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3rd Grader Accused of Hacking Schools' Computer System 344

Posted by samzenpus on Friday April 16, 2010 @02:37PM from the give-that-kid-a-gold-star dept.

Gud writes "According to The Washington Post a 9-year-old was able to hack into his county's school computer network and change such things as passwords, course work, and enrollment info. From the article: 'Police say a 9-year-old McLean boy hacked into the Blackboard Learning System used by the county school system to change teachers' and staff members' passwords, change or delete course content, and change course enrollment. One of the victims was Fairfax Superintendent Jack D. Dale, according to an affidavit filed by a Fairfax detective in Fairfax Circuit Court this week. But police and school officials decided no harm, no foul. The boy did not intend to do any serious damage, and didn't, so the police withdrew and are allowing the school district to handle the half-grown hacker.'"

Sony Refuses To Sanction PS3 "Other OS" Refunds 396

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 16, 2010 @03:34AM from the you-paid-for-what-we-say-you-paid-for dept.

Stoobalou writes "Sony says that it has no intention of reimbursing retailers if they offer users partial refunds for fat PS3s. Last week, the first PS3 user successfully secured a partial refund from Amazon UK as compensation for the removal of the ability to run Linux on the console. The user quoted European law in order to persuade the online retailer that the goods he had bought in good faith were no longer fit for his purposes because of the enforcement of firmware update 3.21, which meant that users who chose to keep the Other OS functionality would lose the ability to play the latest games or connect to the PlayStation Network."

Comment Re:CrossFit (Score 1) 865

by BenderMan on Thursday July 02, 2009 @01:45AM (#28554233) Attached to: Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule?

Seconded. Take your lunch at a local Crossfit, or build a little gym at your workplace. Crossfit is the only thing that's gotten me in shape, other than Hashing ;-) BenderMan

Comment Re:Exidy Sorcerer (Score 1) 1485

by BenderMan on Monday February 13, 2006 @04:20PM (#14710041) Attached to: What Was Your First Computer?

My mother had a business in the 80s selling these, specifically the Sorcerer II. She gave me one for my birthday when I was in seventh grade. I started with a RF modulator kit I had to install on the motherboard and an external cassette tape recorder, but eventually I got the optional DDS (Disk Display System) with a green monochrome monitor and dual 5 1/4" Micropolis double side drives. I also had the Exidy branded Daisy Wheel printer, the "fast one" 45cps vs 25cps. The system ran CPM, or you could boot off of the cartridges. They had taken 8-Track tapes and replaced the guts with an eprom board with an edge card connector. I had Basic, M$ Word (whatever it was called back then), and even a development cartridge with a hole for the ultraviolet light to erase the eprom. The whole system was made out of blow molded plastic, unlike the sexier Apple II. Unfortunately the system crashed frequently, likely due to lack of cooling. I spent most of my programming effort on Apple II and Commodore Pets in the classroom at Egan Jr High in Los Altos, CA. I recently donated both my Sourcers to http://digibarn.com/ in Boulder Creek, CA.

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