Harry Potter Book Seven - How it Ends!!!

Some hack has just hacked into the publishes of the Harry Potter novel and have a copy of the book. Here is how it ends. Spoilers ahead

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* Harry Potter 0day
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Dear my brothers,

Voldemort killed Hermione. Yes, that's true. And we knew that 2 days ago.

This is the end of the not yet published (someone could call that 0day) book

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .

At the end of the story Hagrid was killed by Snape in the attempt of ambush Hermione and Ron.
Ron and Hermione flees in privet drive but Voldermort, surprising them, engaged a magical duel with Ron and Hermione.

Voldemort attacked trough the imperius curse and Hermione, to protect the life of Ron fight hardly for more than 6 pages and then finally die.
(boring, very boring... it's always the same story!)

Then, to make a long story short, Harry came up, killed all the bad guys and Hogwarts against became a good place to stay and have fun.

Ah, i missed one important information about Draco Malfoy, he started to create Horcrux (for fun and profit!).
The end.
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Blackjack WM6 Update Leaked

If you are a Samsung Blackjack user like me, you will be glad to hear that the Windows Mobile 6 ROM has been leaked. By who? I do not know. But it has been appearing all over the Internet. You can download the ROM here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TAO1U2FV . Now, I would like to hear any horror stories of phone turning into bricks or catching on fire.

Cingular's Ripoff

We all know that the cell phone companies make lots of money with text messaging. For a slight fraction of their total bandwidth to send a sms message, they are willing to charge up 15 cents per message. It is sometimes cheaper to just call the person instead of texting them.

So now if you are a Cingular executive, you will be thinking as to how to make people use more of the texting services. And indeed Cingular has found out how to do so: by making their free in-built messenger use text messages to send out the instant messages. That is right - the OZ instant messenger preinstalled on all Cingular cell phones use your pool of text messages to send out the instant messages without telling the user that that is the case. No warning, no disclaimer. For some, this could add up to overages.

Cingular hopes that its user will disregard the cost at first but truly, this is a hidden cost. We will just have to see if things change in the future. So Cingular users - be warned!

Happy Mother's Day

I would like to wish all mothers out there a Happy Mothers Day! Also, all T-Mobile users get to send text messages, video messages and picture messages for free today. So send mom a picture of yourself in appreciation of her.

Trial By Fire at Microsoft

According to Tom Evslin, Bill Gates's management style was colorful. In the middle of a presentation, he would say: "that’s the dumbest fucking idea I’ve heard since I’ve been at Microsoft." Of course, he said that to everyone who was new to Microsoft and presenting to Bill and whether Bill meant it or not, that was another question. It was mostly a trail by fire because then those who did not mean what they say would retreat while others who firmly believe in their presentation would stand firm. Read Tom's blog here.

Magic Tricks How-to Videos

The Pass:

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The Flick Switch:

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Card Force:

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Man Of The Year and Diebold

I just watched the movie "Man of the Year" starring Robin Williams. In the movie, a voting system named Delacroy, which sounds similar to the real life Diebold voting machines, malfunctions and makes Robin William's character win the presidential election of the United States. Diebold has been recently in the news itself when it machines were feared by state officials to be unreliable and prone to hacking. To make matters worse, the key to open the voting machines was copied off Diebold's own website where a picture of the key was displayed.
With these uncertainties in electronic voting, are we to embrace voting on paper? Does "Man of the Year" make a good point?