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Submission + - High Altitude Balloon Tweets Earth (spacebits.eu)

celsomartinho writes: Spacebits http://spacebits.eu/ is yet another low cost High Altitude Balloon (HAB) with a computer probe being launched to near space in the 30th of May, this time in Portugal, Europe. The twist with this project, besides the usual very cool electronics, cameras and sensors and other paraphernalia on-board, is the fact that the team provided the online community with a real time web dashboard http://spacebits.eu/live so that everyone can follow the ~2 hour journey up to 100.000 feet and back to earth. Real time data includes measurements from all it's sensors, including temperature, pressure, humidity and air quality, altitude, acceleration and GPS coordinates and a live twitter feed. The team is also using a public GSM network to send SMSes lat/lon/alt coordinates to anyone willing to go on-launch-site and participate in the probe hunt.

Hope to like the project ;)

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Submission + - Facebook bug lets hackers delete friends (cio.com.au)

swandives writes: There's lot of talk about Facebook and privacy at the moment, but a bug in Facebook's website lets hackers delete Facebook friends without permission. Steven Abbagnaro, a student from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York reported the flaw, writing proof-of-concept code that scrapes publicly available data from users' Facebook pages and deletes all of their friends, one by one. The victim first has to click on a malicious link while logged into Facebook.

Abbagnaro's code exploits the same underlying flaw that was first reported by Alert Logic security analyst, M.J. Keith, who discovered cross-site request forgery bug, where the website doesn't properly check code sent by users' browsers to ensure that they were authorized to make changes on the site.

Comment Re:C vs C# is a poor comparison (Score 1) 512

Can someone explain how this differs from Erlang? It is briefly mentioned on the Go site:

"One of the most successful models for providing high-level linguistic support for concurrency comes from Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes, or CSP. Occam and Erlang are two well known languages that stem from CSP. Go's concurrency primitives derive from a different part of the family tree whose main contribution is the powerful notion of channels as first class objects."

http://golang.org/doc/go_lang_faq.html
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/erlang/index.html

Comment Re:Move and Bike (Score 1) 865

I am not sure if this is an option for you, but the bike commute can be a great way to exercise, with zero additional demand on time. I recently replaced my car commute with a bike & bus combo. I work in Bellevue and live in Seattle and the buses have bike racks. I bike the Seattle section to lake Washington, take the bus across the bridge and then bike to work. It takes about 45 minutes including waiting for the bus door to door. The car typically took 45 also because of long wait times for the bridge. The buses alone were worse: about an hour. If the 1.5 hour commute can't totally translate to the bike, it may well partially translate like mine: bike and bus, or start in the car and ride once you are closer.

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