Hasta La Gadget!

Earlier this summer, a judge in The Netherlands ruled to ban sales of Samsung Galaxy S, S II and Ace smartphones, stating that the devices violated an Apple patent which deals with a “method of scrolling.” Well, nearly two months have passed, and Samsung is just now getting around to releasing “upgraded” versions of the affected devices, presumably implementing a non-infringing scroll tool. A Samsung spokesman told Reuters that the three phones will “shortly be available for sale,” neglecting to provide an exact release date — so we wouldn’t suggest lining up to get your Galaxy S II fix just yet. This small victory is only the latest in the Apple / Samsung lawsuit saga, which has created quite a stir in a handful of courts around the world. We have yet to hear about a solution to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban in Australia, for example, where fingers are being pointed in every direction.

Samsung modifies Galaxy smartphones to satisfy Dutch court, plans to resume sales soon originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Strider ST-3 grows with your kid

Some people think that bikes are just for kids. Those people should be sterilized. But bikes are pretty great for kids, and the sooner you get them started, the sooner they’ll be riding without training wheels. Seriously. I know bike polo players whose kids were riding at three years old, which is pretty badass.

Which brings us to Strider’s new pedal-less balance bike, a two-wheeler which will carry toddlers from 18 months to three years. The ST-3 grows with your kid, with adjustable-height handlebar and saddle. Grown-up roadies will envy its 6.4-pound weight, and anyone can appreciate the polymer tires, which won’t ever go flat.

These things look like great fun, but there’s an even better way to save money. Just take the cranks and chain off a regular kids’ bike and put them back on again when little Johnny learns to balance.

The Strider ST-3 will be out for Christmas, and will cost $130. It is not yet on Strider’s site.

Strider product page [Strider via Urban Velo]

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Sony’s not having a good morning. In addition to having to recall 1.6 million Bravia TVs, it’s also been forced to temporarily lock 93,000 customers out of their PSN and Sony Online Entertainment accounts. You won’t be surprised by the reason: an attempt by hackers to “test a massive set of sign-in IDs and passwords” against Sony’s network database. Some of the affected accounts showed “additional activity prior to being locked” and are being investigated. On the flip-side, Sony’s Chief Information Security Officer, Philip Reitinger, stressed that most of the hackers’ details resulted in failed logins and in any case credit card details are not at risk. Users are being told to expect an email if they’ve been affected, which will contain further instructions. Has Sony finally realized the value of timely communication?

Sony locks 93,000 PSN and SOE accounts due to ‘massive’ hack attempt originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Awesome toy or huge disappointment? For $50, you can afford to find out the hard way

This amazing little kids’ notebook is just 2.5 cm thick (about an inch) and likely weighs in at less than even the MacBook Air. It will never get hot, the battery will never run down and the keyboard can be configured to any layout you like, from QWERTY to AZERTY to Dvorak.

You’ll never have to worry about your offspring going crazy on your credit card at the App Store, nor cringe when they stab their sticky, stubby fingers at the “screen.” The only thing you might have to replace from time to time is the “trackpad,” which has been replaced by sticks of chalk for scrawling on the blackboard screen.

The device is called the i-wood (of course) and comes from Germany by way of kids’ store Rasselfisch. You could buy it for your young child, or — even better — you could swap it into your teenager’s proper laptop case when he goes back to college. Hilarity will ensue.

I-wood product page [Rasselfisch via Gadget Review]

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This article was written on December 28, 2007 by CyberNet.

There is a bug in WordPress right now that is rather critical for anyone who uploads posts without immediately publishing. Simply by manipulating the URL any visitor can view all future, draft, or pending posts. Our site was vulnerable to this issue, but we patched it quickly because it could be used to retrieve the CyberNotes posts that we write ahead of time.

Why is this such a big deal? By gaining access to our future and unscheduled posts other sites could copy our articles. They would then look like the ones who originally wrote the article, and we would look like the copiers since our post would not publish until after theirs. To make things worse your future/draft posts may also be available in the format of an RSS feed.

–How it Works–

Without going into too much detail we’ll just say that WordPress is incorrectly checking to see whether a user is an administrator. Using Problogger.net as an example, you can visit this URL to reveal some of his upcoming posts:

http://www.problogger.net/index.php/wp-admin/

If a website is not using the FeedBurner redirect plugin all of the future posts will be available through an RSS feed as well. The URL for that would look something like this:

http://www.address.com/?feed=rss2&x=wp-admin/

That would not be good because there are thousands of sites out there that are setup to scrape feeds from websites, and then publish the content to their own site. This would give them easy access to all of your unpublished content.

–How to Fix It–

UPDATE: The workaround below didn’t do as much good as I thought, but a new version of WordPress has already been released which corrects the issue. We recommend upgrading your WordPress as soon as possible.

WordPress 2.3.2 is in the works, and the bug should be fixed by the time it is released. The How-To Geek tipped me off on a quick fix for all of you who just want a temporary workaround. Here’s what you have to do:

1. In your blog’s WordPress files open the wp-includes\query.php file.
2. Find line 37 which should look something like this:
   
3. We need to make the wp-admin/ portion more specific. For us we changed it to cybernetnews.com/wp-admin/, but yours will be a bit different. Just go to the page where you login to your blog, and copy the portion after http:// and before wp-admin/. Then paste that before the wp-admin/ on line 37:
   
4. That’s it! If you’re using a cache plugin you may need to clear the cache, or give it some time for the pages to be refreshed.

This is just a temporary fix, and when WordPress 2.3.2 is released you’ll obviously want to upgrade.

[via Black Hat Domainer]

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