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ICANN set to approve web addresses using non-Latin characters {Download Squad}
Oct 26th 2009 12:21PM I support this concept, but this is unfortunately a very slippery slope, particularly for phishing attacks. I am not sure if this comment box supports unicode, but if so consider the following domains that are likely available:
paypaǀ.com ("l" replaced with U+01C0)
googǀe.com ("l" replaced with U+01C0)
The problem is that when you suddenly support the entire world's alphabets, there is a lot of visual overlap and subtleties. Browsers are going to have to get very smart about this to make the distinction visible to end users. Here is a sample of characters that visually resemble their ascii counterparts with enough to fool people. Any domain name containing one of these letters is potentially vulnerable (and this is just one quick casual pass through a small subset of unicode):
ɑаʙϲԁеʜјιĸǀחоƨтρυⱱԝ
Bloodbot draws blood, inspires fear {Engadget}
Sep 16th 2009 6:25PM Maybe this person is so brave that they have taken hundreds of needle sticks to get it right?
"I'm not a heroin addict; I'm an robotics engineer; honest!"
Just Add Power introduces Projector Connector HDMI-over-IP solution {Engadget}
Sep 15th 2009 10:37AM Without testing, it's hard to say, but I would venture a guess that any gigabit switch regardless of supporting tagging or igmp snooping would suffice to support one or two streams of this at the rated 50-60mbit. You'd probably want a dedicated switch for it though. Switches that do not support these features will simply switch the vlan tagged packets in the global L2 domain and the multicast packets will likely be treated as broadcast. So basically, all the data will go to every port on the switch.
Regarding the noise thing, why do you want to put the actual switch in the HT rack anyway? You'd be using it for other things most likely anyway.
All is right with the world; iStat Menus 2.0 is here {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 3rd 2009 12:44PM With OpenCL coming to the plate it would be awful handy if they added a GPU monitor to the menubar. Currently the only app that does this is atMonitor (that I can find anyway)
Wikipedia to color-code unreliable information {Download Squad}
Sep 2nd 2009 4:37PM In the case of vandalism or other edits with malintent, the corrective action is generally not to come back in replace text over the vandalism, but to revert the offending change such that the original text is restored with its original authors and original ages intact.
There was a project some time ago that implemented this idea via a wikipedia proxy simply by age of the edit and the results were indeed very good.
I don't, however, believe that an author's history or trust should be weighted very heavily in the eventual trust score. (What about a compromised account?) Rather I think peer review of edits should be the primary method of increasing the trust of each edit. A users history might increase his weight as a reviewer but should not affect the trust of directly posted material.
Apple posts three new updates {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Aug 31st 2009 10:17PM What I want to know is -- can the optical drive in the notebooks be made to eliminate the noise at startup & wake from sleep too? I have a unibody MBP and I'd really like to eliminate that sound.
AT&T, Apple and Google respond to the FCC over Google Voice and the iPhone App Store {Engadget}
Aug 21st 2009 6:57PM All these letters are evidence of great sidestepping and doublespeak.
AT&T sure skirted the issue on Page 15 of their response as to apps being rejected from the app store but available on other handsets. It seems fairly evident that this question was intended to ask why AT&T why they allow Sling on WinMo, Blackberry, and Symbian handsets, but AT&T really really took all efforts never to mention Sling in their entire response. In my mind, this was a bad move on the FCC's point not to ask the question more directly as it might have forced the issue of explaining why Apple is responsible for enforcing the ToS.
Apple does not do a good job of explaining why they choose to play policeman for AT&T's ToS, particularly given that the iPhone is available worldwide.
But I do believe this spat is mostly between Google and Apple and Apple is being very unreasonable. If they truly believed that an app presenting its own dialer and sms interface was grounds for rejection, there would be quite a few apps rejected for these same reasons. So Google may be eager to ride the media train out here to see if they can get away with something they aren't supposed to -- if so, then Google isn't exactly being honest either.
Trophies: ZEN Pinball {Joystiq Playstation}
Jul 1st 2009 12:29AM After playing the heck out of this game, I can say without a doubt these are the hardest silver trophies I've ever seen on the PS3. The Tesla table's silver should flat out be a platinum. I bow to anyone who can achieve that one. If you like to buy games for the trophies, forget this one.
Chevy Camaro evidently nabs Microsoft Zune support {Engadget}
May 11th 2009 11:56PM I saw a Zune once. At least I think I did.
Nokia, cheesiness featured in new Star Trek movie {Engadget}
May 10th 2009 9:43PM How about the totally stock Airtraxx forklift in the shuttle hangar? The outpost had a bunch of Dell monitors in it too. That stuff did stick out like a sore thumb; shame.
