Comment Re:Food for thought (Score 1) 783
For one thing, most people I know who style themselves anarchists would prefer small, more or less self-sustaining communities and networks of lose association.
Why would you network with losers?
Submission + - World's Oldest Calendar Uncovered in a Scottish Field (gizmag.com)
Zothecula writes: While we take calendars for granted these days, the invention of systems that track time stands as one of humanity's most monumental achievements ... in more ways than one. Long before written calendars emerged, monuments were used to measure time. Now a crude but working "calendar" discovered in Warren Field, Scotland, suggests that these time measuring monuments may have been developed much earlier than previously thought. Archaeologists believe the Warren Field calendar was created by hunter gatherers around 8,000 BC, making it the world's oldest calendar discovered to date by a significant margin.
Submission + - Now You Can Control Your Laptop with Your Eyes (mashable.com)
SkinnyGuy writes: Tobii Gaze control dispenses with the mouse and puts your orbitz in control. Now it's embedded in a laptop. Here's the story of what it's liek to use one of the World's first consumer-level eye-control computers.
Submission + - Full moon may effect sleep after all 1
bmearns writes: NPR is reporting that new statistical research by Swiss scientist Christian Cajochen suggests that the full moon may actually have an impact on human sleep, both in terms of duration and quality. "We found that people who entered the lab during a full moon slept, on average, 20 minutes less than people who came in during the new moon phase," says Cajochen. The results were statistically significant, but Cajochen admits that he is still skeptical of the conclusion.
Submission + - The North Pole turns into a lake (dailymail.co.uk)
alabandit writes: The North Pole may conjure up images of impressive ice sheets and freezing winds, but scenes from a webcam there reveal a different story.
Two weeks of warm weather in the high Arctic have caused an aquamarine lake to begin forming since July 13, according to the North Pole Environmental Observatory’s camera.
The National Snow and Ice Data Centre has reported that temperatures in early July were one to three degrees Celsius higher than the year’s average over most of the Arctic Ocean.
Two weeks of warm weather in the high Arctic have caused an aquamarine lake to begin forming since July 13, according to the North Pole Environmental Observatory’s camera.
The National Snow and Ice Data Centre has reported that temperatures in early July were one to three degrees Celsius higher than the year’s average over most of the Arctic Ocean.
Comment Re:Femtocells insecure? (Score 1) 56
Crappy consumer devices running an embedded OS easy to hack? You don't say! These things are a gold mine. They contain all the certificates and authority to act as a "tower" and are as hackable and available as any consumer device
No phone or smartphone is designed around the idea that the cell network can be "hostile" so they trust these things implicitly. Time to build a backpack rouge cell and go wandering around where "interesting" people hang out.
I'm sure the "interesting" people will have a healthy glow when you're through with them.
Comment Re:Uhm... (Score 1) 239
Baron Nashor is the most powerful neutral monster on Summoner's Rift!
Submission + - Windows Malware Takes Advantage of Weak Linux Setups (ostatic.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A recently discovered malware infection affecting Windows flips the concept and takes an interesting approach to compromising Linux.
Submission + - Archos Gamepad Released In The USA
An anonymous reader writes: Archos have finally released their much anticipated touchscreen gamepad in the USA. The console boasts a Arm Cortex Dual-core A9 1.6GHz cpu, 1024MB Ram, 8GB internal storage and uses the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS. The Gamepad has 14 physical buttons and dual analog thumb-sticks as well as a touchscreen which means the latest 3D Android games should work great and for fans of emulation the traditional gamepad design and buttons will make N64/PS1 emulators work great on the gamepad.
Submission + - Twitter, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Yahoo open to hijacking (scmagazine.com.au)
mask.of.sanity writes: Twitter, Linkedin, Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts are open to hijacking thanks to a flaw that allows cookies to be stolen and reused.
Attackers need to intercept cookies while the user is logged into the service because the cookies expire on log-out ( except LinkedIn which keeps cookies for three months). The server will still consider them valid.
For the Twitter attack, you need to grab the auth_token string and insert it into your local Twitter cookies. Reload Twitter, and you'll be logged in as your target (video here). Not even password changes will kick you out.
Attackers need to intercept cookies while the user is logged into the service because the cookies expire on log-out ( except LinkedIn which keeps cookies for three months). The server will still consider them valid.
For the Twitter attack, you need to grab the auth_token string and insert it into your local Twitter cookies. Reload Twitter, and you'll be logged in as your target (video here). Not even password changes will kick you out.
Comment Re:Brand new hack! (Score 1) 286
I know this is meant to be comical, but most BIOS/UEFI implementations have a setting to allow you to power on by keyboard. I never shut my PC off, but it's a nice option.
Comment Re:Is that a man or a woman? (Score 1) 559
Perhaps because transgender is an adjective, not a noun? Transgendered persons is much less offensive.
Comment Re:Rube-goldberg (Score 2) 93
Wireless bridge, duh?
Comment Re:Cheater. (Score 1) 225
Eh, I'd rather have friends intelligent enough to read my throw, "cheat," and pick up some pizzas than someone who can't stimulate my mind :)
Comment Re:Beating Sony to the target may be the goal (Score 1) 182
The 360 also had Xbox Live, which wipes the floor with PSN. The 360 is an okay console, but Live is a terrific service.
It's terrific until your account gets mysteriously compromised, your friends list gets wiped, and it takes MS three months to reimburse the $135 charge from the account that they promised would only take 30 days. For all of the hassle, they only gave me 2 1-month LIVE subscription codes.
I'm still a little sad that I probably won't run into most of the people who were on my list after they changed profile names so many times.
