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| olaf olhtar [ mail: olaf.olhtar[at]mudjaheddin.de | homepage: olaf.mudjaheddin.de ] | Reading Terrorists' Minds About Imminent Attack |
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An anonymous reader writes "Imagine technology that allows you to get inside the mind of a terrorist to know how, when, and where the next attack will occur. In the Northwestern study, when researchers knew in advance specifics of the planned attacks by the make-believe 'terrorists,' they were able to correlate P300 brain waves to guilty knowledge with 100 percent accuracy in the lab, said J. Peter Rosenfeld, professor of psychology in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences."
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 11:50 pm |
| robin auleeanm [ mail: robin.auleeanm[at]mudjaheddin.de | homepage: robin.mudjaheddin.de ] | China Pushes Real Name System For Online Games |
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oxide7 writes "Starting from August 1, Chinese Internet users will have to register using their real names for playing online games, China Daily reported on Saturday. The regulation, issued by the Ministry of Culture on June 22, is said to be part of a nationwide campaign to improve management of the virtual gaming industry and protect minors from unwholesome content. It applies to all multiplayer role-playing and social networking games."
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 10:53 pm |
| henning sila [ mail: henning.sila[at]ich-blicks.net | homepage: henning.ich-blicks.net ] | 'I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!' v2.0 |
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theodp writes "Remember those old Lifecall commercials? Well, you've come a long way, Grandma! The NY Times reports on a raft of new technology that's making it possible for adult children to remotely monitor to a stunningly precise degree the daily movements and habits of their aging parents. The purpose is to provide enough supervision to allow elderly people to stay in their homes rather than move to an assisted-living facility or nursing home. Systems like GrandCare, BeClose, QuietCare, and MedMinder allow families to keep tabs on Mom and Dad's whereabouts, and make sure they take their meds. Perhaps Zynga can make a game out of all this — GeriatricVille?"
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 9:50 pm |
| viola dehtreoo [ mail: viola.dehtreoo[at]streng-katholisch.de | homepage: viola.streng-katholisch.de ] | Microsoft Tech Can Deblur Images Automatically |
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An anonymous reader writes "At the annual SIGGRAPH show, Microsoft Research showed new technology that can remove the blur from images on your camera or phone using on-board sensors — the same sensors currently added to the iPhone 4. No more blurry low light photos!"
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 8:44 pm |
| theo arloc [ mail: theo.arloc[at]mudjaheddin.de | homepage: theo.mudjaheddin.de ] | Antarctic Experiment Finds Puzzling Distribution of Cosmic Rays |
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pitchpipe writes "A puzzling pattern in the cosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has been discovered by an experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica. ... It turns out these particles are not arriving uniformly from all directions. The new study detected an overabundance of cosmic rays coming from one part of the sky, and a lack of cosmic rays coming from another." The map of this uneven distribution comes from the IceCube neutrino observatory last mentioned several days ago.
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 7:40 pm |
| gerd rtgheun [ mail: gerd.rtgheun[at]streng-katholisch.de | homepage: gerd.streng-katholisch.de ] | Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers |
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wooferhound writes "Sophisticated synthesizers and computer-manipulated recordings are increasingly taking over orchestras. Sounding almost like real players, while costing much less, they're especially popular with provincial or touring companies. But until mid-July — when 'West Side Story's' producers announced that a synthesizer was replacing three live violinists and two cellists, or half the orchestra's string section — staff violinist Paul Woodiel thought that at least the classics would be immune to the trend. There are computer programs able to read and play back music scores — a boon to composers who can now hear their work as they write — and software allowing conductors to control the tempo of the machine, in the same way that they direct live players."
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 6:36 pm |
| rüdiger iznhe [ mail: rüdiger.iznhe[at]fickschlitten.com | homepage: rüdiger.fickschlitten.com ] | Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo |
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hasanabbas1987 writes "It's just been a few months since a 45-gigapixel panorama of Dubai claimed the title of world's largest digital photograph, but it's now already been well and truly ousted — the new king in town is this 70-gigapixel, 360-degree panorama of Budapest. As with other multi-gigapixel images, this one was no easy feat, and involved two 25-megapixel Sony A900 cameras fitted with 400mm Minolta lenses and 1.4X teleconverters, a robotic camera mount from 360world that got the shooting done over the course of two days, and two solid days of post-processing that resulted in a single 200GB file — not to mention a 15-meter-long printed copy of the photograph for good measure. Of course, what's most impressive is the photo itself [Note: requires Silverlight]."
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 5:29 pm |
| harold danolr [ mail: harold.danolr[at]el.oberstufenhaus.de | homepage: harold.el.oberstufenhaus.de ] | Mars Rover Spirit May Never Wake From Deep Sleep |
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astroengine writes "After repeated calls from NASA to wake up Mars Exploration Rover Spirit from its low-energy hibernation mode, mission control is beginning to realize the ill-fated robot may never wake up again. After getting stuck in a sand trap in Gusev Crater and then switching into hibernation in March, rover operators were hopeful that the beached Spirit might yet be saved. Alas, this is looking more and more unlikely. In a statement, NASA said: 'Based on models of Mars' weather and its effect on available power, mission managers believe that if Spirit responds, it most likely will be in the next few months. However, there is a very distinct possibility Spirit may never respond.'"
Related xkcd strip, in case the headline wasn't anthropomorphic enough for you.
