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WarCloning, the New WarDriving? 154

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 02, 2009 @06:27PM from the now-everyone-with-a-laptop-in-their-car-is-gonna-get-searched dept.

ChrisPaget writes "After my legal skirmishes with HID a while back, The Register has coverage of my latest RFID work — cloning Passport Cards and Electronic Drivers Licenses from a moving vehicle. Full details will be released at Shmoocon this weekend, but in the meantime there's video of the equipment and articles all over the place."

Comment Re:Lame. (Score 1) 6

by overclucker on Monday January 19, 2009 @11:07PM (#26524471) Attached to: Zombie Food Pyramid

Research! The pyramid model isn't used exclusively for the food chain. It is useful in any case where you need a graphical representation of hierarchy.

Comment nonfinite representation of the zombie food chain (Score 1) 6

by overclucker on Monday January 19, 2009 @10:44PM (#26524255) Attached to: Zombie Food Pyramid

I would argue that the graphical model representing the zombie food chain is only true within a certain scope of recorded zombie behaviour. Zombi 2 shark scene, anyone? I feel it important to note that in many a zombie movie or story, there is often some amount of deviation in zombie behaviour that throws off the surviving humans. Evolution of a classic storyline.

Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware 441

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 02, 2008 @09:09AM from the so-they-say-now dept.

unassimilatible writes "As new features of Windows 7 continue to trickle out, ZDNet is now reporting that it will scale to 256 processors. While one has to wonder, like with Vista, how many of the teased features will actually make it into the final OS, I think we can all agree, 256 cores is enough for anybody." This Mark Russinovich interview has some technical details (Silverlight required).

Comment other uses . . .. (Score 1) 158

by overclucker on Thursday March 06, 2008 @04:02PM (#22667102) Attached to: Brain Scanner Can Tell What You're Looking At

combined with electrode therapy, this could mean interesting developments in the area of . . . behaviour modification. imagine receiving a paralysing jolt every time you looked at a door. over time this could create prisoners mentally incapable of escaping. or imagine being shocked every time you looked at a child funny.

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