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Former vice president Al Gore, who for the past three decades has unsuccessfully attempted to warn humanity of the coming destruction of our planet, only to be mocked and derided by the very people he has tried to save—launched his infant son into space Monday in the faint hope that his only child would reach the safety of another world.
posted by Bob Clay @ 11:32 AM
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Australians wanting to "chuck a sickie" ("call in sick," in the Australian language), can now take advantage of a web site called DoctorsNoteStore.com, which will send you an authentic looking DOCTOR'S NOTE from the specific clinic of your choice explaining your absence.
posted by Bob Clay @ 8:42 AM
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Yes, the command “:(){ :|:& };:” looks like a bunch of rabid smileys, but in fact is a dangerous command that could leave your Linux system unusable until rebooted. The command essentially creates a DoS attack on the system by spawning a large number of processes and very quickly taking all available resources and process slots.
posted by Bob Clay @ 8:42 AM
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Kevin Mitnick knows that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information. As a young fugitive hacker,he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of social engineering -- making people into doing what you want.
posted by Bob Clay @ 1:03 PM
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Adeona is open source software to system used to securely and privately track the location of your Windows, Mac, or Linux laptop. What makes Adeona stand out, even from proprietary solutions, is it’s ability to securely transmit the location data preventing 3rd parties from also gathering the information.
posted by Bob Clay @ 2:49 PM
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FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.
posted by Bob Clay @ 8:03 AM
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So, OpenSolaris finally arrives but in the meantime, it begins to look like there are serious questions about whether Sun had the right to open it up in the first place.
posted by Bob Clay @ 7:51 AM
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The decision is in: SCO loses and Sun's OpenSolaris may be in trouble as well.
posted by Bob Clay @ 7:48 AM
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A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
posted by Bob Clay @ 8:57 AM
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Iran's missile pictures reveal a shocking gap in that nation's ability to use the Photoshop clone tool.
posted by Bob Clay @ 7:46 AM
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