Geek Bazaar

please please print me this on my T-Shirt:

http://skypher.com/wiki/index.php?title=ASCII_Art/Shellcode/Julia

Hackers, errrm, security researchers compete whose dick is bigger…
This time publicly, winner gets a blue rosette ribbon.
More here.

Paul Ewald gave a talk at TED about how can we make harmful organisms more mild. Today’s pharmaceutical research and products work on fighting evolution of harmful organisms. His suggestions is that this is mostly wrong and that we should instead be identifying ways to make evolution work for us and make it happen. Of course he describes a few studies to prove the point.

I wonder how this applies to other areas of study, like Infosec. While some might see Infosec as a technology problem, it is in fact mostly a human problem in the end of the day.

Quchjaj qoSlIj!

The presentation at Shmoocon:
“Virtual Worlds, Real Exploits”

Wired is running a article and a video on Christopher Tarnovsky’s mad skills.

Deputy Director of Homeland Security, Dr. Kenneth Shoto today announces a
call to cyber-ninjas everywhere to sign up for his annual fight-to-the-death
qualifying competition for the Defcon Capture the Flag (CtF) contest. The
qualifying competition will start at 10PM on Friday, May 30th and end at
10PM on Sunday, June 1st.

More here… http://kenshoto.com/

If you want a super-light laptop, you have to pay for it, and you have to use Windows. That’s been the (frustrating) conventional wisdom—at least until late last year, when the Taiwanese company Asus rolled out the Eee PC (pronounced as though it were a single long “e”), a two-pound, seven-inch laptop starting at a mere $300. The tradeoff: It comes with just two to eight gigabytes of flash memory instead of a conventional, larger hard drive, and a simplified Linux operating system that essentially is usable only for e-mail, Web browsing and typing.

<edit> forgot to mention that Logicpass is advertising it on Bay Radio (2Gb Model €385 (€323.40 with Government subsidy) weighs in less than 1Kg

Source

More here.

er.. wtf’s wrong with her? the original article is on wired.

further information here

Oh yes .. the code is out. (This is the firewire  hack)

More here.

That’s www.neural-networks-at-your-fingertips.com:

• ADALINE - Adaline Network
• BPN - Backpropagation Network
• HOPFIELD - Hopfield Model
• BAM - Bidirectional Associative Memory
• BOLTZMAN - Boltzmann Machine
• CPN - Counterpropagation Network
• SOM - Self-Organizing Map
• ART1 - Adaptive Resonance Theory

Sites like this can be quite useful

An interesting discussion on how P2P and using the game in-built bot technology to make multi-player gaming over low bandwidth smooth. This is the link to the main post.