Adobe's New Privacy Feature For Flash Clashes With Online Fraud Detection
From Dark Reading
Financial institutions, ecommerce sites will no longer be able to rely on Flash objects, cookies to help ID legitimate users, experts say
When Adobe releases Flash Player 10.1 in the next couple of months, users of the application will have clearer, easier-to-set privacy options for their browser cookies. But more user privacy comes at the expense of fraud detection processes: The upgraded software is likely to disrupt some ecommerce and online banking sites that rely on cookies as another layer to authenticate their customers.
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China, South Korea lead in green tech funding
From C/Net News
China may arguably be the world's biggest polluter, but it seems the country is also the most serious investor in green tech.
A third of its economic recovery package was spent on green-technology investment in the form of high-speed rail trains and infrastructure, wind energy, solar energy, and energy-efficient lighting. It equates to about 3 percent of China's GDP (gross domestic product), according to a new United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) book released Wednesday.
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Family Values Group, Steve Jobs Accuse Android of Being a "Porn Phone"
From DailyTech
Apple CEO Steve Jobs says that Android is a "porn phone" OS and that his company is far more chaste. Â
Group says that Apple has shown itself to be the champion of chastity
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Moore's Law is not dead. It's merely pining for the fjords
From ARS Technica
What if I took to the pages of a major business magazine and made the bold recommendation that, because humans have run out of new places on Earth that we can migrate to, it is past time for us to make the collective leap to faster-than-light travel so that we can explore neighboring solar systems? Your reaction would probably be something like, "Yes, of course everyone would love to go faster than light, and if it were as easy as just deciding we all want to do it then it would be done already."
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