DefCon 16 will be held August 8-10 at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas.
Contestants will be given a sample set of viruses and malicious code that they must modify and then upload through the contest portal. Once accepted, the sample will be sent through a number of leading antivirus engines (perhaps using VirusTotal.com to provide [...]
Samsung SPF-85H
8-inch screen
800×600 resolution
1GB internal memory
Auto on/off function
Auto photo resize
SD/MMC/MS/XD card reader, USB memory slot
10-inch screen
1024×600 resolution
64MB internal memory
Auto-rotation function
802.11b/g wireless photo frame
Rechargeable battery
SD/MMC/MS/XD card reader, USB memory slot
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Daniel Brandt seems like a great guy. He’s doing this for free–and accepts tax deductible donations on the Scroogle site. However, for users who don’t trust Daniel’s claims, they may wish to use the anonymizing TOR proxy in parallel with Scroogle.
Disclosure: I’m paid as a technology policy fellow by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a [...]
Now the other side of the coin: I’ve used CheckPoint’s ZoneAlarm firewall–both the free and pro versions–for many years, and on many different PCs. The program would occasionally prevent a legitimate program from performing some operation, but on those rare instances I merely shut the firewall down long enough to complete the task, and then [...]
The vehicle’s peak speed in the first run was 136.103 mph, and in the second, 151.085 mph.
The steam-powered mark to beat was 127 mph, set in 1906 by Fred Marriott, driving that Stanley Steamer at Daytona Beach, Fla. (According to the FIA, the overall World Land Speed Record is 763 mph, a supersonic speed [...]
Assuming you were planning to buy a Nano anyway, what would you do with an extra 25 smackers?
Update: As astute reader ZephyrVolta points out, the Apple Store is currently running a special on refurbished 8GB Nano players (again, 4th-gen): $99 shipped. They carry the same one-year warranty as new models, and they’re available in all [...]
I happened upon a computer today that hadn’t been used in a couple years and was running
Firefox version 1.0.6. That version still had a single X on the far right side for closing tabs. It wasn’t until later that each tab got its own little X.
Clicking on “Help -> Check For Updates” told me that [...]
If you look at venture capital money flowing in, it’s a phenomenal rate. China has been the fastest-growing target for venture capital in the last four years: far faster than anywhere else in Asia or the U.S. or Europe.
Whether all that’s enough to supplant Northern California is not something I know how to estimate…
This is [...]
But the weirdest case I’ve ever heard is the story of Animal Collective, which interpolated a few lines from Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You” in their song “Purple Bottle.” According to somebody who worked on the album, Stevie Wonder’s representatives would have given clearance if Animal Collective had sung the [...]
After months of rumors, Samsung has finally made it official: The company will be bringing its NC10 Netbook to the United States.
The 2.8-pound minilaptop’s white case toes the design line established by the Asus Eee PC, Acer Aspire One, and others. So it’s no surprise that the NC10’s configuration is fairly typical as well, [...]
