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XviD AVI
http://69.93.36.237.nyud.net:8090/xbox-scene/xbox3 60/motherboard/3260052289.xvid.avi

*Geeks are getting laid!*

relevant link

It works. Really.

Link is toast....
here you go....

Well I found some old footage from 1993 United airlines, doing the same idea as the Myth Busters only they used the cheaper idea of just tow the car instead of the remote control. This makes me wonder why they could do it, but the Myth Busters weren't allowed to do it.

http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/v_2joecr/je tblast.wmv (WMV 477,179 bytes) already on cache as this is my free site which would never survive a second of /. hitting it.

I have no idea as to where I got it. I think it maight have been from http://www.spikedhumor.com/ but I could be wrong.

Fact: this bug was reported six months ago, but it is only now that someone has publicly shown how to use it to run arbitrary code.

Who knows how long other people have been exploiting this bug - potentially in ways not involving Javascript as well?

Fact: this bug was reported six months ago, but it is only now that someone has publicly shown how to use it to run arbitrary code.

Who knows how long other people have been exploiting this bug - potentially in ways not involving Javascript as well?

Have you ever been completely blown away by what you've found

Well, there was that one show where they had they FBI hook them up with several TONS of high powered explosives.

Then they used it to make a cement mixer truck dissappear.
Here's the video (CoralCDN to the rescue)

That pretty much blew me away.

I call bollocks.

The reasons Linux distros require more patches is twofold:

1. There is more software to patch, generally. Debian has, what, tens of thousands of packages now? And as previously stated, the vast majority of it is not part of the core OS. Windows as an OS, on the other hand, suffers from feature bloat and the hordes of security holes and stability problems that accompany it.
2. F/OSS developers actually fix their software, and usually in a timely fashion. Case in point: Microsoft have left at least one critical bug in Internet Explorer unpatched for six months.

Granted that Windows has improved a lot since its inception, but it still has a long way to go to match the stability and security of a decent Linux distro in a real live working environment. Linux distros still fall short on newbie-usability (sadly the F/OSS community have historically underestimated the critical importance of this), but that's the only ground I'm willing to give to Windows, even now.

I call bollocks.

The reasons Linux distros require more patches is twofold:

1. There is more software to patch, generally. Debian has, what, tens of thousands of packages now? And as previously stated, the vast majority of it is not part of the core OS. Windows as an OS, on the other hand, suffers from feature bloat and the hordes of security holes and stability problems that accompany it.
2. F/OSS developers actually fix their software, and usually in a timely fashion. Case in point: Microsoft have left at least one critical bug in Internet Explorer unpatched for six months.

Granted that Windows has improved a lot since its inception, but it still has a long way to go to match the stability and security of a decent Linux distro in a real live working environment. Linux distros still fall short on newbie-usability (sadly the F/OSS community have historically underestimated the critical importance of this), but that's the only ground I'm willing to give to Windows, even now.

Never mind, he's got it under control:

Benjamin compares his project to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia drafted largely by a band of worldwide literati. He emphasizes, however, that, unlike Wikipedia, he vets every entry for accuracy, sometimes within minutes, before he posts them.

Judging by the map of infected computers, theres alot more than 100 infections in the state of texas.

Finally, government, business, and home users around the world are allowed to know how to interpret the documents they've created!

Seriously, I think open file formats should be written into law.

http://en.wikipedia.org.nyud.net:8090/wiki/Karma_w hore

http://firingsquad.com.nyud.net:8090/hardware/ati_ all_in_wonder_x1800_xl/ Coral Cache link

looks to be slashdotted, heres the non-karma-whoring cache

http://zdnet.com.au.nyud.net:8090/insight/software /print.htm?TYPE=story&AT=39223136-39023769t-100001 02c

I've just done a round-up of some cool products which let you use Skype away from the computer which may be of use to Skype fans. You can find it here.

here.

Imagine Powerade sponsoring these! :D

Allegedly due out in February (not Real Soon Now) according to the article. Check out the awesome video on their website. (coral cached. Actual site is http://www.zubbles.com/

Wired's webserver was borked before this even hit the front page. A functional mirror for everyone's perusal.

because, like Slashdot, their page doesn't validate either.

