Recently a parent complained to their local school board because their kids would come home with “a racing heart rate, higher body temperature, and nausea”. (Read it here at the Global and Mail).
The proposed cause? The wi-fi (wireless internet) that the school has. The schools in Canada want to be completely wireless by 2025 by some reports.
But the thing is, the report does not state if the kids in question where using wi-fi devices (psp, ipod touch, etc). Because there are things on the internet that can cause those symptoms (“graphic images”).
I say the report is bogus and the parent is raising the red flag for no reason. The children could be ill because of the wi-fi but they said that the symptoms go away at school.
The real cause could be the lighting as school lights are bright, or it could be the computer screens at school. The fact that the symptoms go away on the weekend shows Wi-Fi is not the cause because their neighbours probably have Wi-Fi or satellite/bluetooth/wireless phones/etc.
Ubuntu 10.10 alpha has a new installer. Improvements have been made to make the process easier to use. The new installer is simplified, and gives more of a walkthrough of the process. Much unlike in Windows 7 or Mac OS X snow leopard.
The hated internet explorer is getting a new beta version this september.
IE9 alpha builds so far have IE9 doing very well in Acid 3, and HTML5 beta tests.
Recently the on the device jailbreaking website jailbreakme.com used a PDF exploit to gain root access to your iOS device.
Apple today has fixed the hole for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users alike.
Naturally jailbroken users will not be a fan of this update as it will un-jailbreak their device.
Personally I do not jailbreak my devices – I have no need. So this security fix is much needed as I don’t want my iPod Touch hacked without my knowledge thanks to a pdf bug.
The update is very large at 380mb+ via iTunes.
It’s been years it seems that people have complained about the high CPU usage of flash on the Mac.
“Gala” has been in flash beta for some time now but with version 10.1.82.76 GPU acceleration is now active.
Hopefully this means Mac users can turn off flash block.
It’s been in Windows’ version of 10.1 since its been out.
GPU acceleration in flash has yet to come to Linux.
Attenagate is still going around. Proof of it however has been few and far between. The affected smartphones have also been not really known.
Tawkon has made a video showing increased radiation levels (poor signal) on the iPhone, Blackberry, and Nexus one.
Apple today added the “try before you buy” section to the iTunes app store.
There is no real trials, but rather a collection of “lite”, free versions of paid apps.
Games/Apps like the hugely popular angry birds are part of the section.
This is an obvious move to curb app piracy. App piracy on Apples devices is low, unlike Android where it’s up too 99%.
Hopefully this leads to more lite apps.
Wow, is this months patch Tuesday a killer. There has already been a are out of bound patch for shortcut issues.
This month there is 14 patches fixing 34 security holes.
Security holes include Office, Silverlight, and WSUS.
The FTC today laid charges against Intel’s anti-competitive behavior against Nvidia, and AMD.
As part of the ruling Intel has sanctions against it, and it’s growth.
This is good news, as I love AMD, and ATI.
A major PDF exploit has been discovered for iPhone (and iOS).
It’s a stack overflow related to fonts.
It’s what allows the web based jailbreak to work.
So as usual ignore PDF’s.
