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Lan on Norway sea
A bit of fun on a sea ,dutch bier taste like shit,BREDA,good company and nice strategic game on comp..that have we sailors rest in free time .
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Sage - Science Daily Headlines Dont worry
Dont worry use it wisely....
Sage - Science Brain Activity And Drugs:
4. Brain Activity, Drugs Could Affect Alzheimer's Progression
The activity of connections among brain cells significantly affects levels of the toxic protein beta-amyloid (A�) that is a major cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD), researchers have found. A� is produced by the cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP) within brain cells. Findings suggest that the kind of mental activity people practice or drugs they might take for depression or anxiety could affect their AD risk or the disease progression.
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Search the Web for Sounds
Search the fun or not sounds on
www.findsounds.com.
There is directory on site with categories.
...like...
Animals alligator, baboon, bat, bear
Birds blackbird, blue jay, bluebird, bobwhite
Miscellaneous beep, buzz, cartoon noises, chirp, clap.....
Search Beavis and Butthead's laugh...hahaha
wwiTV.com - The ultimate guide to Live TV webcasts.
The ultimate guide to Live TV webcasts.Wanna Watch TV, Need Windows or Real Media Player.
List of programs is bellow
ALBANIA 4 ALGERIA 1 ANDORRA 1 ANTIGUA&BAR 1 ARGENTINA 15 ARUBA 2 AUSTRALIA 8 AUSTRIA 12 AZERBAIJAN 2 BAHRAIN 2 BANGLADESH 1 BELARUS 1 BELGIUM 12 BENIN 1 BOLIVIA 2 BOSNIA&HERZ. 5 BRAZIL 31 BRUNEI DARIS. 1 BULGARIA 4 CANADA 27 CHILE 8 CHINA 33 COLOMBIA 6 COSTA RICA 2 COTE D'IVOIRE 1 CROATIA 2 CUBA 2 CYPRUS 8 CZECH REP. 9 DENMARK 3 DOM. REP. 8 ECUADOR 6 EGYPT 2 EL SALVADOR 2 ESTONIA 2 FAROE ISLANDS 1 FINLAND 7 FRANCE 31 GEORGIA 2 GERMANY 39 GREECE 13 HONG KONG 2 HUNGARY 11 ICELAND 5 INDIA 8 INDONESIA 6 IRAN 29 IRAQ 2 IRELAND 4 ISRAEL 15 ITALY 57 JAPAN 21 JORDAN 2 KURDISTAN 3 KUWAIT 6 LATVIA 4 LEBANON 3 LIBYA 2 LITHUANIA 2 LUXEMBURG 4 MACEDONIA 3 MALAYSIA 3 MALI 1 MALTA 6 MAURITIUS 1 MEXICO 27 MONGOLIA 1 MYANMAR 1 NETHERLANDS 44 NEW ZEALAND 2 NICARAGUA 4 NIGERIA 1 NORWAY 3 OMAN 1 PAKISTAN 2 PALESTINIA 1 PANAMA 2 PERU 5 PHILIPPINES 4 POLAND 13 PORTUGAL 7 PUERTO RICO 6 QATAR 1 ROMANIA 3 RUSSIAN FED. 26 SAN MARINO 1 SAUDI ARABIA 6 SERBIA&MONT. 7 SLOVAKIA 5 SLOVENIA 6 SOUTH AFRICA 1 SOUTH KOREA 21 SPAIN 36 SRI LANKA 4 SURINAME 1 SWEDEN 4 SWITZERLAND 11 SYRIA 1 TAIWAN 14 THAILAND 14 TUNESIA 3 TURKEY 28 U. KINGDOM 45 UKRAINE 3 UN. ARAB EM. 2 URUGUAY 2 USA (A-F) 62 USA (G-L) 51 USA (M-T) 68 USA (U-Z) 51 VATICAN CITY 2 VENEZUELA 6 VIETNAM 6 ZIMBABWE 3
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From day till night
Gotta see this, some nice flash animation.
http://www.theircircularlife.it/frameset.htm
Merry christmas..
All the best in new year2006 everybody.meery christmas and happy new year from Infinity Till Eternity.
Will email spammers ever never stop
Goddamn i got 5-6 email accounts and on every mail spam comes easily.
Emails like this bellow are so in common these days
*** If you wish to make around 5000$ in about 30 days, I ask you to read carefully following information ***
*** Change 5$ into 5000$ ***
be not tempted to add your address email to the position number 1 in order to earn money more quickly! That does not function like that! If you do that, you will reach ONLY only the people to whom you send the document directly and then your address will be immediately removed position number 1 and you will not reach the thousands of people! But, if you add your name to the position of number 5, there will be really hundreds of people who will receive your file.
