You just bought a new HDTV and a PlayStation3 from the local big box store. Now the sales clerk begins applying pressure to buy one of their expensive digital cables. The inquisitive may ask: Do expensive cables really make a difference to picture quality? The store clerk that says “yes” is either lying or ignorant.
Monster HDMI Cable Scam | Gizmo Republic
Stolen From: The Consumerist Forums - HDMI Monster Cable Scam With Pics
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etchstar’s Flickrstream is chock-a-block with Apple products decorated with a number of Star Trek themed designs, amongst other things. There’s a Starfleet Command MacBook Pro, an Enterprise MacBook (seen above), an Enterprise A iPod, a Star Trek logo iPod, a Klingon Empire iPod, and a very cool nano or two.
Flickr Find: Star Trek etched MacBooks and iPods - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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123Macmini.com - News - Mods: Classic Mini Jukebox
James Colby has sent in some information about his Classic Mini Jukebox mod. We have seen a couple of similar mods with Mac minis mounted inside classic Mac cases, but James has taken things a step further with some more serious modifications. This includes the use of an ATX power supply. He also did a really nice job with cable management inside the case.
Stolen from: Classic mini jukebox - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Have I got your attention now?" asked Mona Shaw of the Comcast payment center employees as she smashed their keyboard, monitor and telephone. The 75-year-old woman was outraged after multiple delays and broken promises surrounding her Comcast Triple Play installation.
Historically Apple’s Macintosh computers have remained relevant because of the ongoing efforts of dedicated, enthusiastic software developers who continued to build great applications even when the size of the Mac-using community was dwindling. Shutting developers out of its latest, greatest accomplishment is a lousy thing to do.
Stolen From: BusinessWeek: Why I Won’t Buy an iPhone - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Somehow I missed this article from a few weeks ago. It’s quite fascinating.
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe
In the coming months, commentators around the world would look back at this moment and debate its significance. But for Aaviksoo, the meaning was clear. This was not the first botnet strike ever, nor was it the largest. But never before had an entire country been targeted on almost every digital front all at once, and never before had a government itself fought back. "The attacks were aimed at the essential electronic infrastructure of the Republic of Estonia," Aaviksoo tells me later. "All major commercial banks, telcos, media outlets, and name servers — the phone books of the Internet — felt the impact, and this affected the majority of the Estonian population. This was the first time that a botnet threatened the national security of an entire nation."
Welcome to Web War one.
Storm worm botnet more powerful than top supercomputers - Security - www.itnews.com.au
"In terms of power, the botnet utterly blows the supercomputers away," said Matt Sergeant, chief anti-spam technologist with MessageLabs, in an interview. "If you add up all 500 of the top supercomputers, it blows them all away with just 2 million of its machines. It’s very frightening that criminals have access to that much computing power, but there’s not much we can do about it."
Wow. From now on, when anyone asks me why I can’t do more to track down spammers, I’ll show them this article
He started to obsess about who could produce such a spam onslaught without being detected. Then he dug a little, then more, then even more. So began the strangest and most frustrating year of Peterson’s 39-year-long life. In the course of his spam hunt he broke several laws, engaged the help of shadowy hackers, hid months of activity from his wife and boss, neglected work and ended up losing half his annual bonus. He contacted 20 agents in nine government agencies in the U.S., China and India but failed to engage any of them in a serious quest for the culprits.
Bad Behavior has blocked 71 access attempts in the last 7 days.