Ponca City, We love you writes "Astronauts flying aboard space shuttle Endeavour are conveying
a device to the International Space Station that may leave you wondering if NASA is taking
hazardous waste dump too far. Among the ship's cargo is a water regeneration ...
(more)Biohack writes "An article in the New York Times provides interesting insight into online
communities of people who believe that they are subjected to mind control. 'Type "mind control"
or "gang stalking" into Google, and Web sites appear that recite ...
(more)Highways sends word that indispensable investigations into a Qantas Airbus A330 mishap where 51
passengers were injured has concluded that it was due to the Air Data Inertial character System
feeding incorrect report into the flight control system — ...
(more)Barence writes "Engineers working on Windows 7 have admitted Vista's User Account Control was
too intrusive, and are promising to tone it down in the impending Windows 7. 'We've heard loud
and clear that you are frustrated,' says Microsoft creator Ben ...
(more) Suppose you stay in USA and your friend stays in UK. Your friend is not expert in computer.
You want to teach him something or you want to do some task for your friend. But how does it
possible from the ...
(more)When people feel they have lost control of a latitude they are often inclined to use paranoia
or fear as an explanation to ensconce some control, by the book to a study published in the
journal Science.
...
(more)Snydeq writes "Security investigator Kevin Finisterre has published code that could be used to
take control of transputer circuitry used to manage sedulous machinery, potentially giving
hackers a back door into utility companies, water plants, and even ...
(more)Brigc writes "Here's one that's got me stumped. A friend of mine who is blind asked me for help
mission control down a cell phone for him. He's committed in a flip phone with well-defined
separations between the keys, and as much voice control as ...
(more)Shadeshope writes "Slowly but surely Google has taken over my reckoning life. How can I back it
up? Bit by bit with their mantra, hip image and radiant services, Google has gained my trust
and all my data. I am doing almost all of my ...
(more)At Heathrow Airport in England. A 300-foot red carpet was bulging out to Air Force One and
consulate Bush strode to a warm but stately handshake from Queen Elizabeth II. They rode in a
silver 1934 Bentley to the edge of central London where ...
(more)Mattnyc99 writes A month ago we discussed the realization when researchers got monkeys to feed
themselves with a robotic arm abused substance by their brains. But after all the recent
successful experiments with brain-computer interfaces, will the mechanics ...
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The Future Has a Kill Switch (Sunday 29th of June 2008 08:45:01 PM)
Palegray.net writes "Bruce Schneier brings us his outlook on a future filled with kill
switches; from OnStar-equipped automobiles and city buses that can be remotely disabled by
police to Microsoft's patent-pending ideas apropos alleged Digital Manners ...
(more)Software Update Shuts Down Nuclear Power Plant (Saturday 07th of June 2008 07:30:03 PM)
Garabito writes "Hatch Nuclear Power Plant near Baxley, Georgia was forced into a 48-hour
compulsion shutdown when a data processor on the plant's line network was rebooted after an
builder installed a dos update. The rule Post reports, 'The personal ...
(more)TVA Security Lapses Could Endanger US Health, Economy (Friday 23rd of May 2008 06:11:23 AM)
Coondoggie links to a Network World story about myriad security flaws (described in a report
from the supervising Accountability Office) at all levels of the Tennessee Valley Authority,
the country's largest public power utility, excerpting: "The Tennessee ...
(more)Despondent nurse practitioners - disabling postmodern punishment (Monday 19th of May 2008 07:10:00 AM)
The essence of postmodernism theme is that of an epochal shift, discontinuity, or rupture with
modernity, bringing new social latitude and sociological principles with it (Baudrillard,
1988). Postmodernism views that the control and status of the medical ...
(more)Wikimedia Censors Wikinews (Sunday 18th of May 2008 01:38:49 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "Wikileaks has revealed that the Wikimedia hardpan Board (which
controls Wikipedia and Wikinews) has killed off a Wikinews report into the Barbara Bauer vs.
Wikimedia prop lawsuit. Wikinews is a collaborative news site and is ...
