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Chicago Museum Exhibit Hits the Bull's-Eye: Target America Shows Damages of Drugs, Builds Partnerships

f you had 30 minutes to show people the consequences and dangers of drugs, to convince them how much damage drugs do to both users and so many innocent victims along the way, how would you do it? Show them pictures of a brain or lungs damaged by drugs? Would you drive them to a crack house? A meth lab? Introduce them to addicts struggling to regain their lives? Maybe you would even show them pictures of law enforcement officers slain by drug traffickers. It would be a tall order to accomplish that visually and powerfully in such a small amount of time.

Hey mister, if we give you the cash, will you go in there and get me and my friends some iPhones?

These kids today — if they aren’t hacking around with major service providers, they’re getting themselves put on double secret probation at Apple stores worldwide for doing a little unauthorized product demo. Palo Alto High School senior and devout Apple fan Daniel Fukuba and some friends were killing time at the company’s local retail shrine last weekend, and Fukuba, wanting to show off the iPhone’s abilities, downloaded a third-party car racing game called “Raging Thunder” onto one of the display units. He was approached questioningly first by an employee and then by the manager, but there was no fuss until the group left the store and was halfway down the block. According to Fukuba, the manager chased them down, herded them back to the store, detained them while he called police, kept them there for 2½ hours, gave them

Birds know you are watching them

LONDON: A landmark research has shown that birds respond to a human's gaze, allowing them to pick up on very subtle signals and use them to their advantage.

Birds can tell if you are watching them

London (PTI): A landmark research has shown that birds respond to a human's gaze, allowing them to pick up on very subtle signals and use them to their advantage.

Tech Companies Team Up To Buy Up Patents To Keep Them Away From Others

Google, Verizon, HP, Cisco and some others are apparently teaming up to put money towards buying patents to keep them out of the hands of patent hoarders who would turn around and sue them. This isn't a new concept, and has been tried before -- and it didn't help much. The problem is that many of the worst patent suits aren't from "known" patents, but someone claiming a patent on some minor feature that everyone thought was obvious. Also, this type of action only encourages more bad patent activities by adding another buyer to the market. Now, questionable patent holders will recognize that they can also just sell to this patent pool, rather than selling to some patent hoarding firm. This is one of those ideas that sounds good on paper, but will have little to no effect on slowing down or stopping bad patent lawsuits, and may actually enc

Big tech companies band together to fight patent trolls

Fed up with patent holding companies suing them, a consortium of high-tech companies is taking a different approach: beat them to the punch. According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription), the business heavyweights behind the move include Google, Verizon, Cisco, and Hewlett-Packard. The premise is that the companies will put money into a holding company, to be called Allied Security Trust, that will buy up patents and then license them to consortium members for free.

Maximize Your Google Adsense Earnings

Most webmasters know that Google Adsense generates a sizeable source of additional advertising income. That is why most of them use it to go after high paying keywords. They have with them the lists that tells what the keywords are and have already used various methods of identifying them. And yet, after putting up these supposed-to-be high paying keywords into their pages, the money they expected to come rolling in is not really coming in. What is it that they are doing wrong? Having the pages is with the proper keywords is one thing.

Camerautomata Charlie: Image Digesting Robotic Duck

If documenting trips to faraway lands is beginning to take time away from actually enjoying them, then a robotic picture-taking duck may be just what you need. In an effort to "to liberate cameras from human operation," South Korean artist Taeyoon Choi created a traveling companion, "Camerautomata Charlie: Image Digesting Robotic Duck," that snaps photographs in response to other camera flashes and can print them on the spot or upload them to your favorite website using WiFi. The piece is being presented as part of a larger exhibit, "Tourists and Travelers," currently on display at Eyebeam Studios.

Ten Romanians accused of having defrauded eBay

Police officers and prosecutors have arrested a group of ten young persons from Caras-Severin on Monday evening, accusing them of having defrauded the website eBay last year and having caused prejudice of USD 1 million to the company. The Romanians broke various accounts, auctioned the goods, bought them at a ridiculously low price and re-sold them. Moreover, a huge action initiated by the American police forces, in partnership with police officers from several countries, has led to the arrest of 38 persons, including Romanians, accused of frauds committed on the Internet.

Is Reselling A Shampoo Bottle Copyright Infringement?

