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* Gear Factor [brings news][1] of an HD-DVD/Blu-ray combo player from LG, but will anyone care? "Consumer disinterest has more to do with the price tags than with philosophical exasperation at the existence of competing formats."
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/lg_to_unleash_h.html "LG To Unleash HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Combo Player"
* Table of Malcontent has a [write-up][2] on every cynic's favorite end-of-the-year award -- the Darwin Awards.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/2006s_darwin_aw.html "2006's Darwin Award Winners"
* Listening Post has some [advance details][3] on a slick looking new MP3 player from iRiver which will make its debut at CES next week.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/new_iriver_mp3_.html "New iRiver MP3 Players at CES"
* Our new science blog, aptly titled WIRED Science, [posted a cool video][4] of the initial launch of the Goddard ,a rocket built by Blue Origin, the space launch company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/blue_origin_lif.html "Blue Origin liftoff"
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* More Leopard previews with details on what Jobs previously described as "a few more surprises." And of course some hard and fast release dates.
* iLife upgrades. Here's to a better iTunes.
* 5.1 surround sound in Garageband and iDVD.
* µTorrent for OS X. Please?
* More details on "iTV." Is it a service? Is it tied to the iTunes Store? Is it going to change the way I watch Movies/TV?
* Aperture upgrades. We really like Aperture and we'd like to see some kind of upgrade. It needs better Camera Raw support and a speed boost before we shell out for it.
* iWork to move into Microsoft Office territory, i.e. a real word processor app.
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* This shouldn't shock anyone, but Washington Post security blogger Brian Krebs, has calculated that Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was [vulnerable to known security holes][2], with no available patches for 284 days last year. That's 75% of the time. Firefox on the other hand was vulnerable for only nine days. What's on your screen?
[2]: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/internet_explorer_unsafe_for_2.html "Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006"
* As I mentioned in the Wired Blogs round up below, there's a new HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo player coming soon from LG, but Warner Bros is [reportly planning to release][3] a new *disc*, Total DVD, which is playable on both HD-DVD and BluRay players.
[3]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/technology/04video.html?ex=1325566800&en=65cf5ceda95fc5f3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "New Disc May Sway DVD Wars"
* There's a small chance we might get to see how the RIAA has been screwing us all these years. The RIAA is suing Marie Lindor for allegedly downloading music, and as part of her defense, Lindor's attorney is [trying to gain access][1] to the RIAA's price information which he claims will support his client's claim that the RIAA's damages are excessive.
[1]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070103-8536.html "RIAA fights to keep wholesale pricing secret"
* More Apple woes, Apple shareholders have [launched their own suit][4] against the company, alleging that when Jobs regained control of the company in 1997, he doled out stock options to many of his newly appointed executives. I don't pretend to understand the finer points of law, but does it make sense to sue someone who raised your stock price 48% in one day? How does a lawsuit against the company you've invested in help you as a stockholder?
[4]: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/04/BUGDBNCBRA1.DTL "Investors sue Apple"
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Possible attacks that could be delivered using the flaw include session riding, cross-site scripting attacks and, in the case of Internet Explorer, denial of service attacks.
The attack works via html links that pass additional parameters to the Acrobat Reader plug-in. Because the plug-in does not properly sanitize incoming urls, it's possible to use a link to execute arbitrary code:
http://site.com/file.pdf#FDF=javascript:alert('Test Alert')
In this case the plug-in would execute the Javascript that the end of the url, but other attacks are also possible and vary somewhat by browser.
As Hon Lau [writes][2] on the Symantec security response blog, "the ease in which this weakness can be exploited is breathtaking."
Lau goes on to add, "what this means in a nutshell is that anybody hosting a .pdf, including well-trusted brands and names on the Web, could have their trust abused and become unwilling partners in crime."
Symantec initially reported that the flaw only affected Firefox users, but has since amended that to include Internet Explorer 6. Stefano Di Paola, who originally discovered the flaw, also mentions Opera, but does give any specific Opera examples.
The flaw exists in Adobe Acrobat 7 and below. Adobe recommends upgrading to the new Acrobat 8 (see Monkey Bites [review][3]), but for those that don't want to upgrade, the post on Symantec's security response blog has details on a workaround that disables the Acrobat Reader plugin.
[1]: http://www.wisec.it/vulns.php?page=9 "Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin - Multiple Vulnerabilities"
[2]: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/01/when_pdfs_attack.html "When PDFs attack"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/adobe_acrobat_8.html "Monkey Bites on Acrobat Reader 8"
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We've [looked at Podzinger][1] before and there's a [Wired News article][2] as well, but yesterday's announcement puts the services quite a bit ahead of the competition.
[According][3] to a post on the Podzinger blog, the new YouTube search tools allow you to "search for terms that are actually mentioned inside the audio, allowing for a greater likelihood you will find relevant material."
As with podcast searches on Podzinger, the results page lists the time mark where the term appears in the video.
There's no easy way to compare the accuracy of Podzinger's search to YouTube's tag and metadata-based searches, but using both in tandem will at least give you an added way to find relevant videos.
Much like the podcast portion of Podzinger, RSS feeds are available for any search, so you can get notified any time a new video is posted where your search terms are used.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/03/searchin_podcas.html "Monkey Bites on Podzinger"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69664-0.html "Podcast Chaos Be Gone"
[3]: http://www.blogzinger.com/2007/01/03/youtube-on-podzinger/ "Podzinger adds YouTube support"
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* Attention hackers, WIBU-Systems is [offering $40,000][1] to anyone who can remove its anti-piracy software from an application. Registration starts next week at MacWorld and the challenge will run for six weeks.