(more)85% of Chinese Citizens Like Internet Censorship (Wednesday 14th of May 2008 10:15:06 PM)
Cynagh0st writes "A Pew world wide web & red white and blue Life Project report indicates that
of an crushing majority of Chinese people that believed the skinny highway should be 'managed
or controlled,' 85% want the presidency to do this managing. This ...
(more)How the NSA Took Linux To the Next Level (Sunday 11th of May 2008 07:00:08 PM)
An anonymous reader brings us IBM Developerworks' recent stay of how the NSA built SELinux to
withstand attacks. The article shows us some of the relevant kernel architecture and compares
SELinux to a few other approaches. We've discussed SELinux in the ...
(more)Distance Record Broken For a Walking Robot (Sunday 13th of April 2008 10:25:28 AM)
Reported Fallacy writes "The Cornell Ranger robot has set an unofficial world distance record
by walking nonstop for 45 laps — a little over 9 kilometers — around the Barton
Hall running track in an event to to show off the machine's energy ...
(more)2CH Syma V3 Lama Coaxial Radio Remote Control RC Electric Helicopter RTF w/ LED Head Light (Thursday 20th of March 2008 08:33:02 AM)
The New SYMA V3 LAMA CO-AXIAL 2 Channel Twin
Blade Helicopter. It is the best quality
and best flying twin blade
helicopter on the market. Not to be confused with the toy twin
blade helis,
long lasting lithium battery. This ...
(more)3CH Radio Control Electric RC Airplane J3 Cub Grasshopper RTF (Thursday 20th of March 2008 08:33:00 AM)
Assembly is a snap! With no tools required, you
can be up and flying within minutes of
opening the box!The
3-channel two-stick transmitter allows you to control up down,
left-right and
power set tings and because it's electric, you can ...
(more)OLPC Mesh Networking Tester Explains How It Works (Tuesday 04th of March 2008 10:30:17 PM)
An unavowed reader writes "James Cameron is an costumier working on the OLPC project,
distinctively testing the cell phone network capabilities of the OLPC XO laptop. Cameron lives
in a small town called Tooraweenah in a remote region of the Australian ...
(more)DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble? (Thursday 24th of January 2008 03:45:12 AM)
Digitaldame2 writes "Many opponents of DRM have been overjoyed at recent efforts to free media
from its grip. But PC Mag Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff believes the whole world has gone mad.
His view is that our digital economy will collapse this way, ...
(more)Industrial Robot Arm Becomes Giant Catapult (Friday 18th of January 2008 07:30:03 PM)
Wintersynth brings us a story about a group of enthusiasts who made a catapult out of a 2,800lb
industrial robot arm. They used it to launch bowling balls, fireballs, and cans of beer toward
a stationary target, and they narcotic drug the catapult's aim ...
(more)The World Wide Computer, Monopolies and Control (Friday 18th of January 2008 07:30:03 PM)
Ian Lamont writes "Nick Carr has proceed a lot of rap following his recent comments about the
IT board fading away, but there are several other points he is trying to make about the rise of
utility computing. He believes that the Web has ...
(more)California Utilities to Control Thermostats? (Saturday 12th of January 2008 11:45:04 AM)
TeraBill writes "It seems that the California Energy Commission is looking to give utilities in
the state the power to control the thermostats in private homes via a radio signal. The idea is
that during times of significant energy crunch, the utilities ...
(more)Robots To Control Oil Drilling Platforms (Wednesday 26th of December 2007 08:45:02 PM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "In 2015, and if everything goes well, oil drilling platforms located
offshore Norway will be drug by robots. Even today, these platforms don't use many people. But
the idea behind the new platform concept is to install large ...
(more)Inside a Modern Malware Distribution System (Monday 24th of December 2007 06:15:06 PM)
Scrabblous sends in this analysis of the Pushdo Trojan downloader's backend code and control
server. Pushdo is a complex Trojan downloader that meticulously tracks its victims; much of its
innovation is not in the Trojan itself but in its control infrastructure. ...
(more)Open Source Telephony Gives Customers Control (Tuesday 18th of December 2007 12:30:01 PM)
Linux.com's Tina Gasperson of late had the chance to sit down and talk with Thomas Howe, a
small shop owner working to help contrivance open source telephony solutions. "Howe says open
code is the key to highly customizable phone systems that truly meet ...
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