Aha. Sony Music beweisst noch immer keinen vertraeglichen Umgang mit dem Internet gefunden zu haben

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Pilot und Autopilot

Unser Gehirn erhält pro Sekunde von allen Sinnen etwa 11 Millionen Bits. Psychologe und Nobelpreisträger Daniel Kahnemann nennt dieses System das System 1: den Autopiloten (das Unterbewusstsein).

Nahezu grenzenlos kann es Informationen aufnehmen, nur einen minimalen Teil davon – zwischen 40 und 50 Bits – gib es an das System 2: den Piloten (das Bewusstsein) weiter.

via Neuromarketing – Auf der Suche nach dem Kaufknopf im Gehirn!.

Amazing work! Makes you see the world different. You’ll get it when you watch it. Enjoy!

Kapitaal (Capital) is a project based animation made for Museum De Beyerd, Dutch Museum for Graphic Design. Kapitaal is a typographical stroll throug a Dutch city revealing the influence of graphic design.

Kapitaal typo-animation by the order of the Beyerd Museum. Kapitaal is an impression of the enormous amount of stimuli that we are harassed by every day. The amount is so big that its commercial effectiveness has become utterly dubious. Directors / animation : Ton Meijdam, Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond

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By MIGUEL HELFT for nytimes.com:

SAN FRANCISCO — There is a new common symptom of the flu, in addition to the usual aches, coughs, fevers and sore throats. Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors.

That simple act, multiplied across millions of keyboards in homes around the country, has given rise to a new early warning system for fast-spreading flu outbreaks, called Google Flu Trends.

Tests of the new Web tool from Google.org, the company’s philanthropic unit, suggest that it may be able to detect regional outbreaks of the flu a week to 10 days before they are reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In early February, for example, the C.D.C. reported that the flu cases had recently spiked in the mid-Atlantic states. But Google says its search data show a spike in queries about flu symptoms two weeks before that report was released. Its new service at google.org/flutrends analyzes those searches as they come in, creating graphs and maps of the country that, ideally, will show where the flu is spreading.

The C.D.C. reports are slower because they rely on data collected and compiled from thousands of health care providers, labs and other sources. Some public health experts say the Google data could Read the rest of this entry »

This is not a joke. If you are using Google Chrome then it is very easy for a malicious attacker to get the Remote Access of your Computer.

Less than a week after the release of Google (NSDQ:GOOG)’s new Web browser Chrome, security researchers detected a buffer overflow vulnerability that could enable remote attackers to completely take control of a user’s computer.

The detected buffer overflow vulnerability, deemed critical by security experts, is the result of a boundary error in the handling of the “Save As” function. If a user saves a Web page serving malicious content, the program could cause a stack-based overflow error, which could open the door for remote hackers to unleash malicious code on a user’s machine.

Remote attackers could then exploit the flaw by constructing a specially crafted Web page infused with malicious code. The attacker could then entice a victim to open and then Read the rest of this entry »

Update: 10.09.08: As from today on, due to an update from Chrome the :% issue is no more valid.

Rishi Narang has been the first. A Denial Of Service simple as pie:

Just browse this page and place your mouse over this link (make sure you bookmark this page if you want to read on though):

CRASH ME

Just “evil:%” in the anchor text is capable of crashing all the Chrome tabs (despite all the tabs are separated processes).

Someone has also reported that by entering a very long bookmark may kill the browser. Length has not been given but it’s worth a try.

If your Chrome is still alive you may want to try entering

about@:

in the location bar.

Good thing is that the browser doesn’t need Read the rest of this entry »

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Very important!! You should always use SSL (https://) for Gmail!

A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers’ conference in Las Vegas.

Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, and not only, authentication. Users who did not turn it on now have a serious reason to do so as Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the tool is planning to release it in two weeks.

When you log in to Gmail the website sends a cookie (a text file) containing your session ID to the browser. This file makes it possible for the website to know that you are authenticated and keep you logged in for two weeks, unless you manually hit the sign out button. When you hit sign out this cookie is cleared.

Even though when you log in, Gmail forces the authentication over SSL (Secure Socket Layer), you are not secure because it reverts back to a regular unencrypted connection after the authentication is done. According to Google this behavior was chosen because of Read the rest of this entry »