Everything in Japan is smaller, even their UFOs: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/07/the-case-of-the-captured-mini-ufo-1972/
Funny that UFOs tend to get influence by the culture and the artwork during the time of capture.
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kahwee
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uzyn
iPhones can be hacked with a series of SMSes.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/28/hackers-iphone-apple-technology-security-hackers.html
And there is no way you can stop it!
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uzyn
CentOS founder, Lance Davis, gone AWOL:
July 30, 2009 04:39 UTC
This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers
It is regrettable that we are forced to send this letter but we are left with no other options. For some time now we have been attempting to resolve these problems:
You seem to have crawled into a hole … and this is not acceptable.
You have long promised a statement of CentOS project funds; to this date this has not appeared.
You hold sole control of the centos.org domain with no deputy; this is not proper.
You have, it seems, sole ‘Founders’ rights in the IRC channels with no deputy ; this is not proper.
When I (Russ) try to call the phone numbers for UK Linux, and for you individually, I get a telco intercept ‘Lines are temporarily busy’ for the last two weeks. Finally yesterday, a voicemail in your voice picked up, and I left a message urgently requesting a reply. Karanbir also reports calling and leaving messages without your reply.
Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the project.
Clearly the project dies if all the developers walk away.
Please contact me, or any other signer of this letter at once, to arrange for the required information to keep the project alive at the ‘centos.org’ domain.
Sincerely,
Russ Herrold
Ralph Angenendt
Karanbir Singh
Jim Perrin
Donavan Nelson
Tim Verhoeven
Tru Huynh
Johnny HughesOpen letter republished from centos.org.
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kahwee
A peek into ISOHunt’s servers: http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-behind-the-scenes-isohunt-090729/
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kahwee
Yahoo gives up on search, gives in to Microsoft and will serve Bing results:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc20090728_826397.htm
That’s one search giant down. Bing, with the combined searches of Yahoo would approach 30%:
Yahoo will essentially scrap its own efforts to best Google in search and instead rely on Microsoft’s recently debuted Bing search engine, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and the BoomTown blog. Ads placed next to those search results would be served up not by Yahoo’s ad platform, dubbed Panama, but by a Microsoft technology called AdCenter, says another report from Advertising Age. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz “is essentially giving up on search,” says Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Land.
Yahoo salespeople likely will continue to sell the search ads that appear both on Yahoo sites and on Bing. And the company that sells an ad—in this case, Yahoo—may get as much as 80% of the resulting revenue.
It’s unfortunate with one less player in the search market although I am partly guilty of it since I kinda pro-Google.
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kahwee
This site by Microsoft is surprisingly rather badly designed: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/wave/home.aspx
It’s center, yet not quite. It chose a USB plug but what’s the link. And the reflection at the bottom looks messy, maybe because I’m not using Internet Explorer. And you need to click on the text to change the tabs.
[EDIT: It doesn't look matching in Internet Explorer 8 either.]
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kahwee
Save your money now, use in your later life: http://www.reincarnationbank.com/html/withdrawals.html
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uzyn
If your idol says hating Microsoft is uncool, you had better listen.
Slashdot: Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred “a Disease”
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kahwee
Smart asked Torvalds if Microsoft was contributing the code to benefit the Linux community or Microsoft. ‘I agree that it’s driven by selfish reasons, but that’s how all open source code gets written! We all “scratch our own itches.”
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‘So complaining about the fact that Microsoft picked a selfish area to work on is just silly. Of course they picked an area that helps them. That’s the point of open source — the ability to make the code better for your particular needs, whoever the “your” in question happens to be.’”
Selfish? I don’t really selfishness here. For the first time something is being shared, calling the landmark move “selfish” is not appropriate.
I don’t think Linus is happy about it, deep down he’s probably hating it but he can’t do a thing. Not accepting the code would be a major boo-boo for open source, they have to accept it anyway.
