August 31, 2007 by dinofond.

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August 31, 2007 by dinofond.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
~Steve Jobs

It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy
~Steve Jobs

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August 31, 2007 by dinofond.

Hey Mac users, Ever wonder what the text actually said on the TextEdit icon? Maybe not, but I think this is a fun find anyway! The icon itself has been redone to take advantage of Leopard’s graphics, and now you will be able to read what that letter has actually always said:

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
~Steve Jobs

This kind of brand-strengthening, the kind that requires an obsessive attention to detail and a true passion for design, is very hard to buy or outsource; a creator has to be nuts-enough about your product to be OK with the fact that no one may ever notice their efforts.

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August 31, 2007 by dinofond.

Usernames and passwords of more than 100 embassy and government accounts worldwide–including the foreign ministry of Iran, the Kazakh and Indian embassies in the U.S., and the Russian embassy in Sweden–have been compromised, Computer Sweden has learned.
Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson, Computer Sweden

Usernames and passwords for more than 100 e-mail accounts at embassies and governments worldwide have been posted online. Using the information, anyone can access the accounts that have been compromised.

Computer Sweden has verified the posted information and spoken to the person who posted them. The posted information includes names of the embassies and governments, addresses to e-mail servers, usernames and passwords. Among the organizations on the list are the foreign ministry of Iran, the Kazakh and Indian embassies in the U.S. and the Russian embassy in Sweden.

Freelance security consultant Dan Egerstad posted the information. He spoke openly about the leak when Computer Sweden contacted him.

“I did an experiment and came across the information by accident,” he said. Egerstad says he never used the information to log in to any of the compromised accounts in order not to break any laws.

Computer Sweden confirmed that the login details for at least one of the accounts is correct. Egerstad forwarded an e-mail sent on Aug. 20 by an employee at the Swedish royal court to the Russian embassy. The person who sent the e-mail, in which she declines an invitation to the Russian embassy, has confirmed that she sent the e-mail.

“Yes, that is right. We did decline the invitation. As far as I can remember I did send the e-mail,” she said.

Computer Sweden has not been able to confirm the authenticity of any of the other information that has been posted.

“When something like this happens you usually contact people and ask them to fix it. But in this case it felt too big for that, calling to other countries,” Egerstad said.

Of the compromised accounts, 10 belong to the Kazakh embassy in Russia. Around 40 belong to Uzbeki embassies and consulates around the world. Login details for e-mail accounts at the U.K. visa office in Nepal were also posted. Login details for the foreign ministry of Iran, the Kazakh and Indian embassies in the U.S. and the Russian embassy in Sweden were also posted.

“I hope this makes them take action. Hopefully, faster than ever before, and I hope they become a bit more aware of security issues,” Dan Egerstad says.

Computer Sweden has contacted both the Russian and Indian embassies in Stockholm for comment. The Russian embassy confirmed the leaks and says that logins have now been changed. The Indian embassy declined to confirm the information and give comment.

Computer Sweden has not published where the login details can be found. The information in this story has been verified by Computer Sweden without using any of the published login details.

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August 31, 2007 by dinofond.

Bank Site Hacked, Dispensing Malware Sunbelt Software reports that the Bank of India’s Web site has been hacked and is dispensing an enormous amount of malware, including rootkits and trojans, to visitors.
Ellen Messmer, Network World Friday, August 31, 2007 12:00 PM PDT

The Web site of the Bank of India has been hacked and is now an unwitting dispenser of an enormous amount of malware code to visitors, including rootkits and trojans, according to Sunbelt Software, which advises not currently visiting the Bankofindia.com site.

“It’s very pernicious stuff,” says Alex Eckelberry, president of security firm Sunbelt Software.

Eckelberry says some of Sunbelt’s employees happened to be doing research during the past few hours and visited the Web site and determined it was infected with at least a dozen malware programs attempting to infect any vulnerable machine used by someone visiting Bankofindia.com.

“We have Indian employees here trying to share this information with them now, which we’re also sharing with organizations such as CERT,” Eckelberry says. “It’s a huge payload of malicious code,” which Sunbelt is still analyzing, he says.

The payload from the Bank of India site is said to be attempting a number of Internet Explorer exploits to break into computers that may not be fully patched. Other types of software-application exploits may also be involved, which Sunbelt is still analyzing.

“Somehow the hackers managed to insert this code into the Web site,” Eckelberry says. “We’re seeing lots of rootkits and trojans, though not yet a keylogger.”

