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The triumphant return of: main(){while(1)fork();}
[www.securityfocus.com] “forkbomb it” I’ll admit that I thought his statement was pretty funny. How did this guy expect to bring down a Linux machine by fork bombing it as a non-root user? Not being as intimately familiar with the various Linux distributions as I am with the three BSDs, I figured that I’d have a…
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Blogging as part of your Job?
Tim Bray posted It’s Not Dangerous (with a subsequent redux) while “Tom Reynolds” posted How To Blog And Not Lose Your Job; they are all interesting postings, and I shall follow-up with my views, later.
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diesel-powered bikes becoming a reality…
I would be really interested to give one of these a go: [www.motorcycle-blog.com] We first covered a diesel powered KLR back in May of last year, with a story about F1 Engineering’s military spec bike that was designed to win government, armed forces and law enforcement contracts. Now, it turns out that the bike recently…
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Safe for bikers to change lane
[www.timesonline.co.uk] MOTORCYCLISTS will soon be able to weave their biking magic across more of the road if a promised government review gives them permission to ride in bus lanes. The Department for Transport’s current advice, published in 1997, recommends that local authorities do not allow bikers into bus lanes, reports Local Transport Today (March 3),…
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Fingerprint Identification Technology To Be Adopted At Internet Cafes (China)
I always used to think that fingerprint-based login would be a good idea, but then that was in the days that computing resource was the important thing to protect, rather than user identity and privacy… [www.chinatechnews.com] Fingerprint Identification Technology To Be Adopted At Internet Cafes Fang Chunming, head of the Anhui Provincial Youth League, has…
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AOL Instant Messaging: You Type, We Record/Publish/Do Whatever We Want
A lot of my colleagues – myself included – use AIM and the like (Yahoo, MSN Messenger, …) to keep in touch during work hours. I am a recent arrival to AOL Instant Messenger, but have subscribed due to the gravity of the service. This reflects that many of my colleagues believe that AIM is…
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Colorization Using Optimization
[www.cs.huji.ac.il] Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie. The process typically involves segmenting images into regions and tracking these regions across image sequences. Neither of these tasks can be performed reliably in practice; consequently, colorization requires considerable user intervention and remains a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive task. In…
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Lords bat terror bill back to MPs
[news.bbc.co.uk] Tony Blair’s anti-terror measures are due to go back before MPs, after peers again voted to amend the bill. Lords insisted that a time limit or “sunset clause” should be added to the bill, which allows control orders to be imposed on terror suspects. The Lords also demanded a higher burden of proof before…
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UK National Loyalty Card
Robin Wilton – mate of mine, sound geezer – is writing extensively about matters of Identity Cards, a topic about which he knows a great deal from his past and current occupations inside Sun Microsystems. He writes: [blogs.sun.com] I am trying to get a handle on what affects citizen uptake and usage of Identity Cards,…
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US Version of “The Office”
It doesn’t seem to suck. I am impressed. Trailer, below. From: Robert Diamond “The Office” on NBC [www.rresults.com]