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The Computer Security Group at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has released a short, chilling video demonstrating how a single person can hack an election on a touch-screen voting system.
Yes, our good friends over at Diebold are now twirling with delight.  You too can hack a voting machine!   You can even set [...]

A two-year investigation has concluded that most Verizon FIOS installations fail to meet national safety standards, and could cause fires or electrocutions.
Copy a Single File to Avoid Re-Activating Windows XP
New York’s Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, is warning consumers after an undercover investigation found that 25% of gas stations are engaging in “deceptive practices,..” (yet he [...]

Turn A Gamepad Into A Midi Controller To Use With Audio Software
ssh-xfer: [linux] Quickly grabbing files over an existing SSH connection: I have been waiting for this ever since I figured out how to use SSH.  It seemed so obvious that I thought I was missing something.
TVWeb360.com : Watch TV Online
ShareMiner: Search Web for Files
TextBook [...]

At this point it shouldn’t be a surprise that various systems that shouldn’t be are quite easily hacked, but that doesn’t make it any less disturbing. Over at this years Black Hat event there was a demonstration of just how easy it is to hack the automatic toll devices used at most bridges and toll [...]

You’re absolutely gonna love this.
Most guitar pedals use 9v batteries or those annoying wall warts adapters.  It is claimed that certain effects, most notably fuzzes, perform best not with fresh new batteries, but with older sagging batteries.  With that in mind, here’s the schematic for a power supply to replace the batteries AND there’s a [...]

The breathalyzer microphone is a system for the inconscpicuous collection of blood-alcohol content level data sets. In other words, you can measure a person’s sobriety with a device, that for all intents and purposes, looks no different than a standard microphone.
Bored?  Build yourself a breathalyzer in a microphone.  Amaze the police.  Amuse your friends.  Abuse [...]

Lifehacker features the Top Ten Command Line Tools.  Good solid stuff for newbies and others who might’ve forgotten what the CLI (command line interface) can do for them.
As much as I use the GUI, I’m still a fan of the CLI.  There are certain things that just move faster this way.  Check it out and [...]

I have added some more info on the virtualization process.  You can find it above, in the virtualization section.  After a month or so, I have made many observations on the process (also known as Making Many Mistakes).  You can find them at the end of the page.  It’s obviously still an open topic, as [...]

Here’s some booty from my surfing tonight:
Pill identifier - need to know what that pill you found is?
App-Stick - free portable software for your usb stick  (also check out portableapps.com)
Videofetcher - search 100 popular video sites simultaneously
Speed up bittorrent downloads (basic or advanced)
Sheer genius - coffee clip: measure and closer
Microsoft error code lookup tool
Inside the [...]

Every now and then, some site will put up their piece on file manager replacements.  This particular one belongs to Lifehacker.  I’m posting this because Lifehacker is one of my favorite sites of all time.  You’ll always get good information, as well as the privilege of reading the arugments comments.
This article is a call for [...]