[1]: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PI40RF1QFAJHSQSNDLRCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=196800978 "$40,000 for hackers"
* Macworld [reports][2] that Adobe's Premiere software, which abandoned the Mac platform several years ago, will be returning to OS X. The new version will run on Intel-based machines and will be part of the Adobe Production Studio suite.
[2]: http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/01/03/premiere/index.php?lsrc=mwrss "Premiere returns to OS X"
* Here's a Google Maps mash-up you never wanted: locations of plane crashes. Aviation Marine Insurance has taken FAA and NTSB GPS data and created [AVCRASH][3] which plots out the location of plane crashes. [via [Jeremy Zawodny][4]]
[3]: http://aviation-marine.com/avcrash/index.cfm "AVCRASH"
[4]: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ "Jeremy Zawodny's blog"
* Amazon is already [listing Apple's iLife '07][5] software, which seems to confirm that a new version will be announced at next week's MacWorld show. The existence of the software shouldn't come as too much of a surprise since Apple has consistently announced upgrades to the iLife suite at Macworld for several years now.
[5]: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Computer-iLife-07-Mac/dp/B000B8UOU2/sr=1-1/qid=1167869764?ie=UTF8&s=software&tag2=reality "Amazon.com iLife Suite"
* And last but not least, a Monkey Bites welcome to the 110th congress who begin work today. Can we get some net neutrality legislation already?
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Stockpickr calls itself "the stock idea network" and lives up to that claim by blending social networking features with stock portfolios. Stockpickr members can create portfolios and get recommendations based on stocks you're tracking. The recommendations are pulled from other user portfolios as well as top rated funds based on shared stocks.
In additional to the Stockpickr community, you can also view the publicly available portfolios of investment experts like Warren Buffet or George Soros as well as top hedge and mutual funds.
Stockpickr doesn't let actually buy and sell stocks, for that you'll need to either contact your broker or use one of the many of the online services out there.
While overall Stockpickr is a nice site, the more you already know about the market to begin with, the more you'll probably like Stockpickr. The site is not especially helpful for those of us to whom the stock market remains something of a mystery and Stockpickr can at times be overwhelming for the amount of data and jargon it throws out.
I wanted to like Stockpickr, but unfortunately it comes up short in a few key areas. RSS support is lacking, you can subscribe to a number of feeds, but I couldn't find a way to subscribe to individual user portfolios so I could get notified when they add new stocks.
Additionally, the site is riddled with Javascript errors, the biggest of which prevents large portions of the site from showing up in the Safari browser.
Even in Firefox my registration generated an error saying to try again later, however the registration did in fact go through and I received an email confirming it complete with my password revealed in plain text, which leaves me feeling a bit exposed.
[1]: http://www.stockpickr.com/ "Stockpickr"
[2]: http://www.thestreet.com/ "TheStreet.com"
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Microformats are, to quote from the [microformats.org][2] website:
>* a way of thinking about data
* design principles for formats
* adapted to current behaviors and usage patterns ("Pave the cow paths.")
* highly correlated with semantic XHTML, AKA the real world semantics, AKA lowercase semantic web, AKA lossless XHTML
* a set of simple open data format standards that many are actively developing and implementing for more/better structured blogging and web microcontent publishing in general.
* An evolutionary revolution
* all the above.
Microformats allow browsers and other user agents to "understand" certain chunks of data, for instance hCard, a microformat based on the vCard standard, tell a browser that the information contained within the hCard tags is an address card.
Right now Flickr, Yahoo and others are using microformats and Mozilla has said the next version of Firefox [will support][3] microformats.
For some background and to get started creating your own microformats code [head over the official site][1] and have a look at the various code generators and templates. Happy formating.
[1]: http://microformats.org/code/ "microformats.org - code"
[2]: http://microformats.org/about/ "About Microformats"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/firefox_3_to_su.html#more "Monkey Bites: Firefox 3 to support Microformats"
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The video in question shows Brazilian model and celebrity Daniela Cicarelli having sex with her boyfriend on a beach in Brazil. Cicarelli's boyfriend Tato Malzoni filed a suit in Brazilian court seeking $116,000 in damages *per day* that the video is up on YouTube.
The Reuters article cites legal experts who say enforcing the Brazilian judge's ruling "could be difficult ... in the United States, where YouTube is based."
While many of the copies of the video have reportedly been removed on YouTube, rumor has it users keep posting new ones. The video was the top viewed movie in Brazil for several days.
Aside from the fact that asking YouTube to shut down is, well, somewhat ludicrous and unlikely to happen, the real question is, what difference would it make? If the video has already been widely viewed in Brazil, the only thing the judge's decision does it make it a world wide news item which in turn further fans the flames.
Perhaps Paris Hilton needs to open some sort of how-to-handle-your-sex-video-scandal clinic.
Just for the record, as sex videos go, this one is pretty tame. Not that I would know, that's just the word on the street.
And here we always thought everyone in Brazil was having sex on the beach and no cared. I hope these plane tickets are refundable...
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-04T133629Z_01_N04473895_RTRUKOC_0_US-GOOGLE-BRAZIL.xml&src=rss "Brazil court orders YouTube shut on celeb sex video"
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