(via rocketboom)
Best Christmas Lights Display Ever
Snopes is cautious, calling its status ‘undetermined’, but it seems like something that would be doable with a few thousand dollars worth of light-o-rama boards.
Okay, I’d like to be their across-the-street neighbor for maybe one day. After that, not so much.
Remember the Sony ‘CD’s that installs a trojan horse program (rootkit) on your PC?
Well, it turns out these bastions of copyright protection (Won’t somebody please think of the content creators?!?) may have used copyrighted code in violation of the license.
Sony is no longer selling the malware discs, and will be pulling them from store shelves.
In the meantime, virus writers found out about the trojan’s file-hiding capabilities which now infects computers on a href=”http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,69573,00.html”>a half a million networks. Sony issued a patch to remove the trojan – the patch stays on your computer, allowing any website you visit to download and run code on your computer. Sorry, pal, you don’t own your computer anymore.
Lovely. Just lovely.
They’ve even
(via ZDNet)
Sony apparently installs a rootkit when you try to play certain CDs on your Windows PC as part of their DRM scheme.
Be very careful when buying any CDs, once you open it, very often you can only return it for another identical copy of the deliberately broken CD.