Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
If you experience any issues or irregularities in voting today…dont hesitate, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE, the hotline for the National Campaign for Fair Elections. EFF lawyers and many others are standing by across the country to take legal action to remove malfunctioning voting machines, keep polls open, etc.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
As a avid Blackberry user, I really appreciate any article like this one from Robb Dunewood on RIMarkable that provides insight into applications that can help me and the million of other crackberry users be more productive. His review of what he considers the five must have applications is close to being my top [...]
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
The patent trolls over at NTP are back and after more money from another legitimate company Palm. Once again they are using broad patents that were never meant to provide the IP protection they are claiming. In fact two of their other patents have been rejected in preliminary findings by US Patent and Trademark office. [...]
Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Their are reports of a vulnerability in the XMLHTTP 4.0 ActiveX Control for Windows. This control is part of Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0. Microsoft reports that it is aware of limited attacks that are attempting to use the reported vulnerability. See link below:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/927892.mspx
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Quantum computer use state to determine connectivity intervals thereby minimizing the opportunities for threats to occur. Read about it in this story from Security Focus. Although quantum computers are still in their infancy..they possibilities are endless. These computers have the potential to help us meet some of mankind’s greatest technology challenges in medicine, science and [...]
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
According to a story by Robert Lemos of Security Focus, “The latest data from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project shows the latest numbers from the vulnerability database found that 4,375 security issues had so far been cataloged in the first nine months of 2006, just shy of the 4,538 issues documented last year.”
Monday, September 18th, 2006
In their posting “The Dangers and Problems with GPLv3″, 29 Linux Kernel Developers have rejected the newly proposed GPLv3 licensing. They cite three main issues and have listed numerous others. They do not think it would benefit those that license their software via the GPL licensing scheme. There points seem to be valid and although [...]
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
Great article on the issue of rounding floating point numbers. In this article on Reg developer the author Dan Clarke discusses the misues of floating point numbers in current development practices. He points out that with space craft crashing, inconsistent information on bank statements and pensioners being short changed (he provides validation for these example) [...]
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
As reported on new Scientist, the NSA is moving forth with its plans to monitor the web, including online social networking data. After all their bad press of recent you would think they would tread lightly around this thorny issue…but of course not our big brother. LOL…
Monday, June 5th, 2006
Nice article on the Bruce Schneier Weblog discussing intersting trends found from a list of 100,000 passwords for a German dating site.
