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Sometimes linux hosting users need to change the permissions on a folder to use upload scripts or other applications that need this permissions.
With chmod 777 their folder gain the rights: writing / reading and execute for everyone. Malicious hackers like these kind of folders.
How can you protect that folders?
You can turn PHP off on that [...]

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Correction: The authors of the Netflix de-anonymization study contacted me to point out that they originally published a draft of their results a mere two weeks after Netflix released its dataset. Netflix has known about their study for over a year.
Over the past year, there have been a number of high-profile incidents in which sensitive [...]

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Installing libxine-extracodecs will get you the most wide-spread codecs installed, but not all of them. MPlayer, a movie player program for Linux, has support for a big bunch of video and audio formats. Installing them in Linux ( Ubuntu / Fedora / SUSE ) should be as easy as sudo yum (or aptitude) install w32codecs [...]

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Warning: You should proceed with caution using this Howto, if you do not know what you are doing you could damage your relationship with Friend 2.0 or totally break it. Also, using this Howto extensively with multiple Friend 2.0’s may damage Life 4.5, and end up as a sorrow lonely geek.
Prerequisites :
Before attempting to convert [...]

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WARNING: Do NOT calculate Pi in binary. It is conjectured that this number is normal, meaning that it contains ALL finite bit strings. If you compute it, you will be guilty of: 1. Copyright infringement (of all books, all short stories, all newspapers, all magazines, all web sites, all music, all movies, and [...]

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Great video. This made my day.

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Who says Linux sucks for gaming? Here’s a great list of 25 3D games for Linux. Feel free to add more games and help another Linux users find those great time wasters you love.
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The airline ticket is a curious beast. It’s yours and yours alone, and unlike a ticket for a music or sports event, it can’t be sold or even given away. You hand it to someone else and it turns to dust. You can rebook or get credit for a future flight through the airline, but [...]

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This is a brief video with Presidential hopeful, Ron Paul and Fox News Interviewer, Neil Cavuto. Mr. Cavuto thought he had Dr. Paul with a random question about racist campaign donations, but Dr. Paul saved all the momentum and delivered a swift kick in the ass. This made my day.

It’s funny how logic always makes [...]

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Tom O’Keefe, an art director based in Boston, is suing American Express and Ogilvy & Mather for allegedly using his trademarked concept for the “My Life My Card” campaign. According to the press release issued by O’Keefe’s attorneys, the art director was pitching O&M for work on the campaign. For years, O’Keefe had used a [...]

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Conspiracy Theory Warning! A fun video to help pass the time during the snowfall. I had no idea how far back the Bush family stretches. Come to your own conclusions.

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The issue is that our SSN was neither designed to be a private number nor something for other organizations to use to identify someone. It’s unfortunate how it’s now used for that and that basically with it, you can take over almost anyone’s accounts. Bruce Schneier talks about using a SSN as ID in his [...]

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Look, which has already won major kudos on the film festival circuit and will be in theaters this Friday, is sure to be a thought provoking and controversial film. It purports to be made entirely out of surveillance footage shot without the knowledge the people involved.
According to the film’s director Adam Rifkin, 37 states say [...]

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