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Activist? You know what that's a synonym for, right? Yep, you're right! ()
-f0dder (October 05, 2012, 09:35 AM)
Also... I kinda doubt the daisies have the characteristic smell that hemp plants have. Those guys ought to be really, really ashamed :-)-f0dder (October 05, 2012, 08:57 AM)
I'm with f0dder ...(damn the avoirdupois value)... Where can we go and get screwed out of $2 for one of these cool little trinkets.-Stoic Joker (October 04, 2012, 03:12 PM)
I'd love one of those - or two, frame them showing both sides.
I'll repeat: "where's the link?" (apparently there's been a few versions already released but I couldnt find these ones)-tomos (October 04, 2012, 03:33 PM)
They look wicked cool - what's the link? I might get one even though I'm skeptic wrt. the whole scheme :-)-f0dder (October 04, 2012, 11:57 AM)
Yeah, bastardizing words is just a phase I'm going through. Anyone else got any more Q's? I'm going to get back to drinking (water) before I start tribbling on my shirt... Star Trek fans take note: Have a seat before you read the next sentence or prepare to swoon.
University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH) aerospace engineers working with NASA, Boeing and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are investigating how to build fusion impulse rocket engines for extremely high-speed space travel.
“Star Trek fans love it, especially when we call the concept an impulse drive, which is what it is,” says team member Ross Cortez, an aerospace engineering Ph.D. candidate at UAH’s Aerophysics Research Center.
Stay seated Trekkies, because there’s more.
“The fusion fuel we’re focusing on is deuterium [a stable isotope of hydrogen] and Li6 [a stable isotope of the metal lithium] in a crystal structure. That’s basically dilithium crystals we’re using,” Cortez says, referring to the real-world equivalent of the fictional element used to power Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise.
While this engine, if produced, wouldn’t generate a fraction of the velocity as the faster-than-light warp drives envisioned in the TV shows, books and movies, it could produce speeds that exceed other not-science-fiction-based systems that rocket scientists are investigating.
I remember being freaked myself when this was introduced (where are all my screenshots gone!). My file manager can show contents of all subfolders in one view so it was not such a problem to restore them.
In the end I opted for an 'older' folder for each year.
No idea what kind of work it would be: but I wonder could it be implemented on install, (or first start up after install) with some sort of 'wizard' -
please chose these settings a, b or c, notifying the user what will happen etc etc.-tomos (October 04, 2012, 03:28 AM)
There's is the cleansing of a good scream or yell. But just because it is, doesn't absolve you of responsibility if you direct it at someone else. I think that's what 40 was objecting to... and I find myself agreeing.-wraith808 (October 03, 2012, 10:33 PM)
Am I the only one here who believes in the cleansing goodness of a good curse filled rage-based primal scream?-mouser (October 03, 2012, 09:41 PM)
When I see stuff like this, my only thought is: Humans really need to go to Mars and establish a permanent colony there. One way, no return module, just pick a few volunteers and keep sending more and more people and material to them. Forget the return capsule. They can return when they build their own rockets.-vlastimil (October 03, 2012, 12:32 PM)
RepRap is humanity's first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine.
RepRap takes the form of a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects. Since many parts of RepRap are made from plastic and RepRap prints those parts, RepRap self-replicates by making a kit of itself - a kit that anyone can assemble given time and materials. It also means that - if you've got a RepRap - you can print lots of useful stuff, and you can print another RepRap for a friend...
I think their biggest problem was that they were too open with the wrong information. If he had not *named* the printer company, I don't think they would have come after him. It's the *knowingly* part that got him in trouble.-wraith808 (October 03, 2012, 11:53 AM)
3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith
Cody Wilson planned in the coming weeks to make and test a 3-D printed pistol. Now those plans have been put on hold as desktop-manufacturing company Stratasys pulled the lease on a printer rented out for Wiki Weapon, the internet project lead by Wilson and dedicated to sharing open-source blueprints for 3-D printed guns. Stratasys even sent a team to seize the printer from Wilson’s home.
“They came for it straight up,” Cody Wilson, director of Defense Distributed, the online collective that oversees the Wiki project, tells Danger Room. “I didn’t even have it out of the box.” Wilson, who is a second-year law student at the University of Texas at Austin, had leased the printer earlier in September after his group raised $20,000 online. As well as using the funds to build a pistol, the Wiki Weapon project aimed to eventually provide a platform for anyone to share 3-D weapons schematics online. Eventually, the group hoped, anyone could download the open source blueprints and build weapons at home.
