in China!
Video at BBC.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Ransomware!
Gasps!
Be careful out there.
Be careful out there.
It's much easier to just demand cash directly from infected users -- a crime that's the Internet's equivalent of kidnapping.Read more at MSNBC.
"Give me all your money or your computer gets it-" is the basic proposition.
Chaos poem
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Read the complete poem here.
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Read the complete poem here.
iPad
I thought it was Photoshopped. It certainly looked like it to me. Bummer. I didn't jump up and down for it. I wasn't as excited when iPhone came out. I was just... blur.
Here are ten things missing from the iPad by Wired.
Here are ten things missing from the iPad by Wired.
Many people will bemoan the lack of support for Adobe’s interactive software, Flash. It wasn’t mentioned, but eagle-eyed viewers would have seen the missing plugin icon on the New York Times site during yesterday’s demo, and given that Apple clearly hates Flash as both a non-open web “standard” and as a buggy, CPU-hungry piece of code, it’s unlikely it will ever be added, unless Apple decides it wants to cut the battery life down to two hours.Damn right!
Cyber extortion
What Americans don’t know, however, is that many of these enterprises are paying extortion fees to hackers who compromise their systems, threaten operational shutdowns, and demand payment to desist.Read more at The Klaxon.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Quick Links
Stupid lawsuits.
Wash your new clothes!
The Plague of Eyam: The Village that died to save its neighbours. Sounds like something from a movie. Heartwarming.
Wash your new clothes!
The Plague of Eyam: The Village that died to save its neighbours. Sounds like something from a movie. Heartwarming.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
Avatar
I knew what Avatar (in the game world) means...but I forgot until I watched the movie.
My rating: 4.8/5
The 0.2 was the creepy inter-species relationship...it would have been a bigger number if I hadn't thought that there are other alien movies out there with these relationships, right?
Anyway, it was worth the buzz!
My rating: 4.8/5
The 0.2 was the creepy inter-species relationship...it would have been a bigger number if I hadn't thought that there are other alien movies out there with these relationships, right?
Anyway, it was worth the buzz!
Facebook + Twitter: Top weird stories of 2009
Swine flu, or H1N1, presented another challenge -- and rich source of weird stories. In Egypt, thousands of pigs were slaughtered even though the United Nations said the mass cull was a "real mistake" because the strain was not found in pigs.
Read more at MSNBC.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Top 10 Defining Moments of 2000s
10. Final Harry Potter Book released
9. Pop Idol Debuts
8. Slumdog Millionaire Released
7. Boston Red Sox begins their comeback
6. Apple introduces the iPod
5. Facebook launched
4. Euro Adopted
3. Terrorism attacks on the US
2. Indian Ocean Earthquake
Find out what #1 is via Listverse.
9. Pop Idol Debuts
8. Slumdog Millionaire Released
7. Boston Red Sox begins their comeback
6. Apple introduces the iPod
5. Facebook launched
4. Euro Adopted
3. Terrorism attacks on the US
2. Indian Ocean Earthquake
Find out what #1 is via Listverse.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
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