Lost!

Reading over my morning role call, I found a Slashdot Article about how Seti@Home found something…

Basically, a geek’s wife had her laptop stolen and Seti was running on the computer. It checked in and he grabbed the IP addresses. Long story short, he got the laptop back.

More interesting though, is the actual Slashdot Article. The very first comment starts out as:

SETI@home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the volunteers home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Those of you that are visiting Slashdot for the first time and didn’t know that, you might want to stick around (and scroll down) because we’re going to explain what a Beowulf Cluster is next.

…And the jokes role from there. It’s a pretty funny read of all the stale Slashdot’esq jokes. The whole top section of comments is rated +2-5 Funny. It’s a good read for an otherwise boring morning.

While not a huge story, I thought it was funny. A geek managed to figure out how to crash an in-flight entertainment system by introducing a buffer overflow inside a poorly designed game. See how he did it.

Read an interesting article that shed some light on working at 3 of the major search engines - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

Check it out.

In an age where LonelyGirl15 and others blog to try to help companies gain market share, the EU has decided that this practice is false representation - not even misrepresentation…

Starting next year, any company that poses itself as a consumer to boost ratings, reviews and sales can be fined by the EU. This also applies to anyone attempting to fraudulently make money for themselves, like authors posting rave reviews of books or musicians doing the same for an album.

Some say this won’t work because it’s hard to find the true identities of people online. I actually feel that this will be self policing. Look at how many people have started to cry foul at the fake blogs thrown out there, like the Sony PSP blog and such.

I found an interesting article about the possibility of Bill Gates slipping up on his salary figures when in DC. Unfortunately, I can’t take credit for this one… Read the full article over at Network World.