Re: Trojan horse attack involving many major Israeli companies, executives

2005-05-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Fuck. There's no excuse for some of this crap. How bout we stop litigating against Trojans and other spyware, at least as far as corporations are concerned. Or wait, they get a trojan and lose data then a CTO goes to jail instead. OK, not Cypherpunkly enough...OK, security or credit card compa

e-gold exchange

2005-05-31 Thread Tyler Durden
OK...what;s the best exchange service for transferring dollars (perhaps via paypal or credit cards) into egold? -TD

Re: Trojan horse attack involving many major Israeli companies, executives

2005-05-31 Thread J.A. Terranson
> John Saylor wrote: > > hi > > > > ( 05.05.30 15:34 +0200 ) Amir Herzberg: > > > >>See more info e.g. at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581790.html > > > > > > an excellent tale [still unfolding]- no doubt coming to a bookstore or > > movie theatre near you real soon. > > > > of course, it w

google maps and latitude, longitude

2005-05-31 Thread Justin
For anyone who doesn't already know, there are several ways to get google maps to display a latitude/longitude. You can enter them in the query box like so: 35.5N 115.5W or 35.5,-115.5 (I think they added those within the last week or two.) Or you can use the original method, a GET-style form (I

RE: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

2005-05-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Eugen Leitl wrote... from the get-you-where-you-live dept. Badluck writes "Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail of controlling copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel Corp. now embedding [1]digital rights management within in its lates

Re: [wearables] /. [GPS-tracked Clothing]

2005-05-31 Thread Lucy Dunne
a but check out the parent website, contagious media (http://contagiousmedia.org/). the site is a hoax :) --lucy On 5/29/05, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/29/1547234 > Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-05-29 16:07:00 > >from the fi

Re: /. [GPS-tracked Clothing]

2005-05-31 Thread Justin
On 2005-05-29T18:46:43+0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/29/1547234 > Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-05-29 16:07:00 > >from the finally-i-have-to-ask-why dept. >[1]Anil Kandangath writes "A Japanese firm has shown off new >technology that enables G

Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

2005-05-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 11:26:28PM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > (Continued) > "Contrary to expectations, however, sales of the chip have been suprisingly > low, with zero interest shown by major PC manufacturers. One major PC > industry executive, who wished to remain anonymous sated: "There are

Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

2005-05-31 Thread Justin
On 2005-05-28T21:53:52+0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/28/1718200 > Posted by: Zonk, on 2005-05-28 17:37:00 > >from the get-you-where-you-live dept. >Badluck writes "Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail >of controlling copyrigh

Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

2005-05-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Eugen Leitl wrote... Online activation of software is already quite widespread, so it seems customers are willing to accept restriction to ownership and use. Well, that's an interesting phenomenon. In industrialized nations where the price of software is fairly low compared to the wages, peop