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Tech News Weekly: Edition 45
zridling:
Ehtyar, I appreciate you pooling these stories rather than posting them individually. It's nice to come here and spend some time reading through quite a few of them. (And it makes it really easy to find them the second time around.)
Deozaan:
Thanks Ehtyar, and congrats on the new position as Jr. IT Admin!
Amnesia Razorfish wouldn't happen to be the Australian internet censoring company would it? ;) :P
zridling:
"Remote Buffer Overflow Bug Bites Linux Kernel"
- actually fixed back in early October when it was found (Ubuntu patched it within 24 hours). Another reason to open source drivers, so many eyes can see the problem.
J-Mac:
priced things out of the hands of students
-mouser (November 06, 2008, 06:22 PM)
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That's an understatement... About the only ray of light WRT their pricing scheme is that many (but certainly not all) universities have deals with Thomson enabling the univ to provide very cheap or even free licences for Endnote to their students. Sadly, my university was not one of them and I bought my own licence.
Anyway, great newsletter, ehtyar :Thmbsup: Case in point: I never would have heard about the silly Endnote litigation if I hadn't clicked on the link to your roundup :o
-Darwin (November 06, 2008, 06:30 PM)
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As soon as I read the news item about Endnote I knew I would soon be reading a comment about it from you, Mr. Darwin! :D You've mentioned your use of Endnote enough! I'm curious: Have you tried Zotero? If so, how does it measure up against Endnote?
BTW, I have fallen hard into love with your newsletter, ehtyar! Truly excellent!! Thank you for this.
Jim
nosh:
13. Porn Breath Tests for PCs Heralds 'stop and Scan'
"The disc goes into the CD-ROM drive of the PC and if files are found, the user connects a USB-DVD writer to the back of the computer, and the images that are stored in memory in the RAM of the computer are written to the DVD," Professor Valli said. "Nothing gets written to the original evidence at all, which is the key."
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This thing doesn't scan for deleted files and there's no mention of any uber-sophisticated (or otherwise) decryption+pattern search technology either. Wonder how many child pornographers innocent shlobs with nudies of their wives/girlfriends will be ensnared by this little beauty.
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