The code, which was posted on the Internet early Sunday morning, could be used to disable the Windows Firewall on a fully patched Windows XP PC that was running Windows’ Internet Connection Service (ICS).
LifeHacker Adam Pash has a great guide to rip DVDs so that you can watch them skip-free once you have it on your hard drive. It is also a great way to archive your video collection, and be able to watch them even when they great scratched or lost.
A few ways to show of your geekness for Halloween
Travelers have been ordered not to look too happy in their passport photographs to avoid confusing facial recognition scanners.
Near its closest approach to planet Earth, comet SWAN brightened unexpectedly earlier this week. Telescopic observers also noticed dramatic changes in the comet’s colorful coma and tail, seen in this view recorded on October 25th.
EO-1 is a new breed of satellite that can think for itself. “We programmed it to notice things that change (like the plume of a volcano) and take appropriate action,” Chien explains. EO-1 can re-organize its own priorities to study volcanic eruptions, flash-floods, forest fires, disintegrating sea-ice—in short, anything unexpected.
Schell ruled that the defendant’s hard drive can only be examined by a neutral forensics expert, not the RIAA’s own “experts”.
Adobe is going head-to-head with Apple’s SoundTrack Pro by releasing a public beta of Soundbooth.
Mozilla is pushing ahead on work and planning for its next two major browser releases, Firefox 3.0 and 4.0. Firefox 2.0 was just released yesterday.
Firefox 3.0 is currently being developed under the code name Gran Paradiso and the current alpha release is code-named Minefield.
NASA readied twin satellites for launch Wednesday on a mission to study huge eruptions from the sun that can damage satellites, disrupt electrical systems on Earth and endanger spacewalking astronauts.