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ID theft spyware scam uncovered
Post Date: 2005-08-23 07:29:12 by Zipporah
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Accounts at 50 banks are in danger of being plundered Thousands of computer users have been caught out by a huge ID theft ring. Security firm Sunbelt Software said it stumbled across a US-based server storing megabytes of data stolen from compromised computers while researching spyware infections. The server held passwords for online accounts from 50 banks, Ebay and Paypal logins, hundreds of credit card numbers and reams of personal data. The FBI has reportedly now started investigating the ring of ID thieves. Hidden data The bug that has stolen all the data is thought to be a variant of a family of trojans known as Dumaru or Nibu that exploit a vulnerability in ...
Researcher Feels Certain UFOs Exist
Post Date: 2005-08-22 15:00:29 by Grumble Jones
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Researcher Feels Certain UFOs Exist The Associated Press HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. -- Peter Davenport has received more phone calls than he cares to count that have an unusual opening: "Please believe me, I'm not crazy." For Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, it's part of the job. Davenport spoke Sunday at the Little Green Men Festival in Hopkinsville with tales of what he believes are some of the more fascinating, provable cases reported. The festival, at the Hopkinsville-Christian County Conference and Convention Center, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Aug. 21, 1955, report of an alien invasion at Kelly. Click for Full Text!
Space Bug Specialist Killed in Crash
Post Date: 2005-08-22 01:39:47 by timetobuildaboat
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Antarctic Studies Uncovered hardy Bacteria A pioneering British scientist who was leading studies in Antarctica to understand the likelihood of life existing on Mars and elsewhere has been killed in a car accident. "A brilliant and innovative scientist" Dr David Wynn-Williams died after he was involved in a crash involving two vehicles near his home in Cambridge. He was the Antarctic astrobiology project leader at the British Antarctic Survey and studied the way microbes survive in harsh conditions as a model for how life might exist on other planets. He was jogging when the crash happened. Pioneering work Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, ...
New house-sitter robot hits stores in Japan; will cost $3,100
Post Date: 2005-08-21 13:41:55 by robin
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TOKYO (AP) - Worried about leaving your house empty while you go on vacation? Japan has the answer: a house-sitter robot armed with a digital camera, infrared sensors and a videophone. Stores across Japan started taking orders Thursday for the Roborior - a watermelon-sized eyeball on wheels that glows purple, blue and orange - continuing the country's love affair with gadgets. Roborior can function as interior decor, but also as a virtual guard dog that can sense break-ins using infrared sensors, notify homeowners by calling their cellphones, and send videos from its digital camera to the owner's phone. It debuted in department stores this week, but supplies are limited. The robot is on ...
Conversion Kits Under $1000 allow you to run your diesel on DeepFryer Oil
Post Date: 2005-08-21 10:40:28 by gengis gandhi
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saw it on msncb, this dude in ohio is running his car on used frier grease, and, they said....ALL HE DID WAS BUY AN $840 CONVERSION KIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is getting the oil FOR FREE bc the restaurants have to pay to have it hauled off. I am really thinking about this...this is going to be a fucking huge grassroots thing...spread the word to your friends and email this all around...demand alone will put the oil companies into irrelevance. http://www.greasecar.com http://www.greasestation.com/svo_automobiles.htm www.gobio.info http://www.noendpress.com/caleb/biodiesel/index.php http://www.vegpower.com *********************
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Climate change sceptics bet $10,000 on cooler world [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-08-19 14:32:39 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Climate change sceptics bet $10,000 on cooler world Russian pair challenge UK expert over global warming David Adam, science correspondent Friday August 19, 2005 The Guardian Two climate change sceptics, who believe the dangers of global warming are overstated, have put their money where their mouth is and bet $10,000 that the planet will cool over the next decade. The Russian solar physicists Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev have agreed the wager with a British climate expert, James Annan. The pair, based in Irkutsk, at the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, believe that global temperatures are driven more by changes in the sun's activity than by the emission of ...
Mars Craters Defy Conventional Logic
Post Date: 2005-08-19 08:39:45 by Grumble Jones
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The First Law of Modern Astronomy is: Thou shalt not ask questions that cast doubt on accepted theory. In the case of this image of craters on Mars, the accepted theory is the impact origin of craters. The image is interpreted in light of the theory, no questions asked, in the accompanying caption: "[T]hree aligned meteor impact craters on the floor of a much larger crater in the Noachis Terra region. The craters may have formed together from a single event in which the impactor (the meteor) was broken into three pieces". A single event is required because there is no rubble on the floors of the craters from the adjacent impacts. The blast forces would have had to act ...
Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system
Post Date: 2005-08-18 18:59:54 by Flintlock
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Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features. Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a ...
The Air Car:
Post Date: 2005-08-14 22:53:03 by Zipporah
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Welcome to the future! After twelve years of reserch and development, Guy Negre has developed an engine that could become one of the biggest technological advances of this century. Its application to CAT vehicles gives them significant economical and environmental advantages. With the incorporation of bi-energy (compressed air + fuel) the CAT Vehicles have increased their driving range to close to 2000 km with zero pollution in cities and considerably reduced pollution outside urban areas. As well, the application of the MDI engine in other areas, outside the automotive sector, opens a multitude of possibilities in nautical fields, co-generation, auxiliary engines, electric generators ...
