Comment This is meant to kill Silkroad (Score 5, Interesting) 439
They will use this law to strike against Silk Road.
Remember, Capone was convicted on federal charges of tax evasion.
Comment Re:Tyranny of Age (Score 1) 196
There are bluetooth watches that already exist (and have for years, cost about $40-60 depending on style) that do the caller ID for you so you know if you want to answer your bluetooth headset.
Maybe you should try looking for what you want instead of waiting for it to be provided by Google, etc.
You saythere is already a "smart watch" for 60 bucks. Anybody can afford that. What anybody can afford, nobody desires.
Make a smart watch for 6000 bucks and a premium bling smart watch for $60,000 and see your sales skyrocket!
Comment Re:"groups promoting a belief" (Score 1) 196
"Let anyone who believes that these two should not be connected via the holy symbols of <, |, and > speak now or forever hold your peace!"
"By the power vested in me by the great RMS, I now pronounce you, emacs and vi."
Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 136
Why would someone with something to hide use Skype?
Seriously - if you've got something to hide, use something to which you have the source and can control the encryption used.
or use skype steganography
Comment Re:Force in numbers (Score 1, Insightful) 86
If your FOSS project only has a handful of users, it's nice.
If your FOSS project has thousands of users, it's good.
If your FOSS project has millions of users, it's excellent.
You have mixed up cause and effect, good Sir.
e.g
The way you wrote it: If your egg lays a millions of chickens, it's excellent.
The right way: If your chicken lays a million eggs, it's excellent.
Comment In other news, Lincoln was just elected president (Score 1) 210
By Michal Lev-Ram, writer July 6, 2011: 8:55 AM ET
Seriosly. A cnn story from 2011. NEWS for nerds?!?
Comment Re:New and interesting technology (Score 4, Funny) 180
New form of urban terrorism: Ringtone trolling. Set your ringtone to loud, have it as the encoded URL to $ShockSite.
In the next generation of this technology, there will be a secure way of transmitting messages by moving the audio in a small tube connected to the other device.
Future developments may include sending audio messages to multiple devices across a network of interconnected tubes.
Comment Re:Why won't this paradigm work on an Office Suite (Score 4, Funny) 125
Why won't this arrangement work on an Office Suite?
That's the question.
The transformation of the office Paradigm will be disruptive and imperative in a cloud computing initiative and to leverage Web 3.0 and deliver a truly seamless Prosumer solution .
Submission + - Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty (latimes.com) 1
Entropy98 writes: "Army Pfc. Bradley Edward Manning pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that he illegally acquired and transferred highly classified U.S. government secrets, agreeing to serve 20 years in prison for causing a worldwide uproar when WikiLeaks published documents describing the inner workings of U.S. military and diplomatic efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe.
The 25-year-old soldier, however, pleaded not guilty to 12 more serious charges, including espionage for aiding the enemy, meaning that his criminal case will go forward at a general court-martial in June. If convicted at trial, he risks a sentence of life in prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan."
The 25-year-old soldier, however, pleaded not guilty to 12 more serious charges, including espionage for aiding the enemy, meaning that his criminal case will go forward at a general court-martial in June. If convicted at trial, he risks a sentence of life in prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan."
Submission + - Tor Exit Nodes Located and Mapped (hackertarget.com)
Itsik writes: "Tor Exit Nodes are the gateways where encrypted Tor traffic hits the Internet. This means an exit node can be abused to monitor Tor traffic (after it leaves the onion network). It is in the design of the Tor network that locating the source of that traffic through the network should be difficult to determine. However if the exit traffic is unencrypted and contains identifying information then an exit node can be abused.
The torproject therefore is dependent on a diverse and wide range of exit nodes. This is an attempt to display the exit nodes diversity in a Google map with Geolocation. The map was built using Google Maps API v3, with Marker Clusterer."
The torproject therefore is dependent on a diverse and wide range of exit nodes. This is an attempt to display the exit nodes diversity in a Google map with Geolocation. The map was built using Google Maps API v3, with Marker Clusterer."
Comment Re:In temperate climates we'll just time shift (Score 2) 337
I understand that the topics won't be able to adapt to the loss of outdoor working days by time shifting them to the winter, but it seems to be a pretty even swap for the temperate climates.
Also, it seems that in cold climates like Canada and Scandinavia, they will have a net gain of outside work days.
Or am I being too optimistic?
Yes, too optimistic. Warming is not a "swap "- global warming is destabilising the climate, leading to more violent ups-and-downs, like hurricanes and blizzards. In the case of Scandinavia, a global warming could mean constant heavy rains, which reduces the outside work days a lot. In Canada, warming can mean violent ice storms and draughts. It is not so much the warm peaks that are the problem but that the average temperature is changing and causing temperatures to be distributed differently.
