Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Administration
A government program set up to remove innocent people from terrorism no-fly and watch lists has been ineffective and riddled with problems, travelers and congressional leaders say.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, or TRIP, was started almost a year ago to clear people routinely subjected to extra airport-security screening and even detention [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Administration
New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.
“Originally, we all had brown eyesâ€, said [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Administration
Of course, Ron opposed the Bush administration’s latest police-state powergrab. He said: “Mr. Speaker I rise in opposition to the extension of the Protect America Act of 2007 because the underlying legislation violates the US Constitution.
“The misnamed Protect America Act allows the US government to monitor telephone calls and other electronic communications of American citizens [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Administration
This might be interesting. I’m eager to see the outcome of this.
Upcoming Changes to Feedback changes in 2008
eBay’s Feedback system continues to evolve as community makeup and the online marketplace dynamics change.
The eBay Feedback system was originally designed to provide a simple, honest, accurate record of the buyer’s and seller’s online experience to ensure safe [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Administration
“Following Google’s crackdown on ‘domain tasters’, ICANN has voted unanimously to eliminate the free period that many domain buyers have been taking advantage of. At the same meeting they also discussed Network Solutions’ front running but took no action on it.”
Source
ICANN’s Release
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Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Administration
I was scribbling a note onto a piece of paper yesterday when I paused to think about the spelling of a word I was about to write.
I haphazardly wrote the word incorrectly, expecting – for just a moment – that I could use spellcheck to fix it.
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Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Administration
Sean Moss-Pultz was kind enough to answer a few questions with fsckin w/ linux. He’s got some pretty interesting answers to questions plaguing geeks and non-geeks alike, such as the eternal debate on which is better – Ninjas or Pirates? Keep reading for some candid responses from the CEO of the company behind the Dash [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Administration
“I was at Wal*Mart recently with a few friends, and before we left one of my friends wanted to pick up some cigarettes. We went to the one lane where you could make such a purchase and the lady asked to see ALL of our IDs.
Annoying and pointless, sure, but I didn’t mind showing her [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Administration
Queue the gasp! Google is out to get you!
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Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Administration
Here’s a very good read from the Gthing science blog. Gets you thinking about the rates our mobile phone carriers charge us with.
“I just found out that AT&T (A-fee&fee?) is raising their text message pricing. When I first signed up for AT&T 6 or so years ago it cost 10 cents to send an SMS [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Administration
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Administration
The following is a decent article about when “Ethan” hacked into the MediaDefender company, at the end of 2006…
From: Ty Heath [MediaDefender]
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 7:02 p.m.
To: it
Subject: pm webserverThe 65.120.42.146 pm webserver has been compromised […]
As a side note, please do not ever use the old passwords on anything.
“The first time Ethan [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Administration
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There’s been quite a bit of buzz recently after it was announced that OpenOffice 3 was due in September. It seems, however, most people still aren’t aware of what’s in store.
We love OpenOffice.org, hereby referred to as OpenOffice like normal people do. We like the fact it does pretty much everything we need for free, [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Administration
Below is a video clip from the FL Republican debate voicing Rudy’s position on a national ID card…
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Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Administration
Honestly, I don’t know how people still believe in a right to privacy over the web. The actual arteries of the net are based on land lines that are mostly owned and maintained by {gasp} Corporations! It’s not like the wonderful feel good days when people dialed into their friendly neighborhood BBS to play LoRD. [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Administration
Sorry for the typical and tredy “myspace pic” above. This is an article from Wired Magazine. It might be the largest “security breach” in awhile but what on earth would anyone do with 17gb of random Myspace teenagers?
A 17-gigabyte file purporting to contain more than half a million images lifted from private MySpace profiles has [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Administration
This is how the Government secures your ballots. WOW. This is a must see.
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Administration
Firefox 3 has support for Animated PNG:
One of many new features added to Firefox 3 is the support of a new file format, the Animated PNG! Browsers have supported animated GIFs for more than a decade, but the GIF image format has a number of limitations and is overdue for replacement. The PNG image [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Administration
The latest stable version of the Linux kernel 2.6.24 has just been released. Release notes below:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/24/407Â
Date Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:17:19 -0800 (PST)
From Linus Torvalds
Subject Linux 2.6.24
The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for
the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of)
LCA in Melbourne, so let’s hope it’s [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Administration
A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they are less then five days old. This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks. The Add Grace Period (AGP) is a time period when registrars can delete a domain at no cost, but in this time [...]
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