Save the Developers! Stop Using Internet Explorer 6

There is a scourge on the Web. It is called Internet Explorer 6. Even though the more recent version of Microsoft’s browser, IE7, has been around for more than two years, IE6 still represents 31 percent of all browsers out there (versus only 22 percent for IE7 and 36.5 percent for Firefox). This upgrade lag is simply unacceptable—to programmers, that is, who find it a real pain to make sure their Web apps work on five different browsers. Not only that, but IE6 supports some non-standard features and functions that are not compatible with other browsers. The security vulnerabilities aren’t too much fun either.It’s too much work and, quite frankly, it is driving some programmers batty. Which is why a group of them have created SaveTheDevelopers.org, an organization dedicated to making the Web a better place for developers (and thus for users as well). Web developers can grab a piece of code to put on their Websites which will detect if a visitor is using an outmoded browser (IE6, cough). When the offending browser is detected, a pop-down window will appear (assuming those aren’t blocked) which will direct the user to a page where they can upgrade to IE7, or the latest version of Firefox or Safari.More campaigns are planned for the future to whip those laggard Web surfers into shape, and once again make the Web safe for developers.

Get A Mac :P

I’m posting this for fun ..

although I think Macs are much better(Mac user) .. I believe each machine has its problems

Blu-ray is finally hacked ..

With the Toshiba-backed HD-DVD format recently falling to the skills of one anonymous hacker known only as ‘Muslix64’, it was perhaps only to be expected that Sony’s Blu-ray technology would be quick to follow suit—and it has.

Late Sunday night it was the turn of Sony’s AACS (Advanced Access Content System) content protection system to fall.

According to a report on The Inquirer, Muslix64 beat the Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection on Sony’s Blu-ray discs and swiftly unlocked the files, which will probably grate with Sony considering it believes its AACS to be a much more significant deterrent to hackers than the protection system utilised in HD-DVDs. However, if the reports are real (and they probably are) then previously AACS-protected files are now playing on Muslix’s freeware video player of choice.

More pointedly, it would appear that Muslix64 relied on a successful plaintext data stream approach to hack both HD-DVD and Blu-ray—unlike other failed attempts by (lesser?) hackers that opted to hammer on Blu-ray and HD-DVD’s player software.