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 4:26 pm |
| augustin regor [ mail: augustin.regor[at]bongfaschist.de | homepage: augustin.bongfaschist.de ] | Silent, Easily Made Android Rootkit Released At DefCon |
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An anonymous reader writes with news that security experts from Spider Labs released a kernel level rootkit for Android devices at DefCon on Friday. "As a proof of concept, it is able to send an attacker a reverse TCP over 3G/WIFI shell upon receiving an incoming call from a 'trigger number.' This ultimately results in full root access on the Android device." The rootkit was developed over a period of two weeks, and has been handed out to DefCon attendees on DVD.
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 3:26 pm |
| rudi betae [ mail: rudi.betae[at]bongfaschist.com | homepage: rudi.bongfaschist.com ] | Average Cellphone Data Usage Is 145.8 MB Per Month |
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destinyland writes "For the first time, the majority of cell phones are accessing data services — 53 percent, compared to only 42 percent last year, according to a new study by Validas. And each user downloads an average of 145.8 MB per month (the average was just 96.8 MB per month in 2009). The heaviest users are Verizon smartphone owners, averaging 428 MB per month (338 MB on average for iPhone users). In fact, Verizon users were twice as likely as iPhone users to exceed both 500 MB and 2 GB each month."
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 2:23 pm |
| anneliese iciatsrhn [ mail: anneliese.iciatsrhn[at]mudjaheddin.de | homepage: anneliese.mudjaheddin.de ] | TI Calculator DRM Defeated |
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josath writes "Texas Instruments' flagship calculator, the Nspire, was hacked to allow user-written programs earlier this year. Earlier this month, TI released an update to the OS that runs on the calculator, providing no new features, but only blocking the previous hack. Now, just a few weeks later, Nleash has been released, which defeats this protection. The battle rages on as users fight for the right to run their own software on their own hardware."
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 1:20 pm |
| erika girbit [ mail: erika.girbit[at]jasmin-wagner-fans.com | homepage: erika.jasmin-wagner-fans.com ] | Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files? |
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eldavojohn writes "Gizmodo's got an interesting scoop on a list of IPs acquired from Peer Block revealing who is downloading the Facebook user data torrented this week: Apple, the Church of Scientology, Disney, Intel, IBM and several major government contractors just to name a few. The article notes that this doesn't mean it's sanctioned by these companies or even known to be happening, but the IP addresses of requests coming to one of the users' machines match to lists of IP blocks for each company."
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 12:18 pm |
| margarete beaet [ mail: margarete.beaet[at]bongfaschist.de | homepage: margarete.bongfaschist.de ] | Fossil Fuel Subsidies Dwarf Support For Renewables |
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TravisTR sends word of research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance which found that direct subsidies for renewable energy from governments worldwide totaled $43-46 billion in 2009, an amount vastly outstripped by the $557 billion in fossil fuel subsidies during 2008.
"The BNEF preliminary analysis suggests the US is the top country, as measured in dollars deployed, in providing direct subsidies for clean energy with an estimated $18.2bn spent in total in 2009. Approximately 40% of this went toward supporting the US biofuels sector with the rest going towards renewables. The federal stimulus program played a key role; its Treasury Department grant program alone provided $3.8bn in support for clean energy projects. China, the world leader in new wind installations in 2009 with 14GW, provided approximately $2bn in direct subsidies, according to the preliminary analysis. This figure is deceptive, however, as much crucial support for clean energy in the country comes in form of low-interest loans from state-owned banks. State-run power generators and grid companies have also been strongly encouraged by the government to tap their balance sheets in support of renewables."
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 9:14 am |
| olga anbsei [ mail: olga.anbsei[at]bongfaschist.com | homepage: olga.bongfaschist.com ] |
Microsoft To Issue Emergency Fix For Windows |
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Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft will issue an out-of-band patch on Monday for a critical vulnerability in all of the current versions of Windows. The company didn't identify which flaw it will be patching, but the description of the vulnerability is a close match to the LNK flaw that attackers have been exploiting for several weeks now, most notably with the Stuxnet malware. The advance notification from Microsoft on Friday said that the company is patching a critical vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild and affects all supported Windows platforms. The LNK flaw in the Windows shell was first identified earlier this month when researchers discovered the Stuxnet worm spreading from infected USB drives to PCs. Stuxnet has turned out to be a rather interesting piece of malware as it not only uses the LNK zero day vulnerability to spread, but it had components that were signed using a legitimate digital certificate belonging to Realtek, a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer."
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| fetched via localhost | 31 July 2010, 6:15 am |
| heinrich brtea [ mail: heinrich.brtea[at]el.oberstufenhaus.de | homepage: heinrich.el.oberstufenhaus.de ] | UK Government Rejects Calls To Upgrade From IE6 |
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pcardno writes "The UK government has responded to a petition encouraging government departments to move away from IE6 that had over 6,000 signatories. Their response seems to be that a fully patched IE6 is perfectly safe as long as firewalls and malware scanning tools are in place, and that mandating an upgrade away from IE6 will be too expensive. The second part is fair enough in this age of austerity (I'd rather have my taxes spent on schools and hospitals than software upgrade testing at the moment), but the whole reaction will be a disappointment to the petitioners."
Update: 07/31 11:43 GMT by S : Dan Frydman, the man who launched the petition, has posted a response to the government's decision.
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