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  1. Re:Even if it did hit... on Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Have you not head of a Tsunami then? The USA would be affected severely if anything that size landed anywhere in the Pacific.

  2. Small Consolation on UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records · · Score: 1

    Is they say that the discs were encrypted. Or at least password-protected whatever that means.

  3. Re:They've had a robot vaccum for a couple of year on Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? · · Score: 4, Informative

    However according to this page http://www.roombareview.com/chat/archive.php/o_t__ t_2419__dyson-dc06-vaccum.html the DC06 has been canned because Mr Dyson wanted it to be clevererer. This is probably the reason behind the new hiring, the DC06 may be re-incarnated with more intelligence at a later date.

    This has been a public service wossname

  4. 404 on Security Vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Passport · · Score: 2, Informative

    The vulnerability seems to return a 404 - so it seems hotmail have taken notice after all - even though it took a /. to make them notice.

  5. We've got it bad 2000 attempts on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 1

    It attempts to download a file called admin.dll which from from I can determine is from frontpage extensions to use as a exploit. The readme.eml will copy the file to desktop.eml or sample.eml in any directories that it can find on your computer or network computers nearby. The directories it seems to copy the files into are anything with "games" (possibly "game") or "MP3" ( it went to both MP3s and MP3). It also copies the file into your favorites.

    The virus checkers don't seem to spot this file and it would be incredibly unwise to run the blighter.

    HTH

    Richard

  6. XML/XSL - You know it makes sense on Creating and Using XML-Based Internal Documents? · · Score: 1

    The system we use here ( I won't give out a URL as it'll be slashdotted - suffice to say we're a Cambridge UK based ASP ) is to write all of the latest documentation in XML and just browse around using XSL processing instructions in the original file. It all works nicely and we even have XSL files that are processed by other XSL files to produce HTML based on the internal comments which works very nicely.

    We solved the interconnection of the files by having one uber XML structure file that works like a tree contents so you can navigate around because the XSL generates links to the other documents as layed out in the XML file using the document().

    Get into XSL it's loverly.

    As an aside we even have an XML that contains directives to run external XSLs on the source XML and stitch the results back into the original XML and re-apply. It's a great way to expand things.
    We use it for website construction.