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Pirates on Trial

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Well those scurvy Pirates of the internet, and providers of torrents of everything from Hollywood hits and Zero day software to Music and Porn, The Pirates Bay went on trail today in Stockholm, Sweden. The owners of The Bay are not charged the copyright infringement but “Assisting in and preparing to committing copyright infringement.” The [...]

Google to the World: The Internet is Bad For You

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To help protect it’s users, search giant Google routinely flag potently dangerous sites with the warning, “This site may harm your computer.” in it’s search results. Normally everything work just fine and only the really bad sites get this warning added to the link. But this morning something went very wrong and all Google search [...]

Playstation 3 used to Hack the Internet

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Well not one PS3 but 200 of them networked together were used to hack the MD5 hash algorithm. This enabled the researchers to create a false Verisign “CA certificate.” But, only after the 200 Playstations spent three solid days crunching the numbers. (For some high res shots of all that PS3 goodness go here) But [...]

Google Street View

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One of the newer features for Google Maps is Street View. Which give a ground level 360 degree view of streets. This enables you to take a virtual tour of your route. Now there has been some concerns about privacy issues with some of the pictures taken. I’m not overly worried about it as the [...]

RIAA Internet Surcharge

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Just when you think the music industry couldn’t get any slimmer here they come again. Their latest plan is to basically take a page out of the Mafia’s play book and shake down Universities for protection money. The plan back by Warner Music Group would in exchange for ‘License fee’ would grant students at Universities [...]

Favicon

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Was just messing around one the computer when I got home from work tonight and decided to may a Favicon for the blog. I used the favicon.cc site to iconify a little graphic that I threw together in Photoshop. At first I was going to make it TGR but with only 16×16 pixels to work [...]

Firefox Download Day

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Well for those how haven’t been paying attention, today Mozilla released FireFox version 3. As part of the release of the new version they are trying to break the record for total number of copies downloaded in a single day. For your download to count you must get it by 11:16 PDT or 18:16 UTC [...]