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What your public transportation system knows about you
“Most cities with mass transit systems now rely on some sort of electronic card to pay fares. Each of these cards has a unique serial number as well as a magnetized strip upon which its fare balance and expiration date are stored. When you swipe your card to get into the subway, information about when and where you swiped it is automatically recorded in a centralized transit database. And if you purchased your card with a credit or debit card, it will be traceable back to you. Access to transit databases is very carefully controlled, but police have used them in the past to investigate crime suspects by determining whether or not they could have been at the crime scene.”
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foobar 0.9
Version 0.9 of foobar2000 has been released (no idea when, since the changelog doesn’t have any dates, not even years). Looks like support for Windows 95/98/ME and NT4 has been dropped.
I wonder if 0.8 should be uninstalled prior to installing this. Can’t find any quick answers, so I think I’m gonna. Also wonder whether the Audioscrobbler plugin has been updated to work with this.
Update: Looks like it has, and there’s a 0.9-compatible version of AMIP, as well! Yi-pee!
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Crashed Linux
“Everyone is familiar with blue-screening kiosks and travel information displays, but this one was pretty new to me. The route display [running on Linux] on this Air Algerie Airbus a330 was visibly experiencing some disk issues.”
milliped’s photostream via Juha
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Yahoo demands sites bearing their ads be US only
“I joined the Yahoo Publisher Network, a beta program through which Yahoo provides text ads in much the same way that Google does. I started running the Yahoo text ads on many of my web sites.
A couple of days ago Yahoo sent me a notice stating they’d revised their Publisher Policy. Item ’11.l’ stated that I will not “display all or part of the Ad Unit to any user located outside the US”. In other words, I can’t allow users outside of the United States to view my pages if there is a Yahoo ad on the page!”
Further proof for my “Yahoo is evil” case.
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A Su Doku Solver in C
“This is a console-based Linux program, written in C language, that solves Su Doku puzzles (aka Sudoku, Number Place, etc., see figure 1) using deductive logic. It will only resort to trial-and-error and backtracking approaches upon exhausting its deductive moves.”
Tech Finesse via Juha