Another article from Microsoft that goes too far and is (unintentionally) funny. Excerpt: While it’s important to respect your children’s privacy, understanding what your teenager’s online slang means and how to decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience. While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, [...]
Entries from February 18th, 2005
Harrods To Sell Holographic Television System
February 17th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Cool Geeky Stuff, Mobiles & Gadgets, TV
Harrods is now selling a sweet Holographic Television, called the CLARO. Excerpt: The CLARO represents the latest innovation in TV and display technology combined with a visual design aesthetic to introduce the TV system of the future – a transparent glass TV and media system utilising holographic technology. The Holoscreen is a revolutionary holographic film [...]
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Firefox downloaded 25 million times!
February 17th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone. Thank you. Thank you for helping us take this product from 25 to 25 million, from our little corner of the world to yours, from the technically elite to Karen and Rimone. With a minimal set [...]
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New URL Unicode Spoofing Technique Revealed
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Security
Another unicode based exploit. Because you can now use unicode in URLs it’s quite easy to spoof them. Example: http://www.paypal.com is the actual site and http://www.pаypal.com/ is the spoof URL. The spoof URL is actually http://www.pаypal.com, which of course is the unicode character а, which looks exactly like an a. You don’t need to be [...]
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Online Gaming Addiction Becoming A Problem
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Video Games
Well, what we all saw coming is becoming reality. Now the BBC has an article about people who have gaming……Isues….. Excerpt: “I can’t talk to him while he is playing. There is absolutely no point as he doesn’t hear me or is so distracted that I get a ‘ummm… ya’ a few minutes after I [...]
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3 Year Old Newest Member Of MENSA
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · News
The BBC reports that the newest (and youngest) memeber of MENSA is three year old Mikhail Ali. Excerpt: Mikhail undertook a series of tests involving maths, picture and logic puzzles and number sequences. Mrs Ali added: “Every day he amazes us, but underneath it all he’s still our little boy too. “He still plays with [...]
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Thunderbird 2.0 Roadmap
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
Looks like Mozilla has released the roadmap for Thunderbird 2.0. An excerpt: 1.1 Goals Inline spell checking (spell as you type) Improved spell check engine. Update our version of myspell to the current version used by Open Office.org Deleting attachments from e-mail Auto Save As Draft Phishing Detector: Thunderbird will attempt to detect email scams, [...]
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SHA-1 Bites The Dust
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · News, Security
It is time. Bruce Schneier reports that SHA-1 has been broken. He writes: SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing. The research team of Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu (mostly from Shandong University in China) have been quietly circulating a paper announcing their results. [...]
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Black Box that can see into the future
February 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Paranormal
DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream. At first glance it is an unremarkable piece of equipment. Encased in metal, it contains at its heart a microchip [...]
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Criticism on Microsoft’s Anti Openness Policy
February 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Microsoft
Just came across an opionion piece on The Register that debunks Bill Gates comments last week that Microsoft ranks interoperability as very important. Exerpt: So, Mr. Gates, writes Hakon Lie, you say you believe in interoperability. Then why, pray tell, doesn’t the web page of your interoperability communiqué conform to the HTML4 standard as it [...]
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