Funny. The scary part is that most stories/news reports I have read about the US govt. data gathering read almost the same…
Check it out: Template for News Stories on Government Data Gathering
Thanks to Schneier on Security for the link.
- Suramya
This is just hillarious. Basically the new MS Live Beta installer wants you to close the MSN installer so that the MSN installer can continue installing(See the pic below). I havn’t tried installing it on my system because I don’t like MSN and don’t want it to mess with my system.
Source: Reg reader traumatised by MS Live Messenger paradox
Thanks for the laugh guys.
- Suramya
Found this while reading TechRepublic… People will go any lengths for a publicity stunt.
Now along with the great wall of China astronauts can enjoy looking at Eva Longoria, billed as “TV’s Sexiest Earthling.”
Images: Desert pinup ogled by Google Earth
- Suramya
Vinit posted this on Anomalizer’s Blog. It took a couple of seconds for for me to realize what he was talking about and then I fell of the chair laughing…
Surabhi says: The best part … you realize it.
VB says:
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Before you ask, she’s too lazy to login to her own account.
MS Office’s speech-to-text takes 70 mb.
According to Surabhi, it takes 70kgs (moi).
Thanks for the laugh guys.
- Suramya
Saw this at Userfriendly… Now doing this to someone is just plain evil…
- Suramya
Ok, this is just plain hillarious.. Though I do feel sorry for the poor sysadmin who had to trace this issue and I am impressed that he actually managed to solve it. Basically:
“Josh [Breckman] was called in to investigate and noticed that one particularly troublesome external IP had gone in and deleted all of the content on the system. The IP didn’t belong to some overseas hacker bent on destroying helpful government information. It resolved to googlebot.com, Google’s very own web crawling spider. Whoops.”
So when googlebot crawled the pages it deleted them as it went through them. This is really poor application design, the authentication mechanism depended on the client to have javascript enabled and if they didn’t it assumed that allowed the visitor full access to the site.. Not smart…
Complete Writeup: The Spider of Doom - The Daily WTF (Has some good suggestions on how to avoid this)
Thanks to Daily Blogoscoped for the link.
- Suramya
This is one of the more interesting bugreports I have seen. Basically:
A couple engaged to be married shared a computer. He used Firefox to visit a bunch of dating sites, being smart enough not to have the browser save his password. But Firefox did save the names of the sites it was told never to save the password for. She happened to stumble on this list had a big fight (According to her: sh*t hit the fan) and then they broke up. This is after 5 years of dating… Stupid guy… lucky girl (That she found out about this before tying the knot)
I guess FireFox should start promoting itself as: “The browser you can use to find out if your significant other is cheating on you”
Bugzilla Report: Bug 330884 (Read it, its interesting)
Thanks to Schneier on Security for the link.
Cya,
Suramya
Found this while browsing through Cnet (Honest!)… And I think this is really funny:
“After years of reminding blokes that ‘our eyes are up here,’ someone’s gone and invented a bra that seems to say “but my breasts are down here,’” wrote the blog’s Star C. Foster.
Only downside in getting this is that its about $500 a piece… I think getting a new iPod would be cheaper and more useful.
Original Post: Scrolling LED bra sends mixed messages
Purchase them: Here
- Suramya
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