Selasa, 24 April 2012

Slashdot Newsletter 2012-04-24

 
 
The Latest Code Signing Technology
In this guide, we discuss how the latest code signing technology works = to secure software code and content for applications that are directly = downloaded to mobile devices from the Internet. We will also show why = code signing platforms need to be flexible, scalable, user-friendly, and = easily adaptable to different mobile operating platforms.  
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Malware with your Mocha?=20
JavaScript has matured into a programming language that underpins = today\'s web and browsing the web without JavaScript support is no longer = a realistic option. Learn more about the tricks used in malicious = JavaScript to evade analysis and detection.=20  
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From the Department of to-john-dillinger-and-hope-he-is-still-alive
Hugh Pickens writes "Ron Fournier and Sophie Quinton write in the National Journal that seven in 10 Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track; eight in 10 are dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed, only 23 percent...
 
From the Department of commiserate-with-middle-age-actresses
An anonymous reader sends this quote from an opinion piece at Bloomberg: "Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35. Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills — such as...
 
From the Department of gator-fans-on-the-line
DustyShadow writes "The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million. The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer...
 
From the Department of now-intended-for-two
redletterdave writes with an amusing tale of missent email. From the article: "On Friday, more than 1,300 employees of London-based Aviva Investors walked into their offices, strolled over to their desks, booted up their computers and checked...
 
From the Department of well-we've-got-to-heat-an-awful-lot-of-tea
fishmike writes with this news snipped from a Reuters story: "Britain may have enough offshore shale gas to catapult it into the top ranks of global producers, energy experts now believe, and while production costs are still very high, new U.S....
 
From the Department of quick-someone-write-a-treacly-pop-song
It's not just the TRS-80; new submitter sebt writes "ZX Spectrum, the microcomputer launched in 1982 by Sinclair Research (Cambridge, UK) turns 30 today. The launch of the machine is seen by many today as the inspiration for a generation of eager...
 
From the Department of check-it-out
New submitter zackmerles writes "Tom's Hardware takes the newly-released, top-of-the-line Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K for a spin. All Core i7 Ivy Bridge CPUs come with Intel HD Graphics 4000, which despite the DirectX 11 support, only provides a...
 
From the Department of not-without-a-million-dollars
eldavojohn writes "The New York Review of Books has an article penned by Steven Weinberg lamenting the future of physics, cosmology and this era of 'big science' in which we find ourselves. A quote from Goldhaber sums up the problem nicely, 'The...
 
From the Department of faster-than-tv-infomercial-shipping
eldavojohn writes "Details are really thin, but the EE Times is reporting that Algotochip claims to be sitting on the 'Holy Grail' of SoC design. From the article: '"We can move your designs from algorithms to chips in as little as eight weeks,"...
 
From the Department of reading-robots
stoolpigeon writes "With a large study showing software grades essays as well as humans, but much faster, it might seem that soon humans will be completely out of the loop when it comes to evaluating standardized tests. But Les Perelman, a writing...
 
From the Department of welcome-to-yesterday
judgecorp writes "Skype has finally delivered version 1.0 of Skype for Windows Phone, bringing support for its parent Microsoft's mobile platform up to the level of that enjoyed by rivals Android and iPhone. from the article: 'Skype for Windows...
 
From the Department of shut-it-down
vivIsel writes "This morning, President Obama is set to unveil a new executive order that will allow the U.S. to specifically target sanctions against individuals, companies or countries who use technology to enable human rights abuse. Especially...
 
From the Department of what-wrong-looks-like
itwbennett writes "Computer Science Ph.D. candidate Federico Cirett says that he can predict with 80 percent accuracy when someone is about to make a mistake on a math question. Using an EEG machine, Cirett can identify the patterns in a...
 
From the Department of trollin'-trollin'-trollin'
suraj.sun writes with news that a new patent suit has been filed against Apple over all of the company's touch-based products. From the article: "According to the complaint (PDF), Professor Slavoljub Milekic conceived a system that used a...
 
From the Department of i-want-to-be-tier-one-support-when-i-grow-up
gManZboy writes "As noted last week, the USAID's JEEP (Job Enabling English Proficiency) program has been using U.S. taxpayer dollars to train students in the Philippines to work at outsourcing call centers. An update: After Congressman Tim Bishop...
 
 
 
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