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Ubisoft's DRM leaves your computer wide open to browser-based system hijacking Atlanta cops can't explain to CNN anchor why they pulled him over David Byrne and St Vincent's monumentally funky "Weekend in the Dust" Meet Robin Shelby, Slimer actress in Ghostbusters 2, current web series star Bruce Conner's "Mea Culpa" film for Eno and Byrne Ethnic slur on hotel TV Iowa City Public Library's Local Music Project GAMAGO's zombie foot chew toy Zed's (not quite) Dead Report: complexity of cyberspying botnets greater than previously known "How I lost my fear of Universal Health Care" Very important public service annoucement about spiders (video) Uganda: Ebola's back Plant caught Guardian reconstructs Olympics basketball match in LEGO An investment fund that makes trades based on superstitious beliefs Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others - excerpt from new book Enthralling Books: Blood Music, by Greg Bear Ubisoft's DRM leaves your computer wide open to browser-based system hijacking
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 30, 2012 12:48 pm Yesterday, noted security researcher (and Google employee) Tavis Ormandy published his discovery that Ubisoft's UPlay DRM installs a browser plugin that leaves your computer terribly vulnerable to drive-by attacks over the Internet. The plugin is meant to allow Ubisoft to start games on your computer over the Internet, but it lacks an effective authentication mechanism. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 30, 2012 12:47 pm Neetzan Zimmerman at Gawker: "T. J. Holmes was one mile from his Atlanta home when he was suddenly pulled over by two police cars. The normally affable CNN anchor proceeded to live-tweet the stop, getting progressively angerier with every status update."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 30, 2012 12:37 pm David Byrne and St Vincent (AKA "Annie") have collaborated on a new album called "Love This Giant," which will come out in Sept. If you pre-order now ($9 for electronic delivery, $11 for electronic + CD), you get a bonus preview track called "Weekend in the Dust," which I am listening to at this moment, ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 30, 2012 12:29 pm A while back, I came across some old footage from the set of Ghostbusters 2, a movie that is one of my favorite movies of all time. (And a movie that I will defend to the death.) The scene they were working on didn't feature any of the famous actors, it was all about Slimer, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 30, 2012 12:17 pm At Saturday's "This Must Be The Place" post-punk film festival in San Francisco, I was bowled over by Beat filmmaker/photographer/assemblage artist Bruce Conner's 1981 short film for the song "Mea Culpa" from Brian Eno and David Byrne's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts." Among dozens of other films through his career, Conner's also created ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 30, 2012 11:57 am On Friday, Joseph Ross had just checked into a Motel 6 in Sharonville, Ohio when he turned on the TV and was greeted with an on-screen message that said "Hello Nigger!" Motel 6 responded that the company is "investigating to determine how this mishap occurred, and after inspecting other rooms this appears to be an ...
Read in browser Iowa City Public Library's Local Music Project
By LibraryLab on Jul 30, 2012 11:43 am "If you have a library card and password, and live in Iowa City …you can download this music. You own it forever. Put it on your phone. Play it at parties. Turn it up" That's the message on the Iowa City Public Library's (ICPL) page for the newly-launched Local Music Project, a digital collection that ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 30, 2012 11:42 am Perhaps your dog, or you, may enjoy chewing on a zombie foot.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 30, 2012 11:37 am This video, by Toronto dubstep duo Zeds Dead, just happens to star actor Peter Greene, who played the role of Zed in Quentin Tarantino's classic Pulp Fiction. Turnstyle's Noah Nelson interviewed the director, Andrew Renzi.
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 30, 2012 10:42 am Brian Krebs interviews Joe Stewart, a security researcher "who's spent 18 months cataloging and tracking malicious software that was developed and deployed specifically for spying on governments, activists and industry executives." Speaking at Defcon in Las Vegas, Stewart says the "complexity and scope of these cyberspy networks now rivals many large conventional cybercrime operations.
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 30, 2012 10:32 am Worth a read: American blogger A Young Mom, who believed state-funded abortion was "a horrible thing," writes about how she changed her mind about Universal Health Care after realizing that affordable access to health care is associated with a lower abortion rate in Canada. She moved to Canada, and her opinions changed when she observed ...
Read in browser Very important public service annoucement about spiders (video)
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 30, 2012 10:27 am [Video Link]. "A lot of people die. Just so you know."—Dan Lucal. (via Casimir Nozkowski)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 30, 2012 10:21 am The president of Uganda has "banned all physical contact" as the deadly Ebola virus is reported in the city's capital, Kampala, for the first time. "The Ministry of Health are tracing all the people who have had contact with the victims," president Yoweri Museveni said in a state broadcast. 14 have died of Ebola in ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 30, 2012 10:13 am Internet users get it done fast: the identities of animal abusers, the provenance of clever media hoaxes and the details of shocking crimes are often exposed within minutes. To the galleries of summary internet justice we can add another new art: spotting, catching and exposing provocateurs who encourage protestors to break the law. [OC Weekly]
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 30, 2012 10:03 am If NBC's Olympics coverage were this adorable, I would not only watch it, I would forgive them for delaying it and pretending like it were live. Video: "Brick-by-brick men's basketball: USA v France" (Guardian.co.uk)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 29, 2012 04:54 pm Shing-Tat Chung says: Would you trust a superstitious robot with your money? Can technology operate with human characteristics, interpreting data and information with basic human behaviors. The Superstitious Fund Project is an investment Fund that is run by a superstitious autonomous Algorithm. As a one year experiment it operates and trades purely on superstitious beliefs. ...
Read in browser Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others - excerpt from new book
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 29, 2012 04:28 pm Here's an excerpt (PDF file) from the new O'Reilly book, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others, by Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman. In a perfect world, software engineers who produce the best code are the most successful. But in our perfectly messy world, success also depends on how you work ...
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By Kevin Mack on Jul 29, 2012 02:18 pm This is one in a series of essays about enthralling books. I asked my friends and colleagues to recommend a book that took over their life. I told them the book didn't have to be a literary masterpiece. The only thing that mattered was that the book captivated them and carried them into the world ...
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