Yeah, blogebrity is pretty much a hoax since it is part of the contagious media contest. http://showdown.contagiousmedia.org/

Or maybe I’m just pissed that they spelled my name wrong (it does link to the right place)

under the ‘claim to free wi-fi’ link, much is made of a piece of software, wifi-spy.exe. Has anyone downloaded this software and run it on a quarantined system or atleast scanned it for viruses? Call me crazy, but the idea of running a software-only 802.11 setup through a serial port seems more than a little fishy to me. What is the real aim of this site?

though the wifi over serial port idea looks really cool, the article looks a bit too skimpy on details “wifi-spy.exe uses non standard protocols” yea, what the hell? how is magic non-standard protocol going to work with the 802.11 standard.

those screenshots could be faked easily, and it doesn’t seem like a peice of software as miraculaous as this “wifi-spy.exe” could exist without popping up on the radar somewhere.

in addition, it looks like it’s written not to show how to make a wifi connection from a serial port and a peice of software to emulate a wifi card, but instead, it’s from an angle of how to pirate wifi. it all looks too shady and unfounded to me. snakewater if you ask me.

If you want a good laugh, check out the source for the central frame (where the black letters are) on the new elitetorrent site, the gov version- its hilarious. Prepare yourself for pages of nbsp

I’m a big fan of using tlelevision antellas for 2.4Ghz too.

The wording seems designed to appeal to 9-year olds.

Please, let the wifi be true. please?

Why are torrents of movies and such a threat to national security? Or are illegal immigrants running the servers?

ne1 notice this at the bottom of elitetorrents gov’t page?

” RTJKJAS ”

if u scroll down and highlight the bottom you see that

On the salmon in the dishwasher page – Am I the only one that hates web designers that put their text in a 3 inch wide column? I paid good money for an 18 inch flat panel monitor so I’d have lots of screen real estate, and I get to read a 3 inch wide column that I have to scroll down page after page to finish, and the whole time there’s nearly 6 inches of unused white space on each side of the story.

Joshua – On the narrow columns of text again – I can give some slack to sites like hackaday because the extra space is used for a couple columns of links, adverts, the list of commonly commented stories, etc.

The salmon in the dishwasher page wasn’t making any use of that space.

The reason for narrow columns of text is that as the lines get longer it is harder for your eye to track back to the beginning of the next line of text. That’s why magazines and newspapers are printed in several columns. The key word there being several. If google can make maps that scroll around when dragged and other cool things like that, a site like salon should be able to divide the existing browser window into two or three columns and automatically reflow the text. Then just put a next page icon on the bottom right, and when the user clicks it, reflow the next page of text into the columns. It would be like paging through a magazine, with pages that reformat to the size of your screen. I have no clue how to do it, but I’m not a professional web developer. But a big site like salon should employ people that could do this.

Sorry for the long rant, but I don’t like having to spin my mouse wheel until my arm muscles hurt.

D-oh! Why didn’t I think of that? I dunno, just being dumb I guess. Oh well.

podcast ? where is it ? hiding ?

IP Address : [192.31.21.68] http://www.dhs.gov
IP Location: United States [US]

OrgName: San Diego Supercomputer Center
OrgID: SDSC
Address: P.O. Box 85608
City: San Diego
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 92186
Country: US

NetRange: 192.31.21.0 – 192.31.21.255
CIDR: 192.31.21.0/24
NetName: SDSC-APOLLO
NetHandle: NET-192-31-21-0-1
Parent: NET-192-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: DNS1.SDSC.EDU
NameServer: NS0.SDSC.EDU
Comment:
RegDate:
Updated: 1994-12-20

TechHandle: TH60-ARIN
TechName: Hutton, Thomas
TechPhone: +1-858-534-5136
TechEmail: hutton@sdslug.org

This is the result of a whois search on the ip address 192.31.21.68. This is the torrent search engines ip currently. 192.31.21.68 links directly to the department of homeland security. I’m not sure if I’m adding any information. I am not too good with html, and ip address research, but i’m just stating what i found.

Those DNS queries are correct, however the FBI and ICE took credit for the changes in DNS configuration, and taking the site over, in news releases (http://www.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel05/bittorrent052505.htm)

it’s okay, number 26 did it too.
no worries

Wow, FBI sucks arse at making HTML webpages. I mean, cmon stop using Word.

Notepad would have done a better job seriously.
Also, are they all blind? Those colors are less then right for an FBI closure of some sort. I would have put some sleek white or black BG with decent resolution images, without writing half of the content in CAPS.

And what about those RTJKJAS letters at the bottom? Please, don’t say they suffer from tourette! Looks like someone spilled cofee on his keyboard. @_@

I just looked at the source for the elitetorrents.org site. Look how simple:

http://elitetorrents.org

Thats it. I guess they did not need much, but they coulda at least thrown in a link or two, right? Like have the images take you to the respective government websites?

not to mention that the webpage is titled “Untitled Document”, and the author spells like a 4th grader.

Yes, someone must do this hack and test it for sure. Plz add some screenshots. Right now I dont have a system(getting over it for a while), so I

yeah something wierd is going on. RTJKJAS is at the bottom of this website too. [www.extremeelvis.com]