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...Monday, it had mutated into a full-blown security crisis for Netscape and everyone who owns its browsers. As Brumleve demonstrates on his web page, it is possible to download a short, 30-line javascript program that will snatch information from a Netscape user's hard drive. Specifically, the flaw allows web sites to scan your cache without setting a cookie -- in other words, make off with a list of all those places, naughty and nice, where you've been surfing...
Saving Private Ryan is neither a great film nor Spielberg's best effort, mostly because of one significant flaw: a weak, almost nonexistent storyline. A troop of soldiers (led by Tom Hanks, earnest and convincing as always in this limited role) is ordered to seek out a private who, fighting somewhere in France, is unaware that his three brothers have been killed in action. The U.S. government wants to send Private Ryan home to his bereaved mother...
...mail programs such as Microsoft's Outlook Express and Outlook 98 or Netscape Mail, you might want to be a bit more careful about opening your spam today. Both companies have acknowledged the existence of a serious security flaw in their programs that, according to tests, could allow hackers to mail viruses that will crash your computer or erase your hard drive. And if you think dumping messages straight in the trash keeps you safe, think again: The tests, conducted over the past month by Finnish researchers, showed that some viruses were activated by the very act of deleting -- even...
...generation that insisted on competitive pay for women wants to shield part of that pay from the tax man by eliminating the so-called marriage penalty. You can bet boomers will get their way this time too. And in this case they should, this boomer says. The basic flaw in the current system is so absurd that something must be done...
Some 20% of folks may have a genetic flaw that protects them from getting hooked on cigarettes, suggests a new report, and if they start, they smoke less. People with the defect metabolize nicotine more slowly, so it lingers in the body longer. The result: first-time smokers can barely tolerate a cigarette, and habitual smokers need less to satisfy cravings...