Sunbelt says the situation is still fluid and every effort is being made to notify Bank of India, described as a government-operated site with more than 2,000 branches.

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August 31, 2007 by dinofond.

If you were going to start a war for profit would this not be logical?
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In advance of the much-ballyhooed September 15 report on Iraq that General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are not writing, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is due to release its own report. Today, courtesy of the AP, we have a sneak peek at the contents.

The Associated Press has learned the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, will report that at least 13 of the 18 benchmarks to measure the surge of U.S. troops to Iraq are unfulfilled ahead of a September 15 deadline…. [A] July report said the administration believed the Iraqis had made satisfactory progress on eight of the 13 benchmarks.

The administration is already downplaying the GAO’s report, claiming the standards the GAO used are far too demanding.

The GAO, however, has been told to “assess whether or not such benchmarks have been met,” and the administration plans to assert that is too tough a standard to be met at this point in the surge, the officials said.

“It’s pretty clear that if that’s your measurement standard a majority of the benchmarks would be determined not to have been met,” said one official. “A lot of them are multipart and so, even if 90 percent of it is done, it’s still a failure…The standard the GAO has set is far more stringent,” he said. “Some might argue it’s impossible to meet.”

Okay, so we’ve got a GAO report that says the Iraqis are meeting 3 of 18 benchmarks, and an upcoming Sept 15 report that is destined to say things are going well, or at least, on balance, not too bad. Just more fuel for congressional members on both sides of the issue. I smell a stalemate. A further stalemate, I mean. The liberal’s dream of congressional Republicans giving up on the war one by one this fall looks unlikely to come true.

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August 31, 2007 by dinofond.

“Most customers don’t even know what a rootkit is. So why should they worry about it?”
~ Thomas Hesse
Sony INC. global digital business president

Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly,’Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did SPY
~From the Spider and the fly by by Mary Howitt

This is why I boycott Sony, I will never use the premiere Oxford (Now Sonox) plug in’s in my recording studio nor will I own a PS2 / PS3 laptop or anything built by this corporate entity gone bad. They are no different then AT&T who at will squashed free speech. They will never run my iphone, mine will be cracked. Here is a definition of a rootkit:

A rootkit is a general description of a set of programs which work to subvert control of an operating system from its legitimate operators. Usually, a rootkit will obscure its installation and attempt to prevent its removal through a subversion of standard system security. Techniques used to accomplish this can include concealing running processes, files or system data from the operating system.[1] Rootkits have their origin in benign applications, but in recent years have been used increasingly by malware to help intruders maintain access to systems while avoiding detection. Rootkits exist for a variety of operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X[2] [3] , Linux and Solaris. Rootkits often modify parts of the operating system or install themselves as drivers or kernel modules.

Basically what Sony has done is exactly whet they did with the CD music DRM (Digital rights management) in 2005. Remember two years ago when someone would play a Sony / Interscope CD in a computer and it would be infected by a worm and crash the machine? It’s because it installed a rootkit.

WHY THE HECK DOES A MUSIC CD NEED TO INSTALL PROGRAMS ON YOUR COMPUTER!

Why is the company still being allowed to distribute software that installs on your computer in a way that is blatantly against Federal LAW! Why can Sony keep selling these item’s on the shelf, why the FUCK has nobody pulled them?

This is just another hostile action by a big corporation to illegally steal information form peoples networks using spyware. Somehow it’s ok because it’s SONY? I will continue to boycott all Sony products and encourage you to do the same.

Read more here: Sony must DIE!

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August 30, 2007 by dinofond.

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August 29, 2007 by dinofond.

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August 29, 2007 by dinofond.

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August 29, 2007 by dinofond.

September 5th Apple has a major Press Event to announce again new products or so I suspect anyway. I believe the will announce OS 10.5 as well as the new ipods. Here is one of the first leaked photos of the new ipod touch with it’s iphone interface. See you September 5th!

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August 28, 2007 by dinofond.

Wind is raw, the air is stale
On this cold winter’s night
Sent alone to tell a tale
From the land of Delmite
Journey starts at the edge of town
With the stars as my guide
There’s no one here but my empty thoughts
And the sword by my side

Chorus:
Just a light, from a tower
Burning on from dusk to dawn
Just a light, from a tower
Burning on from dusk to dawn

Sun is leaving the darkened clouds,
As it slips past the hills
Slow moon climbs way up in the sky,
Keeps the heavens so still
Come this far, though I know not why
Said the things I’ve been told
Greedy village that has sent me here
For its own pot of gold

Chorus:
Just a light, from a tower
Burning on from dusk to dawn
Just a light, from a tower
Burning on from dusk to dawn

Everywhere the wind did sail,
The castle lies just ahead
Blade is drawn, still I carry on
On my brow a cold sweat.
As I look there upon the hill,
There it stands so tall
Said that stone structured wall of gold,
Will heed the voice of us all.

