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A Floppy Digital Disc?

posted onDecember 5, 2000
by hitbsecnews

Ever wished you could just roll up your CD like a piece of cardboard instead of keeping it in a bulky casing? Thanks to Matthew Leek from ThinDisc Media, you can now...

After more than four years of R&D, Matthew Leek has figured a way to make a completely functional digital disc that's five times thinner than a regular DVD or CD. Best thing about the ThinDisc is it's flexible enough to wrap around soda cans and be inserted into magazines without breaking.

Check it out here.

The World's First Linux Loaded IMT-2000 Smart Phone

posted onDecember 1, 2000
by hitbsecnews

Besides having loaded Linux operating system, this smart phone (brand name; Palmi) that incorporates the functions of both cellular phone and PDA, also provides strong multimedia functionalities including animation, MP3, video communication, to name a few. In addition, with the help of its Bluetooth that enables high-speed wireless communication, playing network games among appliances is made possible.

The United Parcel Service

posted onNovember 26, 2000
by hitbsecnews

Is U.P.S. setting them selfs and thier customers up to be the most hackable business around? They are going from windows for workgroups to NT 4.0,with serv. pack 4.The connection is mainly by modem line but in some cases direct internet always on connection! This means that all the companys that use U.P.S. are hackable by some of the simplest hacks.

Image filtering tech steps up

posted onOctober 24, 2000
by hitbsecnews

Saw this over at Arstechnica
I've been reading for a while about various attempts to use automated image recognition techniques to block smut, so I wasn't surprised to see this story on News.com about just such a product, called LookThatUp. What did surprise me, however, was this quote: