BattleBots heading back to TV

Filed under: Programming, OpEd

Nerds and engineering students rejoice. Battlebots is returning to television and this time it's on ESPN.

The show originally ran for five years on Comedy Central and included hosts such as Donna D'Errico and Carmen Electra. Bill Nye served as "technical adviser". ESPN promises that this time the show would be less about the female-model hosts and general silliness and more about the science and the robots destroying each other.

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SF Blogger Dinner on Tuesday, March 25th. Are you coming?

SF Blogger Dinner on Tuesday, March 25th

I’m getting the word about about a SF Blogger Dinner on Tuesday, March 25th. We’re welcoming Josh Bernoff to town, Charlene’s co-author.

It’s pretty normal at blogger dinners that everyone pay their own way, and in the spirit of community blogger dinners, we’d ask that you chip in $30 for dinner and we’ll all buy each other drinks. Register here.

The current list includes, Beth Blecherman, Ben Metcalfe, Christopher Heuer, Jennifer Jones, Josh Bernoff, Charlene Li, and Josh Bernoff. We only have room for 50, so please sign up.

SF Blogger Dinner on Tuesday, March 25th

Dinner
Cocktail style, with a buffet of appetizers (pizzas, crispy calamari, spring rolls, chicken and beef satays, endive spears).

Location:
21st Amendment, 563 Second Street, San Francisco, phone: 415-369-0900

Date:
Tuesday, March 25th

Time:
6-8pm

Cost:
$30 for dinner

Parking:
Closest on 2nd Street just north of Townsend.

Here’s a few other blogger dinners that I’ve organized, promoted, or attended, I really love meeting those I interact with online.
SF
Boston
Portland
Barcelona
Hong Kong
Singapore
Chicago

[ISN] Safari 3.1 For Windows Vulnerable To Hackers

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207000123

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
March 27, 2008

Researchers at software security firm Secunia said they've found two
"highly critical" vulnerabilities in Apple's Safari 3.1 For Windows
browser.

In one instance, files with long names downloaded via the browser "can
be exploited to cause memory corruption," according to Secunia. That
could result in the host computer becoming vulnerable to arbitrary code
execution -- a situation where intruders can remotely execute commands
on the targeted machine.

The other vulnerability lets hackers display their own content in pages
loaded into Safari 3.1 without changing what's displayed in the
browser's URL address bar.

Secunia notes that neither vulnerability has been patched by Apple.

Word of the problems is the latest black eye for Safari 3.1.

A number of users have complained that the browser functions poorly, or
crashes altogether, on computers running Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s
Windows XP operating system.

"When I try to start Safari 3.1 in Windows XP, it crashes right away,"
said SakJosep, in a post currently on Apple's online support forum.

Such complaints are echoing across a Safari support forum thread on
Apple's Web site.

Apple's also been hit with criticism for the way it launched the new
browser last week. The company included it as a stealth update for users
of its iTunes and QuickTime software. Mozilla CEO John Lilly likened the
strategy to tactics used by hackers to insert malicious code into
downloads.

"Apple has made it incredibly easy -- the default, even -- for users to
install ride along software that they didn't ask for, and maybe didn't
want," said Lilly, in a blog post. "This is wrong, and borders on
malware distribution practices."

Safari competes with Mozilla's Firefox product in the Web browser
market.


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