The Little Hacker's Room

The ACTA Treaty is trying to do an end around the laws of countries by secretly enacting "3 strikes" laws against "pirates." Get reported 3 times for violation copyright, and get kicked off the Internet forever. This is patently ridiculous in so many ways, but if you're going to enact a "3 strikes" law then here are some suggestions for the shadowy negotiators to ponder.

Google Apps - The Google App marketplace.

Big Tree - Let's just hope it's not an Ent.

Star Wars Minis - Patterns to make Star Wars mini figures from yarn.

Canadian Flush - What if everyone in Canada flushed at the same time? They did during the Olympic hockey game.

Bomb-proof Suits - How they work.

Sabotage Galactica - A remake of the Beastie Boys Sabotage video using footage from Battlestar Galactica.

Tron Legacy Trailer - New trailer for the Tron Sequel being worked on. Looks pretty good.

Sometimes it makes sense to listen to your subordinates...

Browser Showdown - Tom's Hardware tests 5 major browsers.

Goodnight Forest Moon - The children's classic goes Star Wars.

Twitter the Criterion Collection - Live version of Tweets and nothing but the Tweets.

Popular Science - Popular Science has put their entire archives online just for you.

Gollum Cake - I don't find that cake too appetizing, but it is very cool looking.

Sony Lost Its Way - The decline of Sony.

Older Dinosaurs - Dinosaurs are older than we thought. Nearly 7000 years!

Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs - CONFIRMED!

All Apps are Apple's - The iPhone developer license agreement.

YouTube Closes Down - YouTube ends for the night.

Exit Sign War - The international war over the EXIT sign.

Geek Test - A rather extensive (and somewhat dated) geek test.

JMS Superman - Yes, that's true, J. Michael Straczynski is taking over writing duties for the Superman comic.

Pain Reducer - Ripping off a bandage fast has been scientifically proven to be less painful.

I struggled to breathe as the boulders that pinned me to the ground slowly crushed my chest. I told my friends that we shouldn't explore the cave. I said it looked too dangerous, that we should just cut through the woods, but I was outvoted.

Iron Man 2 Trailer - A new trailer for Iron Man 2. Looking forward to this one.

Sealed Game Collecting - Preserving our heritage.

The Modern Pocket - The history of the pocket from the BBC.

DRM FTW - Don't you just love DRM? Me neither.

Mr. Burns - Mr. Burns from The Simpsons brought to life. Creepy.

Fun with Math - .999... = 1

What Do You Suggest? - Type a word and see what Google suggests for you.

On Sunday night, Star Trek won an Oscar for Best Makeup. What you may not have known is the franchise has won 11 other Academy Awards. And the awards went to...

It's not real...

Such good deals, how can I decide?

User Friendly the Comic Strip

MagicFab shared Ring Toggle v1.2.0 Application for Android | Tools.

Whistleblowing hotlines and random checks should be used to catch parents who cheat over school places, a report says.

Barence writes "Speaking exclusively to PC Pro, Eugene Kaspersky has claimed Apple has repeatedly refused to deliver the software development kit necessary to design security software for the phone. "We have been in contact for two years with Apple to develop our anti-theft software, [but] still we do not have permission," said Kaspersky. Although he admits the risk of viruses infecting the iPhone is "almost zero", he claims that securing the data on the handset is critical, especially as iPhones are increasingly being used for business purposes. "I don't want to say Apple's is the wrong way of behaving, or the right way," Kaspersky added. "It's just a corporate culture mdash; it wants to control everything"."pa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/03/11/1621249/Apple-Blocking-iPhone-Security-Software?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/11/1621249"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F11%2F1621249%2FApple-Blocking-iPhone-Security-Software" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Apple+Blocking+iPhone+Security+Software%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9Fu0RR" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/03/11/1621249/Apple-Blocking-iPhone-Security-Software?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mtEZ88DPuiyNBFZuRywKuE_k_JI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mtEZ88DPuiyNBFZuRywKuE_k_JI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mtEZ88DPuiyNBFZuRywKuE_k_JI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mtEZ88DPuiyNBFZuRywKuE_k_JI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/W2iAbyMeADM" height="1" width="1"/

Haiti, Chile, Turkey, Chile (again). There've been a lot of earthquakes lately. But scientists say there haven't been more earthquakes lately. Tremors are, and have always been, common. On average, per year, you can expect one 8.0 or above quake, 17 quakes between 7 and 7.9, and 130-odd quakes between 6.0 and 6.9. One thing that has risen: Death tolls. But scientists say that increase has more to do with economic conditions that drive people to pack into mega-cities and live in cheaply built (and quick-to-collapse) homes.

Le directeur parlementaire du budget estime que la structure budgétaire du gouvernement conservateur «n'est toujours pas viable à long terme» et prévoit des déficits plus importants.

L'ancien premier ministre Iyad Allaoui dénonce des «fraudes massives» lors des élections législatives, au moment où les premiers résultats commencent à être diffusés.

Were rumours of Sarkozy's infidelity a media hoax?

Chancellor Alistair Darling warns people not to expect a "giveaway" when he unveils the government's Budget later this month.

Le biologiste André Bouchard, qui a été conservateur du Jardin botanique de la Ville de Montréal et directeur de l'Institut de recherche en biologie végétale affilié à l'Université de Montréal, est mort subitement jeudi à l'âge de 64 ans.