It's about this site ==> https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/

I loaded it on both IE6 & Firefox(1.0.2)

Strangely, it renders very differently on the 2 browsers.
It renders much better on IE.

What's the story?

It's about this site ==> https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/

I loaded it on both IE6 & Firefox(1.0.2)

Strangely, it renders very differently on the 2 browsers.
It renders much better on IE.

What's the story?

http://madpenguin.org.nyud.net:8090/cms/?m=show&op t=printable&id=5557

cp karma /dev/null

I somehow find it hard to believe that US imported CDs alone would have accounted for that much spread, it looks like Sony sold CDs with the XCP rootkit on them in the UK but realizes admitting it would be a Very Bad Thing (tm) (not that they don't have enough bad things to worry about already.)

``If it weren't for RIAA smashing napster, we probably wouldn't have torrents (at least not yet).''

Not true. Bittorrent was created to solve the problem of serving a single file to many users, without overloading the server the file resides on. It was used for perfectly legitimate purposes long before it started getting popular as a means to illegally distribute media. The RIAA had nothing to do with its creation.

Your point is right, though. If it wasn't for the bad guys, we wouldn't have a lot of the good technology we have now, or at least it wouldn't be so widespread and high quality (due to lack of interest). See also my essay Why We Should be Grateful for Viruses.

On the other hand, if it wasn't for the bad guys, maybe all the effort that went in countering them could have been used to make improvements in other, more productive directions. However, that's purely hypothetical, because there will always be bad guys, unless the human psyche changes radically, and then all bets are off.

Look at this picture, on the top left corner right above the chip with a silver circle and xbox360 on it you can see 13 silver dots - they look exactly like the place where you'd install the modchip in the xbox1 :)

So there is still hope, even if MS said one mod will work only on one xbox.

Anyone have a mirror of the "pretty pictures"?
- http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_us a.JPG
- http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_as ia.JPG
- http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_eu rope.JPG

Anyone have a mirror of the "pretty pictures"?
- http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_us a.JPG
- http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_as ia.JPG
- http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_eu rope.JPG

Anyone have a mirror of the "pretty pictures"?
- http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_us a.JPG
- http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_as ia.JPG
- http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_eu rope.JPG

http://benheck.com.nyud.net:8090/

The mirrordot link didn't have any information for me (maybe it's too early?). A nice article with a picture of the thing is located here (coral cache).

click click

In Other News: Microsoft announces today that their upcoming Windows Vista release will no longer default to a blue screen as the result of catastrohpic operating system errors. In what was a closely guarded decision, Mircrosoft insiders changed the color to Mauve.

Our anonymous source credits this decision to an overhead conversation in which Steve Ballmer allegedly said "I'll throw a f*cking chair at the son of a b*tch programmers if I see a news article saying that Vista suffers from the Blue Screen of Death. I'll f*cking bury them."

/That was offtopic, but reading about BSOD's got my creative juices flowing.

Linky: http://www.anandtech.com.nyud.net:8090/systems/sho wdoc.aspx?i=2610

http://www.anandtech.com.nyud.net:8090/printarticl e.aspx?i=2610

The site seems to be weakening (the images aren't loading)
and networkmirror & mirrordot have yet to get working link up

Just in case...

http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_us a.JPG

menu at the top of the screen was great for singletasking OSes back in 1985, but it's no good at all for multitasking OSes of 2000+.

apple also abandoned much of their well researched (decades!) UI guidelines when they made aqua. apple abandoned good UI design in favor of eye candy. yeuccch.

now you have menubar at top, dock at bottom (or side, ugh!). having the dock jump out at you every time you touch the edge isn't a good UI design either.

and how's this for bad design? a lot of "mac experts" get it wrong, what's a novice to think? this would never have happened under the old MacOS UI guidelines. it's disturbingly typical of aqua.

nextstep did many of these things right, osx often feels like a braindamaged next.

Haha! Reminds me of the The Videogame Lookalikes page. (Coralized Link)

Here is the link

JOhn

http://www.mp3newswire.net.nyud.net:8090/stories/5 002/xmas2005.html

http://www.cio.com.nyud.net:8090/archive/110105/tl _filesharing.html

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FILE SHARING
Spies in the Server Closet
BY MICHAEL JACKMAN

The Supreme Court might have stirred up a bigger problem than it settled when it ruled last June that file-sharing networks such as Grokster could be sued if their members pirated copyrighted digital music and video.

