#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2004, 2005

last updated at 2005-03-29 19:05

don't forget, /ignore kurt*!*@* || coderman, please stop posting on craigslist: http://bakersfield.craigslist.org/about/best/por/65023833.html

http://paulgraham.com/mac.html
posted by eeeeeee at 2005-03-29 19:28

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/fcs.htm
posted by ^matthew at 2005-03-29 18:04

^matthew: Case study: one massive project that the Bush administration has turned from minor inconvenience to colossal failure.
Ash: <Zim> Failure.. or Success?!

MCI accepts Verizon's $7.6bln offer
posted by seti at 2005-03-29 15:44

slashdot: ID Theft Made Easy
posted by simmo at 2005-03-29 10:17

simmo: chiagoo writes "You may remember that 70% of the time, people will reveal their passwords for chocolate. Well, at this year's Infosecurity Europe, it was revealed that 92% of the 200 attendees surveyed would gladly trade enough information to steal their identities for a chance to win theater tickets. Social engineering at its best. Why spend time writing bots and rootkits when people will give you what you want for a piece of candy or
simmo: a ticket to see The Pacifier?"
simmo: The remaining 30% volunteered their password without even needing to be bribed
simmo: or asked
simmo: in fact 10% can't say anything but their password
simmo: aka 'shell shock'
seti: I don't even know any passwords, Keychain.app does the remembering for me

Stolen Laptop Exposes Data of 100,000
posted by Tonus at 2005-03-29 09:55

Tonus: mmmm... fs encryption.

Calibrate your mac's display
posted by Ash at 2005-03-29 04:14

simmo: http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/evaluation/gamma_space/ select the target gamma from the list at left, then try different values for the command: xgamma -gamma <your_value_here>
simmo: until the gradient looks flattest grey you can get
simmo: oh you said osx .. not X

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court_to_hear_MGM_v._Grokster
posted by simmo at 2005-03-29 04:06

simmo: interview notes needing editing to make an article

P4/1.8GHZ FANLESS MINICOM SYSTEM
posted by simmo at 2005-03-29 02:53

simmo: AU$2,090.00 + GST
wmf: I'd bet you could build a much faster fanless Pentium M system
simmo: generally you need at least one fan to get the heat out of the case, using off-shelf componenets, but I bet you're right
simmo: but this one is also very small ..
simmo: barebones version AU$600

http://the.ghet.to/pics/trippy.gif
posted by eeeeeee at 2005-03-29 01:04

    
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