By Kevin Poulsen Email 12.22.08 Max Butler had an audacious plan to rule the black market in stolen credit cards. But angry hackers and pesky Feds had other ideas. Spread Photo: Mark King; Mugshot of Max Butler: Courtesy Santa Clara County Sheriff The heat in Max Butler's safe house was nearly unbearable. It was the equipment's fault. Butler had crammed several servers and laptops into the studio apartment high above San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, and the mass of processors and display...

0-Day - Latest software releases. 0-Sec - Same as above, although the period of time between ripping a game or application and it appearing on a warez site is even shorter. Ace File - The first file in a series of compressed archives (the one you double click on to decompress all the files at once). Active List - Similar to a mailing list, but uses ICQ to send instant messages to subscribers. Alpha - Software receives this label when it is in the very early stages of development. Usually full of...

Programming, An Introduction: -- Part 1: Logic, Vocabulary, Syntax, and How to Go About Learning Examples given in no particular language unless otherwise stated. Learning a programming language requires three things, the most complicated of which is portable easily from one language to another. Logic The logic underlying programming languages needs to be understood. This logic is the understanding of how commands get from your files to the computer. The logic of most languages is similar becaus...

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:30:15 -0600, Chance Furlong <t-bone@megakatcity.com From APC Mag: http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm Cuss and discuss. 15 reasons Macs are still better than Windows PCs Dan Warne 14 November 2008, 10:19 PM 3 days 9 hours ago. With Windows 7 coming up, it's time to yet again ponder on whether Microsoft has the upper hand in operating systems. Here's 15 reasons it doesn't. A journalist colleague of mine recently put this questi...

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:21:45 -0800 (PST), Death to Haifan Bahaism <deathtobahaism@gmail.com http://www.online-dating-rights.com/forum/index.php?topic=695.0 Wikipedia fraud by Tahirih « on: January 30, 2007, 12:25:00 PM » Our researchers have noted in the past that a teenage boy named erald Kolasi, son of a Tahirih employee, has developed the Tahirih Justice Center entry in Wikipedia and zealously guards it against any and all changes. Wikipedia has policies to prevent a biased person fr...