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Comment Re:I must be living in a story book.. (Score 1) 311

by babumuchhala on Friday May 04, 2007 @11:40AM (#18990229) Attached to: India Hopes to Make $10 Laptops a Reality

What rubbish r u talking abt. I just bought one for 400 bucks ($10) and thats the retail price, that includes the retailers, dealers, distributors margins along with taxes and also dont forgt CASIO also makes money from it. So most prolly its manufacturing cost shouldnt be more than say $1 to $2. So when u remove all these factors it might very well be possible to get the price very low, maybe not to $10 as what the GOI wants.

Wordpress 2.1.1 Release Compromised by Cracker 48

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 03, 2007 @01:34AM from the not-my-emo-comments-and-angsty-statements dept.

GrumpySimon writes "The recent 2.1.1 release of the popular blog software Wordpress was compromised by a cracker who made it easier for to execute code remotely. This is interesting because the official release was quietly and subtly compromised, and has been in the wild for a few days now. There's no word on if any affected sites have been compromised, but anyone running Wordpress is urged to upgrade to 2.1.2 immediately, and admins can check their logs for access to 'theme.php' or 'feed.php', and query strings with 'ix=' or 'iz=' in them."

Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia 471

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 26, 2007 @01:44AM from the nanny-state dept.

bol_kernal writes "An award-winning advertisement on Australian TV for the new Hyundai 4WD has been pulled from being broadcast after stations received 80 complaints from concerned parents. The ad consists of a small child, age around 2 years, cruising down the road, window down, arm out the window, in his new Hyundai 4WD. He sees a girl of the same age standing on the side of the road, pulls over picks her up, and they go to the beach together. All in all it's cute, funny, and very well done. The ad aired late in the evening (8:30 pm or later), but it was pulled due to concern from parents about the copycat risk. What I want to know is, where has the responsibility of parents gone? Is the world becoming so serious — or so frightened — that fantasy is no longer allowed?"

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