Wiki Weapon Project Continues to Raise Money for 3D Printed Guns via PayPal and Bitcoin
A couple of weeks ago we told you about the Wiki Weapon Project, the brainchild of a group called Defense Distributed that was initially raising money on Indiegogo to develop open source blueprints for a 3D-printable gun. Indiegogo suspended the campaign and refunded all the backers, but never gave an explicit reason for doing so.
“I put in the basic appeal with Indiegogo once they sent me the email that all of our funds were being refunded to contributors,” Cody Wilson, a student at the University of Texas School of Law and cofounder of Defense Distributed, told Betabeat by email. “I got a thank you and a help ticket, but no word back. Basically TOS violation is the reason I think they’re sticking with.”
Betabeat reached out to Indiegogo at the time, but still hasn’t heard back. It does seem that the Wiki Weapon project violates at least one term, though it gets a little definitionally murky:
You may not use the Service for activities that:
(h) ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories
But the fundraising setback has not deterred Defense Distributed. Mr. Wilson said that in the days since Indiegogo canceled the campaign, “Wiki Weapon project has received $12k, as well as the promise from one angel investor to match all contributions received above $10k dollar to dollar. There are some big offers potentially coming down in the week upcoming as well. We’ve begun prototyping as well.”
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
They actually have great deals there, so, it's tempting, but I want to get up north of the border. I'm not a Linux person either, but I use CentOS/CPanel/WHM on my VPS and it works well. My provider uses Virtuozzo for the environment, though I've not really had to have any interaction with that part.-wraith808 (October 03, 2012, 08:24 AM)
New software uses smartphone camera for spying
Researchers from the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center have developed malicious software that can remotely seize control of the camera on an infected smartphone and employ it to spy on the phone’s user.
The malware, dubbed “PlaceRaider,” “allows remote hackers to reconstruct rich, three-dimensional models of the smartphone owner’s personal indoor spaces through completely opportunistic use of the camera,” the researchers said in a study published last week.
The program uses images from the camera and positional information from the smartphone’s gyroscopic and other sensors to map spaces the phone’s user spends a lot of time in, such as a home or office.
“Remote burglars” could use these three-dimensional models to “study the environment carefully and steal virtual objects [visible to the camera] … such as as financial documents [or] information on computer monitors,” the researchers reported.
Mobile malware has largely been limited to Trojans buried inside a malicious app targeting sensitive data stored on the phone such as email, contact information and SMS messages. A new proof-of-concept piece of malicious software, however, expands the scope of mobile malware and essentially turns an Android device into a surveillance tool, bringing a while new range of security and privacy implications into the equation.
Researchers from the Naval Surface Warfare Center and Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing introduced PlaceRaider late last week, putting a new spin on burglary and espionage while coining the term visual malware. PlaceRaider exploits innate weaknesses in Android to use the phone’s camera to surreptitiously take photographs, and send that data off to a command and control server where an attacker could build a 3D model of the victim’s environment.
“Remote burglars can thus download the physical space, study the environment carefully and steal virtual objects from the environment such as as financial documents, information on computer monitors and personally identifiable information,” the researchers wrote in a paper published last week.
PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones
Robert Templeman
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, Zahid Rahman
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, David Crandall
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, Apu Kapadia
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School of Informatics and Computing
zNaval Surface Warfare Center
Indiana University Crane Division
Bloomington, IN, USA Crane, IN, USA
September 27, 2012
Abstract
As smartphones become more pervasive, they are increasingly targeted by malware. At the
same time, each new generation of smartphone features increasingly powerful onboard sensor
suites. A new strain of `sensor malware' has been developing that leverages these sensors to steal
information from the physical environment | e.g., researchers have recently demonstrated how
malware can `listen' for spoken credit card numbers through the microphone, or `feel' keystroke
vibrations using the accelerometer. Yet the possibilities of what malware can `see' through a
camera have been understudied.
This paper introduces a novel `visual malware' called PlaceRaider, which allows remote at-
tackers to engage in remote reconnaissance and what we call \virtual theft." Through completely
opportunistic use of the phone's camera and other sensors, PlaceRaider constructs rich, three
dimensional models of indoor environments. Remote burglars can thus `download' the physical
space, study the environment carefully, and steal virtual objects from the environment (such
as nancial documents, information on computer monitors, and personally identi able informa-
tion). Through two human subject studies we demonstrate the e ectiveness of using mobile
devices as powerful surveillance and virtual theft platforms, and we suggest several possible
defenses against visual malware.
aaaghRenegade--> (see attachment in previous post) <--superboyac
* tom runs off to mark thread ignore-tomos (October 02, 2012, 01:19 PM)-superboyac (October 02, 2012, 01:23 PM)