Linus is like a baker who ate someone else’s piece of cake and insists a little more milk would be better.
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kahwee
View a clip from “Secret Millionaire’s Club,” an online animated series in which Warren Buffett teaches children about investing. The web series will debut on AOL in the fall. Courtesy AOL.
Clip: Warren Buffett’s “Secret Millionaire’s Club” 7/24/2009
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kahwee
The ad that annoys me so much – Evony.
(Now we all only look at the registration fields, right?)
Guardian discusses Has Evony become the most despised game on the web? http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/jul/15/games-evony-spam-internet
Here is some evidence that Evony has been spamming blogs with comments (that are thankfully caught with Akismet): http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/10/dont-play-evony/
And they had this ridiculous program iEvony: http://www.arksark.org/blog/2009/07/05/evony-a-patchwork-of-stolen-parts/
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uzyn
I didn’t know they spam until this.
I just thought they have too much marketing money and decides to buy all Adwords’ inventory.
1. Sex
2. Spam
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kahwee
Yeah and they are apparently very successful considering the amount of money they can spend on the ads. Terrible business practice.
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uzyn
Just wondering, would you have a problem with them had they only buy a huge load of google adwords (ie. you get to see the busty lady everywhere but there is no foul play, ie. spamming) ?
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kahwee
I think I’m just sick of seeing that art work. Maybe they could rotate the ladies? Haha
But that’s how ads are. Evony ads are better then some ads that promises you won something. I gotten used to it already.
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Lee
I am a student studying computer games design at uni and decided to investigate Evony.com.
Just to see what some of these games are like etc. etc.
The game is actually kind of cool (found myself addicted and even spent a little money on it).
But I started to notice HUGE bandwidth use by the site as I played.
I am not the only one either, there are comments on the evony forums about this.
This is odd because all of the client info, the animations etc. are all downloaded in one big download at the start.
There is no streaming media so I began to wonder what was going on.To cut a long story short I decided to break the law and reverse engineer Evony’s client.
Not to cheat. Not to rip them off or even to use even a scrap of the code.
But just to poke about a bit and find out what was going on, maybe even offer them some ways to improve things.Aside from the fact that the whole thing is very poorly constructed (it is really very beginner coder level stuff. Reminds me of a lot of
what the first year students produce for assignments) it contained some very interesting information.Included with the client are 2 peices of tracking software that monitor your web use and which applications you have open while the client is running.
These do not install independently on the machine though due to the limitations of flash and do not actually damage anything.
But they harvest massive volumes of information. My firewall was blocking a lot of outgoing transmissions and it turns out that these
were the data trying to be sent out. So they know nothing about me. lol.
However there is a LOT of data coming IN over the ports the client uses. In otherwords it is downloading something into my cache for use later.
I have bandiwdth restriction which slows these types of tricks down and I completely clear my cache every couple of hours if I am heavily using the net.I also noticed that all the varanbles etc. are named Civony still and that there are multiple references to UMGE.
Even a couple of folders are simply called UMGE, one of these folders contains one of the spyware programs.
So I can only guess at where the data would end up if I didnt have a good firewall.There are also commented out sections in the code which contain references to UMGE and Lam himself, though low on details.
Thank you for reading this.
Lee
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kahwee
Thanks Lee.
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calvin
I couldn’t agree more. The shamelessness is almost impressive in its absurdity. I finally broke down myself and had to write about it.
http://machetesquadhq.com/2009/11/15/shameless-advertising-evony-pulls-the-titties-card/
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Lee and one other person are discussing. 
kahwee 2:52 pm on July 31, 2009 Permalink
I wanted to post this too. Well, they could always fork CentOS or something although it’s a big deal in the branding aspect.
kahwee 3:27 pm on August 2, 2009 Permalink
The CentOS admin has resurfaced. Meanwhile another developer opens up and talks about CentOS’s problems: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-private
kahwee 7:39 pm on August 2, 2009 Permalink
From CentOS: