WinAmp exploit in the wild — better upgrade…
For you Windows-users out there, ISC reports that, apart WinAmp 5.12 being vulnerable to some exploit that allows for remote code execution, that also an exploit has been discovered in the wild.
Also, WinAmp 5.13 is already available, so you better upgrade as soon as possible.
Threats, Security
Slight theme change…
 by in General |
I just made a slight modification to the theme that this site uses.
I hated the way the sidebar’s position was controlled by CSS and re-coded the content and sidebar into a two-column table.
It took a while to find why the page’s width was waaaay bigger than client window width, to be lead to [...]
Google directly competing with Microsoft?
| by in Software |
So, although they wouldn’t want the hassle of making hardware, Google apparently does seem busy to prep a fork of Ubuntu:
Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software. A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop [...]
Another Nigerian 419-scam…
| by in General, Random Rantings |
Interesting spam — mainly the way the return-addresses are put in it. Seems like some fucko wrongly hitting the Paste-key a few times:
For your support and partnership, please reply me to negotiate your fees or the percentage you wish to be paid when the funds arrives your bank account. You must however note that [...]
Compiling the latest CVS version of WINE to see if GoogleEarth works OK.
Slackware 10.2, WINE and the GoogleEarth HOWTOs are incompatible. Maybe a self-compiled CVS version of WINE works just fine. Verdict: Don’t bother… 
RFID passports ‘cracked’…
| by in Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands |
Fear the Dutch — according to The Register, face and fingerprints swiped in Dutch biometric passport crack:
Dutch TV programme Nieuwslicht (Newslight) is claiming that the security of the Dutch biometric passport has already been cracked. As the programme reports here, the passport was read remotely and then the security cracked using flaws built into the [...]
Maybe Disney’s take-over of Pixar ain’t at all that bad…
According to an article on the Independent Online, Pixar chief asserts his authority over Disney by axing ‘Toy Story 3′:
On Wednesday, less than 24 hours after Mr Jobs and Disney’s new chief executive, Bob Iger, unveiled the merger, Mr Lasseter went to Burbank with Pixar’s president, Ed Catmull. He announced that Toy Story 3 would [...]
Myths about the 1986 Challenger disaster
Interesting article on MSNBC explaining the myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster:
[...] here’s the way the mission may be remembered:
1. Few people actually saw the Challenger tragedy unfold live on television.
2. The shuttle did not explode in the common definition of that word.
3. The flight, and the astronauts’ lives, did not end at that point, [...]
DNA ‘evidence’ not what it’s cranked up to be.
A colleague of mine told me about this chimera syndrome. Basically 1 person ends up with 2 DNA profiles because of something that happened in the embryonic phase.
Fun thing about his is, that basically, everybody can have this affliction. Thing is — they will only know that the moment they discover you have it.
Ain’t [...]
Damn those patents!
What the f….. — this patent-business is insane. The Registers reports on a smileys-patent.
It isn’t about protecting ones intellectual property anymore. Nowadays companies just look around, think of something that is used everywhere, and will attempt to patent it.
With the amount of corrupt fucks in the whole system it seems possible too. Stranger patents have [...]
Now Israel rules out talks with Hamas as well…
Well, following up on this thing, it really comes as absolutely no surprise that now, Israel rules out talks with Hamas as well.
See the game being played and how the Palestinians are treated? As long as the US and Israel don’t like its’ new government they’re on this childish tip until people vote for a [...]
Lame browser detection scripts…
So — I change my Useragent to get rid of those irritating lame browser detection scripts that warn me that the site might note work not using Internet Exploder, like my banking site. Anyways, I placed `MSIE 6.0 Sucks’ or something in there, right after the `Firefox 1.5.x’ identifier.
Now this happens visiting lkml.org:
WTF?! Now that [...]
On sex, love and the Pope…
Yeh an eerie combination I know.
Anyways, the pope says that Loveless sex deceives. I don’t know, but I find sexless love much more deceiving!
And why’s this guy an authority on love and sex? He only loves his sexless god and is basically talking about stuff he doesn’t have any experience with.
Or does he? Maybe he [...]
US don’t want to deal with Hamas
Of course the US pushes to keep Hamas out — that’s exactly what Israel told them to do:
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Thursday, US President George Bush said he would not deal with Hamas unless it abandoned its tough stance on Israel. “A political party, in order to be [...]
For your daily dose of ‘cute’
| by in Animals & Nature, Humour, Interesting Links |
In these hard times something soft can brighten up your day.
C|Net reports on the site Cute Overload being…
[...] nominated for four Bloggie awards, including Best American Weblog, Best Topical Weblog, Best New Weblog and Weblog of the Year.
I just love bunnies.
Animals, Pets, Bunnies, Cute
On the CIA rendition report…
A crap-load of talk these days about the CIA rendition report, but basically nobody’s saying shit. The main way it seems to be handled in global media is, well, negative. It seems that some want everybody to think that it’s wrong.
WikiNews, however, seems to pick it up quite opposite main stream (US) media:
The report [...]
Sue that Mofo Picture Association of America!
Hahaha, that’s some bad publicity. The Register reports on the MPAA making an ass of itself. I quote:
But on Monday the MPAA admitted it had made a copy of the film but claimed, because their staff were the subject of the film, they were not breaking copyright law. An MPAA spokeswoman said: “We made [...]
BBC Hardtalk Extra: Chuck D - still fighting the power
In the latest edition of BBC Hardtalk Extra an interview with Chuck D:
In a HardTalk Extra interview screened on 20th January, Gavin Esler speaks to Chuck D of ground-breaking rap group Public Enemy.
The quality of the online video sucks, so I’m a wait for the re-run on BBC World. Public Enemy, Chuck D
The future looks bleak…
This Movie-Making game reported about on Wired News seems to be the next step surely deteriorating society as we know it.
The article roughly explains how this new game works:
The options available in The Movies are staggering, and are, thankfully, introduced incrementally. You start out by recruiting actors, building a couple of basic sets, and making [...]
Bush lied about Katrina
We all know that Bush is a lying son-of-a-bush, but it’s always nice to see these kinds of things confirmed. According to the Washington Post, it now seems that the White House got an early warning on Katrina:
The documents shed new light on the extent on the administration’s foreknowledge about Katrina’s potential for unleashing epic [...]
