average_cdn writes “Canadians looking to put a stop to pesky telemarketing calls before the federal government’s do-not-call registry takes effect this summer have a new tool at their disposal. At IOptOut.ca, Canadians can enter their phone number and e-mail address and simply select the organizations they would prefer not to hear from while the website generates a mass request that the user be added to those companies’ do-not-call lists. The site, a beta version of which was launched yesterday, is the brainchild of University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist and features information on how to avoid telemarketing calls from more than 140 different companies and organizations. Mr. Geist stated that iOptOut helps Canadians finish the job that the do-not-call registry failed to finish.”

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tonyreadsnews writes “Usually, ‘thinking of the children’ is a starting point to impose limitations on video games and world wide web in general. For once, a study requested by UK’s Prime Minister seems to be a bit more objective then most. In the Executive Summary (PDF) ‘Children and young people need to be empowered to keep themselves safe — this isn’t just about a top-down approach. Kids will be kids — pushing boundaries and taking risks. At a public swimming pool we’ve gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and shallow ends, but we also instruct children how to swim.’ I think that’s an important point that most studies miss, that just ‘thinking of the children’ and locking the bad stuff away is actually setting them up for failure later in life. A direct link to the full PDF is also available.”

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stonyandcher writes to share that the Church of Scientology has come under fire for some items on their recently launched video channel. Most notably, claims have been leveled that dignitaries in one of their videos were faked and at least one of the people featured in the video is claiming their statements were taken out of context.

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Craigslist has just added more languages to its online classifieds service. While there was no official announcement on Craigslit, founder Craig Newmark announced the news on his personal blog.

The added languages include Spanish, French, Italian, and German. Future supported languages might include Basque and Klingon, though the latter has fallen out of each day usage here on planet Earth.

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock (and stated rock doesn’t have an world wide web connection): Craigslist is a free on the web classifieds service that serves pretty much each major metropolitan area in the US and abroad.

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Zoho has added an on the web invoicing application to its ever-growing suite of on the internet office/business products. While Zoho Invoice is hardly the only on the internet invoicing tool around, the application gives users a lot of control over the invoicing process. You can add your own logo to your invoices, add custom messages, and choose from several customizable templates. You can also keep a list of customers, products and services and run reports.

On the down side, you can only create and send up to 5 invoices per month with a free account. For $5 per month, you can send up to 25, while $15 per month will get you 150 invoices, $25 brings you to the 500 invoice level, and if you do a lot of business you can create up to 1500 invoices for $35 per month. Meanwhile, services like Invoice Journal and Invotrak let you create as many invoices as you like for free, but they lack some of Zoho Invoice’s features.

The other thing that makes Zoho Invoice worth checking out is the fact that it’s just one of more than a dozen on the web services offered by Zoho. If you like the idea of managing your office documents, web conferencing, and HR management all through the same company, Zoho’s got you covered. For a small fee.

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sean_nestor writes to mention that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took a bit of time recently to comment on last week’s announcement that Sun Microsystems would be partnering closely with the NSA for security research surrounding OpenSolaris. Rather than the typical loads of legalese and confidentiality agreements Sun and the NSA are claiming that this move is more about the NSA joining the OpenSolaris community than anything else. I guess only time will tell.

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PaisteUser tips us to an Ars Technica report discussing how 28.8% of Vista’s crashes over a period in 2007 were due to faulty NVIDIA drivers. The information comes out of the 158 pages of Microsoft emails that were handed over at the request of a judge in the Vista-capable lawsuit. NVIDIA has already faced a class-action lawsuit over the drivers. From Ars Technica: “NVIDIA had significant problems when it came time to transition its shiny, new G80 architecture from Windows XP to Windows Vista. The company’s first G80-compatible Vista driver ended up being delayed from December to the end of January, and even then was available only as a beta download. In this case, full compatibility and stability didn’t come swiftly, and the Internet is scattered with reports detailing graphics driver issues when using G80 processors for the entirely of 2007. There was always a question, however, of whether or not the problems were really that bad, or if reporting bias was painting a more negative picture of the current situation than what was actually occurring.”

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Multiple readers have written to let us know that the MacBook Air was the first laptop to fall in the CamSecWest hacking contest. The successful hijacking took place only two minutes into the second day of the competition, after the rules had been relaxed to allow the visiting of websites and opening of emails. The TippingPoint blog reveals that the vulnerability was located within Safari, but they won’t release specific details until Apple has had a opportunity to correct the problem. The winner, Charlie Miller, gets to keep the laptop and $10,000. We covered the contest last year, and the results were similar.

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An anonymous reader points out an eWeek story about researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who are designing a new web browser based on security. The new software, code-named OP for Opus Palladianum, will separate various components of the browser into subsystems which are monitored and managed by the browser kernel. Quoting: “‘We believe Web browsers are the most important network-facing application, but the current browsers are fundamentally flawed from security perspective,’ King stated in an interview with eWEEK. ‘If you look at how the Web was originally designed, it was an application with static Web pages as data. Now, it has become a platform for hosting all kinds of important data and businesses, but unfortunately, [existing] browsers haven’t evolved to deal with this change and that’s why we have a massive malware problem.’ The idea behind the OP security browser is to partition the browser into smaller subsystems and make all communication between subsystems simple and explicit.”

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