UnlimitedGameDownloads, Music & Mp3 Download, TV Shows Download, iMp3Download, Platinum Review Site....
So bla bla bla IT WILL NEVER STOP
Always ready to buy and sell
I use to sell a lot of things before, this is some of them, I mostly sell cellphones because they changing like baby dipers :)
St Petersburgh..
Take a good look this photo you will see what you will see ..this is not Twillight zone ...majka
The armed car V3(Der Panzerwagen)
The armed car is built by a resistance group at the railway factories at Frederiksvaerk, North Zeland and use in action on May 5 th 1945 in fight against nazi groups.majka.
Norway fjords!
Some good screen savers by majka!
MyLooks On Blogging � extra xtra read all about it!!
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Did you read any of these words somewhere:
google is good, i hate bush, you a sucker, wait i check my hotmail mail , playboy models hot chicks in iraq because they ran out of oil or fuel and food, i got a bomb, haha , fbi is after is after me it’s all on cnn.com…the weed is in the air, free weed, money, gimme money, wow, i can’t walk, guns, drugs, alcochol…what is heaven, where am i, music, mtv sucks, commercial(s) sucks, 2006, velenje, microsoft is soft as micro, osama is not sadam, they’re like bush, you can ask ali G . christmas, new year, cars and santa are on the way to new york where god or good is, world of warcraft, we’re in the space in space, sony, fifa, sponsors, world champion soccer is germany i bet my money on it, now i go to ebay, i played lotto, i`ve been in casino, now im going out to smoke a joint.
Smajka....the land of a midnight sun
North pole thats the part of a world if you use a bit imagination you think that you are not on earth..2 same places 1 mounth ago differences.
Smajka....ANTE loves Serbia
Hehe old parts of YUgoslavija had a lot of friends around the world...thats ante guy from Indonezija..
Sharing Files
Yes sharing files, it exists wery long time, now nova days sharing has split into categories.
U know like www.rapidshare.com , www.yousendit.com for mp3 music, files there are pritty much hidden, but still much of them is unlegal. there is much more pages that offer mp3 easy upload.
I like the images sharing pages, where they let you see pictures from other people to, some is on www.flickr.com , www.imageshack.us. Have a great watching if You like to watch :)
Smajka....Honduras
All the best abaut hounduras very nice peoples muchas chikitas,cheep what else do you WANT!!!
Smajka....Warnemunde
And that how we say hello to our brothers from Germany..PROST!!!
That shit i was talking about!!Nice prices nice seeds...we all now from little can we make a lot:::murphy hahah
Smajka....seeds.Amsterdam.
That shit i was talking about!!Nice prices nice seeds...we all now from little can we make a lot:::murphy hahah
Smajka....hot
Smajka....severn pol
Smajka....
Infinity Till Eternity
Jennifer Anitson Is Hot...
ABC News: Photographer: Topless Aniston 'Exposed Herself'CNN.com - Review: 'King Kong' a giant pleasure - Dec 14, 2005What do you do after creating the multiple Academy Award winning "The Lord of the Rings," arguably the greatest film trilogy of all time? Well, if you're Peter Jackson you immediately jump behind the camera and direct "King Kong," a film that became a classic when it stunned audiences back in 1933.
GODZILLA is bigger, so in ten years we should expect Godzilla vs King Kong like year before for Jason Vs The Fredy.
What is cool :)
Music is cool , i listen a lot of Tupac, he sings about problems in the world, he is dissin politics, he got a nice songs for sex and ladies who have babies in early ages. Its a shame he go shot just because he was Real.
I will start writing more about sexy girls, and i will start posting pictures i taked in fuew years.
My frined has a pictures from all ower the world, first i get time i will post the "Nort Pole".
I got a nice family, still noone isnt artist :) But we do have a lot of entertainment
Picture i taked from my 2 friends who buyed two sister dogs
Watching for cat
What will boss say
They must be tired after long playin
Dogs likes to play
Im gonna breck your neck
She smilling
Photo take in Velenje with Digital Camera
Do Dogs Laugh, Maybe But Not Loudly
Patricia Simonet, development and programme co-ordinator for Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service, also found that the sound of dog laughter comforts other dogs. When she played a recording of "play panting" through the speaker system at a shelter in Spokane Valley, all the barking dogs quieted within a minute.
