...but my reply to that is, then do something better...
Dude! you sure whom you are talking to? Marcan was the first person to hack the kinect and come up with libfreenect. In fact, he was the winner of the competition sponsored by Adafruit for opensourcing Kinect drivers.
Ron O'Brien, senior security consultant with Sophos, told BetaNews. "But from what we have learned in our dialog with Microsoft, which is ongoing, the objection on the part of some vendors is that PatchGuard will prevent access to the kernel, which is that very basic level of the operating system where people feel that they may need to go, in order to provide a total security solution."
Conceivably, if Sophos wanted to provide a "total security solution," given this new set of circumstances, wouldn't it need to understand some of PatchGuard's secrets? Surprisingly, O'Brien told us no. "At this point in time, Sophos does not see the need to be able to access the kernel within the Microsoft operating system," he said.
"If there is a point in time where the kernel becomes the subject of malware being written specifically to it, then I would expect that we would go back to Microsoft and tell them we need to be able to access the kernel. But at this point, it doesn't appear to be necessary."
Long ago, Microsoft hired Jython creator Jim Hugunin to work on IronPython. The aim is to make dynamic languages like python work better in.NET platform. Looks like Sun doesn't want to lose out in the race in supporting dynamic languages.
I am guessing that it's most likely related to the recent Terrorist attacks in Mumbai. India's National Security Agencies have been reporting that Terrorists have started using blogs for provocative propaganda that could corrupt the minds of gullible youth. The Indian Government is under huge pressure to extinguish the activities of the terrorist groups that have in recent times started misusing technology for their malicious ends.
Immortalized in Firefox 2.0's source code
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Immortalized in Firefox 2.0's source code? I guess that's going to be like this/* DO NOT REMOVE THIS!
From the downloaded document:
"Certain information relating to Windows Media(TM) Photo, including the details of the image compression algorithm, are available only to licensees of the technology."
When the EOLAS case was in News, Ray Ozzie claimed Lotus notes had a prior art. By this acquisition, Microsoft may feel a little easy to defend themselves in the EOLAS case.
CLI sub-project of the Apache HTTP Server is focused on developing interfaces to the various Common Language Runtime (CLR) alternatives for.NET integration into the Apache HTTP Server.
mod_aspdotnet module is an ASP.NET host interface to Microsoft's ASP.NET engine. It is implemented with an Apache.Web.dll assembly that provides ASP.NET with the necessary System.Web.Host and System.Web.Request interfaces to converse with mod_aspdotnet and the Apache HTTP Server.
mod_aspdotnet works only with the.NET Framework version 1.1 at this time. Flexibility for 1.0 or 2.0.NET Frameworks is being considered.
This module is not compatible with other.NET CLR interfaces, such as Rotor or Mono, and therefore it is only compatible with the Win32 port of Apache 2.0.
Users on non-Win32 platforms may wish to explore the mono project's implementation of mod_mono, also for Apache HTTP Server, and compatible with some non-Win32 platforms. The mono project is not affiliated with the Apache Software Foundation.
Basically this is a repost more than 3 years old but at least the Last-Modified date shows "Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:41:48 GMT". Still, there's no reason why this has to be news.
I wonder why the slashdot editors allowed this one to be published in the first place. I am sure any geek on slashdot worth his salt can just easily use this for the same thing: http://del.icio.us/url?url=http://www.myurl.com/
it would be trivial to create a javascript bookmarklet to do just that.
I live in Chennai(Madras),(Capital City of the State Tamil Nadu - the region worst affected by the Tsunami in India ). For us, this is the first time ever something like a Tsunami hits our coast. The earthquake itself was not deadly but the tides alone were responsible for the death of more than 1000 people according to some reports. Since this happened early in the morning and the day being a sunday, not many people were awake at that time. In my city alone almost 100 poor fishermen who live in the huts along the seashore were washed away. Coastal regions in the Southern parts of my state where even more affected - a lot many were drowned in the flash floods. The fact that I was sleeping unaware of the whole thing at that time, less than a kilometre away from the sea, sends a shiver down my spine.
You can find some pictures here.
1) Chinese companies will flood the market with good enough PCs for $100 or less. 2) Solaris on x86 gets a significant share of users (Thanks to the opensource plans) 3) Microsoft gets out of the Eolas case with an out-of-court settlement and makes an unsuccessful covert attempt to instigate Eolas to sue Mozilla foundation. 4) Microsoft files for insanely huge number of patents, almost all of them trivial. 5) The SCO and Microsoft EU cases continue to drag for another year.
Warning: If you are on Windows Don't download www.xfocus.net/flashsky/icoExp/KERNELBLUE.ani
Instant Reboot. This is a very critical vulnerability. Reminds me of the old exploits that referenced "CON" in the file path inside a webpage to trigger a BSOD.
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...but my reply to that is, then do something better...
