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I just posted the following comment in a thread at the Oracle Technology Network forum, and I thought I'd repost it here, see below.

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"This is the next generation of surveillance ... it is important for the public to know that some of these capabilites exist."

Here's another great review of my book OCA Oracle Database SQL Expert Exam Guide, this from R.C. Roper of Topanga Canyon, California, who says:

Oracle issued critical updates to Java on Tuesday, Reuters reports:

The patch fixes 42 vulnerabilities within Java, including "the vast majority" of those that have been rated as the most critical, said Oracle Executive Vice President Hasan Rizvi.

Several days ago I wrote a blog post about the warning from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about the use of Java.  DHS had gone so far as to advise users to disable Java in their browsers. 

A few words of clarification:  as many of you surely know, Java is not JavaScript.  Those are totally different and unrelated languages, in spite of the unfortunately similar wording. 

A few days ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to temporarily disable Java on your computers, warning of:

A vulnerability in the way Java 7 restricts the permissions of Java applets could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system.

Source: Calvin and Hobbes at Go Comics

If you're looking for a great Christmas gift for a special someone, you might consider the new "Twitter dress". The BBC did a three and a half minute video showing it in action, see below. The "Twitter dress" displays an animated series of controllable lights in various displays of an LED style of lights, with the capability of displaying tweets or other messages received in real time. It also can take photos.