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Computing with Secrets, but Keeping them Safe

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:20:20 +0000

A cryptographic method could see cloud services work with sensitive data without ever decrypting it. By Tom Simonite

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25537

A novel technique could see future Web services work with sensitive data without ever being able to read it. Several implementations of a mathematical proof unveiled just last year will allow cryptographers to start [...]

iPad Set on Fire By Four Blowtorches

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:06:09 +0000

Project Green Apple has set an iPad on fire to draw attention to the N-Hexane poisonings at Wintek.

A Flying Robot that Perches, Flips and Dives

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:32:00 +0000

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/tags/surveillance/

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could help the military carry out surveillance in unknown territory or first responders look for survivors after a disaster. The trick is making them agile enough to pull off daredevil aerobatic maneuvers.

Daniel Mellinger, Nathan Michael and Vijay Kumar at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Laboratory have [...]

Perching UAV Sticks To Walls

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:52:52 +0000

Writing by Evan Ackerman

Stanford’s Biomimetics Laboratory is full of all kinds of neat stuff, and when we were checking out Stickybot during National Robotics Week, we got a tip about this awesome perching UAV, developed by Alexis Lussier Desbiens.

“A flock of small, unmanned air vehicles flies quietly into a city, maneuvering [...]

Ubuntu Video Driver Repair

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:47:29 +0000

So, your video driver on ubuntu got screwed up and your screen looks like frell or is useless… time to perform an Ubuntu video driver repair. This is simple in most cases and you can try thye following:

Hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 when you get stuck at the “Boot Scripts” part, or even at the login screen. Give [...]

CA’s Web Site Hacked By Malware Authors

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:06:20 +0000

Part of security software vendor CA’s Web site was hacked earlier this week and was redirecting visitors to a malicious Web site hosted in China.

Although the problem now appears to have been corrected, cached versions of some pages in the press section of CA.com show that earlier this week the site had been redirecting visitors [...]

A Curious Letter About Starbucks Not Supporting Our Troups

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:43:58 +0000

The letter below has been circulating the Internet and has not been verified by us. However, who the heck would not support our troops! Sounds like a bunch of hypocritical communists at Starbucks. Regardless of the political affiliations and tendencies one might have, it is a core requirement as a US Citizen to maintain and [...]

Should Have Known Better MP3

admin — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:03:34 +0000

Another cool music track by Doug Amey at www.stonderomeos.com Check out more of their great tunes and other media at www.stonderomeos.com and www.dougamey.com

Pseudomamma on the foot: An unusual presentation of supernumerary breast tissue

admin — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:10:14 +0000

Volume 12 Number 4

DÃ©lio Marques Conde MD, PhD1, Eiji Kashimoto MD1, Renato Zocchio Torresan MD, PhD1, Marcelo Alvarenga MD, PhD2 Dermatology Online Journal: 12 (4): 7

1. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital Estadual SumarÃ©, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. condedelio@uol.com.br 2. Department of Pathology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Abstract

A 22-year-old woman sought medical care for a lesion [...]

This Is One Ticked-Off Lady

admin — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:22:02 +0000

Written by a housewife from New Jersey and sounds like it! This is one ticked off lady.

“Are we fighting a war on terror or aren’t we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001 ?

Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, [...]