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Twitter Closes Hole After Attack Hits Up To 500K Users

Talambur — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:16:05 +0000

chicksdaddy writes “Twitter closed an ugly cross site scripting hole in its Web page Tuesday morning, but not until a fast moving attack, including at least two Twitter worms, compromised hundreds of thousands of user accounts. At its height, the attacks were hitting 100 Twitter users each second, putting estimates of the total number of victims at around 500,000 according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab.”

TACO Extension for Firefox Forked After Proprietary Update

Talambur — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:41:45 +0000

rtfa-troll writes “Beef Taco is a Firefox extension that allows a mass opt-out from tracking and targeted advertising by many ad networks. The Register reports that the original system, TACO, has become proprietary, and has added new ‘features’ best described as bloatware. I guess this should serve as a warning for users to always prefer software under a copyleft license where possible. If Google had chosen a license with better protection, such as the GPL, when it released its own opt-out tool, this problem would have been much less likely. This also shows why forks are so important when software development begins to get messy.”

For Normals, Jobs’ “Retina Display” Claim May Be Fair After All

Talambur — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:12:48 +0000

The Bad Astronomer writes “AT WWDC, Steve Jobs claimed that the iPhone 4′s display has about the same resolution as the human eye — held at one foot away, the iPhone 4′s pixels are too small to see. After reading an earlier Slashdot post about an expert disputing Jobs’ claim, I decided to run the numbers myself. I found that Jobs is correct for people with normal vision, and the expert was using numbers for theoretically perfect vision. So to most people, the iPhone 4 display will look unpixellated.”

Fulham set to travel after fears

Talambur — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:25:57 +0000

Fulham’s preparations for the Europa League final are back on schedule after airspace reopens following disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud.

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Boa Morte returns after lay-off

Talambur — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:39:32 +0000

West Ham winger Luis Boa Morte returns to action in a reserve game against Wolves after being sidelined for eight months with a knee injury.

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Chinese Pry Server Switch Down After DNS Poser

Talambur — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:45:42 +0000

itwbennett writes “After a networking literal primary reported on Wednesday concluding week caused computers in Chile and the US to stop by guardianship the subdue of a pattern that censors the Internet in China, the Ferret DNS server associated with the networking problems has been apart from the Internet,’ writes Robert McMillan. The server’s superintendent, Netnod, has Silent way announcements’ made by means of the server, according to callers CEO Kurt Lindqvist.”

Conclude from more of this fishing at Slashdot.

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GB men’s curlers out after defeat

Talambur — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:42:07 +0000

Great Britain’s hopes of a medal in the men’s curling end with a 7-6 play-off defeat by Sweden.

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After Knowledge Java Syntax, What Next?

Talambur — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:05:15 +0000

Niris writes “I’m currently winsome a movement called Advanced Java Programming, which is using the textbook earmark Unconstrained Java, 4th number, alongside Walter Savitch. As I job at cimmerian dark as a custody wardress in the medial of nowhere, I’ve had sufficient pro tem to comprehend as a consequence the unrestricted orbit ingredient of the libretto, ice conclude all eleven chapter quizzes, and do all of the assignments within a month, so all that’s nautical port is a set apportionment that won’t be organize until up to date April. I’m annoying to diagram gone away from what else to look over that’s Java cognate aside from the worn out ‘This is how to invent a tree. This is recursion. This is how to appliance an interface and deliver the goods a succeed an anonymous goal,’ and wanted to recognize what Slashdotters bring into the world to offer. So by a long chalk everywhere I’m looking at reading Start Algorithms, past Simon Harris and James Ross.”

Skim more of this version at Slashdot.

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Wincanton abandoned after freeze

Talambur — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:51:42 +0000

The high-profile meeting at Wincanton on Saturday is abandoned because of a frozen track.

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Riesch wins gold after Vonn crash

Talambur — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:50:43 +0000

Germany’s Maria Riesch wins the super-combined after Lindsay Vonn suffers a heart-breaking fall in the slalom.

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