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Archive for February, 2009
Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today. "As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale [...]
1,000th post
No, we didn't sell out. We're just so happy about our 1,000th post that we decided to retire the ambiguous twinturbo.org domain name and start fresh... with a domain that explains what this site and it's readers are all about. No, honestly, we just really liked the name. Don't worry, all twinturbo.org backlinks are forwarded to [...]
Hidden government cameras in digital converter boxes? No.
Wired Magazine explores a strange and clever hoax... It's about the claim that DTV converter boxes contain a hidden camera and a microphone, to enable companies and the state to watch you in your homes. The buzz surrounds a brilliant YouTube video (seen below). (more...)
Eminem sues Universal over digital royalties
Look, if you had, one shot, or one opportunity To seize every royalty you ever wanted-One moment Would you capture it, or just let it slip? From The Guardian... Eminem's lawsuit against his label finally went to trial this week after two years, in a case worth hundreds of millions of pounds to artists worldwide. Eminem's publishing company, [...]
Röyksopp’s new “Happy Up Here” video
If you were fooled (as I was) into thinking the cartoon fan vid that made the music blog rounds a few days ago was official, you've missed out: Röyksopp's actual debut video for their forthcoming Junior album is this glorious Reuben Sutherland-directed number which does real-life Space Invaders better than anything I've ever seen. (more...) [...]
Amusing Unix csh/sh Commands
% cat "food in cans" cat: can't open food in cans % nice man woman No manual entry for woman. % rm God rm: God nonexistent % ar t God ar: God does not exist (more...)
Steve Ballmer: Linux is Bigger Competitor than Apple
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer had some interesting things to say yesterday about which companies Microsoft sees as its competitors in the client operating system space. You'd think Apple was their number one competitor - and you'd be wrong. Microsoft sees two other competitors as their primary adversaries. During a speech for investors, Steve [...]
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
A snip from this month's WIRED cover story by Felix Salmon on a mathematical formula that played a critical role in the global economic collapse that's worsening still as I type this blog post. Snip: A year ago, it was hardly unthinkable that a math wizard like David X. Li might someday earn a Nobel Prize. After all, financial economists—even [...]
sslstrip: hijacking SSL in network
Last week at Black Hat DC, Moxie Marlinspike presented a novel way to hijack SSL. You can read about it in this Forbes article, but we highly recommend you watch the video. sslstrip can rewrite all https links as http, but it goes far beyond that. Using unicode characters that look similar to / and ? it can construct URLs with a valid certificate [...]
Circuit City name may live on with website
Hilco Trading LLC, a Northbrook-based liquidator that took part in closing some Circuit City stores last year, is in negotiations to purchase the electronics retailer's name and operate a Web site under the moniker CircuitCity.com, according to people familiar with the deal. An agreement to make Hilco the preferred bidder could be reached as [...]
The house that Best Buy built
Russell Cole once called his extravagant Deerfield home "the house that Best Buy built," according to federal court documents that outline how more than $31 million allegedly was swindled from the national retail giant. The $2.75 million that Cole and his wife, Abby, used to buy the land and build their two-story house with its distinctive [...]
Forget your photo ID for your EasyJet flight? Just go print one up!
Don't worry if you show up for your domestic UK EasyJet flight without the mandatory photo ID the airline now requires; the helpful check-in clerks will direct you to the nearby train station where they'll make you up a free photo-card to go with a rail-pass, should you ever decide to buy one. Ah, security. "They suggested I go to the railway [...]
Suburban gold-selling “Tupperware parties”
The LA Times reports on people who host Tupperware-style parties where cash strapped people bring their gold jewelry to a house and sell it to an assayer who rakes in a 35% vigorish. This must be an extension of the Cash4Gold folks... The party Geivet attended at the Aliso Viejo home of Mary-Margaret Fincher is a twist on the old suburban [...]
Did you see The Pirate Bay front page?
"Home taping is killing the music industry. Instead of making billions and billions of dollars, we are only making billions of dollars." -Matt Groening "Video would be the death of Hollywood?" Well, specifically, the death of the movie industry. Here is Jack Valenti's testimony before congress in 1982, foretelling the downfall of the movie [...]
Bash 4.0 released
New features such as the ** glob operator (matches all the directories and files in the current directory recursively) added. Introduction ============ The first public release of bash-4.0 is now available with the URLs ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.0.tar.gz and from the usual GNU [...]
Can 4chan Turn 300 Million Pageviews Into A Business?
Like many successful internet phenomena, 4chan (NWS) is a shockingly simple idea: an online bulletin board where anyone can post pictures. This simplicity is deceptive. 4chan's founder is a 21-year-old New Yorker named Christopher Poole. Known as "moot" to the site's devotees, Poole is disarmingly well-spoken and pragmatic about what he has [...]
Why Microsoft should fear Ubuntu’s cloud efforts
As we try to figure out the future of the cloud, one thing is assured: developers will drive both deployment and consumption approaches. As is common to so many other major software shifts, developers lead, regardless of what vendors want the market to look like. With the exception of Amazon.com and Google, neither of which are IT stalwarts, [...]
Abandoned tunnel under Brooklyn
Unbeknownst to the thousands of people who walk and drive along the busy streets of downtown Brooklyn every day, they are treading on a 170 year old secret. At 17 feet high, 21 feet wide and 1,611 feet long, it is a big secret indeed, and one filled with greed, murder and corruption. Not long ago, M and I had the chance to go down a manhole in [...]
