Date: 07/21/06     Keywords: no keywords

Dr. Charles Hux, MD, high risk Ob/Gyn and a geneticist, commented on the stem cell veto by US President Mr. Bush and the impact of stem cell research. If you read one article today, read this. Hello–My name is Charles Hux and I am a high risk Ob/Gyn and a geneticist . It is unfortunate that [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-truth-behind-stem-cell-research-veto/

Date: 07/20/06     Keywords: web

The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a report that a 14-year-old Oostburg girl was solicited to be part of a “menage a trois” on the social networking Web site MySpace.com, according to Capt. Dave Adams. The girl’s father called the sheriff’s department Wednesday night after her mother communicated with several of the girl’s friends using [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-used-to-solicit-13yr-old-for-menage-a-trois/

Date: 07/20/06     Keywords: security, web, spyware, microsoft

Millions of visitors to Myspace.com and other web sites have been infected with spyware by a banner advertisement according to iDefense, a Verisign company. iDefense, an Internet security company owned by Verisign, said the spyware infects unpatched versions of Windows using a security flaw in the way the operating system and Microsoft Internet Explorer open Windows [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-banner-ad-spreads-spyware/

Date: 07/20/06     Keywords: browser, web, google

I found a simple two step process to transparently circumvent any website access ban for non-password protected sites. 1. Install Google Web Accelerator. 2. Restart your browser. That’s it. Now enjoy any site that you want to browse, ban or no ban. Additionally you are likely to see some speedup on broadband connections. The catch: Now Google knows your [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-easily-defeat-website-access-ban/

Date: 07/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

I am intrigued by OpenDNS business model. OpenDNS is a startup which offers DNS service to any user accessing the internet. DNS is normally a hidden service. Yet OpenDNS carved out a business model which is very viable. But first how do you benefit as an user? OpenDNS aims to makes your internet experience safer, faster [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/opendns-a-valid-web-20-business-model-is-it-good-for-you/

Date: 07/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

Indian government found out certain blog sites (most likely blogger blogs) were used by terrorists who are responsible for Mumbai blasts which killed several hundred people. They instructed the ISP’s to block those sites. Anything wrong with this picture? Our ISP’s in infinite wisdom decides to block entire blogspot domain. That’s all it takes for few [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/robert-scoble-makes-inane-sucks-comment-on-india/

Date: 07/19/06     Keywords: php, programming, java, google

Java increased its lead as the leading programming language according to TIOBE’s index. PHP maintained its 4th position while Ruby moved up 13 positions to 17th. From this month they will also measure the hits of Google Blogs. The languages that benefit from this are Java, Visual Basic, Ruby, and VB.NET. Link

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-gains-in-popularity/

Date: 07/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

New Orleans police have arrested a doctor and two nurses on second-degree murder charges for allegedly administering lethal pain medications to patients stranded in hospitals in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina. At least 34 patients at Memorial Medical Center died in the aftermath of the hurricane, after power was lost and those hospitalized were stranded for [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/doctor-arrested-charged-with-killing-patients-during-hurricane-katrina-chaos/

Date: 07/19/06     Keywords: web

Nuclear Moose’ website is suspended. His popular domain wp-plugins.org has expired and has been taken over by domain squatter’s selling cheap airfare and insurance quotes. In fact wp-plugins.org hosts the official WordPress plugin repository. Even Matt M., WordPress lead developer, appears out of loop on this. What’s going on? I hope he is ok [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-happened-to-nuclear-moose/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

I have been thinking about the optimum number of posts / articles (summary) on the front page. I have it currently set at 10. I am not sure if it is the right number. What do you think would be the optimum number and why? Another option is to set by the number of days. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-is-the-optimum-number-of-posts-in-front-page-of-a-blog/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

Bipin Gautam has reported a vulnerability in Outpost Firewall Pro, which can be exploited by local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the Virtual Firewall driver (filtnt.sys) and can be exploited to crash the system by e.g. passing an overly long string as command [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/serious-security-vulnerabilities-in-outpost-firewall-pro-lavasoft-personal-firewall/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

L.A. News Service, a Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. on Friday in federal court for allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage on YouTube, including the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots. Los Angeles News Service and its owner and operator, Robert Tur, assert in the lawsuit that in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/youtube-sued-over-1992-los-angeles-riot-video/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: java

Mastering EJB is now in its fourth edition (last published on July 2006) and has been updated for EJB 3.0. This edition features chapters on session beans and message-driven beans, EJB-Java EE integration and advanced persistence concepts. In-depth coverage of the Java Persistence API and using POJO entities with EJB is also included. What’s new: - More [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/download-free-mastering-ejb-30-4th-ed-book/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft Corp. filed 26 lawsuits that allege computer dealers sold illegal Microsoft software. The lawsuits, filed in Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and South Carolina, allege that the computer resellers pirated software or installed unlicensed software on computers they sold, Microsoft said. Microsoft gathered evidence for these cases through the use of a program [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-sues-windows-resellers-alleging-piracy/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

China’s telecoms regulator has accused 102 companies of illegal behavior in the country’s wireless value-added services industry, the latest step in a renewed campaign to clean up the unruly sector. It did not specify what the illegal practices were, but in the past such campaigns have been directed at controversial content and services like pornography and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/china-blacklists-102-wireless-services-companies/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: microsoft

Naveed has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint, which potentially can be exploited to compromise any user’s system. The vulnerability has been confirmed on Windows XP SP2 with a fully patched PowerPoint 2003. Other versions may also be affected. The vulnerability is caused due to the application using data taken directly from a PowerPoint presentation file [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-powerpoint-suffers-from-memory-corruption-security-vulnerability/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

Starting this Wednesday, the Hong Kong government plans to have 200,000 youths search Internet discussion sites for illegal copies of copyrighted songs and movies, and report them to the authorities. The campaign has delighted the entertainment industry, but prompted misgivings among some civil liberties advocates. The Youth Ambassadors campaign will have 1,600 youths pledging their participation [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hong-kong-plans-to-use-chidren-for-piracy-control/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

Starting this Wednesday, the Hong Kong government plans to have 200,000 youths search Internet discussion sites for illegal copies of copyrighted songs and movies, and report them to the authorities. The campaign has delighted the entertainment industry, but prompted misgivings among some civil liberties advocates. The Youth Ambassadors campaign will have 1,600 youths pledging their participation [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hong-kong-plans-to-use-children-for-piracy-control/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: software, database, asp, virus, web, hosting, google

H. D. Moore (hdm[at]metasploit.com) has devised a Ruby based search engine that finds malicious windows software (viruses, trojans etc.) using standard Google queries. The Malware search engine finds Web sites hosting malicious files after an user enters the name of a virus or Trojan horse. Currently the signature database is small but still contains dangerous viruses [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-malware-search-engine-and-how-it-works-impact/

Date: 07/18/06     Keywords: linux

If you are into office warfare then surely you must have heard about USB missile launcher’s. I found that now you can control your Marks and Spencer USB Missile Launcher on Linux and potentially other platforms that support python and libusb. Requirements: 1. python (>=2.3) 2. libusb (>=0.1.8) 3. pyusb (==0.3.1) python module with patch 4. urwid [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-control-usb-missile-launcher-on-linux/