I foudn this today. Its a nifty game where you try to click a moving object. At first glance it looks like a fun game some teenager made to learn Flash. It is actually javascript!

ClickRed - Insane Javascript

] Cecilia Barnes, 48, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in
] Multnomah County, claims an ex-boyfriend began posting
] unauthorized personal profiles of her containing the
] photos in December. The profiles included her e-mail
] address and work phone number.
]
] The former boyfriend also engaged in online discussions
] in Yahoo chat rooms while posing as Barnes and directing
] men to the profiles, the lawsuit claims.
]
] "Due to these profiles and online chats, unknown men
] would arrive without warning at plaintiff's work
] expecting to engage in sexual relations with her," the
] lawsuit claims.

Wow! That sucks!

I am more interested in how the profile was posted. If you can simply create an online personality and populate it with whatever you want, this isn't Yahoo's fault. Yahoo had a user who posted a profile about themselves. Next, some other random person starts emailing Yahoo asking them to remove that user's profile/pictures. Oh course Yahoo will ignore her. Otherwise anyone would DoS their user's info.

Her real beef should be a defamation of character suit against her ex, not Yahoo. This is a misplaced lawsuit.

Woman sues Yahoo over nude photos

] Exploiting that information would be trivial. Only a bit
] of statistical data, of the sort that any government
] agency in the world could easily afford to obtain, will
] be needed.
]
] Here's what we need to know: how many chunks of a
] splitfile will appear on a node that only relays file
] requests after x amount of uptime. That's it. We already
] know that for nodes requesting a splitfile, the answer is
] 100% of the chunks in the amount of uptime needed to
] fetch them. By running several nodes and observing them,
] we can easily determine how long it will take to cache,
] by relaying alone, an entire file of x size.
]
] Since Freenet logs uptime, a forensic examiner can easily
] learn how long your node has been alive, even if there
] have been interruptions. So it is quite possible to
] estimate how many intact files, and of what size, your
] node ought to have cached without your participation. If
] the examiner finds many more files, or many larger files,
] than predicted, and they are illegal, you are in trouble.
]
] Using a tool called FUQID, which queues Freenet file
] requests, one could easily run a list of forbidden CHKs
] against a disk image. If the number/size of whole files
] containing naughty stuff is significantly higher than
] predicted by your node's uptime, you are in trouble.

Attack against Freenet

Decius wrote:
] ] File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a
] ] prerelease movie on the Internet can be imprisoned for up
] ] to three years, according to a bill that President Bush
] ] signed into law on Wednesday.

No one here is going to say pirating things is legal. Its not. You will get punished for it. However, like some of the "manditory" drug sentencing, this way too extreme.

What I am surprised about is no one (other than CNN) is reporting what *else* this law does. It protects starts ups and other projects that circumvent DVDs "Do not skip" feature among other things.

The MPAA had said that aftermarket devices that skip through scenes or change dialog are illegal because they are modifying the MPAA's copyrighted work. However this law basically says changing the content on a DVD, or skipping through scenes/removing dialog is perfectly legal. "Unlocking" your DVD to get around this annoying features is now legal. Creating devices that control the DVD, even if they circumvent, is legal.

This is a good thing for Fair Use. I'm willing to put up with some larger than necessary punishments for an illegal act for that.

RE: Bush signs law targeting P2P pirates | CNET News.com

] "They are shamelessly copying us," he said during
] Thursday's annual meeting.
]
] "They can't even copy fast," he said.
]
] "Innovation is the only way to win," he said. "You just
] have to stay ahead of people."

To paraphase Armageddon "Apple technology, Microsoft technology, all comes from Xerox."

Jobs: Microsoft copies us!

Decius wrote:
] ] My Search History lets you easily view and manage your
] ] search history from any computer. This feature of Google
] ] web search enables you to find information you thought
] ] you lost. And over time, you'll see an increasing number
] ] of relevance indicators in your search results that help
] ] you find the information you want.
]
] So, Google retains all of this data whether you like it or
] not. If they are going to do that, its nice to be able to
] access it and put it to use. So this feature isn't really a
] bad idea. However, I'd rather have some local software doing
] this kind of profiling for me and have google politely toss my
] search history in the bin.

This is a BIG red herring. They are not giving you your entire search history. They are giving you a limited amount of the actual data that they collect. You can turn this feature off, or pause it, or leave it active. But know that the fact of the matter is that they collect much more data on you than this leads you to believe.

I posted about this on slashdot recently: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=146731&cid=12292095

And the discussion went further in the binrev forums: http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12014

I really think everyone should read them both to see the facts behind the story.

RE: Big Google is watching you

] I was connected via a soldier on Iraq who sent me a
] picture of the radios they are using to set off the
] IEDs. Some of them are using FRS radios (Family
] Radios). The picture I saw was a Motorola TalkAbout
] 5000 (or something like that).
]
] What I did was make a FRS radio connected to a 7 watt
] external amplifier, and with a BASIC stamp controlling
] the main function buttons of the radio. It will hop through
] all 838 possible codes (22 channels, 38 privacy codes) and
] transmit for 1 second on each channel. Hopefully
] setting off the bombs before they drive through.

Very interesting. There is a picture of a nokia phone that someone has attached a small circuit board to. I assume the voltage for the ringer switches a relay that trips the explosive. Pretty tech savvy for an islamist fundi. They should find one of these guys for make magazine. :)

IED construction/ Auto destruction

] Regarding bags that block radio signals; we (me,
] colleague who shall remain nameless) tested this with our
] building access cards and our cell phones. An anti-static
] bag for computer chips was demonstrated to NOT block the
] signals. However, an (aluminized) anti-moisture bag for
] corn chips (specifically, Fritos) successfully
] deactivated both my cell phone (GSM) and my access card,
] even pressed directly against the reader.
]
] It is a small help to know that effective RF shielding is
] available in many snack vending machines, and that the
] shield itself is a mundane enough item that it will not
] attract attention.

Pringle's cans and Fritos bags!

Aluminum-lined junk food packaging: It giveth the signal, and it taketh it away.

Freedom to Tinker: Why Use Remotely-Readable Passports?

List of DL websites for the states

State Driver's License webpage list

With a magstripe, 1D *and* 2D barcode, in Kansas, all your identity are belong to us.

Kansas DL's Rule!