Archive for October, 2011
Researchers Crack W3C Encryption Standard for XML
October 23rd, 2011Via: Ars Technica: There’s new reason to be leery about relying on Web-based services to handle sensitive data. A pair of German researchers revealed at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Chicago this week that they have discovered a way to decrypt data within XML documents that have been encrypted using an […]
Some Parents Who Work for Elite Silicon Valley Firms Send Their Children to School with No Computers
October 23rd, 2011Via: New York Times: The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. […]
Gaddafi Salted Away About $200 Billion
October 23rd, 2011Via: The Age: Muammar Gaddafi secretly salted away more than $US200 billion ($A196 billion) in bank accounts, real estate and corporate investments around the world before he was killed, according to senior Libyan officials. That’s about $US30,000 for every Libyan citizen and double the amount that Western governments previously had suspected. The new estimates of […]
Did You Know Feds Will Temporarily Cut Off All TV and Radio Broadcasts on November 9?
October 23rd, 20119th day of the 11th month. Via: The Blaze: If you have ever wondered about the government’s ability to control the civilian airwaves, you will have your answer on November 9th. On that day, federal authorities are going to shut off all television and radio communications simultaneously at 2:00PM EST to complete the first ever […]
Sharpie Commercial: “Stop Protesting Now”
October 23rd, 201112 seconds. Via: Sharpie U.S. YouTube Channel:
Hobby Humanoid Robot Rides Bicycle
October 23rd, 2011Via: Robosavvy: PRIMER-V2 is the name of a robot and his custom bike. Dr.Guero hooked a KHR3HV bipedal robot to a small bike. The robot pedals with his feet at variable speed. The steering is done by the robot hands as with a normal bike, and remote controled by a human. Stability is acheived by […]
Euro ‘Empire’ Plot by Brussels
October 23rd, 2011Via: Telegraph: European Union chiefs are drawing up plans for a single “Treasury” to oversee tax and spending across the 17 eurozone nations. The proposal, put forward by Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president, would be the clearest sign yet of a new “United States of Europe” — with Britain left on the sidelines. […]
Near-Perfect Young Dinosaur Fossil Found in Bavaria
October 23rd, 2011Via: Spiegel: German paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the best-preserved dinosaur skeleton ever found in Europe. Some 98 percent of the fossil found in the southern state of Bavaria is intact, and it will soon be placed on display for a short time in Munich. The discovery of young, unnamed dinosaur fossils is […]
Bank Transfer Day: Technologists Say Thousands Already Switching
October 22nd, 2011Via: CU Times: While Bank Transfer Day, and the dump-your-bank sentiment that serves as its backdrop, has earned a lot of media coverage and promotional dollars among credit unions, are people really switching? The folks whose job it is to facilitate that move behind the scenes, who manage the so-called “switch kits” of electronic banking, […]
Six-Figure Salaries, But Homeless
October 22nd, 2011Working for oil companies by day, sleeping in a WalMart parking lot by night. Via: CNN: They’re pulling in fat paychecks, but now they’re also homeless. In the town of Williston, N.D., America’s newest oil boomtown, more than 6,000 job seekers have come from every corner of the country looking for work. Yet, oil companies […]
