Think you’re taking advantage of frequent flyer miles? Check this guy out.

http://www.snopes2.com/business/deals/pudding.htm

The well-known Dutch cryptographer claims to have broken Intel’s DVI (Digital Video Interface) encryption, but won’t publish for fear of being prosecuted under the DMCA as soon as he sets foot on American soil.

http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/article.html?id=236

There is a bug in scope resolution in IIS 5.0. When resolving a variable within a member function, precedence is given to a global constant instead of to a member variable of the same name. The problem does not occur with global variables. Paste the following code into a page:

<%
const name = 1
 
class A
 
  public name
 
  public function get_name
    get_name = name
  end function
 
end class
 
dim a1
set a1 = new A
 
a1.name = "test"
 
%>
<%=name%><br>
<%=a1.name%><br>
<%=a1.get_name%><br>

http://latimes.com/technology/la-000064605aug09.story

New (old) quake battle. malloc and dur in Urban Terror.

Added a style-chooser on the home page. Check out which styles you like. More coming soon…

Added 239 pictures to the Switzerland 1997 album.

From their article titled “AMD allies with Transmeta”

http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/05/25/technology/amd_transmeta/

“Most of today’s microprocessors are “32-bit,” which means they process data 32 bits at a time. It also refers to the size of the “pointer,” which determines how much data the processor can address directly. Current 32-bit processors can address 4 gigabytes of data.“

“The industry has been gradually moving toward a 64-bit architecture, which multiplies the amount of data the... [More]

Added AEStats to the Quake battles site. New battle: dur, joker, kavorka, malloc.

Finished the first version of the polling system.

More hacktivism from the Cult. This time their software aims to provide private, closed networks untouchable by prying eyes.

The last section ‘Some Truth about Peekabooty’ is the most interesting, I think.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19067.html
 

 

http://www.seanbaby.com/news/col-lawsuit.htm
 

This is a comparison of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with the GeForce2 GTS (slowest one) and Radeon (both 64MB cards). They tested 8 different games with different engines, including Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 and Serious Sam. Surprise, surprise, Quake and Serious Sam showed 0% change between platforms.
Looks like you can move safely over if you like….

Here’s the main chart:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1422&p=12

and the whole review:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1422&p=1... [More]

Added the first earthli poll.

A (biased) description of a recent meeting of the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and
Foreign Judgments, discussing globalizing copyright laws.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/15/2138208&mode=nocomment

http://www.jargon.8hz.com/jargon_49.html

Added Christmas 2000 pictures to the photo album.

A look at what ‘big media’ is trying to get away with these days…
http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/05/11/

Grizz vs. dur quake battle.

Mark III ready for delivery.

earthli systems Mark II arrives.

New Quake battle

earthli moves to a dedicated server and gets mail service.

Updated logos for earthli.

SDMI is the secure digital music initiative. They issued a challenge last year to any comers to crack their protection. Anyone who agreed to enter the contest was bound to secrecy, though and not allowed to reveal any details of how they cracked it, if indeed they could. Once group from Princeton declined because of this proviso and cracked it anyway. Turns out they can now be prosecuted under the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which purports to disallow reverse-engineering of software... [More]

Battle statistics added to quake site.

Logicat Test Engine build history transferred to earthli.

Stevie Wonder and Tiger Woods are in a bar. Woods turns to Wonder and says, “How’s the singing career going?”

Stevie Wonder replies, ”Not too bad. How’s the golf?”

Woods replies, “Not too bad, I’ve had some problems with my swing, but I think I’ve got that right now.”

Stevie says, “I always find that when my swing goes wrong, I need to stop playing for a while and not think about it. Then, the next time I play, it seems to be all right.”

Tiger says, “You play golf?”

Wonder says, “Oh,... [More]

Here’s a web site that lets you see who says pop and who says soda. This is only of interest if you have ever left your hometown and you’ve ordered a ‘soda’ only to get soda water.

You can even participate.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/

Seanbaby takes on the world while defending Jackass (MTV):

http://www.seanbaby.com/news/jackass.htm