Everyone wants an HDTV. They are just really really cool. You walk past them in the store and the image almost jumps out at you. DStv still have a while to go before they can broadcast in HD (a salesman told me “early 2007″ but I am not holding my breath). Sky in the UK broadcast in HD already. Nevertheless people are buying them – I mean how could they possibly improve on that picture quality?
I came across a page for a conference being held on Subverting AJAX. It covers some vulnerabilities in AJAX, one being XSS Prototype Hijacking.Download the PDF on it here Subverting Ajax [pdf] – Ajax security issues.
This could pose a problem for large scale Web 2.0 sites making heavy use of AJAX.
For a while now, Blu-ray (backed by Sony) and HD-DVD (backed by Toshiba and Microsoft), two rivals when it comes to a high-storage replacement for the DVD, have caused consumers to be weary of purchasing a device to play either format as the one device does not support the other format. This has caused a stunt in the popularity of the new technology.
It’s nice to watch CNN/Sky as the different timezones celebrate but who actually celebrates first? Here are a list of countries/cities in the timezone furthest ahead. Kiritimati on the Christmas Islands, in Kiribati pops the champagne first. Here is a full breakdown of the celebrations.
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