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Are you a retired Hacker or an Active Hacker Kevin Mitnick is writing a new book and is solicitating for stories. Any story that makes the cut will receive $200.00 so if you have bragging the rights on a particular hack you have the opportunity to collect some cash for your hard work. [ZDNet]
With one of the most comprehensive construction projects over, the city of Boston is about to experience a renaissance of sorts in that the Big Dig has finally come to a conclusion. It should make the boston experience more enjoyable. 10,000 years from now if where still around someone is going to look back at the architecture required to make
All I can say is cool. We live in an amazing Universe and if everyone would look up a little more and ponder our place out here the world would be a heck of a lot better. People continue to be so narrow minded. I guess I am dreamer and like millions of people wish for a day when the
I am of the same opinion that Single song music prices may be headed somewhat downward. It cannot get much lower but with the Recording Industry getting .68 cents there is .32 cents of headroom using .15% markup the price should be closer to .78 cents with Walmart introducing .88 cent per track pricing then we are getting closer. I
Sun Microsystems has sent a letter to customers that I tend to agree with. With Microsoft dropping support for Windows 98 it leaves me in a predicament. My kids computer is not fast enough to support XP but yet I let them surf the net with it knowing that between the physical firewall and ZoneAlarm that it is pretty well
In another setback today a Dutch court ruled that the peer to peer application Kazaa was not breaking Dutch Law [BBC]
Quoting ZDNet "Overturning a series of decisions in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America, the Washington, D.C., court said copyright law did not allow the organization to issue subpoenas for the identity of file swappers on Internet service providers' networks" This is a huge victory but does not stop the RIAA from filing individual lawsuits. They will now
I rcvd a recommendation to subscribe to this newsletter the Jury is still out on it but it has the potential to be provide a nugget of two from time to time. [www.tricksandtrinkets.com]
This information has made the rounds already but a few of you have sent me e-mail asking about the vulnerability I thought should provide you a link to Test you Internet Explorer. This is a pretty serious spoof as of yet Microsoft has not found a fix for it. To find out if you are at risk visit the following
I have always been intrigued with encryption and use PGP on select e-mail from time to time and understand the US Governments fear of wider adoption. But my adoption and utilization of encryption on a personal level goes no further than that occasional e-mail that has more info in it than I am willing to reveal to someone non-official sampling
This site takes the battle against the RIAA to a new level. I am all about boycotting the Music Industry by not buying full length CD's, but I can not condone tactics they outline when it comes to defacing cd's in music sales store. Some of the other issues they bring up though are very valid. They are supporting independent
You know how it is when your a kid you open a Christmas present that totally sucks. Well now there is a guide for kids getting Music CD's that contains music they have downloaded over the Internet already. Visit [www.whatacrappypresent.com] ;)
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