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Submission + - Raspberry Pi to Get Camera Module Capable of 1080p Video Recording (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new add-on – a camera module that will enable the credit card sized computer to snap pictures as well as record 1080p videos. Showcased by RS Components at the Elecontrica 2012 in Germany [watch video here] the £16 (apprx) module will be equipped with a 5MP sensor and will plug into the otherwise unused CSI pins of the Pi. The camera module’s board is still in prototype stage and is expected to reach production sometime soon. Liz Upton, Executive Director of the Foundation said in a blog post, “We’ve a (very) little way to go before we’re able to send it out to manufacture.” According to Upton, testing slots have been booked in December to check on electromagnetic radiations from the ribbon cable.
Privacy

Submission + - Senate Bill Gives Federal Reserve Warrantless Access to Your Emails and Facebook (activistpost.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Bill, The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, is supposed to make the internet more private, but instead has provided a wealth of organizations unfettered access to online communications. This grants warrantless access to government agency, including the ability to take over mail account without notifying owners or the judiciary. As a final affront, the Federal Reserve, which isn't even a government body with oversight, will have these powers
Science

Submission + - Blind Patient Reads Words Stimulated Directly Onto the Retina

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ScienceGeek.Michael
ScienceGeek.Michael writes: "Neuroprosthetic device uses implant to project visual braille

For the very first time researchers have streamed braille patterns directly into a blind patient’s retina, allowing him to read four-letter words accurately and quickly with an ocular neuroprosthetic device. The device, the Argus II, has been implanted in over 50 patients, many of who can now see color, movement and objects. It uses a small camera mounted on a pair of glasses, a portable processor to translate the signal from the camera into electrical stimulation, and a microchip with electrodes implanted directly on the retina. The study was authored by researchers at Second Sight, the company who developed the device, and has been published in Frontiers in Neuroprosthetics on the 21st of November."

Comment We've seen how it's done in Yes, minister. (Score 2) 295

by snaFu07 (#41413411) Attached to: Your Moral Compass Is Reversible
This reminds me of a clip from a British show called Yes, minister. This clip is about how to get two completely opposite answers on same topic, but in much shorter time.
While the series is about political tactics and machinations and it's satire of a political systems, it's spot-on. And if you watch real news after watching it, you'll uncontrollably laugh all the way.

Comment SQL injection (Score 1) 289

by snaFu07 (#41326569) Attached to: QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks

Since QR codes can hold arbitrary strings, why not sql injection attacks?

Given that at any time
    1) banks would not be the only party interested in tracking money and/or customers,
    2) codes would be scanned and entered into database,
    3) at some point tracking would become mandatory,
    4) there are still sloppy programmers out there building SQL statements by concatenating
      strings,
I can see, why this could be a not-so-good idea...
The Courts

RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a Lie 242

Posted by samzenpus from the delicious-shadenfreude- dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "For the past 2 years, the RIAA and its attack dog SafeNet (formerly known as MediaSentry) have been trying to avoid disclosure in UMG v. Lindor by telling the judge that MediaSentry is NOT an expert, that it does not use any technical expertise to get the 'evidence', and that it does only 'what any other Kazaa user does'. We have just discovered that in administrative proceedings in Michigan, attacking it for engaging in the business of investigation without a license, MediaSentry has taken the exact opposite position, comparing itself to chemical engineers, surveyors, physicians, geologists, and other expert witnesses who rely on their technical expertise. Today we went public with some of the contradictions. Now let's hope Michigan's Department of Labor and Economic Growth finds out about it."

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