UNH Scientist Helps Show Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelf is “Unprecedented” ENVIRONMENTAL ALERT** [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-08-14 12:09:24 by siagiah
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UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space UNH Scientist Helps Show Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelf is “Unprecedented” Contact: David Sims mailto:david.sims@unh.edu 603-862-5369 Science Writer Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Aug. 3, 2005 DURHAM, N.H. -- A paper to be published in the August 4 issue of the journal Nature asserts that the recent collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea of Antarctica is “unprecedented” in recent times. The ice shelf – the third largest in the Antarctic – has undergone catastrophic decay in recent years. A total of about 3, 250 square kilometers of the shelf area disintegrated ...
When meat is not murder
Post Date: 2005-08-12 23:01:20 by robin
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When meat is not murder Would you eat steak if it had been grown in a petri dish? Ian Sample, science correspondent Saturday August 13, 2005 The Guardian It is the ultimate conundrum for vegetarians who think that meat is murder: a revolution in processed food that will see fresh meat grown from animal cells without a single cow, sheep or pig being killed. Researchers have published details in a biotechnology journal describing a new technique which they hailed as the answer to the world's food shortage. Lumps of meat would be cultured in laboratory vats rather than carved from livestock reared on a farm. Scientists have adapted the cutting-edge medical technique of tissue engineering, ...
FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design for Internet Services
Post Date: 2005-08-12 10:06:29 by purpleman
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Tech Mandates Force Companies to Build Backdoors into Broadband, VoIP Washington, DC - Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a release announcing its new rule expanding the reach of the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The ruling is a reinterpretation of the scope of CALEA and will force Internet broadband providers and certain Voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers to build backdoors into their networks that make it easier for law enforcement to wiretap them. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has argued against this expansion of CALEA in several rounds of comments to the FCC on its proposed rule. CALEA, a law passed in the early 1990s, mandated ...
THE TOXICITY/SAFETY OF PROCESSED FREE GLUTAMIC ACID (MSG):
Post Date: 2005-08-10 02:47:29 by timetobuildaboat
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Every company interested in promoting its product should attempt to convince its clients that its product is worth buying. However, "selective" collection and reporting of research data would be inappropriate. "Selective" collection and reporting of research data, including suppression of information contrary to that which is espoused by the industry in question, is the subject of this paper. Using promotion of the flavor-enhancing ingredient called monosodium glutamate, and its active component (variously referred to as processed free glutamic acid or MSG) as a case study, this paper presents the case against the safety of MSG and looks at the work of the defenders of ...
Riding With the Urban Mappers
Post Date: 2005-08-08 23:44:58 by robin
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PALO ALTO, California -- "I didn't think it could be done," says Tim Caro-Brice, a Stanford University graduate student and pioneering member of Amazon.com's A9.com project team. Barnaby Dorfman, A9.com's vice president, laughs and taps the accelerator. A nondescript sport utility vehicle eases down a Palo Alto street, and the rest may be search engine history. Dorfman and Caro-Brice are part of the small team responsible for the block-view technology A9.com launched this spring, which allows users to virtually stroll city streets to get directions and identify local businesses. The vehicle they drive is a prototype for the mini fleet currently crisscrossing the United States in ...
A credible plan to take down the Internet
Post Date: 2005-08-08 16:04:37 by Red Jones
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A credible plan to take down the Internet By Robert Vamosi Senior editor, CNET Reviews August 5, 2005 Forget the Fantastic Four. As I write, the forces of Good (the White Hats) and Evil (the Black Hats) are fighting for control of the Internet as we know it. At stake is the exploitation of flaws affecting the once-invincible Cisco router hardware, which currently carries most of the Internet's traffic on a daily basis. Once a working exploit for the Cisco IOS Shellcode is available on the Internet, it'll be only a matter of days before someone finds a way to craft it into a network worm. And then it's going to be a rough ride for everyone who uses the Internet. Unless, of course, the ...
Revolution in Logistics or BigBrother Technology?
Post Date: 2005-08-07 18:11:16 by timetobuildaboat
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Radio Frequency Identification has the potential to revolutionize logistics, but first it must overcome its reputation as an intrusive technology Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) may have been around for some time, but only in the past 12 months has it become one of the hottest buzzwords in information technology, attracting the attention of government chiefs. Latest forecasts put worldwide spending on RFID at $US90 billion ($A116 billion) by the end of 2008, with between 50 and 100 RFID projects believed to be under way in Australia alone. One of the biggest of these is the Australian e-passport, which was given the green light in February when the Australian Passports Act 2005 was ...
