The Rigged-Up Net

Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Co. has selected Rackspace Managed Hosting to manage and support all of the Web infrastructure for the world’s second largest brewer. Rackspace lands Miller Brewing as client

In Dante’s Inferno, the inner circle of hell was reserved for betrayers like Judas and Brutus. But new research indicates that punishing those who break social norms is not merely the province of poets. Scientists have uncovered evidence for an innate satisfaction in human beings for giving people their comeuppance. Brain Scans Reveal That Revenge […]

Overdue debtors beware: You may not be able to rely on Caller ID to screen out those annoying bill collectors much longer. A California entrepreneur has a plan to bring the hacker technique of Caller ID spoofing to the business world, beginning with collection agencies and private investigators. US website offers Caller ID falsification service

Rackspace Managed Hosting uses MOM 2005 and other components of DSI, including the Auto-mated Deployment Services add-on to Windows Server 2003 and Systems Management Server 2003. Although these are the early days for DSI, Rackspace Senior Systems Developer Paul Wimmer is excited about it. New MOM to ease Microsoft management

Yes, this works. It was published in this month’s Wired Magazine. Evidentally this marketing company gets a bounty for every sign-up, so they split the money with you by buying you an iPod. Since pop-up ads aren’t working anymore, they needed to find some other way to get your attention. Well, they got mine. 😉 […]

Microsoft’s lack of multicultural savvy cost the Redmond behemoth millions of dollars, according to a company executive. How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions

hootenanny: An informal performance by folk singers, typically with participation by the audience Evidentally, it also means “widget”.

It’s been written off by the experts. But thanks to a Silicon Valley software legend, the company that invented digital video recording says it’s about to change the way we watch TV — again. Saving TiVo

A hand-held device that measures the contraction of the pupils of accident victims in response to bright light will help to ensure they get the correct treatment. Crash victims’ head injuries spotted by ‘pupilometer’

Remember 411? Vonage users have it for free… but its 311. Vonage: Dial 311 for Local Info

Yu Zhenhuan waits for an interview beside his hospital bed in Shanghai August 13, 2004. Yu, who is China’s hairiest man, has 96 percent of his body covered with hair. The current Guinness record holders — a pair of Mexican brothers — have a record of 98 percent hair cover. Yu underwent ear surgery in […]

Austin has been chosen as one of 10 “steroid cities” in a new book from Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard. Austin pumps it up, according to new book

Female blue tits put in more parental effort if the father of their chicks is attractive, shows a new study. Sexy males make bird mothers better

For the first time, broadband connections are reaching more than half (51 percent) of the American online population at home, according to measurement taken in July by Nielsen/NetRatings, an Internet audience measurement and research company. A year earlier, broadband was being tapped by just 38 percent of users. Broadband used by 51 percent of online […]

It’s not even that investors aren’t bidding the proposed price of between $108 and $135, but that Google isn’t getting enough bids at all, according to the banker, who asked not to be identified. Google IPO Under Threat Due to Shortage of Bids

A new pollen-blocking cream applied to the inside of the nose may alleviate hayfever without the side-effects of other remedies, suggests a new study. Pollen-blocking cream cuts hayfever

Can genetic engineering defeat diseases spread by insects? Don’t Let the Bugs Bite

More than one-fifth of U.S. science and engineering workers have less than a bachelor’s degree, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation. . Many engineers lack even a four-year degree

Ok, this is weird… make sure you have the volume up so you can hear the background sounds… Ghost in car commercial?

The IPO lexicon has a myriad of colorful words, such as “green shoe,” “blue sky,” “flipping” and “red herring.” There is a new word we can add: GOOG-plosion. Google this: disaster

I’ve seen this a year ago, but its worth revisiting… its pretty cool: Horn Man

Whether people find you “hot or not” could depend on the sound of your name, suggests a new study. Pleasing names make faces sexier

The University of Texas is becoming more popular. The school has been named the hottest state university in the 2005 Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get into College Guide.” UT named ‘hottest’ state school

Internet usage has soared in South Korea–unless you’re an older woman living in the countryside. South Koreans face digital divide

Who knew all the pretty people lived in just a handful of cities? Apparently, they do. AOL Travel and Travel + Leisure magazine teamed up to find out America’s Favorite Cities and in the process they found out the cities with the best-looking people. The Cities With the Best-Looking People

I love my PocketPC, this guy loves his too: I wear too many hats! I am a full-time graduate student, a youth pastor, a library assistant, a husband, and a father. Not too long ago I was an extremely unorganized person, forgetting and mismanaging important information. But now I’m the opposite because of the new […]

Glass that blocks out heat but not light when a room starts getting excessively warm has been developed by UK scientists. Smart glass blocks infrared when heat is on

If you’re sick of spam, imagine wading through dozens of prerecorded porn and Viagra messages on your voice mail. Net phone customers brace for ‘VoIP spam’

“While researching for an embedded systems project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine), I was shocked by the lack of magstripe information: Programs/code that would run on a modern OS were all but nonexistant, articles that were 6-10 years old, etc. Further research proved hard, because I had become google’s authoritative source. So Stripe Snoop was […]

I have collected links to many applications that make GMail easier to use. Google GMail Loader (GML)

“NewsForge [ed. note: part of OSTG along with Slashdot] is running its concluding piece on the week-long Blackhat/DEFCON hackerfest in Las Vegas. Want to know how little our police/intelligence agencies seem to have learned from their failures prior to 9/11? Or how a very large goon known only as Priest prevented outright political violence at […]

“Reporter Jay Lyman attended the O’Reilly OSCON developers’ get-together and wrote daily briefs plus a wrap-up that are all posted on NewsForge now. If you didn’t make it to this excellent conference, reading Jay’s reports is the next best thing.” Yes, NewsForge is also part of OSTG. Complete OSCON Coverage

Since the release of Windows XP Professional, Microsoft has discovered that the vast majority of illegitimate copies in use are using a small handful of leaked “corporate” keys. In an effort to thwart these illegitimate users, Windows XP Service Pack 1 (and possibly all future updates) will not install on systems using these keys, and […]

Warehouse chain Sam’s Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, announced on Monday that it will begin selling Humax-branded recorders that use TiVo’s digital video recording technology this month. TiVo’s service works with a set-top box to enable subscribers to pause live television broadcasts and record future shows. Sam’s Club warehouse stores will initially sell Humax’s […]

Amyloid beta, the waxy protein that litters the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, is like a criminal with many arrests but no convictions. Studies have implicated amyloid plaques in the disease, but nobody has proved that they cause it. Stopping Alzheimer’s: Antibody thwarts disease in mice

Dirk and I saw this stuff demo’ed last week at defcon… its quite frightening. Serious flaws discovered in Bluetooth technology used in mobile phones can let an attacker remotely download contact information from victims’ address books, read their calendar appointments or peruse text messages on their phones to conduct corporate espionage. Security Cavities Ail Bluetooth

America Online has acquired antispam software vendor Mailblocks for an undisclosed sum, the Time Warner subsidiary said Wednesday. AOL snaps up antispam company

TiVo users will be able to share copies of digital TV shows through the Internet with a small number of friends and family members, the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday. FCC lets TiVo users share shows

Paul Froutan, vice president of engineering for Rackspace Managed Hosting—part of Rackspace Ltd.—said the remote access cards are critical to his hosting business, which has 10,000 servers in four data centers. “With DRAC installed in the servers, all of a sudden I can do [remote] management,” said Froutan, in San Antonio, who has tested a […]

Net phone service provider Vonage confirmed that it suffered its first outage in 18 months on Monday, due to problems at partner Global Crossing. VoIP provider Vonage suffers outage