Thanks for linking this. In fact some of the comments in the original Heise articles call Heise hypocrites, since their new feature will gladly lock social sites out of the information loop without blocking their own Ad partners.

Ghostery will fix that. However, I noted that it doesn't seem to block social sites, so it's a great addition.

Now if Ghostery would block social sites, we wouldn't need web masters to help out with the blocking.

Considering Wikileaks rehosted to Amazon to escape their original sites getting DDOSed exactly BECAUSE Amazon is damn hard to DDOS, I wonder whether Payback can actually do that.

Maybe they just consider it a challenge they can't resist.

He's got 14 hashes and cracked 10 of them with passwords of length 1 through 6, some of which contain proper symbols like "P4s$" and "G0o|)".

Length 1 through 4 take less than a second.
Length 5 takes 31 seconds.
Length 6 takes 2950 seconds.
I can see why he probably didn't want to cough up for Length 7 or above.

Amongst the passwords he didn't find was, according to Google Search: "password". Amusingly, I think one of the passwords he didn't manage to crack was the empty string.

I figure you'd have to polish that package a bit for a real attack, but undoubtedly people already have done that somewhere and hence it's a good idea to follow his advice anyway.

3D may need a new visual vocabulary. Fortunately, this vocabulary is currently being developed.

Coughing up the 3D ticket tax for Avatar means Cameron has made a step in the right direction, but he's just at the lead, not yet at the finish line.

There are already people who can do more with 3D than fancy show effects, but most of them are still doing CGI. For instance, did you see the feathers on the pigeons in "Bolt", or Soren's flight through the forest fire in "Ga'Hoole"?

I love watching this development. I also watched how the South African Soccer WM in 3D mostly failed, and how the "Fantastic Four" Live 3D concert transmission succeeded. I bet MTV has something to say about "Krieger".

I just wish there was more proper CONTENT right now that didn't make me want to pirate it because it's exclusive to some silly hardware.

Well he can't argue he didn't get a lot of publicity for his money, but I've got a feeling like he's not gonna be a happy customer just anyway.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Southeast_Taiwan_earthquake:

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurred on April 26, 2010 in the sea Southeast of Taiwan.

Like the same two bladers getting pictured 5 times:

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3808/stopmotion.png

And then there's hackers like this one:

http://logand.com/sw/wps/index.html

Rendering that Tiger isn't quick right now, but for a demonstration of what Javascript can do right now I find that quite impressive.

I should think, combined with HTML5 to provide sound and audio, in about 5 years a lot of games, and even applications, should be in plain Javascript either right online from the Web or even for download.