'Thoughts read' via brain scans
Post Date: 2005-08-07 17:15:54 by robin
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'Thoughts read' via brain scans The researchers monitored activity in the brainScientists say they have been able to monitor people's thoughts via scans of their brains. Teams at University College London and University of California in LA could tell what images people were looking at or what sounds they were listening to. The US team say their study proves brain scans do relate to brain cell electrical activity. The UK team say such research might help paralysed people communicate, using a "thought-reading" computer. We are still a long way off from developing a universal mind-reading machine Dr John-Dylan Haynes, University College London In their Current Biology study, ...
Strange fish parade seen in Englewood
Post Date: 2005-08-05 23:21:12 by robin
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ENGLEWOOD -- A bizarre freeway of fish swimming by the thousands along the shore of Englewood Beach Thursday morning left crowds of beach-goers agog and marine biologists bewildered. "I've lived her for 10 years, and I've never seen anything like this. It's incredible," said Bob Ricci of Englewood. Beach-goers reported that a wide variety of sea creatures came swimming south in a narrow band close to the beach at mid-morning. Included in the swarm were clouds of shrimp, crab, grouper, snapper, red fish and flounder. They were joined by more usual species, including sea robins, needlefish and eels. Ten-year Manasota Key resident Nick Neidlinger spotted the commotion from his ...
DON'T TRUST ZONE ALARM Get an other firewall , it was purchased by Israeli Firm [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-08-05 16:12:34 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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DON'T TRUST ZONE ALARM Get an other firewall see http://www.nogw.com/technology.html Zone Labs was purchased by the Israeli firm Checkpoint Software in December 2003, and the Israeli's immediately revamped Zone Alarm's True Vector Engine. Now there are few knowledgeable software security experts who trust that any new Zone Alarm products after this buy out actually protect users from spying by U.S. and Israeli governments.
“DISINFORMATION SYNDROME” AFFLICTS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT — Officials (scientists) Routinely Rewarded for Lying and Punished for Telling the Truth
Post Date: 2005-08-05 16:03:02 by Zipporah
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Washington, DC — The federal government suffers from a “severe disinformation syndrome” in which agency specialists are pressured to alter reports by managers who are promoted for breaking the law, according to congressional testimony delivered today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a consequence, scientific and technical papers, particularly within environmental agencies, are routinely censored, altered or manipulated for political purposes. “The Bush administration obsession with controlling the flow of information means that factual information that does not serve its political agenda rarely sees the light of day,” stated PEER ...
S. Korean Researchers Create World's First Cloned Dog
Post Date: 2005-08-03 22:18:08 by avian virus
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S. Korean Researchers Create World's First Cloned Dog By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 3, 2005; 4:39 PM South Korean researchers today said they have created the world's first cloned dog: a playful black, tan and white Afghan hound named Snuppy. The puppy, grown from a single cell taken from the ear of a three-year-old male Afghan, marks a milestone in the race to fabricate genetically identical dogs for research and as companion animals. The process of dog cloning remains highly inefficient, a reflection of how much scientists still have to learn about how to make mammalian offspring from single parents and without the help of sperm. Multiple surgeries ...
Bird Flu Could Be Stopped -- If Everything Is Aligned Right
Post Date: 2005-08-03 22:13:50 by avian virus
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Bird Flu Could Be Stopped -- If Everything Is Aligned Right By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 4, 2005; A16 An emerging bird flu pandemic with the potential to kill millions of people around the world could be nipped in the bud if it were discovered within a week or so of its initial eruption and battled intelligently with drugs and quarantines, according to the first computer models to show how the disease would spread and what it would take to stop it. The computations offer a modicum of hope amid a din of alarming predictions about the catastrophic outbreak now thought to be brewing in South Asia. "The models show that if you combine well-directed, ...
Are Earth ice ages created by stars?
Post Date: 2005-08-03 15:13:54 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Are Earth ice ages created by stars?Researchers link solar system travel, terrestrial climate By KEAY DAVIDSON SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE It might sound preposterous, like astrology, to suggest that galactic events help determine when North America is or isn't buried under immense sheets of ice taller than skyscrapers. But new research suggests that the coming and going of major ice ages might result partly from our solar system's passage through immense, snakelike clouds of exploding stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Resembling the curved contrails of a whirling Fourth of July pinwheel, the Milky Way's spiral arms are clouds of stars rich in supernovas, or exploding stars. Supernovas emit ...
Modern Warfare Symposium
Post Date: 2005-08-03 09:18:33 by historian1944
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On War #128 August 2, 2005 Modern Warfare Symposium By William S. Lind [The views expressed in this article are those of Mr. Lind, writing in his personal capacity. They do not reflect the opinions or policy positions of the Free Congress Foundation, its officers, board or employees, or those of Kettle Creek Corporation.] I spent last week in Pittsfield, Maine, at a symposium on modern war called by Colonel Mike Wyly, USMC retired. Col. Wyly was one of the heroes of the maneuver warfare movement in the Marine Corps in the 1970s and 80s, and when he suggests it’s time for a new effort, people listen. My hope was that we might make some progress on Fourth Generation war theory, and ...
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