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  1. Canadian Debit Card != US Debit Card on Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records · · Score: 1

    One thing I noticed while traveling to the US is the different meaning of a debit card. Up here in Canada, a debit card is a bank card used for Interac transactions. This does not exist widely in the United States. We also have credit cards, which are issued by Visa/Mastercard/etc. Down in the states, a debit card is a credit card.

  2. More detailed story on University Brings Charges Against White Hat Hacker · · Score: 1

    You can see a story with more details at http://www.charlatan.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20410&Itemid=148 . He put a keylogger on a random e-Kiosk PC in one of the campus buildings. These PCs provide 20 minutes of web access per login so that students can check e-mails/surf the web briefly. There's nothing white-hat about this, unless it was done in a proof-of-concept manner, but he _DID_ collect user information. The login/password combos he would have keylogged let a student into the myCarleton portal (http://connect.carleton.ca), which is just a glorified front-end for their email. All student account information (awards, fees, course registration) is held on a separate server, http://central.carleton.ca./ This becomes a more serious problem, since once you enter into the "secure" myCarleton portal, you can click a tab called 'Carleton Central', which bypasses your need to use a separate login to view your student account information. They have purposely removed a level of security for convenience to the lemmings. As for the campus card data, I've never put my campus card through a card reader, but all campus card transactions are approved via a centralized server somewhere. Again, not sure what this kid was trying to prove, but if all he wanted to demonstrate was that he could sniff campus card data, again he overstepped his boundaries. He sent everything anonymously to Carleton Administration and the students whose data was compromised, but this was also where he tripped up, "his account log-in was embedded in the electronic document he sent out" from http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/09/11/ot-carleton-080911.html . If you google this persons name, he is rather involved in the Gentoo Security mailing lists.

  3. Welcome to Bell Mobility on iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long · · Score: 1

    My invoices for Bell Mobility have been arriving in very large envelopes due to my (unlimited) data usage and text messaging. They are billing the same way AT&T does, except I also get to know at what time a text message is sent.

  4. Re:Google? on Gouge Found on Shuttle Endeavour's Underside · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that's because the whisky is blurring my vision.

  5. Rollover on Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted · · Score: 1

    Maybe they only used 32bit integers for the ICQ numbers, hit 4,294,967,295 and rolled back to 0.

  6. What about reverse engineering it.. on Practical Applications of Smell Recordings · · Score: 1

    And extracting those chemicals that make it up? Then you could have all the cheap perfumes for alot less. Maybe you'd even be able to synthetically 'taste' what you smell. Cooking for guests and screw up the chicken? Just baste with synthetic smell and nobody will know the truth!

  7. Rogers Wireless Offers a musicstore.. on Cellphone Songs Overpriced? · · Score: 1

    Rogers Wireless in Canada offers a music store http://rogers.com/musicstore/, the Rogers MusicStore, which allows you to purchase songs that you can download onto your computer, and onto your phone, provided you use a Nokia 6620 with the MusicStore client installed. Track costs range from $1.25 and up last time I checked, with $1.00 for the cost of the data transfer of the track you purchase.

  8. It's a shame that the topic has no relevance.. on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 3, Informative

    to the website. The website is about researching into the gene CCR5 related to its ability to prevent infection from the Black Death, based on the research in 1996 that showed it was able to block out HIV infection.

  9. This has been around for a while on New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Up here in Canada, both Rogers Wireless and Fido have been offering #DJ (#35) from your cell phone to look up songs. It will text message you the song, and also allow ringtone downloads if they are found.

  10. additional proof.. on Arcade Kit Seller Applies for MAME Trademark [updated] · · Score: 0

    i think it's pretty obvious mame.net has been using it for years, the logo shows up in this archive http://web.archive.org/web/20000301045012/www.mame .net/

  11. how dare you slam canadian rights when.. on Canadian Lawful Access Legislation · · Score: 0

    your country's new changes to the US Patriot Act is limiting all the fun stuff you used to be able to do. Take a look at this website.

  12. perl and o'reilly books on Best Computer Books For The Smart · · Score: 0

    For perl, O'Reilly has really great books documenting it, I recommend those books.

  13. Funny how... on Partial Solar Eclipse Tonight · · Score: 0

    this story was already posted to the science section here

  14. RTFM doesnt have to be read the funny manual... on RTFM = Read the Funny Manual? · · Score: 0

    it could also be: read the fine manual read the ******* manual Really Trying to Find Myself Rats, They Fired Me Really Tough Female Manager Really Tired of Feeling Miserable Real Time Fouled-up Management Real Time For the Masses Ready To Fly, Man Rest Time For Milt Really Tough Financial Management Reaching Towards Friendly Manipulation and many many more!

  15. GO KILL-9/M0RLA on Moronic Hacking Contest Ends In Free-For-All · · Score: 1

    Things apparently started to go wrong for KDWorks when two hackers, who go by the pseudonyms kill9 and m0rla, posted a message to the hackers.com Web site, saying they had broken into the server holding the registration details of the entrants with relative ease and sent an e-mail to all 1,240 of them.
    I used to chat with kill-9/m0rla on irc before, I hope they had lots of fun pulling this one off. Congrats :P

  16. I want a UPS! on Do-it-yourself UPS · · Score: 1

    I hope its excessively cheaper than normal UPS' that you would buy, that would be a cool thing to build.

  17. RIAA on RIAA Sues Audiogalaxy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    When will the RIAA just stop...

  18. Re:not a spoiler please read on The Truth Revealed · · Score: 2

    what part of 'people still have to wait 3hrs to watch the show' dont you get?

  19. superman on Comic Book Physics · · Score: 1

    how fast does superman fly when he is having kryptonite thrown at him? :P

  20. Re:3...2...1.... on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 1

    the 20 hits it probably got crashed the swedish server :P