Yes, Facebook can use your image within advertisements on their site but not the ones that DownloadSquad illustrates in their article about whoring out user photos. The information used for the photos were scraped while accessing Facebook applications by a third-party ad network that most likely violated Facebook’s terms of service. It’s a serious problem and one that I’ve highlighted many times.

Following Download Squad’s instructions will not solve the problem. That’s because ad networks do not check to see the setting that Download Squad explains how to modify. This misunderstanding is now creating a substantial amount of buzz and…

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This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on June 9th 2009 The image does not contain security updates for other Microsoft products This DVD5 ISO image is intended for administrators that need to download multiple individual language versions of each security update and that do not use an automated solution such as Windows Server Update Services WSUS You can use this ISO image to download multiple updates in all languages at the same time

A hacking group has broken into one of the biggest image hosting websites on the net before uploading its manifesto.
“Anti-Sec” broke into ImageShack to post a protest over sites that publish disclosure material on security vulnerabilities, though how the attack furthers this agenda is unclear. The group, which also attacked the websites of astalavista.com last month, pledged to cause further “mayhem and destruction” against supporters of disclosure, which it argues benefits security firms and cybercrooks at the expense of the wider community.
Ironically, exploit code associated with Anti-Sec’s latest attack was posted on a disclosure mailing list.
Anti-Sec’s…

Let’s say you have to parse some HTML, find all images or some other DOM elements make some changes/optimizations and save the result. What can you do ?
Well, i needed something like that a few days ago and after Googling for couple of hours I ran across this this great library called HtmlAgilityPack.

Sure, you can do it by using C# WebBrowser control or MSHTML, but you will have to forget about performance or multithreading – it will eat all your memory and the CPU won’t know what’s hit it.
Now, back to the HtmlAgilityPack.
The usage is very…

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The Disability Discrimination Act says that websites must bemade accessible to disabled people. So how can you check thatyour website is up to par? There are a number of basic tests youcan make to address some of the main issues. The following listincludes guidelines that provide a good start in increasingaccessibility to disabled people: . Check informational images for alternative text Place thecursor over an informational image, for example, theorganisation logo. Does a yellow box appear with a brief,accurate description of the image? For users whose browsers donot support images, this alternative text is what they will seeor hear in…

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After l’ modernization to FireFox 3,5 many customers have noticed that many images in some sites were looked in the different from usual or not combaciavano way with the colors of the diagram of the site. All this because the new Firefox holds account of the “ profile colore” associated to ciascuna image it renders and it in bases to the profile color [...]

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It seems that our french friends over at BlogEEE.net have gotten their hands on a prototype of the Asus EEE board all-in-one board computer. After plugging it in and messing around it a little bit, they decided to take it apart. Although BlogEEE.net is in French, we were able to learn several things about this prototype. According to the site, the PCB in their EEE board is marked as Revision 1, meaning that it is very possible that this could be the finalized version of the PCB that will be seen in units. Also, they mention the presence of…

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A couple of days ago i found a great framework called AForge.NET.
AForge.NET is a C# framework designed for developers and researchers in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence – image processing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, robotics, etc.

The framework is published under LGPL v3 license and comprised by the set of libraries and sample applications, which demonstrate their features:

AForge.Imaging – library with image processing routines and filters
AForge.Vision – computer vision library
AForge.Neuro – neural networks computation library
AForge.Genetic – evolution programming library
AForge.MachineLearning – machine learning library
AForge.Robotics – library providing support of…

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