Archive for July, 2013
Corpus Christi Judge Found Dead from Gunshot Wound
July 16th, 2013Update: Suicide Via: AP: South Texas authorities have confirmed that a state district judge found dead in his chambers took his own life. The Nueces County sheriff’s Office said Tuesday it’s not clear why Judge Tom Greenwell shot himself but that a handwritten will was found nearby. Greenwell was supposed to be on vacation at […]
The Strange Story of Michael Boatwright
July 16th, 2013Via: My Desert: The family of Michael Boatwright — who was found unconscious in a Palm Springs motel room four months ago and woke up speaking only Swedish — heard about his whereabouts for the first time Monday. The Desert Sun located a sister of the 61-year-old who has spent more than 19 weeks at […]
‘Robots to Revolutionize Farming’
July 16th, 2013Via: AP / Time: On a windy morning in California’s Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds. The engineers were testing the Lettuce Bot, a […]
Water Requirements for NSA’s New Facility in Utah
July 15th, 2013“A significant benefit to the city” haha Via: KSL: More secrets, more water? The NSA data center in Bluffdale could require as many as 1.7 million gallons of water per day to operate and keep computers cool. Initial reported estimates suggested the center would use 1,200 gallons per minute, but more recent estimates suggest the […]
In Iraq, the Bomb-Detecting Device That Didn’t Work, Except to Make Money
July 15th, 2013Step right up, step right up, step right up, Everyone’s a winner, bargains galore That’s right, you too can be the proud owner Of the quality goes in before the name goes on One-tenth of a dollar, one-tenth of a dollar, we got service after sales You need perfume? we got perfume, how ’bout an […]
Technical Feasibility of Decrypting HTTPS by Replacing the Computer’s Pseudorandom Number Generator
July 15th, 2013Via: Stack Exchange: Intel has an on-chip RdRand function which supposedly bypasses the normally used entropy pool for /dev/urandom and directly injects output. Now rumors are going on that Intel works together with the NSA… and knowing that PRNGs are important for cryptography is enough to get this news spreading. I personally don’t believe this […]
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans
July 15th, 2013You’ll love this. A “source” explains that the reason for this is that diaspora communities in America are thirsting for U.S. Government propaganda, but can’t access it. *snort* Via: Foreign Policy: For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that […]
The Shadowy Cartel of Doctors that Controls Medicare
July 14th, 2013Via: Washington Monthly: On the last week of April earlier this year, a small committee of doctors met quietly in a midsized ballroom at the Renaissance Hotel in Chicago. There was an anesthesiologist, an ophthalmologist, a radiologist, and so on—thirty-one in all, each representing their own medical specialty society, each a heavy hitter in his […]
Experimental Cancer Therapy from Immunocore
July 14th, 2013Rick Simpson Oil See what I did there? Via: Independent: Immunocore has found a way of designing small protein molecules, which it calls ImmTACs, that effectively act as double-ended glue. At one end they stick to cancer cells, strongly and very specifically, leaving healthy cells untouched. At the other end they stick to T-cells. The […]
The Amazon 1Button App Is Very Bad
July 14th, 2013I doubt that any of you have this installed, but just in case… Via: Kotowicz: Though intercepting HTTPS connections is possible, we can only do it via: hacking the CA social engineering (install the certificate) relying on click-through syndrome for SSL warnings Too hard. Let’s try some side channels. Let me show you how you […]
