from Mal-Aware.org
The ExpressPay stored-value card system used by FedEx Kinko’s is
vulnerable to attack. An attacker who gains the ability to alter the
data stored on the card can use FedEx Kinko’s services fraudulently
and anonymously, and can even obtain cash from the store.
FedEx Kinko’s fired back saying
According to Fedex Kinko’s:
“Our analysis shows that the information in the article is inaccurate
and not based on the way the actual technology and security function.
Security is a priority to FedEx Kinko’s, and we are confident in the
security of our network in preventing such illegal activity.”
So the hackers had an interesting response….
from Mystery Solved
Answers:
Here are the answers to the four questions:
Q1. How many ways are there to obtain a full Microsoft® Windows® Desktop license?
Answer:: 2
Q2: Volume License Agreements cover Windows Desktop operating system upgrades only.
Answer: True
Q3: OEM operating system licenses are non-transferable.
Answer: True
Q4: The most cost-effective way to acquire an initial, full underlying Windows Desktop license is preinstalled.
Answer: True
from Encyclopodia - the encyclopedia on your iPod
Encyclopodia is a free software project that brings the Wikipedia, which is one of the largest encyclopedias on the world, on the Apple iPod MP3-Player. It has been successfully tested on a third-generation iPod and on an iPod mini, but it should also work on other iPod generations.
from CNN
A true video iPod
Sure, the latest iPod has a bigger color screen, suitable for catching up on shows at the gym. But to outdo Sony’s (Research) PlayStation Portable and other handheld video players, Apple needs an iPod with a bigger screen. And in fact, Apple recently patented a touchscreen interface for a handheld device, which would let it make a video iPod whose screen covers the entire front side of the device, and displays a virtual click-wheel to control it.
An Intel Mac mini. Many expected Apple’s compact Mac mini to be the first to get an Intel (Research) chip, but the iMac and MacBook Pro got it instead. Now that shortages of Intel chips have eased, Apple could be set to roll out an Intel-based Mac mini. Since the Mac mini doesn’t come with its own screen, it could just as easily plug into a widescreen TV. Add in a remote control and Apple’s Front Row software for playing music, movies, and photos, and the new Mac mini could be the centerpiece of your digital living room.
A widescreen iBook. It’s been a while since Apple refreshed its consumer laptop line, so new iBooks are overdue — especially if they have Intel inside. But rumormongers are more excited by the prospect of a widescreen display, which would let users watch wide-format movies without those distracting black bars.
iTunes Movie Store. Selling movies on iTunes would tie all of Apple’s video-ready products together. Since Apple already sells music videos and primetime TV shows, selling movies just means giving users bigger files. And with cable modems and DSL connections increasing in speed, downloading an entire movie is now a less daunting prospect. Besides, plenty of users are already downloading illegal copies of movies over file-sharing networks.
These are of course rumors.. Who knows.. We will see today at 10am pacific
from Engadget
The much-anticipated but seemingly just-out-of-reach high definition optical disc technology known as Blu-ray has finally, at long last, been given an official launch date by Sony. Early-adopters, you have just under three months to lie, cheat, and steal your way to getting off on Tuesday, May 23, because that’s when you’ll need to be on a 12-hour line at Best Buy to get your anxious little mitts on a Samsung BD-P1000 and eight critically acclaimed launch titles such as “Resident Evil Apocalypse,” “XXX,” and “A Knight’s Tale”- with another eight classics like “Species” and “SWAT” to follow on June 13th. Also available soon after launch will be more Blu-ray hardware, including Pioneer’s BDP-HD1 ,Sony’s BDP-S1, and several BD-equipped Vaio PCs, also from Sony. As we’d heard before, the Samsung player will retail for around a grand, and Sony will be charging $23.45 for new flicks and $17.95 for catalog titles.
Thanks to CodedChaos for the tip!
from MAKE: Blog
Extremely simple one image how to on repairing defective keys of a remote control. Just glue small pieces of aluminium foil onto the graphite contacts of the keys. Use a hole puncher to cut the small pieces out of the aluminium foil
from OSx86 Project
One of our forum members, AirmanPika, has made considerable progress with installing both Windows Vista and XP on his brand spankin’ new iMac. He is detailing his steps (and progress) in this forum thread.
My personal favorite chunk of the discussion…
As a heads up I seem to have gotten to make the machine boot off the local Hard Drive finally (though I’m not exactly sure what I did as I was just fuddling at that time. I’ll have to look in detail later) but it still reboots and at least in this config I lost the ability to use F8 on that partition too. On a side to that I also discovered that once the bootmanager is loaded it can read NTFS drives even if the EFI doesn’t see it as I put vista back on an NTFS partition on the USB drive and it started loading. Also and this may be a bit more significant….I had installed XP on another partition on the drive and so it showed up on the bootloader. It started do…well..SOMETHING as I had hard drive activity when I selected the Legacy OS boot option. Problem is I couldn’t see anything on the screen and the PC rebooted itself after which it told me it couldn’t find NTLDR anymore.
He’s doing a great job, but if you’re an expert in this area and would like to lend a hand, feel free. Getting this thing to work is a community effort and it’ll take all of us helping to get it running!
from Putfile
A video is being passed around showing something called “Google Envision” which is being touted as the GoogleOS. Who knows, could be easily faked, but worth a watch anyways.
from Engadget
Take a new ad from the restaurant formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken that premiers this week, in which a “secret” message is encoded such that it is only visible while the commercial is being viewed in slo-mo. Now the concept of hidden ads in-and-of itself seems quite effective–even the most die-hard commercial skipper still has to watch the screen to avoid missing the beginning of the next segment, so a fast-forward-viewable message is a likely evolution–but KFC is stepping it up a notch and actually providing an incentive for people to seek out the ad, offering a free sandwich to those who can regurgitate the hidden phrase
CVS Camcorder based night vision
This is home-built night vision that was originally a CVS one-time-use video camera. I already have one that I hacked for repeated use and turned into an underwater camera, so this second one became night-vision. [via]
