Popular Science once again has a list of the worst jobs in science. (I wouldn’t read this on a full stomach.) It just shows you what dedication the scientific community has for their profession.
(And I’m so proud: my home city made job #7 possible: Ecologist at St. John’s Harbor. I used to work in a building with the wonderful view of the “floatables”….)
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An excellent in-depth review of Firefox 1.0 over at InformationWeek: What Makes Firefox 1.0 So Compelling. Seven pages of close scrutiny and essential bedtime reading.
You’ll also find a poll in the “Related Stories” sidebar asking whether you’re going to switch from IE to Firefox (currently standing at 95% yes).
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Yikes! This is one for the books: a worm propogated by advertising iframes. If you’re using Internet Explorer, and visited certain (very popular) sites in the past few days, then chances are that you have become infected. What basically happened is this: many sites serve up their ads using embedded frames, called “iframes”, within a page. When the page loads, the iframe is created with a call to the advertising service, and the ad then appears in all its irritating glory. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer is highly vulnerable to cross-scripting errors using iframes, which allows certain programs to be downloaded and run without you knowing it. Because of a worm on the advertising server, IE can easily become infected, and thus your whole system.
This can affect you unless you are one of the few people running Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Service Pack 2. (If you don’t know whether or not you have SP2, chances are you don’t: it’s a gigantic download.) If you’re not running this combo, then I’d advise you to get a good anti-virus program (there are good free ones out there, like AVG), the spyware remover AdAware, and Firefox, a much more secure (and feature-filled) browser.
The Register was one of the many sites affected, and has put up a notice about it.
November 22nd, 2004