April 2009
27 posts
Eradicating self-consciousness
clipped from www.raptitude.com
author Tim Ferriss’ exercise for eradicating self-consciousness in public:
…simply lie down in the middle of a crowded public place. Lunchtime is ideal. It can be a well-trafficked sidewalk, the middle of a popular Starbucks, or a popular bar. There is no real technique involved. Just lie down and remain silent on the ground for about ten seconds, and then...
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Student sentenced for F-ucked up grade hack • The... →
The tale begins in August 2007, when Jacquette installed keyloggers onto several of the university’s computers after sneaking into a locked ballroom where student registration was taking place. In short order, the trio had access to the school’s PeopleSoft accounts. They promptly used it to change dozens of grades belonging to them and their friends, in many cases from Fs to As. Naturally,...
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How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the Time 100... →
What TIME doesn’t say is that their poll was so totally manipulated that the results of the poll are not an indication of who is the most influential, but instead they stand as a monument to Time’s incompetence.
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“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”
– Ghandi
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A Cyber-Attack on an American City →
Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes serving the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city. Its implications, though startling, have gone almost un-reported.
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The 5 Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old... →
Take as much risk as you can as early in life as you can
Nail the fundamentals (reading, speaking, typing, etc.)
Surround yourself with people who expect you to succeed in a big way
Follow your bliss (do something your passionate about)
Give the big middle finger to the “good or bad opinion of others“
Be who you truly are, not who someone else wants you to be
I was way too...
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Inside the precision hack « Music Machinery →
The hackers of 4Chan have succeeded in completely gaming Time Magazine’s online poll for its Time 100 list of the most influential people on the planet
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World Privacy Forum: Top Ten Opt Outs →
Top ten opt outs:
National Do Not Call Registry
Prescreened offers of credit and insurance
DMA opt outs
4. Financial institution opt outs
CAN SPAM
Credit freeze
FERPA
Data broker opt outs
Internet portal opt outs
NAI opt out
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In China, Knockoff Cellphones Are a Hit -... →
“Technological advances have allowed hundreds of small Chinese companies, some with as few as 10 employees, to churn out what are known here as shanzhai, or black market, cellphones, often for as little as $20 apiece.”
“China has done little to stop the proliferation of fake mobile phones, which are even advertised on late-night television infomercials with pitches like...
Dan Kantor - Tumblr MP3 Player Hacks →
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“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand”
– Randy Pausch
Twitter’s Real Edge: It’s not Scary →
“It reminded me of a conversation I had with Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn CEO and uber-Web 2.0 angel a few weeks ago. He pointed out that lifecasting never took off in a big way because it was originally conceived as video. Many people don’t want to show that much of their lives, and most friends just don’t have the time to watch. It’s not that people don’t care, it’s just that sometimes we’re...
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BBC NEWS | UK | Plan to monitor all internet use →
Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics.
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