A couple years ago, we wrote about a case that involved the question of whether reselling a legally purchased shampoo bottle was illegal. Basically, the shampoo company only sold to authorized resellers, who sold them to hair dressers, one of whom sold them to a woman who put them up on eBay. The shampoo company claimed that this listing infringed on their rights. It appears that a very similar case is now going on, again involving the same basic fact pattern (shampoo company sells to authorized resellers, who sell to salons -- then another company buys the shampoo from the salon and tries to resell it online). While the court seems to have correctly noted that there's no trademark infringement in how the seller advertised the shampoo (noting that using the terms honestly, rather than to confuse, shouldn't be seen as trademark infringemen

Orange offering deal on 3G iPhone trade-up?...

Orange is giving its French iPhone customers incentives to trade up to the new model, according to news from multiple readers of PCInpact. The carrier is described as calling its customers giving them an offer that would encourage them to trade up to the iPhone. One offer would see users trade in their 2G models for the next-generation version as well as paying 50 Euros; a second would let them keep the older model but buy the new one with a "generous" subsidy from the carrier, according to reports.

Florida Judge Smacks Down RIAA

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA is going to have to face the music in Tampa, Florida, and answer the charges of extortion, trespass, conspiracy, unlicensed investigation, and computer fraud and abuse that have been leveled against them there. And the judge delivered his ruling against them in in pretty unceremonious fashion — receiving their dismissal motion last night, and denying the motion this morning. The RIAA's unvarying M.O., when hit with counterclaims, is to make a motion to dismiss them. It did just that in one Tampa case, UMG v. Del Cid, but the judge upheld 5 of the 6 counterclaims. The RIAA quickly settled that one. When a new case came up in the same Tampa courthouse before the very same judge, and the same 5 counterclaims were leveled against the record companies, I opined that 'it is highly unlikely that the RIAA w

HyperCard Comes Back From the Dead to the Web

TedCHoward writes "On the heels of the recent mention of HyperCard comes the launch of a brand new site called TileStack. Cnet's Webware blog writes, 'The idea behind it is to bring old HyperCard stacks back to life by putting them on the Web, meaning you can take some of those long lost creations from the late '80s and early '90s and make them working Web apps. You simply upload them to TileStack's servers and they'll be converted and hosted for just you or the entire world to use once again... Since the service runs without Flash... TileStack is perfect for the iPhone and other devices that run on the Web.' They also have a video showing the upload process."

Using Distributed Computing To Thwart Ransomware

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The folks at Kaspersky labs are turning to distributed computing to factor the RSA key used by the GPcode virus to encrypt people's files and hold them for ransom. There are two 1024-bit RSA keys to break, which should require a network of about 15 million modern computers to spend a year per key factoring them. Unfortunately, there appear to be no vulnerabilities in the virus' use of RSA, unlike some previous cases. Perhaps more interestingly, there's some debate over whether people should bother cracking it. After all, what if they were trying to trick us into factoring the key for a root signing authority? Besides, there's a more direct method of breaking the encryption: track down the people who wrote the virus and force them to talk.

SnapNames, Register.com Renew Domain Name Deal

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net's SnapNames.com unit said today that the firm has renewed an exclusive agreement it has with domain registration service Register.com, where it will continue to make domain names surrendered by prior registrants on its auction platform. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. SnapNames, which was acquired by Oversee.net last year, sells expired and deleting domain names which have not been renewed by their prior owners. Register.com monitors domain names registered at the site, and when owners fail to renew them they provide them to SnapNames, which auctions them off to the highest bidder.

Using hackers' tools against them

Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam email or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.

Tougher test but we will beat them 2-1, says Moores

England are a work in progress but their coach expects them to see off high-quality, confident opponents. By Stephen Brenkley

Man kills family to spare them shame of financial ruin

VIENNA, Austria - Austrian police discovered the bodies of five people Wednesday after a man turned up at a Vienna police station saying he killed his family to spare them the shame of his financial ruin.

Colonel suggests using hackers' tool against them

Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.

Colonel suggests using hackers' tool against them

Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.

Colonel suggests using hackers' tool against them

Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.

Colonel suggests using hackers' tool against them

Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.

Colonel suggests using hackers' tool against them

Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.

Colonel suggests using hackers' tool against them

(AP) -- Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.

Colonel suggests using hackers' tool against them

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.

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