Computer simulation proves unkind to Leafs
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TORONTO - Near the end of a telephone conversation early yesterday afternoon, Armann Ingolfsson, a hockey fan and business professor at the University of Alberta, was asked if there was any reason for optimism as the Toronto Maple Leafs continued to chase a berth in the National Hockey League playoffs.”Well, I mean, stranger things have [...]
RSA Browser exploits getting more intense
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Threats against browsers are getting more sophisticated and branching out into such exotic areas as gaming, experts told attendees at RSA Conference 2008.
New attacks from games and virtual-world Web sites can deliver bot-like control of browsers to attackers, said Ed Skoudis, a security consultant with Intelguardians, speaking at RSA. All that’s needed is for the [...]
So thats what theyre doing!
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With the advent of inexpensive software, just about anyone can make decent-sounding music on a computer. Performing one’s electronic opus, however, is another matter. Watching producers working laptops or triggering samplers on stage can be as exciting as staring at an electronic simulation of paint drying.Until recently, computer wizards have had two ways to shake [...]
For Forest Whitaker Oscar brings wild opportunities
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Nice guy Forest Whitaker won an Oscar last year for playing the nasty dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. This year, Whitaker smiles bashfully when he’s asked to consider how things have changed for him.”I guess I have more opportunities,” says the 46-year-old co-star of the recently released political thriller Vantage Point. [...]
‘Uncrackable’ computer key to finding Marie
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A specialist police team is examining the contents of Maries computer, including trawling through websites she has visited and emails.
Janet Davis said her daughter would spend hours and hours on her computer.
She told me about two weeks ago the password on the computer is uncrackable.
Davis did not monitor her daughters internet use because she considered [...]
Vagana ponders hanging up his boots
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Vagana in a rare move met with Rabbitohs coach Jason Taylor after round one this season to request a month off to get his body right.
The former Kiwis star had been battling several niggling injuries during the off-season.
Hes expected to return for the luckless Bunnies within the next couple of weeks.
My rehab is coming along [...]
Taranaki to front up to transformed Saints
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In the month since the teams last met Saints have undergone a transformation that has seen them grow in size and confidence and climb to second on the National Basketball League ladder with five wins and three losses.
When the teams met in New Plymouth in round two Taranaki won by 18 points, completely dominating Saints [...]
Gulf nations paving a new Silk Road
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Theres more to this region than that. The nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are committed to creating a common economic unit. Imperfect progress is being made.
The UAE is a federal state of small emirates, the most well- known of which is [...]
IOC urges open Internet during Olympics
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BEIJING The Internet must be open during the Beijing Olympics. That was the message a top-ranking International Olympic Committee official delivered Tuesday to Beijing organizers during the first of three days of meetings, the last official sessions between IOC inspectors and [...]
Beijing told to leave Net uncensored
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BEIJING–The Internet must be open during the Beijing Olympics. That was the message a top-ranking International Olympic Committee official delivered yesterday to Beijing organizers during the first of three days of meetings, the last official sessions between IOC inspectors and the host Chinese before the Games begin in just over four months. China routinely [...]