Since then, some programmers have announced they would pursue so-called darknets. These private, invitation-only networks can be invisible to even state-of-the-art sleuthing. And although they're attractive as a way to get around the entertainment industry's zeal in prosecuting digital piracy, they could also create a new channel for corporate espionage, says Eric Cole, chief scientist for Lockheed Martin Information Technology.

Cole defines a darknet as a group of individuals who have a covert, dispersed communication channel. While file-sharing networks such as Grokster and even VPNs use public networks to exchange information, with a darknet, he says, "you don't know it's there in the first place."

All an employee has to do to set one up is install file-sharing software written for darknets and invite someone on the outside to join, thus creating a private connection that's unlikely to be detected. "The Internet is so vast, porous and complex, it's easy to set up underground networks that are almost impossible to find and take down," says Cole.

He advises that the best--and perhaps only--defense against darknets is a combination of network security best practices (such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems) and keeping intellectual property under lock and key. In addition, he says, companies should enact a security policy called "least privilege," which means users are given the least amount of access they need to do their jobs. "Usually if a darknet is set up it's because an individual has too much access," Cole says.

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You know, I don't know. Isn't that the problem? I know what helped me a lot when I ran SuSE was the table of equivalents that used to be available at: linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtm l but isn't anymore so you can find it on the coralized on the wayback machine here:
http://web.archive.org.nyud.net:8090/web/200402021 11451/http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft- en/table.shtml
So your right most good software is already available but I off the top of my head still don't know where I could get windows viewers for .djvu files too... Visibility I guess.

Sorry for nitpicking but it is not linear, but polynomial. Like the wikipedia page says it has the order O((log n)^3).

Secondly, saying it is "millions of times faster" does not really make sense. We don't measure the efficiency of an algorithm by the actual time it takes but by its complexity. It is likely that the first few quantum computer prototypes will be quite slow and may take longer than classical computers to factor small numbers (I don't know, like 20 digits). However it has a better complexity so: no matter how slow your quantum computer is, it will be faster than all the classical computers in the world once you feed them big enough numbers

I recall a recent slashdot post explaining that the Tinfoil hats had to avoid DIRECT CONTACT with the head, otherwise they'd act as an antenna.

Do we see any kind of INSULATION between the tinfoil and the head in this picture (taken from TFA) ?

No!

So I propose the following experiment:

Get an AM/FM radio with telescopic antenna. Turn it on. Make sure the antenna is completely vertical.

Get some electrically-isolating material around it, like cardboard or plastic, or polyurethane foam.
Put a roll of tinfoil paper over the cardboard and cover the antenna.

TOP-DOWN VIEW: ( . )

The . is the radio, the ( ) is the tinfoil

Now, for experiment 2, grab a small cable and connect the tinfoil to the antenna. If you can solder it, the better.
Is the signal amplified?

For experiment 3, disconnect the cable and touch the tinfoil. What happens to the signal?

Now for the tinfoil hat experiment:

Cover ALL the tinfoil with plastic, and then glue it to make the hat. Then cover the insides of your plastic+tinfoil hat with polyurethane foam, and THEN do the experiments in TFA.

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Flash [swf] http://www.dn.se.nyud.net:8090/content/1/c6/48/45/ 01/Fagelvirus.swf

But the Coral Cache works fine. http://www.next-gen.biz.nyud.net:8090/index.php?op tion=com_content&task=view&id=1550&Itemid=2

Sorry to reply to my own post, but what follows is a link to the full text of the article referred to in the parent. PDF WARNING.

Hybrid speciation in experimental populations of yeast.

And also, the requisite CoralCache mirror:

http://www.bio.davidson.edu.nyud.net:8090/Courses/ Bio343/papers/Greig.pdf

http://www.ioccc.org.nyud.net:8090/years.html#1994 _smr

For those too lazy to hunt the .nyudnetetushguisrettnyunyudNYYYOOODDD:809080882 required. I was, too, but someone posted it for me.