Citizens Spy On Big Brother
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITAn anonymous reader writes “Citizens of the world are striking back at 24/7 state surveillance by pulling out their cameraphones and filming inept officials, deadly healthcare lapses and thuggish cops. So-called Sous-veillance is seeing more and more people posting damning footage of official misdemenours to sites such as YouTube to shame them into action.” I wonder what happens if you inform a cop that you are recording him when he pulls you over.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Qumranet's Solid ICE Anchors Effective Hosted Desktop Virtualization
Qumranet announced a report published by analyst firm Ovum. The report, "Qumranet's Solid ICE Anchors Effective Hosted Desktop Virtualization," provides an overview of desktop virtualization as well as opportunities and challenges for Qumranet in this space. read more
Misconfiguration Named Number One Security Risk To Virtualization Environments
According to the survey report, "Is Virtualization Under Control: Current Opinions on Security and Controls for Virtual Servers in Production Environments," virtualization has clearly gained a lasting foothold. However, who shoulders the responsibility for ensuring that security and controls are implemented across virtual infrastructure is open for debate, varying greatly between functional groups.
Cuil Proves The Bubble Is Back
Bowls of strawberries and muffins lie around the rest area. The company pays for a personal trainer and gym membership for everyone. A doctor calls round each Friday, after the weekly barbeque, to see if everyone's in good health.
Ocolorize
Package: Ocolorize Summary: Format text with tags as colored HTML or BBCode Groups: HTML, Text processing Author: Abdulrahman Muhammad Description: This class can be used to format text with tags as colored HTML or BBcode tags. It can take a given text string with special tags and replace them with HTML or BBCode marks that make the text appear with different colors.
Luta Spam
It can take an e-mail address and replace some of its characters to make it difficult to recognize by robots by replacing @ and. characters by _at_ and _dot_. The class can also do the opposite, i.e. replace _at_ and _dot_ in an encoded e-mail address by @ and.
More Articles:
Slow Cool Ain't Cool
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) combine proven technologies including JavaScript, Extensible Markup Language (XML), dynamic HTML (DHTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and the Document Object Model (DOM) to enable the delivery of interactive Web applications. AJAX-based Web applications no longer have to reprocess and resend the entire Web page to the end user’s browser every time anything changes on the page.read more
Java & Rich Internet Applications: Sun Launches JavaFX SDK Preview Release
Designed to “deliver content across all the screens of your life,” Sun's rival to Adobe's Flash/Flex - JavaFX - today releases a preview release of the JavaFX SDK, focusing on the RIA workflow. Sun's aim is to help the world's six million Java developers to create RIAs.
OSCON Wrapup
:-) I also made my way to Doug Fir and Vault, both of which are popular among OSCON regulars. I used Twitter throughout the conference, and it looks like searching for shiflett+oscon finds most of my relevant updates, if you're interested.
Laptops With Certain NVidia Chips Failing
Eukariote writes "An estimated 18 million laptops with NVidia G84 and G86 graphics chips sold in the past one and a half years are experiencing high failure rates. Various laptop models from multiple manufacturers (Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others) are affected.
Image_jpg
Package: image_jpg Summary: Manipulate JPEG images Groups: Graphics Author: Logan Bailey Description: This class can be used to manipulate images. It can load JPEG images from files or remote URL. The class perform several image manipulation operations like adding borders and resize images.