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Well...you can never have too many half-naked elf warrior-maiden animations on your website AFAIC. I personally welcome their return and hope they catch on once again.-40hz (June 24, 2011, 08:46 AM)
The security breach of the week goes to... (drum roll please...) Sony! The website for Sony Pictures France was hacked Monday, June 20th, and 177,172 emails were taken through a SQL injection attack. As CNET notes, it was the same method used against SonyPictures.com, Sony Pictures Russia, Sony Ericsson, and Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The hacker community's ownage of Sony has spawned a new term: sownage.
Konichiwa from LulzSec, Sony bastards!
We've recently bought a copy of this great new game called "Hackers vs Sony", but we're unable to play it online due to PSN being obliterated. So we decided to play offline mode for a while and got quite a few trophies. Our latest goal is "Hack Sony 5 Times", so please find enclosed our 5th Sony hack.
Enjoy this 54MB collection of SVN Sony Developer source code. That's hackers 16, Sony 0. Your move!
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: HACK SONY 6 TIMES! Oh damn, we just did it again, please also find enclosed internal network maps of Sony BMG.
Lulz Security
Right now the word is starting to spread, and it has all the hallmarks of entering into popular language. The internet loves new words especially if they are derogatory, humorous, and oxymoronic. Sownage most definitely fits the bill for that. Oh yeah it is really mean spirited. No doubt about that the word is all punch in the face. A big company that often comes off as being arrogant being humbled is the definition of laughing at someone elses misery. A term that used to engender great accomplishment turning into a term that means epic failure. Yeah that is a word that at least I think seems to be the definition of a Oxymoron.
Absolute Sownage
A concise history of recent Sony hacks
Didn't capture the original result, but here are the numbers -
(see attachment in previous post)
Okay, I cheated - I did this from work (my internet is down at home at the moment)....Still, it is pretty good-steeladept (June 23, 2011, 12:06 AM)
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I just beat someone to last place.-nosh (June 22, 2011, 03:52 AM)
I'm depressed...-Renegade (June 22, 2011, 01:53 AM)
is that you at the bottom of the list...
( with the sad panda and the loser badges
edit/ if it's any consolation, you've got better upload speeds than deozaan-tomos (June 22, 2011, 02:26 AM)
That's silly (the pricing). You can get a Wii for $150 and run a Commodore 64 emulator on it.-Deozaan (June 21, 2011, 11:04 PM)
Thousands of Australian websites have irretrievably lost their data and email files following a malicious security hack on Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT.
The company has been scrambling to save data and get customers back online or moved to safe servers since the security breach occurred over a week ago, but has largely failed to recover data from the affected server’s shared servers.
Our Data Recovery teams have been working around the clock in an attempt to recover data from the affected servers shared Servers. At this time, We regret to inform that the data, sites and emails that were hosted on Drought, Hurricane, Blizzard and Cyclone can be considered by all the experts to be unrecoverable.
Renegade,
For sensitive or critical data I agree completely. But for the non-sensitive, non-critical stuff, it's a nice way for someone without their own server to store loads of that data. I don’t keep any financial or private data online; just the stuff I have gathered over many years, information that I don’t really care if anyone else sees, that would take way too many external drives. Still I don’t like to think that it is all just publicly available if I am paying for the storage.
Jim-J-Mac (June 21, 2011, 09:24 PM)
I called up MacMedia (a nearby "Apple Certified Retailer") while running errands yesterday to check on the cost of a 1GB DDR 2700 stick for the iBook. Without naming the price of the stick itself, I was told that the "installation cost" would be $50. I about cracked up right there amidst rush hour traffic. I asked what the cost would be without their fancy "installation" and couldn't get a straight answer from the guy.
I then drove over to Fry's Electronics and went in and inquired what their cost would be (I just wanted the stick, not some crazy red carpet installation crap) and the cheapest they had was $37 (before taxes). I told the guy straight up "I'm not that desperate for a freaking GB of memory for an old iBook" and walked out.
Newegg sent me an email today about their summer sale promotions. Nothing interesting much, but it got me looking at memory costs. They have what I need for $30 with no shipping costs. I scanned through other emails from them and found a coupon code for 10% off all Notebook Memory that expires at midnight tonight. So now I sit and wait, $27 poorer, for my 1GB stick of RAM. When it arrives, I'll see if I can't do some benchmarks or something to compare against, just for laughs.
Talk about a ripoff though, $50 just to take the keyboard off (pull 2 levers and lift it), undo 4x small Phillips screws, slide the RAM in, re-tighten the screws, and slide the keyboard back in. Damn, I'd do that for like $5 for someone and STILL feel bad about overcharging them. Some people...-wreckedcarzz (June 21, 2011, 07:47 PM)
The bug was made possible because of the security architecture choice that Dropbox made, where encryption and decryption happen on Dropbox’s servers, rather than on individual’s computers. This allows Dropbox to open files because it, not the user, holds the encryption key. That architecture adds to ease of use and lets people recover their files — even if they forgot their password. In a system where a user unlocks their cloud files with their own encryption key, the data would be lost forever if a user forgets their encryption key, and a complicated encryption key has to be entered into every client device that wants to sync via the locker.
However, Christopher Soghoian argues that Dropbox’s model introduces too many security vulnerabilities and that Dropbox overstated how secure file storage was, leading him to file an FTC complaint against the company.
UPDATED AND REVAMPED, the Commodore 64 (C64) is nearly upon us once more and will start shipping again next week.
A classic from computer history is nearly back from the dead with a more powerful and modern twist. A Youtube video of the Commodore USA facility in Fort Lauderdale shows the latest version being built.
It's back... and better than ever! The new Commodore 64 is a modern functional PC as close to the original in design as humanly possible. It houses a modern mini-ITX PC motherboard featuring a Dual Core 525 Atom processor and the latest nVidia ION2 graphics chipset. It comes in the original taupe brown/beige color, with other colors to follow.
You would have to know the program is running.
So no sneak factor would be possible in that respect.
Plus, possibly, setting the 'flash cards' on a timer,
never heard of a random timer, but it could be here somewhere.-cmpm (June 20, 2011, 08:51 AM)
Most of the illustrations in the patent are hand drawn even...
FYI - they are because it's required under law, and the USPO has very strict rules and legal requirements for those illustrations. As a result, there's a well-established ("vintage") style and look for them that you don't deviate from if you want your patent to be considered. It's a specialty art form and there are service bureaus that do that and nothing else. Google "patent illustration" if you're interested.
-40hz (June 20, 2011, 08:39 AM)