"I wanted to see if I could reduce (the dogs') stress by playing the sound in the shelter," Simonet said. "I was surprised when they were calm and quiet."
Simonet, who has a doctorate in animal behaviour, presented her study on reducing shelter dogs' stress at the International Conference on Environmental Enrichment last summer at Columbia University in New York.
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Why is Marijuana Illegal?
A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis, Why is Marijuana Illegal?
7000-8000 B.C.
First woven fabric believed to be from hemp.
1619
Jamestown Colony, Virginia passes law requiring farmers to grow hemp.
1700s
Hemp was the primary crop grown by George Washington at Mount Vernon, and a secondary crop grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
1884
Maine is the first state to outlaw alcohol.
1906
Pure Food and Drug Act is passed, forming the Food and Drug Administration. First time that drugs have any government oversight.
1914
Harrison Act passed, outlawing opiates and cocaine (taxing scheme)
1915
Utah passes first state anti-marijuana law.
1919
18th Amendment to the Constitution (alcohol prohibition) is ratified.
1930
Harry J. Anslinger given control of the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics (he remains in the position until 1967)
1933
21st Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, repealing alcohol prohibition.
1937
Marijuana Tax Act
1938
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
1951
Boggs Amendment to the Harrison Narcotic Act (mandatory sentences)
1956
Narcotics Control Act adds more severe penalties
1970
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. Replaces and updates all previous laws concerning narcotics and other dangerous drugs. Empasis on law enforcement. Includes the Controlled Substances Act, where marijuana is classified a Schedule 1 drug (reserved for the most dangerous drugs that have no recognized medical use).
1972
Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act. Establishes federally funded programs for prevention and treatment
1973
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Changes Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs into the DEA
1974 and 1978
Drug Abuse Treatment and Control Amendments. Extends 1972 act
1988
Anti-Drug Abuse Act. Establishes oversight office: National Office of Drug Control Policy and the Drug Czar
1992
ADAMHA Reorganization. Transfers NIDA, NIMH, and NIAAA to NIH and incorporates ADAMHA's programs into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Skytopia : Dynamic optical illusions. Pictures, 3D and animation
The biggest site i found on Dynamic Optical Illusions.
Simply amazing
Skytopia : Dynamic optical illusions. Pictures, 3D and animation
Predictable prediction
Predictions are good, i read alot of it, who knows maybe something really does happen.
By 2020, bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event.
By the end of 2012, more than 50% of the root servers on the internet will be located outside the United States. Moore's Law, which has defined a doubling of price/performance/value produced by semi-conductors every 12 to 18 months since 1966, will continue to deliver its exponential benefits for at least another five decades, without stopping or slowing. By 2070, at least six countries will have officially implemented a 4-day working week. an the last one grrrhhhhhh.....By 2025 at least 50% of all U.S. citizens residing within the United States will have some form of technology embedded in their bodies for the purpose of tracking and identification.READ MORE ON PREDICTIONS
Stipple Portraits - Hedcut Pen and Ink Drawings - Hedcuts - Stipple Illustration by Wall Street Journal Hedcut portrait artist Noli Novak
How HOw what a great illustrations, check it u wont be sorry.
Stipple Portraits - Hedcut Pen and Ink Drawings - Hedcuts - Stipple Illustration by Wall Street Journal Hedcut portrait artist Noli Novak
What happens to abandoned babies?
Just Like Animals
BBC NEWS | Magazine | What happens to abandoned babies?
WHO, WHAT, WHY?
The Magazine answers...
Newborn twins have been left in a hospital car park in Birmingham and police hope their appeals to find the mother mean the family will be reunited. But what usually happens to abandoned babies?
They have been named Joseph and Holly by nurses at the hospital where the newborn twins were abandoned. The "adorable" brother and sister were left in a sleeping bag inside a supermarket box in the car park.
In 2004 a total of 49 babies were abandoned in the UK, according to the most recent Home Office statistics. This figure was down on 57 in the previous year. A lot of parents are never traced, leaving their offspring with no name and no knowledge of their family.
Slightly more baby boys are abandoned than girls, according to research by the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London. Infants are most likely to be left in the first few hours after birth and in places where they are likely to be found.
Sympathy
There are no national guidelines for dealing with such cases, but usually when a baby is abandoned police, health care professionals and social services get involved. Often the child is kept at the hospital for a few days and then given to foster carers. Eventually they will be put forward for adoption.
