Friday, April 07, 2006
Home Network Router Security Secrets
Ever delve inside your home network routers and use the hidden security settings that can lock down a network nice and tight? Most people never do. Andy Walker reveals 10 secrets on how to easily access your router's security settings.
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Scientists Discover Blue Ring Around Uranus
The recently discovered outermost ring of gas giant Uranus is a bright blue, scientists said today.
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Beginners Guide to Podcasting
The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide!
Whether you have been using a computer for years, or if you are totally new to it all, this guide can help you get to grips with all the important parts of using Linux, as opposed to Windows (or Mac OS) in order to operate your computer.
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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Republicans defeat Net neutrality proposal - Goodbye to Internet Freedom
A Republican-controlled House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Wednesday defeated a proposal that would have levied extensive regulations on broadband providers and forcibly prevented them from offering higher-speed video services to partners or affiliates.
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Man unhappy with penis enlargement mails bomb to Doctor
This is the story of how a man's wayward quest to enlarge his penis landed him in federal court yesterday, pleading guilty to weapons of mass destruction charges.
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Cheney Aide Says Bush OK'd CIA Leak
Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide told prosecutors President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case. impeachment yet?
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Town of 12,000 calls in bomb squad over Super Mario power-up cubes
EA to Gamers: If we can't email you, you can't play online!
It's been reported before how EA spams you simply for playing their games. Well, it goes a little bit deeper than that. If they can't email you about whatever they want, you don't get to play their games. Paying for them isn't good enough. If you opt out of their email system they shut down your access to playing online!
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Monday, April 03, 2006
Silver Needle--or bullet?--in Skype
Talk given at Blackhat conference details methods to make variants of Skype code that allow "Dr. Evil" to set up spin-off networks usable for DoS, phishing or general scamming, as well as a means of exploiting a buffer overflow to gain control over a network of Skype machines, each of which fully trusts all peers.
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strange word
There is actually a word for "throwing something out of a window". the word is Defenestrate.
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Encrypted VoIP Phone Calls foil NSA
How easy is it for the average internet user to make a phone call secure enough to frustrate the NSA's extrajudicial surveillance program? Wired News took Phil Zimmermann's newest encryption software, Zfone, for a test drive and found it's actually quite easy, even if the program is still in beta.
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Robot Girls
A satirical essay of why we need sex robots to replace the women of the world. Funny and politically incorrect! Do you agree or disagree with the authors point of view?
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Oh the Irony...
Anti-virus firm Trend Micro disclosed that they themselves had been hit by the worm that exploits a file-sharing program to upload your entire hard drive. An employee put company info on his infected home machine, which...whoops...wasn't protected by Trend Micro's anti-virus software. Ow. The story here links to a more in-depth, technical account.
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Sun Microsystems proposes open-source DRM
Dell Increases Warranty Coverage on Laptops !!!!!!!!
Stiff competition and falling prices are probably only a couple of main factors that lead Dell to announce an increase to its warranty on all Insprion laptops.
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Simpson's Teaser Trailer
Create a multi-state image toolbar on your Web site with JavaScript
This document guides you through the process of using JavaScript and the DOM to build a three-state toolbar that accurately and efficiently handles different button states, and the interdependencies between them (very cool javascript ).
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Apple engraves "Apple rocks" instead of "Microsoft 4ever" on iPod
A man jokingly placing an order for a "Microsoft 4ever"-engraved iPod from the Apple store gets an "Apple rocks"-engraved iPod instead.
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Human Memory Capacity- Only 200 Megs
While little research exists on this subject, Thomas K. Landauer's research from the late 1980's indicates that the human brain is capable of storing the equivalent of a few hundred megabytes throughout a lifetime. How disappointing.
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