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Archive for February, 2009
KTorrent Web Interface Vulnerable to Remote Takeover
This is the beauty of open source. You can actually publish stuff like this without the fear that several black Tuesdays will pass before it's patched. Distributed under a GNU General Public license, KTorrent is a torrent client written in C++ for KDE. Feature wise, the client can compete with other popular clients, supporting protocol [...]
OpenWRT $200,000 cash prize for open source router GUI web interface
When you realize that developing a full firmware for a wireless router usually costs upwards of a million dollars it makes sense that they're offering this kind of cash. This also assumes you've already got a code base and you're just porting it. So they're basically getting a code base which would cost them over a million dollars to build, and [...]
Ron Paul at CPAC 2009
Here’s video of Ron Paul’s speech at CPAC this afternoon. It seems like he got a much better reception this year than he did the last time he was there. (more...)
Sudo Make Me a Sandwich: The robot edition
Inspired by one of the funniest XKCD strips of all time, Bre Pettis and Adam Cecchetti have built a "sudo make me a sandwich robot" that makes a sandwich when you tell it to. (more...)
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)?
Ron's oldest son is considering a senate run. FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Yet another Republican is considering a run for U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning's seat. The latest is Rand Paul, son of U.S. Rep. and former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas. He told The Associated Press on Thursday that he would consider entering the race, but only if [...]
4085 square mile natural mirror
The world’s largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni in Southwestern Bolivia (near the crest of the Andes, 3,650 meters high), is one of the most exotic place scenery on earth. There is an estimated 10 billion tons of salt in the flats, 25 times the amount in the Bonneville Salt flats in Utah. (more...)
Democratic Leaders Oppose Return Of “Assault Weapons” Ban
The announcement that I wrote about yesterday regarding the return of the “assault weapons” ban received this very interesting reception from Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill... Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will join Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in opposing any effort to revive the 1994 assault weapons ban, putting them on the [...]
Fort Knox Receives $85 From Cash4Gold
That's probably a fair price for the few grains in there. All that's left there now is an IOU note to be paid by an untold number of future generations.
What is the Europa girl holding on to?
That's a picture of a wagon of this year's carnival in Düsseldorf. That's the same place, last year, Obama took on Hillary. WTF. (more...)
NYC East River Bridge Toll Plan Gaining Speed
How the hell is the MTA always broke? Seriously... and where are they gonna setup toll booths on the Queensboro Bridge? Ugh... Can't wait to see this. With lawmakers looking to find some way to bail out the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, CBS 2 HD has learned a compromise plan to put tolls on the East River bridges is making headway in [...]
Your ISP is watching you
A man walks through a shopping precinct. Tiny cameras capture his every move. If he so much as turns his head to glimpse into a shop window, that action is recorded, next to a reference number that identifies him uniquely among the many shoppers around him. As he walks through the crowded mall, the advertising billboards subtly change to suit his [...]
Four Threats For 2009 That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (Or Even Thought About)
You're probably gearing up for the well-known security risks you've watched emerge over the past year to go front burner in the new year -- the insider threat, Web 2.0, and targeted attacks. But don't pop that champagne cork just yet: Some obscure potential threats that could be more difficult to prepare for and defend against also are looming for [...]
New XSS Attack Builds An Anonymous Network
A pair of researchers has combined cross-site scripting (XSS) and anonymization techniques to build a framework that lets an attacker gather Web content incognito. "Our goal was to retrieve Web content anonymously," says Matthew Flick, principal with FYRM Associates, who, along with fellow researcher Jeff Yestrumskas, demonstrated the XSS [...]
Ron Paul: Audit the Federal Reserve!
by Rep Ron Paul This week the Federal Reserve responded to the American people's increased concerns over our monetary policy by presenting new initiatives aimed at enhancing the Fed's transparency and accountability. As someone who has called for more openness from the Fed for over 30 years, I was pleased to see the Fed acknowledge the [...]
Kindle 2 teardown
The people at iFixit have shown that they’re still on top of their game by tearing down the new Kindle 2 eBook reader. The main processor is a 532MHz ARM-11 from Freescale. Interestingly, there isn’t any significant circuitry behind the large keyboard; it seems its existence is just to hide the battery.
Why is the DOS path character “\”?
Don't expect Microsoft to work consistently. Their toy OS is made of hack and fail. And "Document and Settings"? LOL. Even Bill Gates said that was insane. If they turn /usr into "Program Files" and /home into "Documents and Settings", what will they do the day they decide to add /var/log? C:\Variable Application Data Files\All Users\Program [...]
Pimps Go Online to Lure Kids Into Prostitution
She was a 16-year-old California girl looking for trouble on MySpace; he was a 22-year-old self-described pimp who liked the revealing photos she posted to her profile. Three weeks after they met on the social networking site, they were arrested together in real life outside a cheap motel in Sacramento, 50 miles from her home. She was turning [...]
$100 Linux wall-wart launches
Marvell Semiconductor is shipping a hardware/software development kit suitable for always-on home automation devices and service gateways. Resembling a "wall-wart" power adapter, the SheevaPlug draws 5 Watts, comes with Linux, and boasts completely open hardware and software designs, Marvell says. In typical use, the SheevaPlug draws about as [...]
HOWTO: Move a WordPress blog to another domain. The complete guide and best practices
As you may have noticed, this site has been renamed from twinturbo.org to landofthefreeish.com. Below is how we made the transition from old to new and how to properly move a Wordpress blog without breaking image links or your precious seo backlinks. Make a backup of your database. I simply logged into Phpmyadmin and made a copy of the [...]
