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• Newsvine RSS Reader widget

  Mon Aug 28, 2006
  • Josh Yockey (from Newsvine) fixed it, it's all good now :)

• Newsvine RSS Reader widget

  Mon Aug 28, 2006
  • See "tinyurl dot com slash zl4s4" (I can't post links). It is 1:25pm in NYC indeed, only the timezone is UTC-4, not UTC-5, which the feed erroneously uses.

• Newsvine RSS Reader widget

  Mon Aug 28, 2006
  • It is the timezone that's wrong. EST (UTC-5) is used during winter, but during summer, EDT (UTC-4) is used. The current time is 17:19 UTC, yet Newsvine's RSS feed shows an update time of 13:19 UTC-5. You do the math!

• Newsvine RSS Reader widget

  Mon Aug 28, 2006
  • I wish Newsvine's staff would put correct times in their RSS feeds: they're all one hour in the future, it's annoying! I have sent them a message but never got an answer. Also, an Atom 1.0 feed would be nice!

• Embrace the Clash, Islamofascists don't care who you are.

  Sat Aug 26, 2006
  • Enough of that crap already. This is Newsvine, not Shelley The Republican dot com…

• Ban on Liquids Confuses Air Travelers

  Fri Aug 11, 2006
  • What's next? Strip searches? Anal probes? I mean, what if terrorists were to conceal explosive material in their anuses, like drug mules? They could then go in the toilet cabins one after another, retrieve the materials and pass them on to the accomplice in charge of assembling the bomb…

• Experts Discuss Wireless Vulnerability

  Wed Aug 2, 2006
  • This article did make that clear: The MacBook used in the demonstration was not using the wireless gear that shipped with the computer. Instead, they used a third-party wireless card that they declined to name.

• Experts Discuss Wireless Vulnerability

  Wed Aug 2, 2006
  • What the article perhaps doesn't make clear, is that an attacker doesn't even need to be connected to the network, and using WPA is not going to help, either. From the original article on InfoWorld: