2006 August « Lenrek’s Blog

China Lauds iPhone App That Spreads Gov't Views

angry tapir writes "China's film and TV regulator has praised the growth of an iPhone application from state broadcaster CCTV as the country looks for new ways to project its political views abroad. The free iPhone app, one of a growing number from Chinese state-owned news outlets, has gained 500,000 users in the month or so since it went online an […]

timothy

40 Years of Multics, 1969-2009

gribll writes "October 2009 marked an important milestone in the history of computing. It was exactly 40 years since the first Multics computer system was used at MIT. The interview is with Multics co-developer, MIT Professor and Turing Award winner Fernando J. Corbato. Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is regarded as the foundatio […]

timothy

Microsoft Disconnects Modded Xbox Users

S-4'N3 writes "The BBC reports that Microsoft has disconnected approximately 600,000 Xbox users from Xbox Live because the devices they are using have been modified, either with software or with new chips, to play pirated games. 'Microsoft confirmed that it had banned a "small percentage" of the 20 million Xbox Live users worldwide. […]

timothy

Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close

An anonymous reader writes "Cenzic released its report revealing the most prominent types of Web application vulnerabilities for the first half of 2009. The report identified over 3,100 total vulnerabilities, which is a 10 percent increase in Web application vulnerabilities compared to the second half of 2008. Among Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox had the […]

CmdrTaco

Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA

PBH submitted a link to a really amazing composite image of the Milky Way released by NASA. They combined infrared, visible, and x-ray images taken by Spitzer, Hubble, and Chandra to create one beautiful image to commemorate the 400 years since 1609, when Galileo looked up.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

CmdrTaco

New mod resposibility…

Posted on August 18, 2006 by lenrek

Wow! I just took up the mod position of the Philosophy forum at IIDB.
Things need to read up:
What is Philosophy?

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The end of Beginning…

Posted on August 13, 2006 by lenrek

This is not the end, this is perhaps, not the beginning of the end; it is perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill

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