…and his efforts aren’t very effective. Check it out.
Unfortunately, as he was planning to do in the video, Ice-T didn’t film his trip to the Mac store to get his PowerBook fixed. I would really have liked seeing this.
…and his efforts aren’t very effective. Check it out.
Unfortunately, as he was planning to do in the video, Ice-T didn’t film his trip to the Mac store to get his PowerBook fixed. I would really have liked seeing this.
Don’t you just love sites such as Microsoft and Yahoo Answers? If you browse around either just a bit, you’re sure to end up on gems such as this one:
Yes folks, you learned it here, data actually weigh something! Ok, maybe not, but this guy sure seems to think so!
[Via TechEblog | Source: Microsoft Answers]
Dear Jessica,
Please run away as far as you can from this guy if you don’t want to end up with your belly cut open and some freak trying to get inside you.
So ladies, if a guy would send you a love letter like this, how would you react? :)
[Via emailsfromcrazypeople]
A word of warning to all our single geek readers: If you ever decide to wear this costume at that next Halloween party, please note that you’ll be increasing your chances of leaving the celebration miserable and alone tenfold. This was a friendly warning from your friends at geeksaresexy.net.
[Via HolyTaco]
Twitter went offline today due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack. There were reports that other sites were impacted too, but service was only mildly affected. Here is a snapshot of the dropoff in traffic to Twitter according to Arbor Networks:
The below graph shows Observatory data from 55 providers around the world to Twitter’s two NTT hosted addresses blocks: 168.143.0.0/16, 128.121.0.0/16.
From the data, Twitter traffic declined abruptly around 9am EDT this morning.
We generally don’t see a lot of data (i.e. it takes thousands of tweets to match the bandwidth of a single video), but 55 ISPs in the Internet Observatory were exchanging roughly 200 Mbps with Twitter before the DDoS. Then traffic dropped to a low of 60 Mbps around 10:40am and began climbing after that. As of 1pm EDT, Twitter traffic was still down by 50% at 150 Mbps (normally we see close to 300 Mbps for this time of day).
According to Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Max Kelly, the denial of service attacks that took Twitter offline and impacted the performance of Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger sites were because someone had set out to silence the voice of a single person– A Georgian blogger by the name of Cyxymu, who had an account on each of the affected web services.
If this is true, it represents an amazing operation by some organization to squelch his speech. From CNET here:
A Russian activist blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
The pro-Georgian blogger, who uses the account name “Cyxymu,” had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET News.
“It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard,” Kelly said. “We’re actively investigating the source of the attacks and we hope to be able to find out the individuals involved in the back end and to take action against them if we can.”
Kelly declined to speculate on whether Russian nationalists were behind the attack, but said: “You have to ask who would benefit the most from doing this and think about what those people are doing and the disregard for the rest of the users and the Internet.”
Twitter was down for several hours beginning early Thursday morning, and suffered periodic slowness and time-outs throughout the day.
I don’t want to speculate on who was behind the attack, whether it was a criminal organization, a nation-state or a combination of the two. But it should be noted that criminal malware authors also picked today to launch an updated version of the Koobface Virus, which propagates by using facebook and twitter posts to trick people into downloading trojanized software. Any outage of Twitter during this attack would certainly be at odds with this criminal organization since it would impact their ability to distribute malware and thus make money.
Thanks to Poppy for the tip!
Using only narration and text, this inspiring video uses a clever trick to make its point about being alive in this generation.
When I wrote yesterday’s article about a camera with a built-in projector, I wondered to myself “What next? A camera that can think for itself?”
I was pretty much on the money.
Sony has released a camera dock which can rotate your digital camera through 360 degrees and tilt it back and forth.
Why does it do this? To find smiling faces of course.
The IPT-DS1 – better known as the Party-shot – takes control of your camera, scans the room and looks for faces using the well-established facial recognition technology, then frames a picture to get the optimum number of people. Once this is done, it waits until somebody in shot smiles, then snaps away.
The idea is to take pictures of parties and other social gatherings without the need for the camera owner to spend all night attending to the camera and having to choose between setting-up cheesy posed shots and roving around paparazzi style.
PCWorld notes that in a demonstration the device produced mixed results, but some of the automatic shots would have been worth keeping. It worked best for small groups of people and struggled if people were too far away from the camera, or if they gathered in large groups.
The dock can be left on a tabletop or mounted on most tripods. It runs for 11 hours on AA batteries.
The $150 device goes on sale next month. It currently only works with two cameras, Sony’s DSC-WX1 and DSC-TX1 Cybershot models.
The smile recognition technology is similar to that used in Sony’s DSC-T90, demonstrated in this clip:
When it comes to spoofing sci-fi movies and game franchises, you have to admit that there’s no one better than the folks from Robot Chicken. These guys are simply brilliant!
Ok, either this guy has some of the biggest balls on the planet, or something is just not right in his head… unless the video is faked somehow, which is definitely a possibility. But you have to admit, the stunt does look real!
[Via Today’s Big Thing]