Chorus:
Just a light, from a tower
Burning on from dusk to dawn
Just a light, from a tower
Burning on from dusk to dawn

Just a light, from a tower
Burning on from dusk to dawn
Just a light, from a tower
Stands the victor and his gold,
And that’s all!!!

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August 27, 2007 by dinofond.

CELEBRATION! Shrub henchman and destroyer of the Constitution F O R M E R!!! US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has thrown in the towl. Let the celebration begin!

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August 26, 2007 by dinofond.

I received an email designed to be funny in far lower IQ circles then I run in today from a family member. I wanted to share it with you and my response.

To: Dino
Subject: Terrorists

Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide.. Let’s see now. . . .
No Jesus
No Christmas
No television
No cheerleaders
No baseball
No football
No hockey
No golf
No tailgate parties
No Wal-Mart
No Home Depot
No pork BBQ
No hot dogs
No burgers
No chocolate chip cookies
No lobster
No shellfish, or even frozen fish sticks
No gumbo
No jambalaya
No Beer
Rags for clothes and towels for hats.
Constant wailing from the guy next-door because he’s sick and there are no doctors.
Constant wailing from the guy in the tower.
More than one wife.
You can’t shave.
Your wives can’t shave.
You can’t shower to wash off the smell of donkey cooked over burning camel dung.
The women have to wear baggy dresses and veils at all times.
Your bride is picked by someone else.
She smells just like your donkey.
But your donkey has a better disposition
Then they tell you that when you die it all gets better!
I mean, really , is there a mystery here?
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My Response:

Yes there is a mystery, why are people who buy into all this are so dumb! You know all of those things are nothing but man made garbage, especially the top of the list!

No Jesus
No Christmas
No television
No cheerleaders
No baseball
No football
No hockey
No golf
No tailgate parties
No Wal-Mart
No Home Depot
No pork BBQ
No hot dogs
No burgers
No chocolate chip cookies
No lobster
No shellfish, or even frozen fish sticks
No gumbo
No jambalaya
No Beer

All these things, every single one are all designed to keep human kind distracted into thinking that having them is the most important thing. You see we have something in this country called a central bank, it’s the reason our forefathers dumped tea into Boston’s harbor (the Boston Tea party) in protest of the central bank of England! Every dollar you have you’re paying interest on the minute it gets into your hands (after you pay taxes on it), but you don’t know that do you? You don’t even know what the central bank is or how it works do you! You know why? You’re to busy thinking about more football, beer and fish sticks. Did you know that it’s illegal according to our very constitution for the Central government to tax it’s citizens and there is no law that exists that says you even have to file a federal tax return? Yet people are in jail for it without due process placed there by the treasury department and IRS which in itself are illegal under our constitution. Nope, you’re to busy thinking about home Depot, how green your front lawn is and being a consumer whore which is exactly what the people who are really running this planet want. A legion of slaves (sheep if you will baaaaa) that are given the illusion of freedom so they can buy more at wal-mart. These billionaires already have all the money and power now they want more. They don’t know what it is but they WANT IT!

It’s the ignorant or lacking in IQ in this country that think all these thing’s are the cat’s meow, I say to you you’re all sheep following one and other because you’re not smart enough to think for yourselves. At least I have enough brains to know what temperature jet fuel burns at, what temperature steel melt’s at when a building is burning. At least I’m intelligent enough to know how large a hole a jet would make impacting the side of a building.

I’m bright enough to know the US government joined WWI because the Lusitania was torpedoed in the middle of a war zone (180 M east of Ireland) by the Nazi’s. Who in their right mind sails a ship through the middle of a war zone with passengers? Especially after Kaiser Dumbshit (who incedentally dies in 1941) the pre Third Reich took out a full one page add in the new your times asking them not to do so as it would be dangerous for any civilian to be in a WAR ZONE! I’m smart enough to know (which has finally been proven due to the release of WWII era documents) that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor. I’m smart enough to know the Gulf of Tonkin incident was planned by our own government and subsequently blew the Vietnam War into existence for America. This is not the first time these evil men who are all billionaires have gotten together and pulled this stunt. It’s the first time people have been able communicate it in the fashion it is now. The new world order came with the internet. The dum-shit’s cant put a meter on it yet, and even if they do people like myself will break that fucking meter 24-7.