It is a criminal offence to abandon a child under the age of two, as is cruelty or neglect of a child. Many police forces now have officers specially trained to deal with such cases. Appeals to the parents are made as sensitively as possible, as they are often in a traumatised state and need help.
According to research, society judges people who have abandoned newborn babies in a much more sympathetic way than those who leave older children.
There are no firm conclusions as to why babies are abandoned. Some psychiatrists believe that mothers - especially young ones - can become overwhelmed by the presence of something that they denied for nine months. When the baby is born, the distressed mother can lose contact with reality for a brief period of time and may abandon her child.
Often the women can be suffering post-natal depression or feelings of inadequacy. In some cases, parents may see abandoning their child as an alternative to abortion or leave their baby believing the infant will have a chance of a better life. Economic, as well as emotional and social factors, can play a part.
Identity
When the babies grow into adulthood their mental health may be at risk because they were abandoned, say experts. They may require support and often this can vary depending on if they were abandoned to die or abandoned to be found.
"Often people abandoned as babies show great resilience but there is always another side to them," says Pam Hodgekins of Norcap, a charity that supports people who have been adopted.
"They have to cope with major issues, like not knowing their proper birthday or even having a name when they are left. It is often harder for them to move on than people put up for adoption. They may feel rejected but at least know their parents made a plan for them. People who have been abandoned don't even have that comfort." Information on the finder of the baby can be very limited and little thought is given to their welfare, even though they are often emotionally touched by their discovery and may recall the incident for the rest of their lives.
"I have spoken to a policeman who found a baby 12 years ago in Nottingham. On the anniversary each year he takes the day off and returns to the place. He finds it hard to cope with the fact that the baby's family were never traced," says Ms Hodgekins.
"Often these people feel a responsibility and connection towards the baby. They question whether finding the infant is some sort of sign that they are meant to look after it."
Health care staff and the authorities also play a vital part in an abandoned baby's identity as they often name the child.
Norcap is pushing for national guidelines on dealing with abandoned babies. It says issues such as media coverage need to be looked at. The charity thinks delaying appeals through newspapers and television for a few days might be a better approach.
"A mother is more likely to come forward if she doesn't know what has happened to her baby," says Ms Hodgekins. "The way things are currently handled she is able to see on the news the same day that her child is being cared for."
American Internet users believe they can wield influence in politics simply by going online
They Say ----> Web gives power to the people, surfers say...
I say Power is already in our hands but we are stupid enough to never make something usefull..............
Nearly 40 percent of U.S. Web surfers polled by researchers at the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School said they agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, "By using the Internet, people like you can have more political power." That tally is several points higher than last year, according to the report.
Political empowerment "means the ability to actually have an impact, and not just gain insight or knowledge," Jeffrey Cole, the project's director, said in a conference call with reporters.
The Digital Future Project, now in its fifth year, surveyed residents older than age 12 from 2,000 American households, which were intended to provide a representative sample of the nation. Responses came both from Internet users (defined as those who log on at least once per month) and from "nonusers" (the remainder).
The findings come as the prospect of campaign finance rules being extended to the Internet continues to draw outcry from politicians and bloggers. These groups have touted the grassroots, democratizing merits and low cost barriers of Net-based politicking. Despite this, a measure that would have exempted Net activity from campaign finance rules was shot down in the U.S. House of Representatives last month.
According to the University of Southern California study, more than 40 percent of surveyed Internet users went online to gather information2004 presidential campaign season. About three-quarters of them said they did so because they were undecided on those matters, and the vast majority said they were "satisfied" with the content that the Web supplied. Less than 5 percent of the Internet users relied on blogs for campaign information. "Traditional media" Web sites and official campaign sites received the vast majority of visitors, the survey said.
"There's no doubt that the Internet has become more than just another form of media," Cole said. "It's really changing the political process."
The research project also compiled answers to more than 100 questions spanning topics like e-commerce, social habits and general usage patterns. It was funded in part by such companies as America Online, Microsoft, Sony, SBC and Verizon.
Not surprisingly, the number of survey subjects who go online (78.6 percent), their time spent on the Web (an average of 13.3 hours per week), and their average monthly spending online ($113.34) have all climbed steadily over the last five years.
But Internet users' confidence in the information they find online has declined for three years in a row. The percentage of survey subjects who responded that they believe "most" of what they encounter is reliable and accurate dipped to 46.8 percent this year, from a peak level of 56.1 percent during the 2001 study.
