Vlad

I was reading the other day about this year’s PWN 2 OWN competition. We’ll it looks like there’s already a big winner looser: the MacBook Air, which was hacked in less than 2 minutes. I guess Apple’s OS is all talk and no walk:

Mac OS X was designed for high security, so it isn’t plagued by constant attacks from viruses and malware like PCs.

(Photo by velorowdy)

So, if you’re in the market for a highly portable laptop, you might wanna stick to Dell’s XPS M1330. And if you want it hacked real quickly, the XPS can also be installed with Mac OS (though there are some issues with drivers for Ethernet card).

As seen on engadget.

On Flickr. Some are real gems, like this one, taken by Andrew:

The treeline makes for a special addition to the composition. But I still can’t figure out if the half-moon shadow on the left is a lens artifact or a reflection on the clouds.

Well, not that kind of wine

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More at Flickr! Tag started by Cristi.

Is it just me or Google Reader just pushed a new layout for the home screen? Seems somehow related to Gears. Or maybe it’s just a coincidence that it popped up just as I was testing the offline mode.

I don’t remember seeing the rightmost column, the text used to be in different horizontal layers.