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Dan has more letters! Clusters, fragmentation, 32bit memory hacks, AA battery replacements and the Windows key.
The media is once again lampooning Conroy, with plenty of good arguments. In case you hadn't heard, Senator Stephen Conroy, the Communications Minister, will soon serve Australians a smut-free internet. Or, at the very least, he'll soon supervise the audition for his sanitised feed. Late last year he announced it on his now-defunct blog. Any day now, some of Australia's internet service providers - the companies you pay for your web access - will join in a pilot of the minister's filter.
Intel's chairman is retiring. Intel's Craig Barrett will retire from his position as Chairman and member of the Board of Directors effective May 2009 at the company's AGM (Annual General Meeting). The exact date has not yet been determined. He will be replaced by Jane Shaw, who was elected yesterday to serve as non-executive Chair of the Board for a one-year term, effective immediately after Barrett steps down. She has served as a Director of the Company since 1993, and is currently Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
Wikipedia is looking at limiting user edit privileges. Wikipedia is apparently considering instituting a new editorial process that would put better safeguards in place and require all updates to be approved by a "reliable" user. The so-called Flagged Revisions process would allow registered, trusted editors to publish changes to the site immediately. All other edits would be sent to a queue and would not be published until they get approved by one of Wikipedia's trusted team of editors.
You can now use your GPU to crack WPA secured wireless. No weak password can survive a GPU-accelerated password recovery attack. Last week’s released Wireless Security Auditor is prone to shorten the time it takes for a network administrator to pen-test the strength of the WPA/WPA2-PSK passwords used on the wireless network. Its core functionality of shortening the wireless password recovery time up to a hundred times based on the GPU used, is naturally going to empower unethical wardrivers with the ability to easily guess the no longer considered secure 8 character passwords.
Turns out P2P can be used for good. This week, millions of people watched Obama’s inauguration on the Internet through one of the many sites that offered a live feed. CNN’s broadcast was without doubt one of the most used viewed streams, with a peak of more than a million simultaneous viewers and also one that was using P2P technology. Despite the fact that there are thousands of legitimate uses for peer-to-peer technology, most businesses are not keen on using it because of the negative associated with it. One of the areas where P2P can really make a difference is with video streaming, either live or through sites like YouTube.
There is a new first in the porn industry. A Hong Kong filmmaker aims to lure audiences back to the cinema with what what he says is the world's first 3D erotic movie, a newspaper reported. Stephen Shiu Jnr, chairman of One Dollar Production, said he would use special effects to make the love scenes in his 30 million Hong Kong dollar ($5.9 million) 3D Sex and Zen as realistic as possible. "The 3D erotica will probably be the world's first," he told the Sunday Morning Post.
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