Car device may be the new repo man
HEhe AHaha Complaints involving black boxes in cars have usually been associated with controversies over surveillance technology, but this device is likely to raise hackles of another kind. Car dealers can program the PayTeck Smart Box to prevent a vehicle's engine from starting if its owner is more than four days late with a payment.
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
U.S. Satellites Outnumber Rest of World
BREITBART.COM - U.S. Satellites Outnumber Rest of World
WASHINGTON - The United States has 413 satellites in space snooping for the government, checking on the weather and relaying the latest pop music, a new database says. That's more than the 382 the rest of the world has spinning above the Earth. The inventory, developed by the Union of Concerned Scientists and released Wednesday, provides details on some of the Pentagon's most secret satellites, which may gather images in the dark or take high- resolution pictures from 12,000 miles away.
"Until now, the general public didn't have easy access to information about all active satellites," said Dr. Laura Grego, a Cambridge astrophysicist who was on a team that spent several years compiling information on the nearly 800 active satellites. "No one owns space, so everyone has a right to know what's up there."
The material was gleaned from corporations, academics, governments and satellite watchers who as a hobby spend their nights watching the skies for flickers of light.
The group's inventory lists 21 different details on satellites with missions ranging from weather forecasting to transmitting music and news for companies like Sirius Satellite Radio. Perhaps most controversially, the repository includes what's known about top-secret spy satellites run by the U.S. and other governments.
With 413, the United States far exceeds other nations in numbers of satellites, often used for communications. The Russians, who follow the U.S. in total number, have 87. The Chinese have 34. The numbers are approximations that may vary depending on how joint ventures are counted.
Facts and figures on unclassified satellites were publicly available from the U.S. government until recently. For national security reasons, individuals now must request an account from the Air Force to access the information, and may redistribute any of the information only with permission from the Defense Department.
The Union of Concerned Scientists opposes space-based weapons and destructive weapons that target satellites, even from the ground. It made the data public to start a dialogue about the best use of space.
The group is reasonably sure it knows about most _ if not all _ satellites because their launches are major events and must be registered with the United Nations. While it did not provide precise orbits that would enable someone to find a satellite at any moment, the union's database does give other closely held information.
For instance, the database lists 40 classified military and surveillance satellites with names such as Mercury, Trumpet and Orion run by the National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and manages U.S. spy satellites. The classified names are listed only when known; often aliases are found.
The agency's spokesman, Rick Oborn, said he had not seen the database yet. "From an intelligence standpoint, the less people know or think they know about what we have, that is certainly our preference," he said.
The inventory also provides details about a highly classified $1 billion satellite, known as Misty-2, including its expected life span of more than 5 years and May 22, 1999, launch date.
Grego said satellite watchers had spotted Misty-2 even though it was disguised as space debris. "These guys are in the backyards every night and know the sky like the back of their hand," she said.
According to the union, the high-resolution surveillance satellite can carry up to 7 metric tons of rocket fuel, used to help steer it into new orbits or correct its course.
The National Reconnaissance Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate the leak of other general information about the Misty program one year ago. Those details were published in news reports after three Democratic senators cryptically questioned the program's price and merits during a Senate debate.
Facts about the secretive Lacrosse satellites also are included in the database. Information about that program became public by accident in 2000 when the National Reconnaissance Office distributed patches to agency employees to celebrate the launch of the Titan IV.
The patches revealed the rocket's secret passenger: the Lacrosse-4, which uses radar to gather images in the dark.
Satellite watchers used clues on the patch, including the embroidered path of four satellites, to figure out where the new Lacrosse orbited.
"We own the night," the patch said.
Sky Harbor hostage crime possibly duplicated
A man who took a hostage at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on the day after Thanksgiving may have been commemorating the 20th anniversary of an identical crime.
Charles Richard Woolson was indicted Tuesday on charges of kidnapping, hoax and assault, according to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
According to police reports, Woolson, 49, jumped over an information counter at Terminal 4 during the evening of Nov. 25 and grabbed an airport employee by the neck. He shouted that he was a Sikh terrorist, that he had a bomb and a gun, and that he would kill everyone if he was not allowed to speak to the FBI. He also demanded that three terrorists be released from an Illinois prison.
Woolson surrendered to police when they drew their weapons on him.
He was held in lieu of $180,000 bond and will be arraigned in Maricopa County Superior Court Dec. 14.
On Nov. 29, 1985, also the day after Thanksgiving, a man named Charles R. Woolson, then 29, took an airline employee hostage in Terminal 3, according to media reports. Woolson, who was then on parole for a bank robbery conviction, called himself a revolutionary and threatened to set off a bomb if a cassette tape he had was not broadcast nationally. He was charged with kidnapping, though it is uncertain whether he was convicted.