You wait, your illusion is about to come crashing down around you America. The only terrorists on this planet are the ones running the white-house on behalf of the worlds billionaires. That’s the truth, most just can’t handle it because the reality they bought into (baaaaaaa) would come crashing down around them. It arouses to much fear to even think about, and that word fear, it means the same thing as terror. Welcome to the real reality!

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August 24, 2007 by dinofond.

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August 24, 2007 by dinofond.

Sony has announced a breakthrough in battery technology–a bio cell that uses sugar to produce electricity.
Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

A year ago it seemed Sony Corp. couldn’t even get a laptop battery right. A massive recall of lithium-ion cells tainted its image and had the company scrambling, but on Thursday it reported a sweet breakthrough in bio battery technology.

Sony, one of the world’s largest battery makers, said it had succeeded in creating a battery that produces electricity by breaking down sugar. The bio cell, which measures 39 millimeters cubed, delivers 50mW (milliWatts) — a world record for such a cell, according to the company.

A video provided by Sony shows four of the cells connected in series delivering enough energy to power a Walkman music player. The battery uses glucose solution as a fuel. A second video shows a small fan being powered by the cell with a glucose-based sports drink used as the fuel.

As in other cells, power is produced through a flow of electrons between a cathode and anode.

In the bio cell sugar-digesting enzymes at the anode extract electrons and hydrogen ions from the glucose. The hydrogen ions pass through a membrane separator to the cathode where they absorb oxygen from the air to produce water as a byproduct. The electrons flow around the circuit outside the device producing the electricity needed to power it.

Details of the bio battery were accepted as a paper at the 234th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition that is taking place this week in Boston.

Sugar is naturally occurring so the technology could be the basis for an ecologically-friendly energy source. Companies like Sony are researching numerous technologies that could replace the dominant lithium ion cells as a clean power source for portable electronics.

One of the most talked about is fuel cell technology. While hydrogen-based cells have taken off for home or automobile use, versions based on methanol for use in electronics products have yet to be commercialized. Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. are among the companies that promised methanol fuel cell-based laptops in previous years, but each time technology launches have been delayed.

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August 24, 2007 by dinofond.

The Alpha Auriga, or Aurigids, meteor shower is expected to be either dull or spectacular, depending on the astronomer talking. It will be seen from August 25 to September 8, 2007.

By William Atkins

The peak viewing time for the meteor shower is early morning on Saturday, September 1, 2007, when tens of shooting stars, maybe up to 100, will be seen skirting across the sky from the constellation Auriga. In the past, only about an average of 9 meteors were seen, with maximum amounts of up to 30 observed in 1935 and 1986.

Specifically, the one hour centered around 4:33 am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) is the peak time, but the entire time possible to see the shooting stars is about two hours. The shower will be visible from locations in the western United States (primarily west of the Rocky Mountains), including Alaska and Hawaii, and from Mexico and the western provinces of Canada.

The shower should contain bright fireballs (some as bright as stars) and strangely colored meteors (such as blue-green).

The origin of the meteors from Auriga is the Comet Kiess (C/1911 N1), which some time around AD 4 (give or take about 40 years) passed by the Sun close enough so that a cloud of dust particles was ejected. Its orbit is a highly elliptical (long-period) comet that has passed into the inner solar system only twice in that last two thousand years.

Its second trip caused the Auriga meteor shower for the years 1935, 1986, 1994, and now in 2007. Most of the time these dust particles miss the orbit of the Earth, but in these four years, they moved into the path of Earth, to give us this meteor shower called the Aurigids.

Will we actually see the meteors shooting across the sky?

Bill Cooke, of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office (Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, United States), comments: “We have so little experience with ancient debris from long-period comets. Almost anything could happen—from a fizzle to a beautiful meteor shower.”

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August 23, 2007 by dinofond.

9 to 5 Mac posted a picture of what they “say” is the new ipod nano. As you well know when Apple’s lawyers call to have content taken off your site it’s the real thing. 9to5mac was forced to remove the image. In the spirit of free information here is the image that was removed. 9to5 also broke the pictures of the new iMac Keyboard months ago.

I think it fugly but plan on buying the touch screen model anyway. Apple is having a press conference in September. It is expected OS X 10.5 and four new ipods will be launched.

-D

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August 23, 2007 by dinofond.

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