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Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times 884

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the snuck-in-through-the-indo-american-wormhole dept.
dcblogs writes "In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday on Arizona's immigration enforcement law, H-1B workers are being advised to keep their papers on them. About half of all H-1B visa holders are employed in tech occupations. The court struck down several parts of Arizona's law but nonetheless left in place a core provision allowing police officers to check the immigration status of people in the state at specific times. How complicated this gets may depend on the training of the police officer, his or her knowledge of work visas, and whether an H-1B worker in the state has an Arizona's driver's license. An Arizona state driver's license provides the presumption of legal residency. Nonetheless, H-1B workers could become entangled in this law and suffer delays and even detention while local police, especially those officers and departments unfamiliar with immigration documentation."

Submission + - 3D printer instructions for Lego, K'Nex, adapters (techdirt.com)

Submitted by dangle
dangle writes: F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab have officially released their Free Universal Construction Kit, allowing builders to freely interconnect parts from Lego, K'Nex, Fischertechnik and other common building sets. ZomeTool and Zoob patterns will be available after related patents expire. The makers have also spent considerable effort investigating and anticipating legal complaints from manufacturers, using an Inverse Think of The Children Argument:

Some may express concern that the Free Universal Construction Kit infringes such corporate prerogatives as copyright, design right, trade dress, trademarks or patents of the supported toy systems. We encourage those eager to enforce these rights to please think of the children — and we assert that the home printing of the Free Universal Construction Kit constitutes protected fair use.
Security

Submission + - Bruce Schneier debating former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley (economist.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: The Economist is hosting a live debate this week on the motion "Airport security: This house believes that changes made to airport security since 9/11 have done more harm than good.

Defending the motion is Bruce Schneier, while former Transportation Security Administration head Edmund S. "Kip" Hawley argues against the motion.
Data Storage

Submission + - Olympic Games to Stress London Data Infrastructure (theverge.com)

Submitted by kodiaktau
kodiaktau writes: The upcoming Olympic games are expected to stress the London data infrastructure with the primary offender being the BBC. The games will be broadcast by the BBC which expects to be broadcasting about 1TB of data per second or the equivalent of 1500 people downloading a full length DVD every minute.
NASA

Submission + - Orion capsule test flight will be the deepest in space since 1972 (video) (tech-stew.com)

Submitted by techfun89
techfun89 writes: The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) sits a-top a Delta IV Heavy, ready for a test flight, one of the first ever to reach this deep into space since the Apollo missions of 1972. The year of the test is 2014. The video below breaks down the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) from launch until splashdown.
We have a real need for such space craft right now, especially in the even of an asteroid threat, but unfortunately, as always, budget constraints keep pushing the future of the space program and exploration into the future.
Bitcoin

Submission + - Linode Exploit Caused Theft Of Thousands Of Bitcoins (bitcoinmedia.com) 2

Submitted by Sabbetus
Sabbetus writes: Popular web hosting service Linode had a serious exploit earlier today. Apparently the super admin password for their server management panel was leaked and allowed a malicious attacker to target multiple Bitcoin-related servers. The biggest loss happened to a major Bitcoin mining pool that lost over 3000 BTC, which is currently worth almost 15 000 USD. Now the question is, will Linode compensate for lost bitcoins?

Submission + - What if Real AI will be Born, not Built (arbornet.org)

Submitted by brilanon
brilanon writes: A few years old now and approaching its second major version, Critterding is an artificial-life lab and physics sandbox where robotic "critters" evolve locomotion, vision and behaviours like fighting and foraging. It's a great way to teach yourself about evolution and neural nets, both of which I think are mind-expanding to understand.

Well, I forked Critterding at the end of 2009 to make a richer evolver called telepathic-critterdrug. There are numerous small new features and fixes but most importantly, I added five types of mind-altering drugs for them to distinguish from food, in the hopes that they would develop a ritual diet including them like ancient man, use them for utility like by favouring stimulants for faster foraging, or have an accelerated rise to language, art and religious feeling by dint of occasional intoxication.

So I have shown that evolved software can have its performance improved by being put on speed. A pretty amazing result. But so that I'd have a window into their creativity, I added a digital backstore or canvas that they evolve connections into, and move a pen around, in addition to having morphic fields calculated there automatically. So they can evolve a form of cybernetic telepathy, and collaborate on a true-colour animation 1024 frames long, while eating psychedelics, opiates and other mood-modifiers. You can then view this animation a number of ways

It's a toy, but it evolves resilient bio-inspired neuro-controllers that do homing and self-preservation. So if you run it long enough, maybe the Army shows up. Happy hacking!
Hardware

Submission + - The future of piracy is physical objects (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With the advent of 3D printers and the ability to print your own physical objects at home, so a new form of data sharing, and possibly a new form of piracy, is preparing to take off. The Pirate Bay calls it Physibles — copying things created first as digital objects that get turned into physical objects once they are printed.

How could Physibles become a threat to industry? Because as time goes by more real-world objects are first designed and modeled in digital form. Those designs are stored digitally and then fed into a machine — sometimes a printer — for creation. If you have a 3D printer at home, and that design is shared, you no longer need to buy the physical object as you can create it yourself.
Google

Submission + - Google to Offer $20k Bounty for Chrome Bugs at Pwn (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: The Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference has become one of the landmark events on the calendar each year, as researchers gather with nervous vendors in a tiny room to see who can own which browser on which platform and how quickly. But this year's contest will have a much different look than past editions, with participants vying for more than $100,000 in cash by amassing points over the course of three days.

In addition to the main cash prizes, contestants also win the laptops that they're able to successfully compromise targets on. And this year, Google is putting up a prize of $20,000 for every unique set of bugs that can compromise its Chrome browser, without any platform-specific bugs.

The new format will include the assignment of point values for each of the various targets in the contest, which typically are browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome running on Mac OS X or Windows machines. In order to win the contest, a participant must have at least one zero-day vulnerability in one of the targets. Each successful compromise of a target with a zero-day will be worth 32 points, and unlike in past years, targets will not be removed from the competition once they've been successfully compromised by one researcher.
Cloud

Submission + - IBM Tracks Your Pork From Farm To Fork (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by
kkleiner
kkleiner writes: "IBM has set out to prove it can revolutionize the food industry with data, starting with China. Six industrial slaughterhouses and 100 markets in Shandong Province are part of a large scale test in tracking pork from farm to customer. Pigs are marked with ear tags containing unique barcodes, those same barcodes appear on the bins that carry their meat during processing, and on the packages for the pork placed in stores."
Privacy

Submission + - Supreme Court: GPS devices equivalent of a search, (wired.com) 2

Submitted by
gambit3
gambit3 writes: "The Supreme Court says police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.

The court ruled in the case of Washington, D.C., nightclub owner Antoine Jones. A federal appeals court in Washington overturned his drug conspiracy conviction because police did not have a warrant when they installed a GPS device on his vehicle and then tracked his movements for a month."

Submission + - Tin Whiskers On Toyotas Revisited (eetimes.com)

Submitted by clm1970
clm1970 writes: A recent investigation into the supposed "Tin Whiskers" on the Toyota acceleration problem has yielded some results. A symposium at the "International Tin Whisker Symposium" detailed that depending on how the accelerator pedals in Toyota vehicles were actuated could trigger sudden and unintended acceleration. It seems safe to say that "tin whiskers" are a big problem when there's enough interest to have an "international symposium" on the subject.

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