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Submission + - The Pirate Bay taunts Hollywood with Oscartorrents

Submitted by cursorx on Monday February 12, 2007 @05:29AM

cursorx writes: Slyck reports that the MPAA loving Swedes from The Pirate Bay have just opened a new site called Oscartorrents.com. Not only do they provide links to torrents of most of this year's Academy Awards nominees, but they're also asking for users' votes. After the ceremony, they intend to publish a list of winners based on the torrent community's collective opinion. According to The Pirate Bay, "this is the way it should be done now that movie distribution is almost free. Hollywoodland might not like it, but some people always have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future."

Submission + - Mac calculator is bad at math

Submitted by

RaSchi.de

on Monday February 12, 2007 @04:27AM

RaSchi.de writes: "vowe has pointed to a couple of videos (here and here) on YouTube which show the calculator application doing some weird calculations with percentages. Apparently, in some locales such as the German one, the OS X calculator application discards decimal digits of the input when the percent button is used (e.g. adding x percent of tax to an invoice sum). All works fine if you do the manual multiplication (e.g. instead of adding 7% you multiply by 1.17). This has spurred active discussion on German news lists (e.g. heise.de and at digg. Any /. readers who can confirm this in other locales than the German?"

Submission + - Embarrassing Solaris 0-day vulnerability

Submitted by

philos

on Monday February 12, 2007 @03:05AM

philos writes: "According to SANS ISC, there's a vulnerability in Solaris 10 and 11 telnet that allows anyone to remotely connect as any account, including root, without authentication. Remote access can be gained with nothing more than a telnet client. More information and a Snort signature can be found at riosec.com. Worse, this is almost identical to a bug in AIX and Linux rlogin from way back in 1994."

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