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Archive for July, 2009
High school student suing Amazon over book deletions which rendered his notes useless
High school student Justin Gawronski is suing Amazon for deleting his Kindle copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four, because in so doing, they messed the annotations he'd created to the text for class (the annotations say things like "remember this paragraph for class" but the paragraph in question has been deleted)... The case is intended to become [...]
British fraud cop quits job, buys huge database of stolen identities, charges fees to people who want to know if their details are in the database
A former British fraud cop has assembled a database of 4,000,000 British identities, including credit card numbers and PINs, seemingly by buying data from hackers and phishers. Now he's selling access to the database to panicked members of the public who want to know if their identities have been stolen. Highly sensitive financial information, [...]
Your IP, has been logged. Your ISP, will be contacted, your contact information subpoenaed, and you may be personally contacted by a DEA agent.
I clicked on this and while I was reading a helicopter flew overhead and landed on the army range up the road. On the plus side it was probably time to change my underwear anyway. This website is under investigation This web site belonged to a recently prosecuted criminal pharmaceuticals dealer and is being used as a tool in an [...]
Beer-in-a-Box coming to your refrigerator this Fall
Get excited, America! Because as of this fall, you'll be able to consume cheap, watered-down swill out of a box. The future of beer consumption is now! The $20, 1.5-gallon boxes of beer are designed for the paradoxical beer drinkers who prefer their beer to come from the tap but also don't care if said beer is actually good. They're currently [...]
How To Hijack “Every iPhone In The World”
If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly. That small cipher will likely be your only warning that someone has taken advantage of a bug that Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner [...]
I now pronounce you monetized: A YouTube video case study
Last week the world watched in wonder as Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz's wedding party transformed a familiar and predictable tradition into something spontaneous and just flat-out fun. The video, set to R&B star Chris Brown's hypnotic dance jam "Forever," became an overnight sensation, accumulating more than 10 million views on YouTube in [...]
Stormy Daniels’ Political Advisor May Have Been Hit By Car Bomb
Porn star Stormy Daniels' potential senatorial campaign was rocked yesterday by an explosion that blew up her political advisor's car in New Orleans, according to local news reports. The advisor, Brian Welch, was not injured in the explosion. In surveillance footage aired on TV affiliate ABC-26, a man is seen opening the drivers'-side door, [...]
CentOS main project administrator goes missing, holds sole control of domain, irc-server, and funds
I hate to see this kinda of bad fellowship between FOSS developers... especially with a Linux distribution as popular as CentOS. July 30, 2009 04:39 UTC This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers It is regrettable that we are forced to send this letter but we are left with no other options. For some time now we have [...]
Cracked Windows 7 RTM Ultimate Activated with OEM SLP Master Product Key
In less than a week since Windows 7 was released to manufacturing, the first crack for the Ultimate edition of the latest iteration of the Windows client is already available in the wild. The Windows 7 Build 6.1.7600.16385 Ultimate crack is capable of activating the high-end SKU of the operating system indefinitely. The product key comes from the [...]
Cops suspended for Obama background check
Two DeKalb County Officers are being investigated for allegedly performing a background check on President Barack Obama. Officers Ryan White and C.M. Route have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, according to DeKalb County spokeswoman Sheila Edwards. Edwards said the two patrol officers have been [...]
Network Solutions breach exposes nearly 600,000
Network Solutions is investigating a breach on its servers that may have led to the theft of credit card data of 573,928 people who made purchases on Web sites hosted by the company. Networks Solutions notified 4,343 of its nearly 10,000 e-commerce merchant customers on Friday about the breach. It affects 573,928 cardholders whose name, [...]
Five “freedoms” you’d lose in health care reform
Let's look at this... Freedom to choose what's in your plan I don't choose that now, my employer does. Sure, I can go to another employer, but with so many people out of work that's much easier said than done. Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs Once again, I don't have that now. If I'm healthy for 20 years and [...]
Linux Foundation launches branded credit card
The Linux Foundation, the non-profit that supports the growth of the Linux kernel, is today announcing an affinity Visa Platinum credit card for people who want to contribute to advancing the OS through the organization’s initiatives. Reading the press release announcing the new credit card made me raise my eyebrows, but after giving it a bit of [...]
Pretend cop pulls over real one
Antonio Fernandez Martinez, driving a Ford Crown Victoria with flashing lights, attempted to pull over a car in Oakland last week. The problem is, Martinez isn't a police officer. But the man he tried to pull over is. From the Associated Press: Martinez, a convicted car thief, will have his felony probation revoked and could face a prison [...]
As expected, Ninja Assassin trailer looks awesome
Ninja Assassin is directed by Australian filmmaker James McTeigue, who previously worked as the first assistant director for all three Matrix movies and Speed Racer and also directed V for Vendetta himself. The screenplay was co-written by newcomer Matthew Sand and comic book veteran J. Michael Straczynski, of the "Babylon 5" TV show and the [...]
2009 Gathering Of The Juggalos Infomercial
Irwin Chusid called this promo video for fans of Insane Clown Posse and other bands of its ilk, "14 minutes of the world's worst fonts."
HOWTO: Use physics to beat “how many candies in the jar?”
Here's an Australian physics teacher using principles of molecular physics (the "packing fraction") to "shark" games where you are asked to guess the number of M&Ms (or, presumably, other ellipsoid candy) in a jar.
What real piracy looks like: Biopirate loses patent over century-old latinamerican staple crop
You hear a lot of talk about piracy in the developing world, about Nigerian markets filled with bootleg DVDs or Chinese iPod knockoffs. But if you want to see what real piracy looks like, look at the bio-pirates, people and corporations who receive patents on common life-forms from the developing world (abetted by the sleepy and lackadaisical [...]
Amazing American Psycho Music Video
Miles Fisher makes a nearly perfect mixture of The Talking Heads' "This Must Be the Place" and "American Psycho." It's about to become a personal favorite of mine. (more...)
