A Website set up by the Epilepsy Foundation has been hit by hackers, according to an Associated Press report.
An official with the foundation said computer hackers breached the foundation’s site, bombarding it with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.
The images can be harmful to people with photosensitive epilepsy, who sometimes [...]

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San Francisco (CA) – Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster has posted another blog article which criticizes eBay for its lawsuit. In the post titled “Kettles and Pots“, Buckmaster outlines what eBay is suing for, namely to stop Craigslist’s poison pill and right of first refusal contract clauses for major shareholders. He also points out [...]

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This is why I’m a libertarian. If you give the government a power, they will find a way to abuse it. It doesn’t matter how benign or legitimate that power may seem on it’s surface. Some public official will find a way to torture the definition of a term to serve either his/her own agenda, [...]

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Within hours of its release, Microsoft’s Service Pack 3 for Windows XP began drawing hundreds of complaints from users who claim the update is wreaking havoc on their PCs.
The problems with XP SP3, according to posters on Microsoft’s Windows XP message board, range from spontaneous reboots to outright system crashes.
“My external disks are having trouble [...]

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The cool thing about eBay’s support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password, as Timothy discovered when he tried to figure out how to sell his laptop to someone who wasn’t a Nigerian scammer. Timothy has discovered the awful [...]

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They have a point. Google stores a ton of illegal files but no one is filing a lawsuit against them. Ugh.
While the RIAA has waged a full-on legal assault against individual file-sharers, the MPAA has instead chosen to go after individual web sites. In 2006, the motion picture industry trade group filed copyright infringement lawsuits [...]

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I really can’t believe Microsoft would even consider doing this - why, when you are at least a small part of the dominant new distribution mechanism for media, would you even consider giving in to the demands of someone who’s already giving their content away for free on Hulu? And it’s rather unfortunate that I [...]

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I realize this is a silly example, but when people wonder, “why should I care about privacy?” It makes a little sense with such a “sensational” example. Checkout the ACLU website for more “official” info on protecting your privacy.

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Four Hightower students being investigated after scores were changed for 60 students.

SUGAR LAND — Four high school students are being investigated on suspicion of breaking into the Fort Bend Independent School District’s computer network and changing the grades of at least 60 students, according to court documents and school officials.
Investigators estimated the financial loss to [...]

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Whitehat SEO, while not at a standstill, is certainly feeling a pinch from Google lately. Penalties are being handed out to sites much like a fratboy would cups of beer to the only attractive girl at the party. And yet many still refuse to learn anything remotely blackhat. I understand that they don’t want to [...]

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Let’s be honest here. The reason your average Joe should be scared about this: is because of porn.
Here’s how it works: most guys have this huge stash of porn and no way to verify that every last file is 100% legal. There’s a good chance they don’t even know what’s in there. You just used [...]

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While I don’t think this is huge news (Flash “effects and transitions” are “slow and annoying”), it’s still good to see more open source platforms.
Flash’s future lies in media delivery (youtube, gawker, etc) in which they now compete with Silverlight.
Having TV’s able to access hulu and iplayer would be cool but I don’t think it [...]

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Here is something for all you hackers out there reading my blog: all the videos from the previous year’s biggest and greatest hacker conference — DefCon 15!
I found these videos via this post on Roy/SAC’s blog. He bought a full set of DVDs for several hundred dollars and uploaded them to Google Video! I sincerely [...]

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