Turns out that to correct errors, each SD card comes with a 100mhz microcontroller which reports on the size of the device and runs algorithms to block out certain errors. On at least one brand, the firmware loader is not secured. This opens up a host of possibilities, from a very cheap source of Arduino alternatives, to a smtp server that sends copies of your files to an external source, or more complexity, as sd cards tend to be trusted once inserted.
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554
Plug your guitar into your pc and learn how to play!
http://rocksmith.ubi.com/rocksmith/en-GB/home/index.aspx
In the PNNL process, a slurry of wet algae is pumped into the front end of a chemical reactor. Once the system is up and running, out comes crude oil in less than an hour, along with water and a byproduct stream of material containing phosphorus that can be recycled to grow more algae.
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-algae-crude-oil-million-year-natural.html
Self Cleaning Clothing With Hydrophobic Nanotechnology. Ultra Soft, Breathable Fabric That Stops Stains From Sweat And Drink
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/741186545/a-shirt-that-cleans-itself
netfabb Basic is a freeware for handling of files on stl-format. The freeware includes Advanced Model Browsing, STL Fixing and Part Analysis, Measurement and Quality Management. The freeware also include a Basic Slicing module and give you first steps into the 3D Printing and data preperation
via netfabb Download Center » netfabb Basic.
It also comes as a cloud service, a “cloud” (read: server) version and various different professional versions.
ReconstructMe was developed to be the fastest 3D scanning software on market.
via ReconstructMe | Real Time 3D Scanning Software.
According to revelations about the QUANTUM program, the NSA can “shoot” (their words) an exploit at any target it desires as his or her traffic passes across the backbone. It appears that the NSA and GCHQ were the first to turn the internet backbone into a weapon; absent Snowdens of their own, other countries may do the same and then say, “It wasn’t us. And even if it was, you started it.”
via Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It | Wired Opinion | Wired.com.
This includes a fairly detailed list of the methodologies employed.
earth wind map
a visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers updated every three hours
Typing of the Dead: Overkill is the original game. In Filth of the Dead they’ve added an urban dictionary, with loads of rude words in it 🙂
Learn To Type With Phrases Like 'Hot Tits' And 'Rectal Poetry'.
The Woking-based firm’s chief designer Frank Stephenson told The Sunday Times that the system was already being used by the military.
‘It took a lot of effort to get this out of a source in the military. I asked why you don’t see wipers on some aircraft on when they are coming in at very low levels for landing.
‘I was told that it’s not a coating on the surface but a high frequency electronic system that never fails and is constantly active. Nothing will attach to the windscreen.’
The system is expected to be introduced to McLaren’s range of sportscars which cost between £170,000 and £870,000, but once perfected could be produced for the mass market for as little as £10.
Paul Wilcox, professor of ultrasonics at Bristol University’s faculty of engineering, told The Sunday Times: ‘The obvious way of doing it is to have an ultrasonic transducer in the corner of the windscreen that would excite waves at around 30kHz to bounce across the windscreen.’
McLaren confirms it's developing new wiper-free windscreens | Mail Online.
A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.
In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed1 that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity.
via Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram : Nature News & Comment.
ie models that work in lower dimensional universes, can be proven to work in higher dimensional universes. This means that we are projected ‘up’ from lower dimensions.
Now the following article becomes properly relevant because of the above article: A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement.
wo independent teams of scientists say that it should also be possible to create a wormhole connection between two ordinary quantum particles, such as quarks that make up protons and neutrons.
This article was detracted as being a fun mathematical excercise but impractical because it only worked in a lower dimensional universe. Now, however we know that our universe is a projection of that universe, and so the laws that hold there, definitely hold here and are practical.
SkyJack (available from github) is primarily a perl application which runs off of a Linux machine, runs aircrack-ng in order to get its wifi card into monitor mode, detects all wireless networks and clients around, deactivates any clients connected to Parrot AR.drones, connects to the now free Parrot AR.Drone as its owner, then uses node.js with node-ar-drone to control zombie drones
CollectiveAccess is free open-source software for managing and publishing museum and archival collections.
Runs on any modern web browser
Pre-configured with several library standards including Dublin Core, PBCore, VRA Core and more
Customizable through simple user interfaces — no complex programming required
Reporting tools easily generate finding aids and exports to PDF or spreadsheet-readable formats
Supports multilingual cataloging
Mapping tools allow you to georeference any asset
Integrated with Library of Congress subject headings, Getty vocabularies, GeoNames, and more
Plugins extend the software’s core functionality to support timelines, visualizations, image licensing and more
Import frameworks allow for the batch migration and transformation of media and data
Free online documentation and support
via Welcome to collectiveaccess.org | collectiveaccess.org.
If you want to catch someone in a lie, you’ll raise your odds in the afternoon because most people are more likely to cheat or lie then, as opposed to in the morning
The researchers also found that people who tend to cheat regularly were just as likely to do so in the morning as in the afternoon. It was the more ethical folks who suffered lapses as the day wore on
via We Are More Likely to Lie in the Afternoon: Scientific American Podcast.
The industry’s only continuous tone full-color plastic 3D printer
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via ProJet® 4500 | www.3dsystems.com.
Experiments showed that a traumatic event could affect the DNA in sperm and alter the brains and behaviour of subsequent generations. A Nature Neuroscience study shows mice trained to avoid a smell passed their aversion on to their “grandchildren”. The animals were trained to fear a smell similar to cherry blossom. The team at the Emory University School of Medicine, in the US, then looked at what was happening inside the sperm. They showed a section of DNA responsible for sensitivity to the cherry blossom scent was made more active in the mice’s sperm. Both the mice’s offspring, and their offspring, were “extremely sensitive” to cherry blossom and would avoid the scent, despite never having experiencing it in their lives. hanges in brain structure were also found. “The experiences of a parent, even before conceiving, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of subsequent generations,” the report concluded.
The findings provide evidence of “transgenerational epigenetic inheritance” – that the environment can affect an individual’s genetics, which can in turn be passed on.
via BBC News – ‘Memories’ pass between generations.
