US Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act of 2015

Basically the US is saying that it’s the wild west out in space: if you can get there, you can mine your asteroid.

Any asteroid resources obtained in outer space are the property of the entity that obtained such resources

Source: Text of H.R. 1508: Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act of 2015 (Introduced version) – GovTrack.us

I’m very curious what other countries have to say about this?

The Richard Prince – Suicide Girls Circus

Mooney aka Suicide Girl has her picturers reused by Prince. Prince’s images, which consist of screen shots of other people’s Instagram photos enlarged to 4×5 foot inkjet prints with a single banal comment by Prince, have reportedly sold for $90,000.In response Mooney produced her own prints, identical in every way to Prince’s except for an additional, equally banal comment. She is offering them for peanuts – $90.The question of day:Could Richard Prince’s work be considered fair use while at the same time Selena Mooney’s print of Prince’s appropriation, whose primary element is her own photograph, be copyright infringement?

Source: The Richard Prince – Suicide Girls Circus

The LaZagnen – recover various passwords from within Windows

DescriptionThe LaZagne project is an open source application used to retrieve lots of passwords stored on a local computer. Each software stores its passwords using different techniques (plaintext, APIs, custom algorithms, databases, etc.). This tool has been developed for the purpose of finding these password for the most commonly-used software. At this moment, it supports 22 Programs on Microsoft Windows and 12 on a Linux/Unix-Like OS.Usage Launch all modules cmd: laZagne.exe all Launch only a specific module cmd: laZagne.exe example: laZagne.exe browsers help: laZagne.exe -h Laun

Source: The LaZagnen – Credentials Recovery Project | Mayur Agnihotri | LinkedIn

lenovo thinkpad t520 – last of the master laptops

This is the last ThinkPad with the old keyboard, before they introduced the chicklet style. Of course, the backlighting they got with the new keyboard of the T530 was nice, and the replacement of the page up / pagedown / escape keys was debated, but the spacing between the keys and the lower quality was a turn off for most people.

Source: lenovo thinkpad t520 | eBay

Of course the T530 keyboard was built in different qualities:

“New FRU for keyboard that is great:  04W3063
Old FRU of keyboard that was lousy:  04W3137

It’s also easy to tell which one you have – remove the trackpoint cap:

04W3063 = yellow under trackpoint
04W3137 = blue under trackpoint”

from https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/Thinkpad-T520-vs-T530-keyboard/td-p/787997/page/2

One way to improve your T520 is to upgrade the screen for under $100,- to full HD

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Upgrading+the+Lenovo+ThinkPad+T520+Display/9763

And there is a way to get the T520 keyboard onto a T530. You can remap a lot of the keys and get quite a way, but not all the way…

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Install_Classic_Keyboard_on_xx30_Series_ThinkPads

Good luck!