The Linkielist

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Talking translator thing

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Robin

Attach some electrodes to your head, whisper in one language and the system will talk for you in another. Or at least, currently from Mandarin to English.
Hopefully they can make this system a bit smaller and less borg looking, but very very cool!
– from wemakemoneynotart where they have more links

Sony installs a rootkit on your system

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Robin

Mark’s Sysinternals was playing around with RootkitRevealer and discovered that Sony installs its own media player on your PC, reroutes windows systems calls and hides itself to limit the amount of copies that can be made of the disc. Now you could call it DRM I guess, but if you try to remove the modifications it made, you end up breaking your windows installation, which nothing short of a format and re-install will fix. Begad, it’s a rootkit virus!