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Massive SQL injection attack making the rounds—694K URLs so far
Hundreds of thousands of URLs have been compromised—at the time of writing, 694,000—in an enormous and indiscriminate SQL injection attack. The attack has modified ...
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Robert Bunsen, Open Source Pioneer?
cygtoad writes "Today marks Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday. I found this interesting factoid on the man: 'Bunsen and Desaga did not apply for patent protection on their burner and it was quite soon that others began to produce their own ...
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Historic Rap Battles: Einstein Vs. Hawking
This is a rap battle between Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. It was surprisingly well made (I don't expect anything to be well made anymore). The only thing I didn't like was Einstein talking so much smack on ...
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Huh, This Zombie Memo Has an MPG Attached
We used to live in a dark world. A bleak world. A troubled world, where Jonathan Coulton's "Re: Your Brains" song didn't have a music video. No longer.Today, we enter a new, better, world, thanks to director Bill Stiteler and ...
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Interactive Left 4 Dead YouTube Video – Choose Your Fate
The Game Station gang has put together one entertaining interactive Left 4 Dead video romp. Did you ever have those D&D interactive adventure books, the ones that, much like the video, you make your decision and turn to that page ...
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SUPERHERO ROUNDUP: Feedback on Green Lantern Footage, Amy Adams is Super-Pysched to be Lois Lane, James Marsden Wants to be Cyclops Again and Adrien…
Welcome to today’s installment of SUPERHERO ROUNDUP, wherein we take the latest and greatest bits and bobs of Superhero news and put them in a neat little bundle just for you (aren’t we sweet?). Today it’s all about Superhero movie ...
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Todd McFarlane Says Any New ‘Spawn’ Film Will Be Done His Way
Todd McFarlane sat down with MyDVDInsider last week, and said that he’s at work on the script for a new Spawn film. He wants to revive his demonic creation on film, but this time he wants total creative control.
“I’m three ...
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Industry Layoffs, The Agency Canceled
THE AGENCY: In a surprising and saddening turn-of-events – big layoffs were reported today across the game industry. Firstly, over at publishing powerhouse THQ, firings were made at Volition (makers of the Saint’s Row and Red Faction series) and Kaos ...
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It’s World Backup Day
1sockchuck writes "Today is World Backup Day, an occasion to back up your personal data and financial information and check your restores. For those needing motivation — a group that apparently includes 15 percent of data centers — the Slashdot ...
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Jupiter and Saturn’s rings show echoes of comet collisions
In August of 2009, the Cassini orbiter was in place as Saturn reached a point where its rings were illuminated by the Sun edge-on. ...
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Finally, RPG Dice That Hurt You Physically as Well as Emotionally
These "thorn dice" were made wit a 3-D printer by someone called Ceramic Wombat. Apparently they're available for download in a variety of materials, so if you have a 3-D printer, let me know and I'll provide the link and ...
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After Japan’s Quake, Taiwan Helps Fill iPad 2 Supply-Chain Gaps
RedEaredSlider writes "Like many device manufacturers, Apple cannot seem to escape supply concerns in the wake of the ongoing crisis in Japan. The company is hoping that AU Optronics will fill the void left by companies like Hitachi and Toshiba, ...
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Did You Get The Zombie Memo; Jonathan Coulton’s “Re: Your Brains”
They’re rotten, disgusting and their stuck in a six-by-six cubical from nine to five, five days a week. Sounds like something out of a B grade horror movie starring Jeff Fahey, but it’s a real video.
When the people you’ve worked ...
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Iron Man 3 Hires a Writer
It was really only a matter of time before we started hearing more news about Iron Man 3.
The first Iron Man film was great, the second was over-burdened and rushed into production, but still managed to hit a few high ...
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Leonard Nimoy Voicing Moustached Transformer in ‘Dark of the Moon’
You thought Fox’s series Fringe was the last time you’d ever see Sci-fi cult icon Leonard Nimoy again, didn’t you? He did say he was going to retire after his time on the J.J. Abrams created show was done, but it ...
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Mortal Kombat Web Series Update
MORTAL KOMBAT! *Cue the classic Mortal Kombat film theme song*
Ever since the Mortal Kombat: Rebirth trailer hit the internet all those months ago, I have been really excited for the potential new life the series has on the screen. Rebirth ...
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FINALLY — Huffable Meat: J & D’s BaconAir
J&D's, the same company that brought us bacon mayonnaise, bacon lip balm, bacon envelopes and bacon popcorn, is back at it, this time with huffable bacon-flavored oxygen. But, before I go any further, TOMORROW IS APRIL FOOLS' DAY -- ...
