And that is one of the major differences between humans and computers.

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The DOS box is dead, and so is its replacement

The DOS box is dead, long live the DOS box!

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Remember Samy? The creator of the infamous worm was unfortunate enough to be the the target in MySpace's latest litigation. As was said in the earlier story, the script was "written for fun" and caused no damage.

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Several web sites and blogs are reporting a major security hole in Adobe's Acrobat PDF, related to Javascript and cross-site scripting (XSS).

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Sun Microsystems released on Monday a Java development kit that seeks to meld Java and scripting languages.

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Microsoft Office isn't among the apps that will run natively on Intel-based Macs—and it won't be until the latter half of 2007, according to media reports.

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You've studied an introductory book on JavaScript, and you're ready to be eased into the next level. According to DW Managing Editor Mike West's book review, ppk on JavaScript will take you there.

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Six months ago, Wired News launched an investigation of MySpace with the goal of comparing the company''s 120 million user profiles against public sex offender registries to see how many matches we could find.

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The Importance of Open Source

Through the PluggedOut project I am regarded by many as an "open source" software developer. It might surprise many to learn that in my professional life I am the exact opposite. I work for a systems integrator, writing bespoke solutions as part of commercial projects.

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"With the popularity of AJAX growing every day I've had the opportunity to collect and try out many more tutorials in the last several months.

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Ryan Paul of ArsTechnica writes: "In the last edition of Linux.Ars, I wrote a review of GNOME 2.14 in which I criticized the Metacity window manager and expressed dissatisfaction with its lack of functionality.

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I feel bad submitting this myself, but not enough Newsviners actually read my blog for it to happen otherwise.

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Microsoft's new command shell - way cool. Does not requires Windows Vista.

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From the Article: "PHP V5's new object-oriented programming features have raised the level of functionality in this popular language significantly. Learn how to use the dynamic features of PHP V5 to create objects that bend to fit your needs..."

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Monad - An innovative tool from Microsoft?

Mondad looks like an interesting technology. At last Microsoft is going to provide a command line administration shell that is powerful and flexible.

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Erudite and concise news and viewpoints on all things Macintosh. "Mac nerdery, etc."

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