Comment Re:Cue the usual "debate" ... (Score 2) 82
Great! If I don't suck down their ads then I'm saving us both money!
Submission + - Tor traffic quadruples, security company attributes surge to Botnet (paritynews.com) 1
hypnosec writes: A cyber defense and IT security company has claimed that the reason behind recent surge in number of clients connecting to Tor is in fact a relatively unknown botnet and not NSA or genuine adoption of Tor. In late August there was a huge increase in Tor network traffic and number of clients connecting to the Tor network. As of this writing number of connections has quadrupled with over 2,500,000 clients connecting to the network. According to Fox-it, the surge in traffic is because of a botnet dubbed "Mevade.A", which is known to have Tor connectivity features. The company noted that the botnet may have links to a previously detected botnet dubbed "Sefnit", which also featured Tor connectivity. Fox-it claimed that they have found "references that the malware is internally known as SBC to its operators."
Comment The Frankencamera (Score 1) 179
The Frankencamera might give you an idea what this would be good for, especially this video.
Comment Yeah, that, or... (Score 1) 283
...or maybe I turn on the wifi tethering on my unlimited data plan on my phone for everybody to use and carry a couple backup batteries.
Being a Texan, I know the courts are corrupt, but... really?
Comment Next time you're at an airport, think about this (Score 5, Insightful) 640
Just think about this next time you're queued up forever in the security theater line waiting to get your junk touched. It seems like the ideal place to attack an airport and get lots of casualties.
Submission + - Man Tunnels into GameStop, Steals Games (thinq.co.uk) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Life imitates Minecraft: Computer game piracy is big business, but there are still those who prefer to get their games the old-fashioned way: by digging a tunnel into their local games shop and making off with as much stock as they can carry.
At least, that's the slightly bizarre approach taken by a man from Greeneville, Tennessee, who was arrested late last week after being caught tunnelling into his local GameStop store from an empty adjoining building.
At least, that's the slightly bizarre approach taken by a man from Greeneville, Tennessee, who was arrested late last week after being caught tunnelling into his local GameStop store from an empty adjoining building.
Submission + - ARM Powered OLPC XO-1.75 Laptop is faster than x86 (armdevices.net) 1
Charbax writes: Not only is power consumption halved to less than 2 Watts and price of the motherboard is reduced, the performance of the next generation OLPC Laptop is actually faster to run full Fedora Linux compared to x86. Here's a video interviewing OLPC's CTO Edward J. McNierney where he explains how OLPC's world class engineers are making this change of CPU architecture and why. If OLPC XO-1 threatened Intel enough to start the Netbook market and has reached 2 million poor kids in third world countries thus far, XO-1.75 may help start the ARM Powered Linux laptop market. Do you think Fedora/Sugar will do or should OLPC attract Chrome OS and Android solutions for education to get faster help from the big boys of Silicon Valley to bring Linux software successfully to the next billion PC/Laptop users?
Submission + - John Draper (Cap'n Crunch) benefit (jetcityorange.com)
jetcityorange writes: Charity auction for John Draper (Cap'n Crunch) of an original Cap'n Crunch whistle from the cereal box *and* a copy of the June 72 issue of Ramparts with the article on how to make a black box. All proceeds go directly to John Draper to help him after his recent surgery.
Phone phreaks unite! An elder needs our help!
www.JetCityOrange.com/john-draper/
Jerry Whiting
JetCityOrange / Seattle
Phone phreaks unite! An elder needs our help!
www.JetCityOrange.com/john-draper/
Jerry Whiting
JetCityOrange / Seattle
Submission + - Pirate Party rally draws 500 to support Wikileaks (itnews.com.au) 2
An anonymous reader writes: A Pirate Party Australia public demonstration at the weekend drew 500 protesters on a march through the city calling for a social media uprising and chanting for Bradley Manning's release outside the US Consulate General [photos] offices in the city. Speakers included the party's president Rodney Serkowski, journalists and activists calling for Manning and Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange to be freed. Serkowski said plans to censor the net underscored the need for such sites. US soldier Manning, suspected of leaking the diplomatic cables to Assange's whistleblowers' website last year, is in US military custody while Assange is facing extradition to Sweden and a possible US grand jury investigation for alleged espionage.
Submission + - Play Kinect Boxing, get investigated by police (gamepron.com)
dotarray writes: When Swedish police received a call that six people were beating up a woman, they rushed to the house to investigate, fearing the worst.
We’re not sure who was more embarrassed when they burst into the living room to discover a bunch of friends playing video games – specifically, a few rounds of the boxing game in Kinect Sports. It’s like something out of a bad movie, as police revealed the neighbours had become suspicious after watching silhouetted figures throwing punches at each other.
We’re not sure who was more embarrassed when they burst into the living room to discover a bunch of friends playing video games – specifically, a few rounds of the boxing game in Kinect Sports. It’s like something out of a bad movie, as police revealed the neighbours had become suspicious after watching silhouetted figures throwing punches at each other.
Submission + - 9th Circuit Unmasks Anonymous Online Speakers (rhlaw.com)
reidhellyer writes: While Internet users may presume that their anonymous posts on message boards and social media sites may remain anonymous, web surfers may want to think twice before they click “post” as a Ninth Circuit opinion in 2011 allowed the unmasking of anonymous online speakers engaged in commercial speech.
Comment USML revival (Score 1) 241
Perhaps a revival of the Universe Simulation Mailing List? Unfortunately, the archives were on Geocities, so even that bit may be long gone since archive.org is throwing an error when I try to pull it up.
Comment Re:YOU FOOLS!!! (Score 5, Informative) 710
Lulz, not "LOL's." They do it for the lulz.
Comment Re:My question is... (Score 1) 421
Okay, then what about Bank of America saying they won't process payments intended for Wikileaks? If the money is in your account, it is your money.
Comment That's okay (Score 2) 441
This is nothing a few seconds in the microwave won't fix.
Of course, I had to use a hammer to fix my passport's problem.
