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There are thirteen new patches out for OS X today. If you run OS X I highly recommend you update your OS. One of the patches is for a “Highly Critical” flaw with the WebKit that can allow a remote user to execute code on your system - remote exploits are bad m’kay.
I also noticed [...]
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Paranoid? Think the gubment is tapping your phone? Well, it seems Matt Blaze from the Unversity of Pennsylvania might have found a way to stop it. It’s funny. It seems you genereate a “C-tone” and it stops the recording - which if you know anything about the phone phreaking world of yesteryear, generating tones to [...]
Star Wreck is a full length (1 hour 43 minutes) film made by a few Finnish artists (and over 300 extras) over seven years. It’s a sicfi parody of Star Trek and Babylon 5.
The special effects are amazing - these guys made this thing at their house with a PC render farm. If cool, free, [...]
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A friend of mine said RSS was a bit dangerous - Dangerous?
He brought up the extremely interesting point that if you subscribe to RSS feeds you care about, for only things that interest you, you’ve just narrowed your vision of the world by a huge margin. It’s preaching to the choir to the Nth degree. [...]
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I personally am not into “borrowing indefinitely”, but I know quite a few people who are. I was thinking about sugar coating this, but decided against it.
If you are into stealing software, movies, or audio via bittorret(Java version) check out thepiratebay.org. It’s a site run out of Sweden that indexes torrents for all kinds of [...]