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Goth wanted to let you know about the Science books thread over in the Science forum which is a good resource for Science type books and is rapidly growing with new content.
There has been reports of scammers taking advantage of the do not call registry to get money out of victims. Australia's criminal fraternity is nothing if not ingenious: scammers have seized on the publicity surrounding the new Do-Not-Call register to try and extract money from citizens to have their name listed in the register.
LG have patented a washing machine with MP3 player support which can be described as a washing machine with speakers and an iPod like dock. Now, I know that competition in home appliance market is very intense. And I understand that appliance vendors will try almost anything to differentiate their product. But a washing machine with an MP3 player?! C’mon, do they actually spend loads of money in their R&D departments to come up with the stuff like this? And do you really need a patent for that?
SMH have done a good roundup of the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD war. Instead, early defections from the Blu-ray camp and lagging sales of PS3 consoles have blurred the picture of which format will win. Samsung broke ranks with Blu-ray last month by announcing it will make players that play both HD formats, following a similar move by LG. In addition, most analysts acknowledge that the PC manufacturers will play a key role in the format war - and having Microsoft and Intel behind HD DVD is significant. Neither of these Toshiba allies has shown signs of switching camps so far.
Some newspapers are not too happy about Google news getting a free ride off their stories. For years now, newspapers have quietly watched Google index their headlines and offer users a synopsis of their stories without paying them a dime. Google is supposed to make it easier for newspaper readers to find content online. But some in the industry are questioning whether it makes business sense to allow Google to use their material for free.
Apple has fixed 17 Mac vulnerabilities so if you have a Mac you might want to go and run the system update to make sure you stay safe. Apple on Thursday unveiled the year's fifth major security update for Mac OS X to patch 17 vulnerabilities, but fewer than one-third of them could lead to hackers injecting their own code into a compromised system. Thursday's release also marked the first time this year that an operating system security update from Apple did not patch a vulnerability disclosed by the January Month of Apple Bugs project.
Several hundred people have been infected with a computer virus after clicking a link which advertised it would do so. There is a thread discussing this here. Hundreds of people have clicked on an online advertisement to download a free computer virus that said, "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!". Data security firm F-Secure says 409 people clicked on computer specialist Didier Stevens' ad during a six-month campaign on Google's Adword.
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