] Jon, aka "Toothy Toothing" and the guide's author, explained
] toothing was born after he was "bluejacked" by an unknown girl while
] commuting to work in London. After a few days of flirting, she
] suggested a brief encounter in a station lavatory.

Let me get this straight, a guy named "Toothy" got "bluejacked" by some chick in a public bathroom.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say:
In. His. Wet. Dreams.

While I don't doubt "Toothing" (sorry can't keep a straight face... this is BRITIAN for god sakes!) exists, I don't think it started the way this guys wishes it did.

RE: Yahoo! News - 'Toothing' for Hi-Tech Sex with Strangers

Interesting....This is what the casinos are using. I wonder if it could ever be competition for paypal.

I wonder if they have had the problems of phishing that Paypal has had?

I wonder how secure they are.

Cryptologic

Stripe Snoop, a Track 2 magstripe decoder has been released into the GPL, and is available in source or binary from at my homepage, Most Sigificant Bit.

Included is a detailed article about interfacing Magstripes to PCs, diagrams and pictures, as well as the software itself.

I will be presenting a talk about Magstripe interfacing at Intersz0ne III this weekend

.. and, I built a coke machine that works

Stripe Snoop Released, MSB updated *PLUS COKE MACHINE!*

] Speaking at the company's annual online advertising
] conference, Yusuf Medhi, MSN's corporate vice president
] of information and merchant services, spoke about the
] company's "big investment" in search. He highlighted
] MSN's recent release of a search toolbar for the browser

... But its Internet Fucking Explorer. It defaults to searching with MSN anyway!

Microsoft's aggressive search plans revealed - News - ZDNet

inignoct wrote:
] ] When ATMs go bad by Carla Geisser
]
] CMU students managed to crash an ATM on campus to the XP
] desktop. Fantastic.
]
] [ Yes, ATM's should run on the world's least secure platform.
] Good call. -k]

Or they can run OS/2.

http://www.yak.net/acidus/ncratm/index.html

RE: photo sharing system

] I'm not gonna be satisfied until the computer knows what i
] want to look at based on correlating its semantic map with
] whatever i'm working on. If I happen to be reading a document
] about global warming affecting coastal sea bird populations, i
] want the computer to know that and be looking for related
] information before i ask it, so when i do ask for more, it's
] right there, sorted by subtopics at multiple levels, coded for
] relevance and preferably with a prefetched version of the
] resources already stored locally. -k]

Timball talk about something like this with me once. Some Linux/Gnome project or something.

Basically each X app had its own kind of RSS feed, about what was currently being "done" on that app. A central program simply compiled this info, and would look for relevant info, be it on your computer (meta info is your friend!), or do a google query. Tim said this thing got demoed at some Linux conference (don't know which one) and that they ran into some fundamental barrier with the number of searches 1 IP can send to google in a certain time span.

Who knows how vaporware this thing is, but its sounded cool.

Jesse Ruderman: Experience Google's new look

] It is now 10:30 pm, and I have been up since 5 a.m. this
] morning. Today, I served as an election judge in the
] primary election, and I am writing down my experience
] now, despite being extremely tired, as everything is
] fresh in my mind, and this was one of the most incredible
] days in my life.

My day as an election judge - Avi Rubin

] The dispute over who controls key portions of the
] Internet's address system erupted into open conflict
] today when VeriSign Inc., the world's largest addressing
] company, sued the Internet's most visible regulatory
] body, charging that it has been unfairly prevented from
] developing new services for Internet users.

Yeah, services that corrupt the DNS trees worldwide by making www.verisignblowslikeatwodollarwhore.com resolve.

Verisign Sues ICANN to reinstate Sitefinder!

] there," Hood said. "I think these things are raised for
] political purposes and distractions. Any effort to
] undermine that public confidence is a tactic that is
] wrong and I believe it weakens our democracy by causing
] voters to doubt if their vote has been counted."

So actively questioning whether my vote is being counted properly is "undermin[ing]" democracy? More like ensuring a democracy by making sure my vote counted. This is like those folks who say voicing opposition to the War in Iraq/War on Terrorism is anti-American. None of these actions could be any more American.

AP Wire | 02/12/2004 | State: Touchscreen ballots don't have to be recounted

] This book teaches how the machine itself operates, rather
] than just the language. I've found that the key
] difference between mediocre and excellent programmers is
] whether or not they know assembly language. Those that do
] tend to understand computers themselves at a much deeper
] level.

Preaching to the choir

Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language