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  1. The animated series we ALL WANT TO SEE! by Chris+Tucker · · Score: 1 · on Fantastic Four Animated Series

    Monkey Fight Club!

  2. Market Research by Kang and Kodos by handy_vandal · · Score: 2, Funny · on Coming Soon to a Wireless Hotspot Near You: Ads

    market research indicates that, except for pop-ups, people really don't mind ads.

    Furthermore, market research* indicates that people really don't mind anal probes.

    -kgj

    *Market research conducted by Kang and Kodos. All test subjects consented voluntarily to mind-control ray and anal probe. No human species were exterminated during this course of this research. Earth void where prohibited.

  3. Re:Pics by OneIsNotPrime · · Score: 1 · on Toshiba's Wristwatch PDA
    Here are some more pics I was able to dig up:

    In Action

    Design schematics

    Early Mock-up of Version 2

  4. Suckers. by joeszilagyi · · Score: 4, Interesting · on The Worldwide Domain Battle
    I'd like to see someone try and cease and desist MY extremely common place domain name: www.szilagyi.us

    That said, some of the cases, especially the Bill Wyman one, are laughable.

  5. The Google Hack Works. by joeszilagyi · · Score: 1 · on Spam Rapidly Increasing In Weblog Comments
    Not that I hacked it, but a good example of how this can happen is here:

    Matrix Revolutions Spoilers

    The simple way that my site is constructed gave a little extra googlejuice to this random post of mine, which led to it being mentioned a few times on other sites, and BOOM. That post turns into an instant Revolutions spoiler board, complete with "Larry Wachowski" posting there. You can see the search here.

  6. SPREAD THE WORD/OPEN LETTER by joeszilagyi · · Score: 1 · on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards
    Open Letter To Verisign

    This is an email I just sent out to Icann.org. Portions of this (well, most...) are taken from the text and comments to be found in this Slashdot article. I encourage each of you to also send this email to comments@icann.org to complain, and if you have a blog, spread the word by cross-posting this to your website. Verisign must be stopped, at any cost.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: joe at szilagyi.us
    To: comments@icann.org
    Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:48 AM
    Subject: sitefinder.verisign.com

    As of 7:45 PM US Eastern on Mon 15 Sep 2003, VeriSign added a wildcard A record to the .COM and .NET TLD DNS zones. The IP address returned is 64.94.110.11, which reverses to sitefinder.verisign.com. What that means in plain English is that most mis-typed domain names that would formerly have resulted in a helpful error message now results in a VeriSign advertising opportunity. For example, if my domain name was 'somecompany.com,' and somebody typed 'soemcompany.com' by mistake, they would get VeriSign's advertising. (VeriSign is a company which purchased Network Solutions, another company which was given the taskby the US government of running the .COM and .NET top-level domains (TLDs). VeriSign has been exploiting the Internet's DNS infrastructure ever since.)

    This will have the immediate effect of making network trouble-shooting much more difficult. Before, a mis-typed domain name in an email address, web browser, or other network configuration item would result in an obvious error message. You might not have known what to do about it, but at least you knew something was wrong. Now, though, you will have to guess. Every time.

    Some have pointed out that this will make an important anti-spam check impossible. A common anti-spam measure is to check and make sure the domain name of the sender really exists. (While this is easy to force, every little bit helps.) Since all .COM and .NET domain names now exist, that anti-spam check is useless.

    Verisign has continually been abusing the power that has been handed out to them. Two such examples are its mailing of false renewal notices, and its most recent exploit: sitefinder.verisign.com. Now, nearly all mistyped names will be sent to Verisign where they can do whatever they like to the unwitting user. There are even categories on sitefinder.verisign.com where one can browse and go to sites which are undoubtedly paying Verisign for the space.

    Please take this, and the hundreds or thousands of e-mails you will receive, into consideration, and exercise the power that ICANN has. Verisign has continually been abusing and tricking people through deceptive business practices, and this should be the last straw. Verisign should not only be removed from it's post, but it should also be fined for its numerous escapades designed to make money.

    __________________________
    Joe / http://szilagyi.us
    Never give up, never surrender.

  7. Look out... by joeszilagyi · · Score: 1 · on North Korea's School For Hackers?
    ...once they launch a cyberattack and we complain about it, they'll respond with threats to nuke everything from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Remember:

    King Jong II is completely insane.