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They can do that?

--timball

Hacker Monthly

that's me doing trapeze!

--timball

p1120068.jpg

The txtBOMBER is a one-hand-guerillia-tool - a machine not much bigger than a pressing iron - that generates political statements on the fly and immidiately prints them on any flat surface.

HA! i'm definitely building one.

--timball

txtBOMBER :: Typography Served

- get a dead harddisk, preferrably an older one
- take out the flat spindle motor which spins the HD platters
- connect wires to two different motor output leads (any)
- build this circuit:

cheap harddrive into rotary encoder... best drives to do this too are old school FULL HEIGHT harddrives cause the motors and spindles are HUGE.

--timball

Inexpensive rotary encoder

new lenovo location for tabook.pdf

damnit when are the T500s's coming out?

--timball

tabook.pdf

The answer given was firm, "There is no SQL injection issue on our servers or those hosting/related to the barackobama.com site. We do not run Microsoft Access anywhere in our organization, nor do we (or DNC/OFA) run or host to any calendar at Roosevelt University."

funny

--timball

Researcher discloses SQL Injection flaw on barackobama.com (Update 1) - Security

Small family atmosphere, terrific value and quality. Friendly staff always wearing a smile. Food was fantastic from Tbone steak to hot dogs and fries. Lumbarjack pancakes will feed a family. Keep up the good work Jim! ...‎

the 2nd review of this restaurant is hilarious. above is the PG rated 1st review.

--timball

Ryan's Restaurant (psst! ask for the pie)

Montréal 7/12 - 7/19

truth in advertising

--timball

40 Gorgeous Vintage Tobacco Advertisements // WellMedicated

The last post on the Soapblox homepage reads:

All these hackers messing with our stuff, and we here at SoapBlox have no clue what to do. We don't have enough knowledge, time, money, or care to fix it.

So I hope the Hackers are happy.

If you want the data from your blog, we will get it. But we are not going to try and restore anything.

Consider this the "We're Out of Business" post.

The attack is a reminder of how little redundancy there is in big portions of the rapidly-expanding Internet, and how fragile the systems that manage content can be.

my favorite post from the soapblox site is this:

Please pay your bills
by: pacified
December 28, 2008 at 22:21:14 MST
50% of you NEVER pay your bills on time. Half of you must figure "might as well not pay my bill".

How am I supposed to provide this service if you folks never pay your bills?

If your site is more then 2 months behind when I do billing in January your site is going to be SHUT DOWN and all the data destroyed.

I provide you with 100% uptime, an awesome blog framework, and have been nice to let you keep running your sites when you haven't paid for 2 months, three months.

Well, so long Mr. Nice Guy. After four years of dealing with this nonsense, and having to track which of you are unable to keep your end of the agreement, a line has to be drawn.

This is your warning.

apperently someone took the threat seriously.

--timball

Ben Smith's Blog: An attack on the blogosphere - Politico.com