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In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich

MENLO PARK, Calif. — By almost any definition — except his own and perhaps those of his neighbors here in Silicon Valley — Hal Steger has made it. — Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million.

Average PC is a smorgasboard for a new MP3-eating trojan

W32.Deletemusic does exactly what the name implies: it hunts down MP3 files on unsuspecting music collectors’ computers and nukes them from orbit. While you may not lose your personal data with this worm, you’ll certainly lose those long hours spent on ripping, labeling, and organizing your music collection.

Now I don’t know about you. [...]

Dateline NBC’s DefCon mole has been outed

It has been reported that Dateline NBC has sent an undercover mole with a hidden camera to the DefCon hacker conference. Dateline is hoping to get videos of hackers talking about crimes they committed.

Identified as producer Michelle Madigan

Come on guys. Can’t you do better than this? You [...]

Kevin Smith fights back

I think Kevin Smith is great. His work is not for all. But isn’t that true of any Director / Writer / Actor? This poor heckler tried to give Kevin some shit at ComicCon, but failed miserably. Now Kevin Smith, being the nice guy that he is. Did finally give the heckler props [...]