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Submission + - Harry Potter book theft by an hacker (grok.org.uk)

PSYOP HARRY POTTER writes: "Harry Potter still unreleased book theft by an hacker news, appeared on 10.000+ blogs, 200 newspaper publications (including BBC, CNN, REUTERS), most of the TV reportage in the world.

All media reported it, but it was an seriously effective hoax.

The success of the hoax depends on the military psycological operation approach used by the guys that made it and reported that all was only an experiment.
The reporter suggested to download and mirror several documents from US government explaining Psycological Operation military methodologies and tactics to modify the informations trough the media.

http://insecure.org/ report the email on a mailing list with which the hacker revealed the hack to the company printing harry potter book.

Their reporting after the news diffusion on the psycological operation success and description of what we called, until now, an hoax http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure /2007-June/064163.html .

It's impressive how they did it and how exists tactics to modify the mass media information.

PsyOP"

Education

Graduate with Bad Grades or Repeat a Year? 277

An anonymous reader asks: "I'm a CS Student within one year of graduation. Due to financial reasons, I've been working on a full time basis for the past 2 years, and I've worked on an open source project. This has brought me from the B's and A's of my first two years of college to somewhere in the mists of C's and lower. I now have enough money to sustain myself for two years of schooling. I've got two choices: repeat one year, repair all my bad grades and graduate with better grades but with a mark that I repeated one school year; or graduate with lower grades but with no repeated year. I'd like to know the opinion of recruiters out there: if you had two candidates which ranked similarly during the interviews, would you choose someone who repeated classes for higher grades?"
Biotech

Journal Journal: Study Will Test Stem Cells Against Heart Attack

HealthDay News reports on a new clinical trial using patients' own bone marrow stem cells to attempt to repair heart muscle damage from a heart attack: "In a first-of-a-kind study, patients who've recently had a major heart attack and are undergoing coronary bypass surgery will be injected with selected stem cells harvested from their own bone marrow. The study of 60 patients by researchers at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom will examine whether those stem cells can repai
Yahoo!

Submission + - Yahoo! Go 2.0 Released (blogspot.com)

Anonymous Coward writes: "Yahoo! Go is optimized for the small screen of a mobile phone, making it easy and fun to access the Internet. Everything about the Yahoo! Go interface is designed to be both visually stunning and give you what you want with the fewest clicks possible."
Technology (Apple)

Journal Journal: Should I let my infant stare at the iTunes visualizer?

Last night my eight-week-old daughter had us at our wit's end; she'd been fed, changed, had slept and my wife was out of breast milk. But still she screamed. And screamed. And screamed. I was in my office and in desperation, I put turned the iTunes visualizer on and turned her face to it. Magic happened; she immediately settled down and was entranced by the images on the screen.I know that infants should be stimulated by sounds and color, but I'm worried that letting her stare at the screen coul

Feed Schneier: The Onion on Terrorist Cell Apathy (schneier.com)

Funny: "We remain wholly committed to the destruction of America, the Great Satan," al-Sharif said. "But now is not a good time for us. The season finale of Lost was such a cliff- hanger that we have to at least...

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