Digg Time :] 09.29.04

Hackers Target Pirate Bay Prosecution Law Firm [ http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Pirate-Bay-Trial-Hack-Lawyer,7638.html ]

This article talks about how “Pirate Bay” suffers the attack of hackers. “Pirate Bay” is making a way to sue to those hackers who invaded their website. Then they are planning to shut down the website until the attack of the hackers stops. The organization helping “pirate bay” is International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. This organization will help them get over their hacker problems.

Why text messages are limited to 160 characters? [ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-text-messaging.html ]

According to Los Angeles Times, Text messages are limited to 160 characters, it was discovered by Friedhelm Hillebrand, while typing random  sentences and questions on paper. As he went on, he discovered that 1 or 2 lines of each blurb stopped at less than 160 characters. That became the magic number of digital messaging. “This is perfectly sufficient,” he recalled thinking during that epiphany of 1985, when he was 45 years old. “Perfectly sufficient.” And, yes its still being used in current times.

i got confused while doing this…8O

~ by cupcakesam on Monday, May 4, 2009.