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Seems that a number of high tech thieves have found a new way to steal money. They attach a fake card reader to an actual ATM. Then when unsuspecting victims puts their card into the fake reader it then passes it thru to the actual ATM Machine slot. The person then punches in their pin and the on-board camera in
Leave those white earbuds at home while traveling abroad. Seems thieves are targeting people with iPods in England. [www.thisislondon.co.uk]
I have had my share of PCAnywhere sessions with sick servers and have had machines die on me in the middle of an extended business trip. At a time not so long ago I developed a emergency recovery routine that has saved my butt more than once. Happily the team at JPL where also thinking the same thing. [EE Times]
A great deal of the information I get to put on this website comes from other sites. I scan through and find things that interest me and hopefully interest you. That said some sites are more reliable than others when it comes to facts in a story. Dan Gillmor talks at length about anonymous posters and the good and bad
Are you an American are you worried about having more of your rights revoked, if you do not care then go ahead and keep on surfing. Otherwise you need to visit the site that is fighting to "Protect Fair Use" stand up for your rights to copy media that you own and not face federal prosecution. [Protect Fair Use]
Ok here is the scenario you have just backed up critical data to a DVD from your server and you want to make a copy of yous backup. Guess what it's against the law. A dumb-ass judge has ruled that it is illegal to make a backup copy of any DVD you own. 321 Studio's who sell or at least
Nasa and JPL may be have a kick-ass science team but there web people need to be fired. I have discovered a web site that organizes the images being sent by the rovers that actually allows you t quickly view the data and drill down to the images you want to look at. [MER2003 Image Workbench]
If you don't want your every move tracked by Yahoo you better read this. [freewarearena.org]
Seems a ISP had a visit by the FBI and all of the companies computers where seized in a effort to find something that had happened on a IRC server. Well instead of finding the data they hauled off all of their servers no countless websites are off the air due to the seizure. This is a good reason to
Either Pepsi is not filling their bottles as full as they should or some dummy made the font that say TRY AGAIN to big. People are able to find Winning bottles in the 100 million music giveaway by just tipping the bottle a little and looking for the words AGAIN. [DesignTechnica]
Simply amazing the ISS will never get completed. One thing is for sure we better be thanking the russians they are the only ones keeping the ISS in business. [Space Today]
A enormous amount of science is being relayed back to earth from the two rovers. Opportunity is doing test on a trench it dug and spirit is set to dig a trench of it's own tomorrow. Seems the area the spirit has rolled up to surface soil has changed and particles are sticking to the rover wheels so the scientist
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