#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2004, 2005

The United States posted a record current-account deficit of $195.1 billion last quarter
posted by coderman at 2005-06-17 23:53

coderman: "If the current pace continues, the United States' deficit in trade and capital flows with the rest of the world could reach $780 billion this year, a dramatic increase from last year's record $617 billion"
coderman: "Economists agree that the drop in the value of the dollar is only beginning to help redress the trade imbalance, in part because of an overvaluation of the dollar in relation to China and Japan."
coderman: "Over all, however, the administration sees the widening current-account deficit as a sign of strength rather than weakness. "It shows overwhelmingly that the United States economy is showing remarkable strength..." - LOL, bigger deficits are a good thing! really!

Californians Rattled by Week of Quakes
posted by coderman at 2005-06-17 23:26

coderman: "After four significant earthquakes in less than a week, Californians are getting jittery, with some stocking up on water, food, cash, even insurance. But seismologists say clusters of quakes are not unheard of and do not necessarily mean the Big One is coming." - that means, we really don't know when the big one is coming! could be tomorrow! spend! spend! spend!
Ash: terry schiavo's eye movements predicted these quakes
Ash: too bad you fuckers killed her so we won't know when the big one is

MasterCard security alert - More than 40 million credit cards may have been breached
posted by coderman at 2005-06-17 23:17

coderman: "The breach reported by Mastercard on Friday is one in a long line of breaches reported this year by consumer data aggregators like ChoicePoint, retailers such as DSW and corporations such as Time Warner, parent company of CNN/Money.com"
coderman: choicepoint freaks me out. they buy out all kinds of databases, like _pizza delivery records_, because how many people give a current cell/phone # when getting pizza delivered to their current address? hehehe, sneaky bastards. also, they love grocery store cards that track your purchases by phone #
coderman: i think the estimate is one company bought out for unique databases every 10 days or so

Metafilter predicts autopsy result grumbling on the part of schiavo whiners
posted by Ash at 2005-06-17 23:13

If I had a brain, I'd hammer in the morning....
posted by aminorex at 2005-06-17 23:10

Taking back an assassination
posted by aminorex at 2005-06-17 22:15

The answer to your question lies in the blogosphere. Go fucking google it.
posted by seti at 2005-06-17 20:40

teh loonix is for losers
posted by coderman at 2005-06-17 20:29

aminorex: It's a dup! What are we paying this guy for?
Ash: FIRED

key british infrastructures (government, telecom, transports, banks among others) are under attack by specific, targeted e-mail trojans.
posted by coderman at 2005-06-17 20:28

Hydrogen bikes make baby Jesus coo
posted by aminorex at 2005-06-17 20:25

It is ludicrous to claim T.S. was blind, since she plainly tracked objects
posted by Fawn at 2005-06-17 20:18

Powerline blog: We love detainee abuse at gitmo! BEAT THEM DIRTY FURRINERS!
posted by coderman at 2005-06-17 19:54

the duality of information
posted by coderman at 2005-06-17 19:43

coderman: can specific numbers be forbidden? [yes/no]:
coderman: i predict the numbers will win their freedom! DOWN WITH THE BIT KOMPRESSORS!

"Granted, some people seem to want the moon in a stick when it comes to copying copyrighted content, but the music industry isn't even offering a concilatory lolly."
posted by asok at 2005-06-17 19:41

asok: MeFi

Your ISP as a Federal Informant
posted by aminorex at 2005-06-17 19:23

^matthew: Assuming this gets passed, is it physically possible? (Let alone economically possible, which is a resounding no.)
^matthew: A similar data retention law was just rejected in Germany.

I Have Stolen From You.
posted by seti at 2005-06-17 18:58

seti: except that it's not stealing; it's copyright infringement, which is a different crime - one that's becoming more and more debatable as technology continues to propel mankind forward.

http://www.xach.com/firewall/
posted by lemonodor at 2005-06-17 18:04

square watermelon
posted by ^matthew at 2005-06-17 16:28

Ash: $83!!!!
Ash: that's insane
aminorex: What's really insane is that a regular watermelon is about $40.

http://addistribune.com/
posted by ^matthew at 2005-06-17 15:34

^matthew: daily paper from Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia
^matthew: Unrelated thought: Ethiopian military have funny lookin uniforms.
Ash: also ethiopian web technology seems to be from 1995
Ash: HELLO CAN U TELL ME HOW 2 CONFIGURAR TRUMPAT WINSOK

Forbes: Is Linux For Losers?
posted by seti at 2005-06-17 13:42

seti: One thing's certain -- Forbes is definitely for losers. We extend our congratulations on another page filler devoid of content. Cheers!
^matthew: Yes, but not like Forbes says.
^matthew: I interpret the first three words of the article as a disclaimer.
seti: It's like waiving the TROLL WARNING sign, those first three words.
b0at: '"It's terrible," De Raadt says. ... De Raadt makes a rival open source operating system called OpenBSD.'
^matthew: "Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is "difficult" and declined to comment further. "

http://www.livejournal.com/users/korrupshun/
posted by Zerodhero at 2005-06-17 05:09

Zerodhero: SOme of my nutty co-workers

Dan Kaminsky addresses Microsoft's "Blue Hat" gathering about forcing a laptop to join a malicious wireless network.
posted by MutinyWork at 2005-06-17 01:01

coderman: this is what protective/active packet injection is designed to thwart. and it works great with a number of passive monitor nodes and a few amplified injection sources
coderman: also, you can force most clients to use WPA/WEP thus making a rogue AP much more difficult

http://www.neurobashing.com/blog/archives/2005/06/14/rejected_sun_microsystems_slogans.html
posted by Ash at 2005-06-17 00:19

CC hackage
posted by happy_broccoli at 2005-06-17 00:15