let me say from the outset that i was not a fan of opera softwares antitrust sabrerattling a few months back over microsofts lack of standards compliancy with its browser. but operas latest complaints about internet explorer ie 8 make opera look even more like a company thats gone off the deep end. hakon lie the chief technology officer of opera airs some of his dissatisfaction with how the new be...
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border gateway protocol bgp is not about showing your passport when you come from mexico into the united states.a its about the internet.a its about the very core of the internet and how billions of randomly placed computers can somehow all communicate together. when your typical every day web surfer types in the name of the website they want to go to like insanit.net what happens is that a domain...
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but i feel compelled to share it anyway. the mister wakes up before me every day. every day i shimmy into the living room to find him glued to the computer. usually hes listening to npr and reading the new york times. not yesterday. this is what i saw my husband looking at with rapt interest one would think someone from portsmouths p.r. department would pick up on the unintended nuance this adver...
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google admitted that it was partnering with five far eastern outfits to stretch a cable from the us to japan. read more digg story......
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filed under desktops if its thursday then it must be time for more amd rumors this time a few different sources report the chipmakers given its channel partners the high sign indicating kuma dualcore phenombased processors will finally see the light of day. for those too shy to indulge in triple or even quadcore action el reg says phenom x2 dual core chips will range from 2.3ghz to 1.90 ghz sport...
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bbc engineers have solved a mysterious longrunning bug that has meant iplayer and live tv streams have frequently prompted the bt home hub uks most common router to reset itself.the source of the problem has been identified after a lengthy tricky search and a fix is currently working its way through the bbcs backend systems iplayer and embedded media architect andy smith told el reg. iplayer catch...
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its been hinted at for some while but according to the uk consumer organisation which toshiba officially provide the most reliable laptops in the uk alongside sony at the top of the tree 93 per cent of toshiba owning which members surveyed said their laptop had never needed repair. fujitsusiemens got 91 per cent and apple and dell scored 87 per cent. next were acer and hp with 84 per cent and the...
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diebold has confessed that its voting machines loose votes. according to spokesman chris riggall a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point has been part of the software for ten years. paper ballots people. there has to be an audit trail.......
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they play maple story at the beeb computer viruses make it to orbit a computer virus is alive and well on the international space station iss. nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the iss in july were infected with a virus known as gammima.ag. the worm was first detected on earth in august 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games includin...
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disney and the joyce estate have competition in the world of ridiculous overenforcement of copyright. step forward harry potter. there have been many many legal disputes involving harry. for example several years ago now tim wu wrote an entertaining piece in slate called harry potter and the international order of copyright with added links j.k. rowling and her publisher bloomsbury scholastic hav...
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a computer worm that ferrets out passwords managed to stow away on laptops aboard the international space station nasa has confirmed. it is not the first time a nasa computer has become infected. read more digg story......
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the register an occasionally accurate online it newspaper has been running a series of warming denial pieces by one steven goddard. goddard has been trying to cast on temperature and ice data. unfortunately he does a whole lot of cherry picking. for example a second important issue with nasas presentation is that they use the time period of 19511980 as their choice of baseline. this was a ...
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quote the fbi has arrested a 27yearold american blogger for leaking some unreleased guns n roses tunes to the internet. according to the associated press and los angeles times the feds cuffed culver city californias kevin cogill on wednesday morning two months after his web site antiquiet served up nine tunes from chinese democracy an album axl rose and various other people have been dawdling ov...
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ryan naraine reported over at zdnet zero day on a new iphone vulnerability which lets anyone have full access to the majority of iphone functionality despite your clever 4digit passcode lock. as mentioned by greenmymac and covered by the register full access to contacts and hence browser email sms is as simple as a press of the emergency call key from the passcode entry screen followed by a double...
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hackers can make your pc explodeeekeekeek hackers can now turn your home computer into a bomb and blow your family to smithereens and do so remotely from thousands of miles away the weekly world news reports. read this.. heres the link hackers can make your pc explode the register......
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photo courtesy of istockphoto andrey prokhorov att this week announced two new international data plans covering 67 countries for iphone 3g users. a 100 mb per month plan costs an additional 119.99 a month while a 200 mb plan costs 199.99 a month. most importantly the plans dont require any longterm commitments so they can be added and removed to existing plans as needed. although ats two expanded...
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