Geek Bazaar

SecurityFocus has an interesting article about SoBe, a juvenile who operated a botnet together with some others.

This morning I woke up to go straight to the bank.

A few hours before I’d made use of an ATM that dispensed the right amount of money for me, but while I was fixing my credit cards, the money was absorbed by this greedy ATM again. I made another transaction because I still needed my 50 euros. So 2 transactions in a few minutes. However that is not what my statement said when I checked it out on the online banking service. To my surprise I noticed that there were 4 transactions during that time. A -50 EUR, a +50 EUR (i suppose this is when it ate my money), and a double -50 EUR. So I ended up with 100 euros less in my account instead of 50. Not good.

So I went to the bank and explained the situation to them, they acknowledged this and told me that I should have the money back over the weekend.

Did you come across any other ATM glitches?

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The time is near when we won’t exactly be able to stop these drones - especially if they cost £250 to manufacture

A robotics expert at the University of Sheffield will today (27 February 2008) issue stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by new robot weapons being developed by powers worldwide.

Read the whole article here

its all here and other places i suppos. *cough* 1b$ *cough*

judge for yourselves

here. These guys own. I especially like this quote:

“All of this is about self-selecting for people just like you,” says Levchin. “He thinks like me, he’s just as geeky, and he doesn’t get laid very often. Great hire! We’ll get along perfectly.”

.. or maybe this one:

“The difference between Google and PayPal was that Google wanted to hire Ph.D.s, and PayPal wanted to hire the people who got into Ph.D. programs and dropped out,”

The court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights. The court also ruled that “SCO is obligated to recognize Novell’s waiver of SCO’s claims against IBM and Sequent”.
More here.

This article sheds some light on what emails such as the one below consist of:

MAKE EXTRA $$$ WORKING FROM HOME! NO SPECIAL SKILLS REQUIRED! EARN HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS EACH MONTH!

A summary of how it works at maltainfosec

Insane! Picture says it all — catch the whole article here

this is what I have got from my online booking :

Virtu Ferries Internet Booking Service
….
Payment may be effected by e-mailing your credit card details (Card Type - VISA/MasterCard/AMEX; Card Number; Security Code and expiry MM/YY) to creditcards@virtuferries.com together with the booking reference. Kindly note that if payment is not effected within 24 hours, your reservation may be cancelled.

Thank you for choosing Virtu Ferries

Ron Paul is a candidate for the next presidential elections in the US.
The video is quite long, watch it. His ideas are so radical, they just might work.

According to SmartMoney.com Tuesday is the day to go out for dinner.

“Most restaurants do not receive food deliveries over the weekend. “Sunday is the garbage-can day of the week,” says Kate Krader, senior editor at Food & Wine magazine. “No doubt, they’re cleaning out their fridges. Tuesdays, they’re starting fresh.” Dining out on that day offers the best odds you’ll get a meal worth paying for, no matter your price point, she says.”

Buy your airline tickets on Wednesday and books on Thursdays.

For the rest of the week bargains check out The Cheapest days to buy certain items.

Trust no one

This is not a new story - but it is by far one of the more complete ones of Vodafone-Panafon’s totally owned systems / mobile phone system bugging. If you got more info, please comment.

Well not really .. but this says something about that.