December 8, 2005  

The Soap Box

Hey, everybody. If you're looking for a funny story, check out the news off to the right. Apparently eBay is clueless enough that they had been telling people that a phisher site is their own. To top it off, they can't even shut the offending site. Of course, we have published lots of great articles this week too.

There are some great articles up on Dev Articles. Be sure to read Alejandro Gervasio's tutorial on using drag and droppable DIVs, which can replace pop-ups. On SEO Chat, Jennifer Sullivan Cassidy starts a really informative series about search engine algorithms. There's a lot of info coming up for her readers, so be sure to see what she starts out with.

On Dev Hardware this week, Remco disassembles his hard drive and mods it. See his pics and read about him going a few steps beyond case modding.

If Bill Gates getting involved in researching prostitutes seems intriguing, and if the latest round of wikipedia bashing gets you excited, take a look below. Our weekly Weird and Cool features three news stories that are, well, either weird or cool.

Until next week,
Dev Shed Staff

Technology News

Radio Industry to Roll Out Digital Radio
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Time Warner CEO Says AOL Is Not for Sale
Please make up your mind.

Phony E-Mail Tricks eBay
eBay fraud team endorses phishers.

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A Portable Chip for Digital Rights Management by Terri Wells, 2005-12-06 -- Thanks to various digital copyright management systems, many face having music we have legally purchased locked up in a proprietary player. SanDisk thinks they have an answer to this problem with TrustedFlash memory. Read the full article here.

Hard Drive Modding: How to Void Your Warranty in 20 Minutes or Less by Remco Degooyer, 2005-12-05 -- Hard drives are the penultimate component of any computer. With the sizes and speeds of hard drives climbing exponentially year after year it was about time I modded one. Read the full article here.

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Weird and Cool

Wikipedia Bashing Continues

Wikipedia is changing its rules after a bit of controversy. An entry gained public attention when somebody discovered it was attacking the John Seigenthaler. It claimed he was possibly responsible for Robert Kennedy's assassination: "For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven." The entry was made by an anonymous poster. In a few days, wikipedia will not allow anonymous users to start new articles. They will still be able to edit existing ones, but wikipedia owners hope this adds some accountability to the website.

Bill Gates Gives Money to Researching Prostitutes

Bill Gates offered $450 million to the Grand Challenges in Global Health, joked with the crowd: “We could have sorghum that cures latent tuberculosis. We could have mosquitoes that spread vitamin A. And most important, we could have bananas that never need to be kept cold.”

In reality, the money he was giving to the proposals was drafted at $200 million. But because researching cancer and heart disease wasn’t that interesting (but a necessary charity), he increased his donations. Now the money can be spread out to all kinds of research. Among the approved projects is a researcher who tests prostitutes in Kenya for venereal diseases. Because some of the prostitutes have built up immunities to HIV, researchers want to investigate prostitutes further in order to find a cure. Another approved piece of research will try to make cassavas, which provide food for millions in Africa, less toxic and more enduring after being picked.

Sony Advertises with Vandalism

Hoping to promote the PSP, Sony has begun a graffiti campaign in major cities. The different graffiti ads display images of teens locked in a blank stare while playing video games. They don't have any brand marks to identify the handheld, but the images are pretty obvious. Their target audience, who enjoys street art, are already discrediting them. Vandals have altered the graffiti, one adding the word "Fony" to mock the company, another writing "Get out of my city." Sony says it has been paying businesses to paint their walls, reportedly only $100 for a couple weeks.

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