Archive for May, 2006
Friday, May 26th, 2006
metro.co.uk reports:
A high-pitched alarm which cannot be heard by adults has been hijacked by schoolchildren to create ringtones so they can get away with using phones in class.
Techno-savvy pupils have adapted the Mosquito alarm, used to drive teenage gangs away from shopping centres.
The alarm, which has been praised by police, is highly effective because its ultra-high sound can be heard only by youths but not by most people over 20.
Well, apparently adults can hear it from 1m away, but not if further away.
Anyone has a copy of the file?
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Comments from digg
Links to articles: [1] [2]
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
For production work, steer well away from free/cheap webhosting companies like hostultra.
While reading a discussion about .htaccess files at corz.org, someone complained about lack of security skills of the admins there, where instead of securing their boxes, they disabled some useful php functions due to “security issues.”
By the way the .htaccess discussion whose link is provided above is very good, far more readable that the one at apache.org
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
US govt alleges that between February 2001 and March 2002, he repeatedly hacked into, from the UK, dozens of computers used by the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense.
Talk about bad timing: that’s within 9/11’s timeframe. (more…)
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