Sexy Jihad

After a succession of games it’s finally here, Doom the boardgame. Now I wonder if this is actually any fun….

You just have to love this guys ingenuity. He brute forced San Andreas cheats by hooking his controller up to the parallel port of his PC to automatically go through combinations of buttons. Apparently he also found cheats not yet released by Rockstar. Click here for a pic. Nice one…

Looks like the guys at Positive Technology has broken the new XP SP2 Heap protection. Here’s a brief reminder of what the protection entails from the paper:
Memory protection
Buffer overrun attacks are among the most common mechanisms, or vectors, for intrusion into computers. In this type of exploit, the attacker sends a long string to an […]

A new study indicates that monkeys will actually pay to see pictures of female monkeys and male dominant ones. Excerpt:
Would you pay to see a monkey’s backside? I hope not. Monkeys will, and I guess that’s okay, though it sounds awfully close to the sort of thing that lands guys in jail here in the […]

Boingboing has an article on how someone was sent to jail after using Lynx & Solaris to make a donation for tsunami victims online. Excerpt:
For donating to a Tsunami appeal using Lynx on Solaris 10. BT [British Telecom] who run the donation management system misread an access log and saw hmm thats a non […]

Just read this interesting account of FUD gone mad in a post 911 world:
American Airlines Customer Relations
P.O. Box 619612 MD 2400
DFW Airport, TX 75261-9612Ê
14 January, 2005
To whom it may concern,
On Sunday, January 9th, I flew AA51 from London Gatwick to
Dallas-Fort Worth. At Gatwick, I was confronted with a security
check that exceeded sense and decency and, […]

The BBC has a piece on how spirits haunt tsunami survivors. Excerpt:
Lek looks nervously at the Patong sea shore as he describes the passengers who climbed into his tuk tuk minivan late at night on 6 January.
“Go to Kata Beach”, the seven foreign tourists told him, after agreeing on a 200 baht fee.
He drove a […]

Looks like Phrack is about to kick the bucket. The next issue will also be the last one. This for me is VERY sad news. One of the first things I did when I got an internet connection was download and print the latest issue. An excerpt from the site:
Phrackstaff is pleased to bring you […]

Slate has an interesting article on how aacPlus is going to replace MP3 streams in the near future. The main reason for this being the small bandwidth requirements for aacPlus (48kpbs will get you decent stereo sound). An excerpt from the article:
It’s a given that fat broadband lines are the future of online media. But […]

Just found a cool new reciever from Onkyo, the TX-NR1000.
This things the most future proof receiver I’ve seen yet. Here’s what they have to say about it:
The Future-Proof Anchor to Your Entertainment Needs
Welcome to the full potential of what a home theater reciever can be. Onkyo, the company that brought you the world’s first 7.1-channel, […]