Submission + - Etch-a-Sketch inventor Andre Cassagnes, has died at 86 (geeksofdoom.com)
Xemu writes: "Andre Cassagnes, the inventor of the Etch-A-Sketch has died in Paris at the age of 86. The famous toy was actualized during the presidential campaign Etch-A-Gate when Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, began holding up Etch-A-Sketches during their rallies. The toy is pretty advanced as it is essentially a manually operated plotter with a built-in erasing system. Plenty of hacks out there exists to mod the plotter to draw greyscale robotically, turn it into a temperature logger etc. Thank you Andre!"
Submission + - Evasi0n iOS Jailbreak Exploits Five Unique Zero-Day Bugs (forbes.com)
Sparrowvsrevolution writes: In the escalating chess match between Apple's security team and the jailbreakers who work to disassemble the restrictions on its devices, the exploit for every device ends up being more complex than the last. So it's no surprise that the latest, for iOS 6.1, has reached practically a grand master level of technological complexity.
David Wang, a developer for the hacker team that calls themselves the evad3rs has broken down the workings of the team's new iOS jailbreak, evasi0n, in an interview. He explains how the exploit chains together five distinct new bugs in iOS to escalate from a minor vulnerability in the device's mobile backup system into a series of tricks that defeat both the device's code-signing restrictions and its Address Space Layout Randomization to gain the ability to write persistent changes to the kernel. The step-by-step description of the process highlights just how much work and innovation went into evasi0n--and how hard Apple is working to raise the bar for jailbreakers.
David Wang, a developer for the hacker team that calls themselves the evad3rs has broken down the workings of the team's new iOS jailbreak, evasi0n, in an interview. He explains how the exploit chains together five distinct new bugs in iOS to escalate from a minor vulnerability in the device's mobile backup system into a series of tricks that defeat both the device's code-signing restrictions and its Address Space Layout Randomization to gain the ability to write persistent changes to the kernel. The step-by-step description of the process highlights just how much work and innovation went into evasi0n--and how hard Apple is working to raise the bar for jailbreakers.
Submission + - Humans smell in Stereo (nature.com)
Xemu writes: "Humans can locate an odour source thanks to a feature called stereo sniffing, says researchers in an article just published in Nature Communications. To further enhance odorant location capabilties, mammals combine serial sampling with bilateral nasal cues. Much like your average teenager in a dark basement would locate that smelly sock. Blocking one nostril makes it harder."
Submission + - WSJ: IBM Security Tool Can Flag "Disgruntled Employees" (wsj.com)
supervico writes: An article on the WSJ's CIO Journal describes IBM's new security tool using Big Data that would scan employees' email, social media, and browsing history to flag disgruntled employees who may reveal company secrets
From the article: "The new tool, called IBM Security Intelligence with Big Data, is designed to crunch decades worth of emails, financial transactions and website traffic, to detect patterns of security threats and fraud. Beyond its more conventional threat prevention applications, the new platform, based on Hadoop, a framework that processes data-intensive queries across clusters of computers, will allow CIOs to conduct sentiment analysis on employee emails to determine which employees are likely to leak company data, Mr. Bird said. That capability will look at the difference between how an employee talks about work with a colleague and how that employee discusses work on public social media platforms, flagging workers who may be nursing grudges and are more likely to divulge company information. 'By analyzing email you can say this guy is a disgruntled employee and the chance that he would be leaking data would be greater,' Mr. [Sandy] Bird [CTO, IBM’s Security Systems Division] said of IBM’s new tool."
Could an employer really introduce this new surveillance technology/policy that can go back "decades" on your emails/browsing history, even if only to set a behavioral baseline? Or would they have to do this "going forward"?
From the article: "The new tool, called IBM Security Intelligence with Big Data, is designed to crunch decades worth of emails, financial transactions and website traffic, to detect patterns of security threats and fraud. Beyond its more conventional threat prevention applications, the new platform, based on Hadoop, a framework that processes data-intensive queries across clusters of computers, will allow CIOs to conduct sentiment analysis on employee emails to determine which employees are likely to leak company data, Mr. Bird said. That capability will look at the difference between how an employee talks about work with a colleague and how that employee discusses work on public social media platforms, flagging workers who may be nursing grudges and are more likely to divulge company information. 'By analyzing email you can say this guy is a disgruntled employee and the chance that he would be leaking data would be greater,' Mr. [Sandy] Bird [CTO, IBM’s Security Systems Division] said of IBM’s new tool."
Could an employer really introduce this new surveillance technology/policy that can go back "decades" on your emails/browsing history, even if only to set a behavioral baseline? Or would they have to do this "going forward"?