Police and prosecutors did not connect the incidents and could not confirm that it was the same man. But the hostage taker in both incidents referred to himself as "The General," and online court records show that a Charles Richard Woolson with the same birth date as this year's assailant was arraigned in 1985.
Scientists ponder Titanic discoveries
Titanic's bow rests on the ocean floor. New finds suggest the ship broke into three sections, not two.
CNN.com - Scientists ponder Titanic discoveriesHehe we want new movie where ship breaks into 3 pieces
IE flaw lets intruders into Google Desktop
A security researcher in Israel has found a way to steal
information from unwitting users of Google's desktop search tool by
exploiting an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet
Explorer.
There is a bug in the way the Web browser processes CSS rules, Matan
Gillon wrote in a description of his hack posted on Wednesday. CSS, or
Cascading Style Sheets, is a method for setting common styles across
multiple Web pages. The Web design technique is widely used on many
sites across the Internet.
The proof-of-concept
method is an example of how security flaws in software can offer all
kinds of access to programs on vulnerable PCs, including to Google Desktop.
"This design flaw in IE allows an attacker to retrieve private user
data or execute operations on the user's behalf on remote domains,"
Gillon wrote in his description
of the attack method. He crafted a Web page that--when viewed in IE on
a computer with Google Desktop installed--uses the search tool and
returns results for the query "password."
To exploit the flaw, an attacker has to lure a victim to a
malicious Web page. "Thousands of Web sites can be exploited, and there
isn't a simple solution against this attack, at least until IE is
fixed," Gillon wrote.
Microsoft is investigating the issue, which it described in
a statement as a problem affecting the cross-domain protections in
Internet Explorer. "This issue could potentially allow an attacker to
access content in a separate Web site, if that Web site is in a
specific configuration," Microsoft said in the statement.
Microsoft is not currently aware of malicious code that takes
advantage of the flaw, but is monitoring the situation, the company
said. A security update or an advisory on the problem may be coming, it
said.
Google is also investigating Gillon's findings. "We just
learned of this issue and are looking into it," Sonya Boralv, a
spokeswoman for the search giant, wrote in an e-mailed statement.
While Gillon in his example uses the IE flaw as a means to
get to Google Desktop, this flaw and other software bugs could be used
to covertly access virtually any application on a compromised computer.
"It is like any other flaw within IE, but he got creative and
used it to launch Google Desktop to retrieve data," security researcher
Tom Ferris said. "You can bet we will see this one being used to steal
users' Quicken data, database files, etc."
In other news:
Steve Manzuik, a security product manager at eEye Digital Security,
agreed. "This definitely looks like a flaw in IE and not a Google bug.
He is using Google Desktop as to retrieve data, but it is IE that makes
it possible," he said.
While IE is vulnerable, Gillon found that Firefox and Opera
are not. For protection, Internet users could use one of those browsers
or disable JavaScript in IE, Gillon suggested.
It has been a busy week on the Microsoft security front. Four examples of attack code were released for flaws in the Windows operating system, and a Trojan horse is finding its way onto PCs through another yet-unpatched flaw in IE
Mozilla Seeks Ad Videos From Firefox 1.5 Fans
The Mozilla Corp. on Friday asked Firefox fans to submit video
testimonials about the open-source browser for possible inclusion in
the company's global marketing campaign.
Mozilla, the for-profit company developing and marketing Firefox, has set up a Web site
for fans to upload 30-second videos describing why they like the
browser. A second part of the ad contest, called Firefox Flicks, is set
to be unveiled in mid-December, and is aimed at creative professionals
and students.
"Our success has been driven by satisfied users letting other people
know they are having a better Web experience with Firefox," Christopher
Beard, vice president of products at Mozilla Corp., said in a
statement. "Firefox Flicks taps into the creative energy and enthusiasm
of our community to tell the world in their own words why they love
Firefox."
The contest is an expansion of a previous grassroots effort that led
to a community-sponsored two-page ad in The New York Times in November
2004. The ad was in support of Firefox 1.0.
Mozilla is waging an uphill battle for market share against the
dominant browser Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, which has 86.5
percent of the market, according to Web-monitoring firm
NetApplications. Firefox has an 8.6 percent share.
The latest marketing program is the first in a series of campaigns
that Mozilla plans to roll out in the coming months, company officials said.