November
27, 2002 -
Fresh Spam for Everyone - By
Justin Jaffe, WiredNews, Is your
spouse dissatisfied with the size of your
spam? A brand-new website has made several
hundred thousand pieces of unsolicited
commercial e-mail available for you to
download today. Act now! After a quiet
online debut last week, the Spam Archive
is making quick strides toward becoming
the largest public library of junk e-mail
on the Internet...
November
04, 2002 -
Home Theater in Your Lap - By
Bill Machrone, November 26, 2002, PC
Magazine, They've been in airports for
years. Now even Penn Station here in New
York has one—a kiosk where you can rent
DVDs for your commute. Think of all those
travelers who leave the office each day
with their laptops fully charged and their
desire to do more work fully discharged.
They can pop in DVDs and, in two or three
trips, catch up on movies they missed in
the theaters...
November 19, 2002 -
MS accused of banning mod chip
Xbox from Live service -
By John Lettice, The
Register, Microsoft's campaign against
Xbox mod chips has ratcheted up a notch
with the launch of the Xbox Live online
gaming service. According to a posting at
Got Mod?, (there's a site that's going to
be pretty concerned about the issue) the
company is attempting to detect mod chips
when users connect, then placing them on a
banned list - forever...
November 2002 -
The MOD Squad -
Console games like Xbox get the
media attention, but PC games
are far more intriguing: Whole
worlds are rewritten by the
players themselves., by David
Kushner, Popular Science,
Consider whether you would hack
a DVD of the film Gladiator so
that Russell Crowe was relocated
from Rome to, say, a Wal-Mart
parking lot in Missoula,
Montana. Perhaps substitute
pickup trucks for chariots,
grizzly bears for lions. Turn
the emperor into Osama bin
Laden—maybe with no clothes. You
might not, but someone would.
This is certain because, when it
comes to the intricate worlds
created for PC-based games,
someone does. The difference
between games and movies, of
course, is that PC games are
code worlds, hackable. By
cracking and changing the code,
players can alter weapons,
characters, and, sometimes,
entire worlds. They have,
famously, inserted Barney into a
Nazi shoot-em-up, then gleefully
distributed the hacked version
on the Internet. They have
recreated a scene from The
Matrix and inserted it into a
hit 2001 adventure game called
Max Payne, an action-shooter set
in noir-ish New York. More
ambitiously, one bunch of
hackers is currently busy
remaking the entirety of Maax
Payne into a flighty
fantasy-world homage to a novel
by cult author Terry Pratchett...
November 2002 -
Cracking the XBox -
Popular Science, Dave Becker,
Nintendo-style game consoles
pose the ultimate challenge—and
that's what hackers live for.
The closed architecture of game
consoles such as Sony's
PlayStation 2 has made them
almost impossible to infiltrate.
Hackers hoped for a new
playground, however, with
Microsoft's Xbox console, which
went on sale last November.
That's because the Xbox is
PC-based, with a standard Intel
processor and a hard drive...
November, 2002 -
Power Houses -
WiredMag Issue 10.11, Tech
execs and extreme jocks are
making the world safe for
plasma-screen shaving mirrors
and Wi-Fi window shades. Join
Jack Boulware for an exclusive
tour of the ultimate wired
homes. And please wipe your
feet. Behind the gates of Boca
Raton's exclusive Polo
development, where Spanish-style
mansions and palm trees line the
manicured cul-de-sacs, one house
stands apart. Sprawling across
two lots, the 17,000-square-foot
monster belongs to Roger
Shiffman, the former CEO of
Tiger Electronics. There's the
pool and cabana — this is Boca,
after all — and a three-story
cathedral ceiling in the foyer.
But what distinguishes the house
is its digital guts — the $1
million of electronics that
control this audio-video
nirvana, and the
remote-controlled waterfall,
too...
November 30, 2001 -
Web wizards spin design show - BBC, Web design
a "fast-moving and fluid area" The Design Museum in London is
opening an exhibition dedicated to designers of websites. Web
Wizards - Designers who define the Web will focus on one of
the most dynamic areas of contemporary design. Five designers
will be showcased in the event, which runs from 30 November to
21 April...
November 30, 2001 -
George Harrison is dead at age 58 - ASSOCIATED
PRESS, Famous ex-Beatle fought long battle with cancer;
tributes from fans pour in. LOS ANGELES, George Harrison, the
Beatles’ quiet lead guitarist and spiritual explorer who added
both rock ’n’ roll flash and a touch of the mystic to the
band’s timeless magic, has died, a longtime family friend said
late Thursday. He was 58...
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