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Here’s a scary little story about the increasing sophistication of online criminals: Hands-off hackers: Crooks opt for surgical strikes. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Internet criminals have been getting more “professional” for years, trying to run their businesses like Big Business to get better and more profitable at selling stolen ...
Two very cool pieces of news for iPhone geeks: 1) Google Earth for iPhone. Need I say more? 2) Free Wi-Fi for iPhone owners at thousands of AT&T hotspots, including Starbucks and McDonalds.
We posted this last month, but the problem is getting worse. We just checked our automated flood protection log, and 5 IPs have been blocked today because of the following problem. If your IP is blocked for this reason, we can’t spend any more of our time to find and ...
A ray that causes intense pain but (when used as directed) no lasting injury: Army Orders Pain Ray Trucks; New Report Shows ‘Potential for Death’. After years of testing, the Active Denial System — the pain ray which drives off rioters with a microwave-like beam — could finally have ...
I just learned about a Firefox add-on called Speed Dial, that lets you set Firefox to automatically load a certain web page over and over at specified intervals, presumably to keep up with what’s going on in semi-real time. This is known as a very bad idea—one of those bad ...
This is a list of 15 smart people Wired Magazine thinks the next president should consult for advice on science/technology issues: The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To. I don’t see Michael Moore in the list, so it may be worth a read.
The Most Recent Referrers page now shows the number of referrals from each domain in the past 24 hours, in a column labeled “Count.” The code tries to identify subdomains like ‘hughhewitt.townhall.com’ or ‘environmentalrepublican.blogspot. com’ or ‘pajamasmedia.com/instapundit&rsqu o; and count them separately, but it ain’t perfect. Lots of exceptions to ...
A grassroots initiative led by a group of concerned scientists has produced an excellent, highly detailed comparison of the presidential candidates’ positions on scientific issues, by asking both of them the same 14 questions and publishing their answers side by side: Sciencedebate 2008. Great stuff that you’ll never see in ...
LGF, Science, Election 2008, John McCain, Barack Obama, Technology
OK, iPhone geeks — there’s a software update hot off the Apple presses that’s supposed to address some of the problems you’ve been complaining about: Apple - iPhone - Software Update. Better connectivity, fewer dropped calls, better battery life, faster backups and faster app installation are the claims. I haven’t ...
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
Last week we had a post about the problems some users are experiencing with their shiny iPhone 3Gs. Apple has released a software update, which I’m now installing. (Just sync up your iPhone with iTunes and choose “Check for updates.”) No details from Apple yet on what this is supposed ...
Trouble in Cupertino? What’s Wrong With the 3G in iPhone 3G? A gaggle of early adopters are having problems with the 3G part of their new iPhone 3Gs; dropped connections, reverting to the older (and much slower) EDGE network, and transfer speeds that don’t quite bear out the advertising boasts. ...
If you’re an iPhone geek, Little Green Footballs now has one of those shiny iPhone-specific application icons. To put the icon on your iPhone homepage, browse to LGF in Safari and hit the plus symbol at the bottom of the screen, then choose “Add to Home Screen.”
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
It took about three weeks for the initial crush to subside, but today I walked into an Apple store, waited about two minutes, then paid way too much for my very first cell phone. They finally evolved into something that made me want to own one.
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
Digital technology is on the brink of radically redefining a technology that has existed with only minor changes for more than a hundred years: Shimano Shuns Cables for Full Electronic Shifting. Japanese parts manufacturer Shimano is launching an electronic shifting system for high-end road bikes that it claims will ...
If you think you’ve had a tough week, imagine what some system administrators at major ISPs and network operations centers are going through to patch millions of DNS servers against this undetectable “phishing” attack. Dan Kaminsky’s blog has a tool that does a quick check to tell you if the ...
TidBITS has an interesting review of the iPhone 3G: First Impressions of the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0.
LGF, iPhone, Apple, Technology, Gadgets
I’ve received several emails this morning from readers in Britain who are being redirected to a bogus “virus checking” site when they try to visit LGF. The problem is not with LGF; if this is happening to you, it’s very likely that your ISP did not promptly patch their DNS ...
Today’s launch of the iPhone 3G didn’t exactly go as planned; Apple’s iTunes servers apparently couldn’t handle the gigantic traffic surge and many customers left stores without being able to activate their new objects of technolust: iPhone glitches derail Apple’s launch event magic. Good thing I decided not to go ...
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
OK, so who’s planning to try to grab an iPhone 3G tomorrow? Apple - iPhone. (Besides me, that is.)
LGF, Technology, Gadgets, iPhone, 3g
The Middle East Media Research Institute has released a handy little “widget” that can be embedded in a blog template: The MEMRI Widget. It would be installed here, except that I don’t usually put in external stuff that might affect the page loading speed; and the RSS feeds for the ...
LGF, MEMRI, MEMRI TV, Widget, Blogosphere, blogs, Technology
The official non-beta version of Firefox 3 has been released, and they’re trying to set a record for number of downloads in 24 hours: Mozilla | Firefox web browser & Thunderbird email client.
It looks like I’m going to have to join the rest of the world and tether myself to a cell phone—because the new iPhone 3G completely, totally rocks: MacRumors.com : Worldwide Developer Conference 2008 Keynote Live Coverage. 11:46 am The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries. ...
LGF, Apple, iPhone, Technology
A web crawler using the IP address 66.165.190.122 has been hitting us like crazy for the past couple of hours, violating the rules in our robots.txt file and crawling through LGF as quickly as possible. When I checked the access log, I discovered something that makes me a bit suspicious; ...
Photographs from Mars, courtesy of the Phoenix Mars Mission at the University of Arizona. In this photo you can see the attached CD that contains “Messages from Earth,” for any Martians who happen to ramble by. It has a little picture of the skipper from Gilligan’s Island on it. (Kidding.) ...
Technology, Phoenix, Science, Mars, LGF
How cool is this? A satellite orbiting Mars actually got a photo of the Phoenix probe parachuting down to the surface. PASADENA, California (Reuters) - A sharp-eyed Mars orbiter snapped an image of sister probe Phoenix descending through Martian skies toward a polar landing site to search for ...
LGF, Mars, Science, Phoenix, Technology