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1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

From Engadget:
Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they can [...]

Cat Jumps On Woman’s Head After She Showers

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

“Nobody believed me. I had to record it…”
Human Cat Perch

Still haunted by old memories…

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

“So would you run if I told you I love you,
would you run if I asked you to stay?
“Would you cry if I said that I missed you?
Sorry is all I can say…”
(Video embedded on xcopfly.com)

It’s like…

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

It’s like you “try to feel better”, and you think you do (or you want to think you do), but then you get sad again and it just feels weird.
From an era of better weather, which I keep praying that it will return and these horrible Januaries and Februaries will go away forever:
Music video

Two things gone

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The UrbanTerror server and the YouTube channel.

7 Sites To Make Up For Wikipedia’s Shrinking Article Count

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Wikipedia’s mission of becoming an Internet-based user-edited encyclopedia is looking pretty grim, as its article count is shrinking by the bulk. They give you the deletion page to look at, where you can see that the decisions are made by a democratic process run by obvious teenagers. If you thought Wikipedia was inaccurate before, it’s [...]

By Metallica’s Favorite Band

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

“Borrowed Time” by the band Diamond Head:
Video embedded on xcopfly.com

“Styxette”’s Last Song

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Apparently while recording the album “Show Me The Way” was on, they hired a new Bon Jovi-like singer and recorded a dance song which doesn’t sound anything remotely like Styx.
(Video embedded on xcopfly.com)

Beavis and Butt-head are not role models. They’re not even human. They’re cartoons…

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Watch this guy who dared to “copy” the show:
(Video embedded on xcopfly.com)

BBSpot Quizzes

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

These quizzes have been around for ages, but I haven’t been to BBSpot since way before xcopfly.com came into existence. So I took a bunch of these quizzes again.
 

 
Which OS are You?
 

 
Which File Extension are You?
 

 
How White and Nerdy Are You?
 

 
Which Caffeinated Beverage are You?
 

 
Which Nigerian spammer are You?
 

 
Which Programming Language are You?
 

 
Which Website are [...]