Dude! you sure whom you are talking to? Marcan was the first person to hack the kinect and come up with libfreenect. In fact, he was the winner of the competition sponsored by Adafruit for opensourcing Kinect drivers.
>> insane, they TALK about an image in this so called story instead of displaying it!
There's a video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwaAArO_CZw
How could this be XML when they left out the closing tag?
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%22All+your+bas e%22
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%22are+belong+t o+us%22
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=AYBABTU
Some programmers put the default password in sourcecode and Most lazy users never change the default password.s word+is%22
This makes it easy to get the default password which can be exploited.
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%22default+pas
http://www.betanews.com/article/Sophos_on_Symantec s_Vista_Complaints/1159472882
Ron O'Brien, senior security consultant with Sophos, told BetaNews. "But from what we have learned in our dialog with Microsoft, which is ongoing, the objection on the part of some vendors is that PatchGuard will prevent access to the kernel, which is that very basic level of the operating system where people feel that they may need to go, in order to provide a total security solution."
Conceivably, if Sophos wanted to provide a "total security solution," given this new set of circumstances, wouldn't it need to understand some of PatchGuard's secrets? Surprisingly, O'Brien told us no. "At this point in time, Sophos does not see the need to be able to access the kernel within the Microsoft operating system," he said.
"If there is a point in time where the kernel becomes the subject of malware being written specifically to it, then I would expect that we would go back to Microsoft and tell them we need to be able to access the kernel. But at this point, it doesn't appear to be necessary."
One Small Jump for a Robo; One Giant Leap for Robokind
Long ago, Microsoft hired Jython creator Jim Hugunin to work on IronPython. The aim is to make dynamic languages like python work better in .NET platform. Looks like Sun doesn't want to lose out in the race in supporting dynamic languages.
Apparently, the MS word spell-checker doesn't recognise 'OSI'.
I am guessing that it's most likely related to the recent Terrorist attacks in Mumbai. India's National Security Agencies have been reporting that Terrorists have started using blogs for provocative propaganda that could corrupt the minds of gullible youth. The Indian Government is under huge pressure to extinguish the activities of the terrorist groups that have in recent times started misusing technology for their malicious ends.
Immortalized in Firefox 2.0's source code? I guess that's going to be like this /* DO NOT REMOVE THIS!
...
John
Jack
Joe
*/
From the downloaded document:
"Certain information relating to Windows Media(TM) Photo, including the details of the image compression algorithm, are available only to licensees of the technology."
Wine Is Not an Emulator
When the EOLAS case was in News, Ray Ozzie claimed Lotus notes had a prior art. By this acquisition, Microsoft may feel a little easy to defend themselves in the EOLAS case.
http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/2005/02
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/f745fb20b1d50ad22 90fb117e11a1465/index.html
Basically this is a repost more than 3 years old but at least the Last-Modified date shows "Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:41:48 GMT". Still, there's no reason why this has to be news.
vnunet's CES blog has some photos. Yes, you can see Bill Gates waking up next to an Apple Powerbook.
Take your photoshop tricks somewhere else.. We've seen the orginal image - PIA05466
Thanks to www.heavens-above.com
Checkout this handy guide: Comet Machhholz(C/2004 Q2)
It helps if you first register your observing location.
I wonder why the slashdot editors allowed this one to be published in the first place. I am sure any geek on slashdot worth his salt can just easily use this for the same thing:
http://del.icio.us/url?url=http://www.myurl.com/
it would be trivial to create a javascript bookmarklet to do just that.
I live in Chennai(Madras),(Capital City of the State Tamil Nadu - the region worst affected by the Tsunami in India ). For us, this is the first time ever something like a Tsunami hits our coast. The earthquake itself was not deadly but the tides alone were responsible for the death of more than 1000 people according to some reports. Since this happened early in the morning and the day being a sunday, not many people were awake at that time. In my city alone almost 100 poor fishermen who live in the huts along the seashore were washed away. Coastal regions in the Southern parts of my state where even more affected - a lot many were drowned in the flash floods. The fact that I was sleeping unaware of the whole thing at that time, less than a kilometre away from the sea, sends a shiver down my spine.
You can find some pictures here.
This is what I think may happen in 2005.
1) Chinese companies will flood the market with good enough PCs for $100 or less.
2) Solaris on x86 gets a significant share of users (Thanks to the opensource plans)
3) Microsoft gets out of the Eolas case with an out-of-court settlement and makes an unsuccessful covert attempt to instigate Eolas to sue Mozilla foundation.
4) Microsoft files for insanely huge number of patents, almost all of them trivial.
5) The SCO and Microsoft EU cases continue to drag for another year.
Warning: If you are on Windows Don't download
www.xfocus.net/flashsky/icoExp/KERNELBLUE.ani
Instant Reboot. This is a very critical vulnerability. Reminds me of the old exploits that referenced "CON" in the file path inside a webpage to trigger a BSOD.