RankMyHack.com Rewards Hackers With World Ranking, Bounties

RankMyHack.com Rewarding Hackers With World Ranking...

A new Web site, Rankmyhack.com, lets hackers submit and rate each others' hacks in order to determine the world's best hacker.

"The bounty section of this site was created in an attempt to focus the abilities of talented hackers against political and government forces that need to be put back in line," s0lar wrote. "This site isn't the next Anonymous or the next Lulzsec, this site is for every hacker that wants to use it regardless of country of origin, ethos, philosophy. Bounties just provide a politically constructive target for hacker's talents regardless of ability."

Meanwhile, Anonymous members are engaged in a second week of street protests in San Francisco, against the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) authorities. What began relatively peacefully Monday later turned ugly, with protesters reportedly throwing stink bombs at police and kicking in glass bus shelters.

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g.co, URL shortcut for Google websites

g.co, the official URL shortcut for Google websites

The shorter a URL, the easier it is to share and remember. The downside is, you often can’t tell what website you’re going to be redirected to. We’ll use g.co to send you only to webpages that are owned by Google, and only we can create g.co shortcuts. That means you can visit a g.co shortcut confident you will always end up at a page for a Google product or service.

Today, a new URL shortcut that will link only to official Google products and services: g.co.

There’s no need to fret about the fate of goo.gl; we like it as much as you do, and nothing is changing on that front. It will continue to be our public URL shortener that anybody can use to shorten URLs across the web.

Google's global infrastructure to offer the following benefits:

• Stability: Google's scalable, multi-datacenter infrastructure provides great uptime and a reliable service to our users.
• Security: As we do with web search, shortened URLs are automatically checked to detect sites that may be malicious and warn users when the short URL resolves to such sites.
• Speed: At Google we like fast products and we've worked hard to ensure this service is quick. We'll continue to iterate and improve the speed of Google Url Shortener.

Open Domain Names: Dot Anything

Anything: Internet body throws open domain names

Good.food, learnto.salsa, glossy.lipstick — people and companies will be able to set up a website with almost any address by the end of next year if they have a legitimate claim to the domain name and can pay a hefty fee. The Internet body that oversees domain names voted on Monday to end restricti
ng them to suffixes like .com or .gov and will receive applications for new names from January 12 next year with the first approvals likely by the end of 2012.

And they can be in any characters — Cyrillic, Kanji or Devanagari for instance.

The new gTLD, or generic top-level domain, programme was approved by 13 votes to one with two abstentions by the board of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at a meeting here.

The new names could infringe on social and religious sensitivities, for instance if someone wanted to set up a .nazi domain, said Dengate Thrush.

While the new steep charges of $185,000 to apply for a domain name could deter cyber-squatters, companies with well known trademarks worry that they may have to contend with series of copycat names like coke.paris or google.zambia.

“It’s the next expansion of the Internet, it’s the future of the Internet,” said Kieren McCarthy, the CEO of .Nxt,Inc, a San Francisco-based company which covers Internet policy and governance issues.