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Tonights Content

New Logo for BTS it has the web and email address on it as well as the phone number right on the logo

Ben’s Craigslist Story

New Apple iPad

Apple iPad Features:

9.7″ Full capacitive multitouch screen
.5″ thick
1 GHz Apple A4 processor (this might be why Apple bought P.A. semi back in 2008)
16GB-GB Flash storage
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
WiFi 802.11n
Built-in speaker, microphone, 30-pin connectors
Accelerometer
Compass
10 hour battery life in use
Runs all iPhone apps
3G wireless options powered by ATT, with a $30/month unlimited plan without a contract

Pricing:

Wifi models
- 16GB – $499
- 32GB – $599
- 64GB -$699
3G models
- 16GB – $629
- 32GB – $729
- 64GB -$829

Slow Internet? Thank Apple
Did you experince a slow connection around the apple advent? I did.

O’Reilly drops DRM on ebooks and sales rise like a rocket
It’s been 18 months since O’Reilly, the world’s largest publisher of tech books, stopped using DRM on its ebooks. In the intervening time, O’Reilly’s ebook sales have increased by 104 percent.

Google Toolbar caught tracking users when ‘disabled’
Google has updated its browser toolbar after the application was caught tracking urls even when specifically “disabled” by the user.
In a Monday blog post, Harvard professor and noted Google critic Ben Edelmen provided video evidence of the Google toolbar transmitting data back to the Mountain View Chocolate Factory after he chose to disable the application in the browser window he was currently using.
The Google toolbar offers two disable options: one is meant to disable the toolbar “permanently,” and the other is meant to disable the app “only for this window.”

SourceForge blocks Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan and Cuba
In a move that must surely strike at the very core of open source, FOSS, and the heart of GNU crusader Richard Stallman, SourceForge has now blocked all access from by countries on the U.S. ‘Foreign Assets Control sanction list’.
That isn’t the beginning of the story though: back in 2008 the same countries were allowed to surf SourceForge, but not interact with the source code repositories — they could download, but couldn’t contribute. Now it seems the access block is complete — if you live in Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan or Cuba, you simply can’t access SourceForge.

YAY view your youtube videos with out that darn flash
Supported Browsers
Right now we support browsers that support both the tag in HTML5 and the h.264 video codec. These include:

Google Chrome
Apple Safari (version 4+)
Microsoft Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame installed
Ben’s thoughts on html 5

Ben’s thoughts on Firefox 3.6
To long to describe but it does involve security and remote code execution

Microsoft admits to a 17 year old Windows bug
WOW like I couldn’t make that one up!
Microsoft late yesterday issued its second advisory of the last week, warning users that a 17-year-old bug in the kernel of all 32-bit versions of Windows could be used by hackers to hijack PCs.
The vulnerability in the Windows Virtual DOS Machine (VDM) subsystem was disclosed Tuesday by Google engineer Tavis Ormandy on the Full Disclosure security mailing list.

New US texting Law for Truckers and Bus Drivers
This morning the Department of Transportation announced — finally — that the operators of trucks and buses on U.S. roadways will no longer be able to text while they should be watching the road.
Failure to obey will come with a hefty cost, too: as high as $2,750