So where is the justice when no one is at fault
and a human life is tragically wasted?
How fragile is the flame that burns within us all
to light each passing day?

Billy, Bad Religion

XMMS's Shuffle feature totally sucks. I think they keep using the same seed for the random number generator or something, because out of 155+ hours of music, I keep hearing the same set of songs every time I run the program.

Any one else notice this?

] Teach Yourself Visual C 6 in 21 Days

Fucking Microsoft with their fucking nmake and makefile shananegins. I don't care about C/C++, I know them. I just want to learn their stupid IDE and project/workspace/packaging rules. Now I don't have to buy a book.

Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 21 Days

Ok for work, and funny as heck.

A classic! I think the first mistake was straddling the cat.

Movies should use his scream instead of the Starwars scream.

Pinky the cat

Everything Must Cease

Cease, Bad Religion

] Privacy Implications of Magstripes
]
] Pull out your wallet. How many cards have magstripes? Do
] you know what's on them? Would you be surprised to find
] your Social Security Number, or your Mother's and
] Father's name? What about flight information, or medical
] data, or even passwords and PIN numbers? And would you be
] surprised to learn I can get all that information in less
] than a second?
]
] First we will discuss what magstripes are, and how they
] work. Then we'll talk about easy ways to read this
] information, and demo scan some cards from the audience.
] We'll discuss some of the worst offenders of private
] information, and steps to protect your privacy. Next, we
] look at magstripe projects you can do (such as a Unix PAM
] plugin), and ways to remove information from magstripes.
] We will briefly touch on smart cards and RFIDs, and the
] security/privacy issues involved with both.

Acidus speaking at ToorCon 2004

] There's a rumor circulating at the Crypto conference,
] which is being held this week in Santa Barbara, that
] somebody is about to announce a partial break of the
] SHA-1 cryptographic hashfunction. If true, this will have
] a big impact, as I'll describe below. And if it's not
] true, it will have helped me trick you into learning a
] little bit about cryptography. So read on....

Freedom to Tinker: SHA-1 Break Rumored

] First I measured and the centered and the centers of the
] 3, 4, and 5 holes are .1 inches apart! This is the
] distance between the tracks on the magstripe card. The
] F2F decode chip doesn't care about track length or bpi.
] It juse generates DATA/CLK pairs.
]
] I moved my V3A-4K's read head from hole 4 to hole 3, and
] just ran Stripe Snoop in raw mode! Sure enough, the first
] character in the bitsream is 1010001, which is the start
] sentinel for Track 1!

I. love. my. users.

Modifying a V3A to read any Track!

] Bush said about 60,000 to 70,000 uniformed personnel
] would move from overseas to posts in the United States
] over the next decade.
]
] "Our service members will have more time on the home
] front," Bush said, outlining his plans in a speech before
] a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
]
] Bush said it makes no sense to continue an armed posture
] that was forged during the cold war, when the Soviet
] Union represented the nation's biggest threat. Terrorism,
] he said, is now the chief threat.
]
] He said the plan had been in the works for three years,
] and U.S. allies and Congress were consulted on it.
]
] The nation's commander in chief predicted the plan would
] result in stronger alliances and reduce the stress on
] U.S. troops and their families.
] ]
] Democrats criticized the move. In a statement released by
] the Democratic National Committee, retired Gen. Wesley
] Clark, a former presidential candidate, said the
] redeployment from Europe and Asia would "significantly
] undermine U.S. national security."
]
] "This ill-conceived move and its timing seem politically
] motivated rather than designed to strengthen our national
] security," Clark said.

This is full of so many contradictions, I don't know where to start. Someone explain to me how removing most of the 119,000 troops from NATO bases in Europe will result in "stronger alliances?" Don't we have senators fighting each other every year over military base closures, because they cause such economic drain? I bet the Germans are just going to love flying a battalion of troops to New Mexico for wargames. Now I'm not saying in this modern world we need 119,000 troops in Europe, but to claim this is anything other than a political move is total crap.

Further, what will these troops be used for? Because it makes "no sense" to keep them in Europe now that the Cold is over, and we must bring them to the US to fight the "chief threat," Terrorism.

Again, complete bullshit! I challenge someone to defend how grunt from the infantry is going to fight terrorsim. He isn't crunching intelligence data! Further, he is completely restricted by the Posse Comitatus Act from acting in any type of law enforcement capacity. So, yes, after a city is attacked, these troops, can, after a freaking act of Congress, help pick up the bodies.

This is shamefully political.

Bush: Moving Troops home to fight terrorism?

] This SWIPE tool allows you to crack a 2D barcode. Ever
] noticed the barcode on the backside of your license?

Download the program or upload a GIF or JPG of a barcode and find out whats on it. Very, Very cool.

The SWIPE Toolkit