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Submission + - Intel to replace passwords with handwaving (huffingtonpost.com)

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tbonefrog

on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @04:51AM

tbonefrog writes: "Intel is building a biometric palm scanner into laptops and tablets. Just off the top of my head, use of this technology to 'replace passwords' has a few flaws: no information on how to register a user, what if I injure my hand, what if my palm data gets stolen, who is going to correlate palms with fingerprints, if they want my laptop do they have to also cut off my hand..."

Submission + - atomic bomb factory perimeter breached by 80-year-old nun (knoxnews.com)

Submitted by tbonefrog on Monday July 30, 2012 @12:59PM

tbonefrog writes: Security was breached at an atomic bomb factory in Tennessee Saturday morning. Well, they did catch the nun and her two accomplices, who apparently wanted to be caught. This raises the question of who they don't catch and how often this sort of thing goes undetected.

Submission + - biological operating system (nottingham.ac.uk)

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tbonefrog

on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @03:55PM

tbonefrog writes: "'Easily 'Re-programmable cells' could be key in creation of new life forms'. WCPGW?"

Submission + - NASA peddling science fiction to minors (prnewswire.com)

Submitted by tbonefrog on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:32AM

tbonefrog writes: NASA plans to hire propagandists (sci-fi novelists) to subject impressionable young minds to story lines calculated to inflate the Agency's budget over time. I'm willing to bet there won't be a lot of stories about how cool it is do to science with robots as opposed to human exploration. Maybe we'll even throw in some space aliens, and 70 virgins to all the heroes who get snookered into flying on a death trap to die on Mars.

Submission + - fake amazon login page

Submitted by tbonefrog on Friday June 26, 2009 @03:49PM

tbonefrog writes: portswigger.net has a link to amazon to buy their book on hacking web applications. When on the real-looking amazon web page i clicked on 'add to wish list' and proceeded to enter my email and password. After I got done I was asked to enable popups, which amazon does not do. I also noticed that instead of the lock icon in the lower right corner of the screen there was a lock with a diagonal line across it. I'm just wondering how much damage was done in the minute or so it took me to change my amazon password.

Submission + - space shuttle

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tbonefrog

on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @07:00PM

tbonefrog writes: "Has the possibility for preventing another Columbia disaster during certain stages of reentry by utilizing the flight controls to reduce the dive angle, resulting in surviving reentry even if reaching the earth's surface wildly off course. This would have to be planned for in advance and by the use of simulations. I'm not sure any action would have saved Columbia but if there was an opportunity to save the astronauts, even if the shuttle sank in the ocean, it should be available for future shuttle missions"

Submission + - citeseer.ist.psu.edu is down

Submitted by tbonefrog on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @10:11AM

tbonefrog writes: citeseer.ist.psu.edu is down, for over 12 hours. Does anyone have any information on when, why, where?

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