Archive for September, 2013
The First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature
September 13th, 2013Via: Popular Mechanics: With two diminutive legs locked into a leap-ready position, the tiny jumper bends its body taut like an archer drawing a bow. At the top of its legs, a minuscule pair of gears engage—their strange, shark-fin teeth interlocking cleanly like a zipper. And then, faster than you can blink, think, or see […]
Cambridge University Doomers
September 13th, 2013Via: Independent: Some of Britain’s finest minds are drawing up a “doomsday list” of catastrophic events that could devastate the world, pose a threat to civilisation and might even lead to the extinction of the human species. Leading scholars have established a centre for the study of “existential risk” which aims to present politicians and […]
NSA Poses as Legitimate Websites for Man in the Middle Attacks
September 13th, 2013When you’re connected to .mil’s PSYOP ISP, you may get a ‘special’ version of the Internet. —U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators Via: Cnet: Here’s one of the latest tidbits on the NSA surveillance scandal (which seems to be generating nearly as many blog items as there are phone numbers in the […]
Some Dropbox Process Is Opening Documents
September 12th, 2013Via: WNCInfoSec: So now I’m curious…are the files being accessed for de-duplication purposes or possibly malware scanning? If so, then why are the other file types not being opened? It appears that only .doc files are being opened… I then uploaded more HoneyDocs files to my Dropbox folder, this time from a different computer and […]
Beeban Kidron: We Need to Talk About Teenagers and the Internet
September 12th, 2013Grim. Via: Guardian: There is a new world order and our children are carrying it around in their pockets.
3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013
September 12th, 2013Via: Daniel Cohen-Or / YouTube:
Fukushima: Tritium Levels Up 15X Over Three Days
September 12th, 2013Via: Reuters: The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said levels of tritium – considered one of the least harmful radioactive elements – spiked more than 15 times in groundwater near a leaked tank at the facility over three days this week. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said tritium levels in water taken from […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $25
September 12th, 2013Thank you, SR.
The RAR Energia Gravity Motor
September 11th, 2013When one follows “free energy” inventors, a lot of times, the path leads to madness. The machines in question (that don’t work, by the way) are usually very small—table top scale—bicycle tires and JB Weld sorts of things. Knowing all of this, I nearly fell out of my chair when I looked at what RAR […]
Alleged Brooklyn Heroin Dealers Careful To Observe Shabbat
September 11th, 2013Via: Gothamist: The NYPD’s narcotics team announced today that it busted a group of allegedly observant Sheepshead Bay drug dealers, a ring that dealt its wares—which included heroin, oxycodone, cocaine and more—in accordance with Shabbat. The six-month sting—dubbed “Only after Sundown”—resulted in the April arrest of five men, with the indictment handed down today. Among […]
