Blackhacker

This is really funny.

Much Dap: Professor Kim

The death of a relationship is recorded, on of all places, bugzilla. The bug tracking site for the mozilla foundation, the non profit that make firefox and other really cool open source apps. This just underscores how much “incriminating” information is on our PCs. In this case the evidence of a finance’s infidelity was just in the password manager. What if Google Desktop was installed. That app is almost scary. I chatting on AIM(link) with one guy about something, and googled the topic we where discussing, and it came back with the chat log for the conversation I was STILL HAVING.

There are 2 morals:

1. Gervase Markham @ Hacking For Christ has the first:
   Secretes will be revealed eventually. Lies will be found out eventually. Deceptions will be undone eventually. We will all get what we deserve eventually.
   
2. Be paranoid and proactive about computer security:
   Dude could still enjoying both getting his cake and eating it, if simply took the time to understand how his browser works and how to safe guard his personal information. (This does not mitigate moral # 1. Boy friend would have eventually y slipped up and been found out by girl friend eventually)

PS3: Holy Grail for Alternative Operating Systems? - OSNews.com
Sony’s PS3, scheduled to be released near the end of this year, has been slated to have a hard drive that will support and will even include preinstalled Linux. This could be a breakthrough event not just for Linux but also for other alternative operating systems as well. The PS3 will almost certainly sell millions and millions of units, providing a unique opportunity for people to try something that would be more difficult on their regular computer.

Official Google Blog: Judge tells DoJ “No” on search queries
Google will not have to hand over any user’s search queries to the government. That’s what a federal judge ruled today when he decided to drastically limit a subpoena issued to Google by the Department of Justice. (You can read the entire ruling here and the government’s original subpoena here.)

The government’s original request demanded billions of URLs and two month’s worth of users’ search queries. Google resisted the subpoena, prompting the judge’s order today. In addition to excluding search queries from the subpoena, Judge James Ware also required the government to limit its demand for URLs to 50,000. We will fully comply with the judge’s order.

WHOO HOO !!

Google launches finance Web site - MarketWatch

By Bambi Francisco, MarketWatch
Last Update: 11:23 AM ET Mar 21, 2006SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Google Inc. unveiled a new site Tuesday featuring financial news and related content, pushing into a high-growth market long ago staked out by rivals such as Yahoo Inc.
A trial version of the site, located at finance.google.com, contains stories from other financial-news services, including Bloomberg, Reuters, CNet, Forbes, Microsoft’s MSN Money and Dow Jones & Co., whose MarketWatch division is the publisher of this report.

Google’s strength has always been knowing what it does best And that is organizing and presenting information. You have been able to get quotes from Google forever but untill recently you would have been redirected to Yahoo. No longer.

Study: RFID Tags Carry Potential Virus Threat
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
March 15, 2006, 4:38 PM

Radio chips being marketed as a replacement for the barcode threaten consumer privacy and are able to carry a virus, Dutch university scientists revealed on Wednesday. An infected radio frequency identity (RFID) tag is able to disrupt the database that reads information on the chip.(link)

Don’t forget the government wants to put this technology in all it paper currency (some people say they have already started), and nationally recognised identification. And some idiots are putting it in their skin.

Ken Hakuta

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Microsoft has reveals its new ‘Origami’ product. The Ultra-Mobil PC.

Reuters Business Channel | Reuters.com
SEATTLE, March 9 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday unveiled its ‘Origami’ project, a paperback-book sized portable computer, which is a hybrid between a laptop PC and a host of mobile devices that the world’s biggest software maker hopes will create an entirely new market.

Lighter than two pounds (0.972 kilograms) with a seven-inch

(17.78-centimetre) touch-screen, the new “ultra-mobile” PCs will use microprocessors from Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and run a modified version of Microsoft’s Windows XP Tablet PC edition.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research), Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc. (2357.TW: Quote, Profile, Research) and China’s second largest PC-maker, the Founder Group, are expected to release the first three ultra-mobile PCs, which Microsoft had code-named ‘Origami’ in an elaborate marketing campaign.

South Korea’s Samsung’s product goes on sale in April.

My 2 pennies, This is a bad move by MSFT. They KNOW that 3-hours of battery life isn’t gonna cut it. They plan to have an “all-day” version coming out, but it is a mystery to me how they are gonna maintain the physical specs., the functionality, and still be able to ramp up , battery life. You usually have to pick two. Speaking of the physical specs its too big. Most people want something they can put in their pocket.

They are not even following thier own plays any more. The PC beat out Mac in the 80’s NOT by being everything to everybody but being what most people need (or want), most of the time. If you got a blackberry, iPod, PSP, or laptop i can’t see why you would pick this.

The Clarion-Ledger
While lawmakers debate broadening Mississippians’ right to kill intruders, Cory Maye is fighting to get off death row for shooting a Prentiss police officer who raided his home.

On Jan. 23, 2004, a Marion County jury sentenced Maye to die by lethal injection. Now, more than two years later, a hearing on whether Maye, now 25, deserves a new trial is set for June 20.

“I honestly believe there’s been an injustice,” said his new attorney, Bob Evans of Monticello. “It’s a tragedy no doubt that Officer Ron Jones lost his life, but a double tragedy is that Cory, who wasn’t out seeking trouble, ends up on Mississippi’s death row.”

Dap: Prof. Kim

1. Harry Osborn becomes Hobgoblin instead of Green Goblin
2. Pulling classic blockbuster mistake buy referencing too many villans
3. Gwen Stacy is introduced and they have the nerve to not kill her by movie’s end. (Bone up on your Spidey Lore to knom what I’m talking about)
4. And now this …

They are messing it up.