Apple declares Jailbroken iPhone a threat to national security

While debating whether Jailbroken iPhones are legal, Apple has declared that a compromised iPhone could crash the cellular network.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/jailbreak/

Vaccine for Colon Cancer

Great news was released a few days ago that a drug in trial right now is showing promise as a vaccine for colon and a few other types of cancer.  Trials are being held right now with a hopeful closure in 2011.

http://chattahbox.com/health/2009/07/27/new-colon-cancer-vaccine-attacks-emerging-tumors/

Linus Torvalds asked about Microsoft's latest code for Linux

Great article / interview with Linus about his comments on Microsoft's latest release of Opensourced code for Linux. In this interview he touches on some great points about feelings towards Microsoft and why people write opensource to begin with.

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html

Apples new interface: Macbook Wheel

I know its old, but just saw it for the first time ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Gzq-QEt0s

"Ill buy almost anything if its shiny and made by Apple"

"The babbling baby asked the aardvark for some absinthe"

SpaceX successfully launches satellite into space!

Not exactly sure why I didnt see any press coverage in mainstream media or blogs, however, upon checking their website I noticed that they had successfully launched a satellite into space on July 13th!  As far as I know this is the first private company to launch a satellite and is very exciting news.  Congrats SpaceX!!

http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20090715

Very cool pictures of the launch shown here:

http://www.spacex.com/launch_updates.php

Cure for Radiation Sickness - Treatment for cancer?

Some researchers have conducted trials on monkeys demonstrating a drug that can be injected to counter-act radiation sickness.  Interestingly enough this may also lead to a very effective treatment for all types of cancer, by dosing a patient with lethal amounts of radiation to kill a tumor, then immediately administrating this drug.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3748014,00.html

TDMA - Stop email spoofing

Was getting a bunch of spam emails being forged from valid accounts on my own domain.  This was obviously being whitelisted as they are trusted sender on my email account.   Heres how to block spammers from spoofing emails.

From: http://tmda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/TmdaTipsAndTricks

On Ubuntu 9.04, open the /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template file as Superuser.  Find the "acl_check_rcpt:" string and add the following rule.

# ACL Section:

acl_check_rcpt:

# Block spoofed addresses

  deny  condition       = ${if eq {$sender_address_domain}{$domain}{yes}{no}}
        hosts           = !+relay_from_hosts
        message         = Spammers not welcome - go away.
        log_message     = Spam from sender $sender_address at $sender_fullhost

Save the file and run the following command: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config