hong
Kong skyscraper barehanded Tuesday, his latest attempt to draw
attention to global warming by climbing up the world's tallest
buildings.
Alain
Robert, dubbed the French spider-man, has scaled dozens of tall
structures without ropes or harnesses, including the Eiffel Tower in
Paris, the Empire State Building in New York and Malaysia's Petronas
Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
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Posted by icecold on Tuesday, February 17 @ 19:00:15 GMT (132 reads)
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 | Are Microsoft Partners Spreading Open-Source Fear? |
Anonymous writes "seen recently on ChannelWeb
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)
and its channel partners are bound together with the glue of mutual
commercial success. That's a big reason why Microsoft VARs are always
quick to defend the software giant's interests. Criticize Microsoft in
front of a group of partners and you may find yourself being forced to
run for cover.
So it wouldn't be a huge surprise if recent reports of Certified
Microsoft Professionals and their companies spreading fear, uncertainty
and doubt about open-source software were true. In a discussion on Slashdot earlier this week,
community member Smidge207 reported a "huge push" in this type of
activity and suggested it might be part of a coordinated campaign.
According to the Slashdot report, Microsoft partners are identifying
companies that use open-source software, and then calling these firms
and warning them of the dangers of using free software in their
networks, in an effort ostensibly aimed at getting them to embrace
Microsoft software. Microsoft says it hasn't heard of this happening,
and a spokesperson declined to comment
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Posted by icecold on Saturday, February 14 @ 01:02:30 GMT (93 reads)
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 | Linux open source Silverlight is live |
Anonymous writes "Seen recently on Silicon.com Moonlight 1.0, the first open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich media technology, has gone live.
Moonlight
forms part of the Novell-led Mono project, the lead developer of which
is Miguel de Icaza. De Icaza announced the full release of Moonlight 1.0, which went into public beta at the start of December, in a blog post on Wednesday.
However,
according to a Twitter post, or 'tweet', made by de Icaza on Wednesday:
"Moonlight 1.0 actually shipped on 20 January for the Obama
inauguration [but Novell's] PR/marketing [employees] were just not
notified".
Read full story "
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Posted by icecold on Friday, February 13 @ 11:14:56 GMT (102 reads)
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 | Cuba launches own Linux variant |
Anonymous writes "HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux
computer operating system this week in the latest front of the
communist island's battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony.
The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana computer
conference on "technological sovereignty" and is central to the Cuban
government's desire to replace the Microsoft software running most of
the island's computers.
Read full story
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Posted by icecold on Friday, February 13 @ 11:14:41 GMT (108 reads)
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 | New "Message Bridge" Enables IMs Between Open Source Virtual Worlds |
titan writes "Virtual Worlds get a boost. A small but significant milestone in open source metaverse
technology has been tested and its functionality verified recently. It's called the
Parallel Selves Message Bridge, a new addition to the code forge of OpenSimulator, the "Apache for virtual worlds" project featured on OStatic last year.
If in the future, Orcs in a fantasy MMORPG are able to IM
their friends flying starships in a sci-fi MMO, this may be remembered
as one of the innovations which helped point the way. The Bridge makes it possible for users within one OpenSim world to send
IMs to users currently logged into another Second Life-compatible
world. (OpenSim is reverse engineered from SL's viewer open source code.)
This
also means OpenSim users can send IMs to people currently logged into
Second Life itself, which is what the screen captures on ostatic.com depict: that's
my avatar, Hamlet Au in SL, seen sending messages back and forth to
Shenlei Winkler, who's currently in her Shengri La OpenSim, a metaverse-based development community she shares with IBM researchers and her Fashion Research Institute.
The
Message Bridge module connects us to an intermediary OpenSim instance
which then routes messages between the originating world and the
destination world. It's the brainchild of OpenSim core developer Justin
Clark-Casey, who explains how it works in full detail on his blog.
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Posted by icecold on Sunday, February 08 @ 11:00:46 GMT (111 reads)
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