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Submission + - Let's Play Security Vulnerability Bingo! (ksplice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01, 2010 @12:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: Ben Bitdiddle of MIT fame sends an open letter to system administrators encouraging them to stop patching their systems so they can play "Security Vulnerability Bingo".

1st International Longest Tweet Results 44

Posted by timothy on Friday April 30, 2010 @05:20AM from the sewn-up-by-mockingbirds dept.

Dr_Evil6_6_6 writes "Slashdot had a story about the 1st International Longest Tweet Contest last month, and the winners have just been announced." The winner is impressive.

Submission + - International Longest Tweet Contest seeks entries (ksplice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 25, 2010 @01:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: The 1st International Longest Tweet Contest is open for submissions until April 12. It looks to be a take-off of the famous Obfuscated C Contest. So far the record is 4.2 kilobits encoded per tweet, based on exploiting the fact that Twitter actually passes the full 31 bits of ISO 10646 (the international standard that Unicode is based on), not the roughly 20.08 bits/character of Unicode itself.

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