Blackhacker

MUCH DAP: Jeep Bastard

Dap: JeepBastard

So far the only draw back I see is that FireFTP and Spellbound extension do not work.

In the previous post I complained about the stock price of Google. If what Bob Cringely says is true it might be worth it.

PBS | I, Cringely . November 17, 2005 - Paper War

There will be the Internet, and then there will be the Google Internet, superimposed on top. We’ll use it without even knowing. The Google Internet will be faster, safer, and cheaper. With the advent of widespread GoogleBase (again a bit-schlepping app that can be used in a thousand ways — most of them not even envisioned by Google) there’s suddenly a new kind of marketplace for data with everything a transaction in the most literal sense as Google takes over the role of trusted third-party info-escrow agent for all world business. That’s the goal.

I’m on Googles Jock as much as anybody but .. $400 per share?

BetaNews

Boasting a $112 billion market capitalization that now almost doubles Yahoo, Google stock on Thursday surged past the $400 a share for the first time. In the past four weeks, Google shares have shot up over $100, with talk that $500 could be within reach before long.

Sony introduced a DRM technology that automatically installs on you PC, called XCP. The idea was that it would interject an keep you from ripping the CDs. It is installed when you try to play a CD with the software on it. Another word for this type of software is a rootkit. The story was broke by blogger and hacker Mark Russinovich No small uproar went through the Internet.

The outcry was so great that on Nov. 11, Sony announced it was temporarily halting production of that copy-protection scheme. That still wasn’t enough — on Nov. 14 the company announced it was pulling copy-protected CDs from store shelves and offered to replace customers’ infected CDs for free.

But that’s not the real story here.

It’s a tale of extreme hubris. Sony rolled out this incredibly invasive copy-protection scheme without ever publicly discussing its details, confident that its profits were worth modifying its customers’ computers. When its actions were first discovered, Sony offered a “fix” that didn’t remove the rootkit, just the cloaking. (from wired)

Not only that but it left a security vulnerability. As you may realize people play CDs EVERY FREAKING WHERE there is PC. That’s why the rootkit was found on DOD and Dept. of Homeland Security PCs. It is estimated that 1,500,000 computers world wide are infected.

What do you think of your antivirus company, the one that didn’t notice Sony’s rootkit as it infected half a million computers? And this isn’t one of those lightning-fast Internet worms; this one has been spreading since mid-2004. Because it spread through infected CDs, not through Internet connections, they didn’t notice? This is exactly the kind of thing we’re paying those companies to detect — especially because the rootkit was phoning home.

Phoning home means that the rootkit was contacting Sony though the Internet.

Lastly, it turns out that Sony’s rootkit was based on software developed by DVD Jon who’s broke Sony’s encryption and release a program on the Internet that allowed someone to rip DVDs. (link)

So to answer the the question in the title :

YOU BLACK AS &@$$ !!!

list of CDs said to have XCP:1 2 3

RootKit Revealer

“Son, I’m not going to pay your $30,000 a year tuition to junior college. Instead I’m going to write you a check.”

nytimes

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 - Congressional Republicans decided Wednesday to take a legislative wrecking ball to two Alaskan bridge projects that had demolished the party’s reputation for fiscal austerity.

Straining to show new dedication to lower spending, House and Senate negotiators took the rare step of eliminating a requirement that $442 million be spent to build the two bridges, spans that became cemented in the national consciousness as “bridges to nowhere” because of the remote territory and small populations involved.

The change will not save the federal government any money. Instead, the $442 million will be turned over to the state with no strings attached, allowing lawmakers and the governor there to parcel it out for transportation projects as they see fit, including the bridges should they so choose.

Bridge to nowhere => Check to Nowhere

Dap: P6

From scifi.com

To recreate Brando’s version of the character in his new Superman movie, Singer said in an interview that he used “a combination of unused footage, [used] footage and recreated footage. You won’t necessarily see Marlon Brando walking around or reanimated in a conventional sense, but you will hear [dialogue] that you have heard before [and] takes that you haven’t heard before and a rendering that is completely new.”

NAACP chief makes switch to GOP - OrlandoSentinel.com
For decades, Republicans have struggled to reach out to black Americans. But now in Orange County, the GOP has to reach no further than the NAACP.

As of this week, Derrick Wallace, head of Orange County’s NAACP, has switched parties — to become a Republican.

I’m wondering how long before he decides that the grass over there isn’t any greener.

Dozens of old television shows, including Welcome Back Kotter, will be available online and free of charge under a deal between America Online and Warner Bros., the companies said.

In the latest alternative to traditional TV viewing, a new broadband network, called In2TV, will be launched in early 2006 by AOL(link) and Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution. (full article)

I think if they are going to give it away they could offer it as a torrent. Thats just me.

Update
Betanews has more on this story

But unlike Apple’s approach of charging $2, TV shows from AOL(link) will be free and rely on customers’ bandwidth for distribution. To make this happen, AOL(link) has partnered with Kontiki, a peer-to-peer video on-demand platform that runs in the background as an Internet Explorer plug-in.

AOL(link) Hi-Q is based on the Kontiki technology and promises DVD-quality full-screen playback — as long as users are connected to the Internet and sharing videos they have downloaded. Because the new format is based on Windows Media Video with a Kontiki P2P wrapper, only Windows XP and IE6 are supported at this time.

So they are using a P2P of sorts that does share band width but can I play it on my TV?