Making pollen while the sun shines: Loyal readers, I'll be taking the next week off for some serious staycationing, enjoying the variable Seattle weather, playing with the kids, and generally relaxing. I hope you are all doing the same, wherever in the world you are.

Please withhold all serious and interesting wireless news until after Labor Day, 'kay?

The European Court of Human Rights has refused U.K. hacker Gary McKinnon's appeal against demands for his extradition to the U.S.

Java Forums - Java Announcements

New versions of all our PDF libraries are now available for download. Founded in 2002, Qoppa software produces commercial grade java libraries for all PDF needs: render, print, merge, secure, sign, convert to images, extract text, manipulate, annotate, form fill. Here are some highlights of the new releases: - Enhanced support for full transparency model - support for file attachments And on the viewer side: - use screen DPI setting to adjust view scaling - page thumbnails loaded on demand - new typewriter annotation tool

Your Gmail account isn't secure. Announced at Defcon 16, Jay Beale's tool, The Middler (man-in-the-middle) to steal session ID from not only Gmail users, but LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Facebook, and presumably any site that uses a session-based cookie. Enable https permanently. (previously)