Entries from September 2007

September 28, 2007

GMail Flaw Lets Anyone Read Your E-Mail,(and patch update)

 
September 26, 2007 | 8:06:07 AM
Hackers have revealed that your GMail account is vulnerable to an attack that allows malicious folks to keep tabs on your e-mail traffic. The attack uses a clever (and particularly nasty) cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to create a persistent backdoor that can be used to read your e-mail. The exploit [...]

September 28, 2007

The Burmese junta tries to shut down internet and phone links

 
The Burmese junta was last night desperately trying to shut down internet and telephone links to the outside world after a stream of blogs and mobile phone videos began capturing the dramatic events on the streets.
In the past 24 hours observers monitoring the flow of information have noticed a marked downturn, with the reported closure [...]

September 28, 2007

Torrent Tracker Demonoid.com Taken Offline

 
For the benefit of all the Torrents downloaders
The popular Demonoid.com, a semi-private BitTorrent tracker, has been taken offline. Both the torrent tracker and the site have been unresponsive for over twenty-four hours. Although there has been no official word, or statement from the Demonoid administrators, TorrentFreak claims that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) is [...]

September 26, 2007

From Ynet, “Exclusive: Ynet reporter visits site of ‘Syria operation’”

 
Exclusive: Ynet reporter visits site of ‘Syria operation’
Published: 09.26.07, 07:16 , Israel News
Ynet reporter and commentator Ron Ben-Yishai visits Syria, speaks to residents about Israel’s alleged overflight
Deir Ezzor is a city located in the Syria’s northeast region close to the Turkish border, and home to what Syria claims to be an agricultural research station.
 It was there [...]

September 26, 2007

Parallel Worlds

                                        
In my work as a visual artist I was always intrigued by the Many Worlds (Parallel Worlds) interpretation of quantum mechanics. It was  highly controversial because the impossible science fiction connotation of a constant splitting of our world into many branches, identified as other worlds, containing among other things our ’own’ self’s.. but it was very inspiring for trying to [...]

September 25, 2007

Ahmadinejad 2007 “The Oracle of Iran”.

Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, here is a part of the transcript of  Ahmadinejad  remarks,  held at Columbia University, on the Holocaust,  the legitimation of the state of Israel and the Iranian nuclear issue. .
..”Last year — I would say two years ago — I raised two questions. You know that my main job is a university instructor. AHMADINEJAD (THROUGH [...]

September 25, 2007

Indonesians tune in to digital Koran

 
The Koran goes digital.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - With her tiny earphones and slim digital player, Jakarta office worker Mira Indriarti looks like any other young music lover — only she’s not listening to the latest tunes, but to a recording of the Koran.
Digital Koran is increasingly popular in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, where [...]

September 24, 2007

Music from Dark Matter

 
On September 21, 2007 I stumbled on an article named “Imaging Quantum  Entanglement”:   ….”An international team including scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) have just published findings in the journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ (PNAS) demonstrating the dramatic effects of quantum mechanics in a simple magnet.” ….”The key result [...]