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The screenshots [www4.ncsu.edu] are hilarious… [www.securityfocus.com] A Raleigh, North Carolina cable news channel shut down a Web application designed to allow local schools and businesses to report weather-related closings last week, after a handful of puckish university students discovered they could use it to add textual graffiti to the station’s newscast. Before the system was…

[theregister.co.uk] The perils of Googling By Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus Posted: 10/03/2004 at 10:27 GMT Google is in many ways most dangerous website on the Internet for thousands of individuals and organisations; Most computers users still have no idea that they may be revealing far more to the world than they would want. …cites Crack further…

i have the michelin 1:200,000 road atlas of france. being of a boy-scout turn of mind, i decided to measure the grid to get a grip on the overall scale of the atlas; grid lines are spaced at 65mm (+/- 0.5mm measurement error) which yields the bizzare spacing of 13km on the ground. 13 kilometers.…

i am going to try and live this week, using Safari exclusively as a browser. let’s see if it works.

Baco (the British Aluminum Corporation) are most notorious for making aluminium foil used in cooking; I found that they are also a retail aluminium stockholder with a branch nearby, in Reading. After casting around for a company to manufacture a luggage rack for my DRZ-400S – and finding prices in the 350+ Euro range –…

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[www.ghostriderrobot.com] – an autonomous motorcycle.

Clipping from IRC: 17:51 <brand> [www.nsa.gov] 17:52 <brand> I don’t know whether to be amused or aghast. 17:59 <alecm> it has a cat. 17:59 <alecm> i like cats. 17:59 <alecm> “your tax dollars at work”

[www.voiceoftheturtle.org] One fine morning in One Hundred Acre Wood, Pooh went to visit Piglet. He was feeling a little peckish, and thought that he and Piglet might be able to rustle up a little something together. He walked over to Piglet’s house, and knocked on the door, but there was no reply. On the door…

a simple idea, stretched to marvellous extremes rtsp://real1.cissme.com/bgroup/video/xl/lemon/ifxls156dvd-01_rvh.rm linked indirectly from [www.airside.co.uk]

well i blew-away my jaguar partition last night; a complete reinstall, and it’s worked rather well. aside from a minor but repairable goof in copying my files back from the archive harddisk, everything has gone well, and is rather faster (it was not hype) although the machine runs warmer as a result. tip: when backing-up…

I really wonder sometimes why I don’t just give up and accept that the computer security industry that I once loved, that I researched, and in a small way helped blossom… That that industry has now gone mass market – in a rather tongue-in-cheek way and we who were there in the early years are…