Topic: VIDEO - on June 28, 2007 at 12:30:00 PM CEST
Microsoft Surface: The Parody
Spoof on the Microsoft Surface Computer, using the original Microsoft footage with some hilarious new voice overs. "Truth be told, we actually WANT a Surface Computer, but since we can't afford one, we thought it might be fun to make fun of it."
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Topic: MAKE - on June 28, 2007 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Maker Saturday Webcasts at The Exploratorium
Make Magazine and Craft Magazine are doing a series of weekly Maker Saturday Webcasts from The Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio at The Exploratorium in San Francisco.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 28, 2007 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
Cambodians warned over DIY penis enlargement
Authorities in Cambodia warned men on Tuesday against do-it-yourself penis enlargement treatments, in the aftermath of a case in which a man killed himself because of the side-effects of a botched enlargement attempt.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 28, 2007 at 11:42:00 AM CEST
“Who wants to be a President?”
This video was pretty popular among Russian Internet community a while ago, now here it’s translated to Russian. The main theme is when Mr. Putin says “Who wants to be a president?” and then answers “Me!”.
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Topic: TV - on June 28, 2007 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
BBC web downloads set to launch
The BBC's on demand TV service, the BBC iPlayer, will launch to the public on 27 July, the corporation has revealed.
UK users will be able to download popular shows over the net seven days after broadcast to watch on their PC.
Later this year, the service will also be available via links from YouTube and could also appear on other websites such as MSN, Bebo, and Facebook.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2007 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
Record opium crop in southern Afghanistan
Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, where some 7,000 British troops are based, is on the verge of becoming the world's biggest drugs supplier, cultivating more opium than entire countries such as Burma, Morocco, or even Colombia, the UN warned yesterday.
The region was largely responsible for a huge increase last year in Afghanistan's opium poppy harvest, the origin of most of the heroin on the streets of Britain and mainland Europe. And Helmand's poppy harvest is expected to increase again this year, according to the latest annual report of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 28, 2007 at 11:23:00 AM CEST
Private-eye hackers are convicted
Two police officers who moonlighted as private detectives have been convicted of bugging phones and hacking into computers on behalf of wealthy clients.
Jeremy Young and Scott Gelsthorpe set up Active Investigation Services and ran a service dubbed "Hackers Are Us".
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 28, 2007 at 11:18:00 AM CEST
Worms 2.0! The Metasploit menace inside your firewall
In his research he focused on using a web browser as a beachhead to launch Metasploit-style attacks. What this means is that any Javascript enabled web browser might be used to launch an attack against a service, for example a VoIP server, and gain complete control of the box.
Generally exploits are executed inside a development framework such as Metasploit, or run directly from the code. But this time, the code would run inside the browser, using Javascript. And all of this takes palce without exploiting any bugs in the browser itself.
Your browser is now an active menace against the security of your internal network. However, the problem can't be easily fixed, because it is not based on a bug: it simply uses "Web 2.0" technologies against you.
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Topic: WEB - on June 28, 2007 at 11:16:00 AM CEST
What Happens Without Safe Harbor Protections: ISP Deletes All User Multimedia Files
In the ongoing case of Viacom against Google, one of the keys is whether or not Google/YouTube have protection under the DMCA safe harbor provisions, which are supposed to protect service providers from the actions of their users. This is an important, because without those safe harbor provisions, the increase in liability would basically cripple all kinds of internet service providers. For an example, just look to Australia, where an ISP was found liable for content its users hosted, leading another ISP to delete all multimedia files hosted by its users every night (these are only the files hosted on their web accounts, not on their home computers, obviously).
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 28, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
Hans Reiser: Once a Linux Visionary, Now Accused of Murder [Interview]
Hans Reiser is waiting for me, standing on the other side of an imitation-wood table. The room is small, the concrete walls bare. A guard locks the steel door from the outside. There is no sound. Reiser is wearing the red jumpsuit of a prisoner in solitary confinement, though he has been allowed to meet with me in this chilly visiting room. There was a time when he was known as a cantankerous but visionary open source programmer. His work was funded by the government; he was widely credited (and sometimes reviled) for rethinking the structure of the Linux operating system. Now he is known as prisoner BFP563.
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