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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 love of my life—my iPAQ Pocket PC.
Glass that blocks out heat but not light when a room starts getting excessively warm has been developed by UK scientists.
If you’re sick of spam, imagine wading through dozens of prerecorded porn and Viagra messages on your voice mail.
“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 born, and is now at 1.5 . Stripe Snoop is a suite of research tools that captures, modifies, validates, generates, analyzes, and shares magstripe data, with an ever-growing database of card formats. Decoding everything from driver’s licenses to banking cards, its features can analyze non-standard cards, such as NYC’s Metrocard.”
I have collected links to many applications that make GMail easier to use.
“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 a DEFCON presentation on Civil Disobedience? Or which of the two conferences is right for you? It’s all here in the Blackhat/Defcon: Final report.” Reader M. Curphey writes “The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) announced at Blackhat the release of a ‘Threat Classifications’ document. This document attempts to clarify web security terminology such as Cross Site Scripting, Session Fixation, Cookie poisoning, and HTTP response splitting (to name a few).”
And another…
“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.
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 it is unclear what additional steps Microsoft may take in the future. Microsoft claims that legitimate licensed users of XP Professional should be unaffected, however there are a number of different ways one of these leaked keys can find its way into an otherwise legal environment and cause serious deployment issues. (When a legitimate corporate key is not at hand during an installation process, it’s a common practice for some administrators to simple search the web for a valid key.) Here’s how to check if your systems are using a leaked key, and how to change the product activation key if they are.
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 $299 80-hour Series2 DVRs but plan to offer other products in the future.
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.
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.
America Online has acquired antispam software vendor Mailblocks for an undisclosed sum, the Time Warner subsidiary said Wednesday.
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.
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 PowerEdge 2850.
Net phone service provider Vonage confirmed that it suffered its first outage in 18 months on Monday, due to problems at partner Global Crossing.
If you ever want to destroy a digital camera’s memory card, don’t bother putting it through the wash or hitting it with a sledgehammer as neither will guarantee destruction.
TiVo, the company that makes the digital-video-recorder boxes that inspire such strange idolatry among their users, is in a weird spot. It’s asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to add a new feature — the option for a TiVo user to send recorded digital TV programs via the Internet to nine other people.
Its funny, i’m actually sitting in the conference session that’s talking about this particular issue, and it appears on CNET at the same time… amazing.
The same technology that allows Web surfers to locate and connect to computers on the Internet can be used to create covert communications channels, bypass security measures and store distributed content, a security researcher said Saturday.
People love a good, unified explanation for the ways things are. One current favorite is the concept of disruptive technology, a coinage and concept put forth by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen and explained in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. This guy has so many honors that apparently whatever he says is gospel. The concept of disruptive technology goes to the top of my list as the biggest crock of the new millennium.
Users of Bluetooth phones and PDAs better watch out, as a new Bluetooth Sniper gun can attack your device from up to 1 kilometer away
If everything goes as planned, for 72 hours next February hackers from all over the United States will hit targets across the Internet in the largest mass attack to date.
For those of you using Bloglines, I think I’ve fixed the problem. Let me know if it works now, or if it doesn’t.
I’m don’t necessarily agree with this since programming is not just about programming in its self, but its interesting to think about.
Paul Graham has posted an essay on “great hackers,” derived from his OSCON keynote. “When you decide what infrastructure to use for a project, you’re not just making a technical decision. You’re also making a social decision, and this may be the more important of the two. For example, if your company wants to write some software, it might seem a prudent choice to write it in Java. But when you choose a language, you’re also choosing a community. The programmers you’ll be able to hire to work on a Java project won’t be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages.”
WASHINGTON — The ongoing debate over whether TV viewers in the United States should be able to pick their cable channels on an a la carte basis continues Thursday when the Federal Communications Commission holds a symposium on the controversial question.
Hollywood — always in search of hip, influential people who can get others to go see a film — is spending an increasing portion of its collective marketing resources online, shifting budgets and attention from traditional media like television and print toward the Web.
The only thing worse than paying $4,000 for a scooter has to be using said scooter for a game of polo.
Segway owners beat each other with homemade mallets
There’s a video of it in the article, its pretty funny. 🙂
New digital video recorders using TiVo’s service will be coming out this summer.
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It’s mostly bad news for network administrators at this year’s Black Hat Security Briefings: Increasingly, attackers are using better tools to find vulnerabilities, exploit flaws and hide their attacks.
When analyst Bruce Leichtman looks at TiVo, the company that pioneered digital video recorders (DVRs) in 1999, he thinks of Moses.
Television fans who like to choose when and where they watch their favorite programs are in for a rude awakening next year when new copy controls encoded in digital television streams will limit such freedoms.
Matt Renck is spoiled. Ever since moving here to teach English two years ago, Renck has had a high-speed Internet connection of 8 megabits per second–only about average for a South Korean apartment, but nearly eight times the typical broadband speed in U.S. households. He watches TV shows over this connection, creates multimedia projects for his class, and regularly updates a Weblog.
Over the past few months, Rackspace has unveiled a new application level service level agreement (SLA) for its Intensive Hosting solution that gives clients running the Microsoft family of solutions the opportunity to cover the complete software stack, including operating systems, database servers and the application framework.
Starbucks did it for coffee. Target, with an assist from designer Michael Graves, did it for toilet brushes. And now, some mega lodging chains are doing it for hotel rooms.
“A G4/Tech TV feature on DOOM 3, offering a history of the DOOM franchise in the words of the folks at id Software. The clip can be found on the air on The DOOM Franchise, episode 310 of a series called ‘Icons.’ The piece offers clips from DOOM 3 and other games, interview footage, analysis and more, and for those without access to the program. You can download the movie at: 3DGamers, Doom3HQ, Doom3.de, Doom3maps.de, and FileShack. It’s really worth the download for any Doom and id fans out there. (Thanks: BluesNews)”
People outdoors are exposed to higher levels of harmful ultraviolet rays than previously thought, according to a three-year study.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals staged a ‘Live Make-Out Tour’ on Friday to promote vegetarian eating.
The hand you favour as a 10-week-old fetus is the hand you will favour for the rest of your life, suggests a new study.
With automakers sweetening incentives on new cars and with affordable used cars flooding the market, leasing a used car might not seem to make much sense. But it can be a good deal for a lot of consumers, and it’s gaining interest.