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Fox gearing up for fight with Time Warner over iPad TV streaming
Time Warner Cable has been facing a backlash from the TV industry ever since it rolled out its live-video-streaming iPad app earlier this month. ...
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Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed straddles sim, arcade genres
Racing games tend to aim for one of two markets: those of us who like our racing fast, easy to play, and unrealistic, and ...
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AP Adopts Firefox’s ‘Do Not Track’; Others On the Way
theweatherelectric writes "As noted by the Mozilla Blog, the AP News Registry is the first large scale service to support the Do Not Track (DNT) feature of Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9. They write, 'The Associated Press (AP) is ...
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Mutations in tumor suppressor take other genes down with them
p53 is a potent tumor suppressor. Its job is to scan along DNA, identify mutations that might cause cancer, and then halt cell ...
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Gek Apparel of the Week: Marvel Nouveau and Abraham Linkoln
• Mighty Fine has a new Marvel shirt collection of characters in art nouveau style. They're pretty groovy. I picked Mystique, but there's also Deadpool, Phoenix, and Galactus, with probably more to come. They're each $25 here.• I know some ...
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World Backup Day: what are you doing to make sure you’re covered?
When you rolled out of bed this morning, did your thoughts turn to preserving your data in the case of hardware failure? If so, ...
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The Illustrated Popularity Of Web Browsers
Note: The world didn't end in the spring of '97, click HERE to see the whole chart through the present.
This is the history of web browsers through the ages, with the popularity of each represented by the thickness of its ...
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Android 3.0 Is Trickling In, But Are the Apps?
jhernik writes "As tablets based on the new Honeycomb version of Android appear, critics have questioned Google's moves to enforce a standard Android platform, and said there may be as few as 20 'real' apps for the devices. Motorola's Xoom ...
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Microsoft tries whacking Google with European antitrust stick
The legality of Google's business practices in Europe have drawn increased criticism over the last year or so, and now things are about to ...
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Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up
Hugh Pickens writes writes "The Examiner reports that Wisconsin Republicans claim that no one else can republish a video of United States Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI) complaining about how he is 'struggling' to get by on his $174,000 salary without ...
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Second Lion developer preview includes iCal, About this Mac tweaks
Apple released the second developer preview of Lion—build 11A419—this week, but in contrast to rumors suggesting that a possible release ...
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Interactive Map: If You Dug A Hole Straight Through Earth, Where Would You End Up?
Awesome, Los Angeles got me the middle of the Indian Ocean. Which, SPOILER ALERT: so will everywhere else in the continental United States. Alaska gets you close to Antarctica, but only Hawaii gets you on solid ground, in ...
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Wait until June for a fix? Throttled WoW player wants ISP fined
You can only frustrate your customers for so long before one of them decides to become an expert on the issues at hand and ...
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Turtles and Ducks and Pikachus, Oh My
Anyone care for a strangely earnest and excited medley of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DuckTales and Pokémon theme songs?No?Well, whatever. It's not like you guys pay me or anything. Thanks to Jade for the tip.
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Over 10B Social Network Accounts Created Already
siliconbits writes "Analyst firm In-stat has calculated that well over 10 billion social networking and online world accounts have been created by the end of 2010 with nearly half of them (4.5 billion) still active. The growth of free social ...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- Now With More Elephant Feet
Honestly, is there anyone that’s lookin’ forward to Nickelodeons upcoming make over of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Granted, we’re all cowabunga and shit for our heroes in a half shell, but this latest incarnation is looking stupider by the ...
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Workin’ In A Gold Mine, Goin’ Down Down, Working In A Gold Mine, Whew About To Slip Down
Courtesy of @juliandibbell, the financials for a typical Eastern European WoW gold factory.
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Workin’ In A Gold Mine, Goin’ Down Down, Working In A Gold Mine, Whew About To Slip Down
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What Is Saddest About the Governator Comic?
Entertainment Weekly revealed the exclusive news that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stan Lee have joined forces to create a comic and animated series called The Governator, about Arnold deciding to fight crime after leaving office. I honestly don't know what the ...
The Protomen - Rock Music and Mega Man Combined.
An Irrelevant Take on the Zombie Goodness of the Walking Dead
Halloween Fear Fest - Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus
Amnesia: The Dark Descent will induce heart problems.
Redline - 7 Years in the making and damn, it looks good.