Powers of Ten

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. What is the link 

between the micro and macro universe? Who or what created it?

Selective Attention Test

this is a classic. If you've never seen it check it out:




Daniel Simons

Top Words and Phrases of 2014

The Heart ♥ Emoji (for love) is Top Word of 2014
according to Global Language Monitor...MORE

30 - Radioactive for Teacher

Javaring Monosodium guest: Khammad
"KHAM RADIO" latest and archive at FAKEOLOGIST.COM

Re-Grow Limbs with this Amazing Powder?

You see, the human body has an innate ability to regenerate. It's just a matter of finding a way to stimulate the cells to start growing. Apparently the protein and pig's bladder goodness, also known as "extracellular matrix," tells these cells to start growing. In theory, this means that it's possible to regrow an entire limb. Or other body parts. The ramifications are astounding.Think twice before trusting anything with a logo like See BS.MORE

29 - Prep School

javaring monosodium and guest DC sniper,race,riots,finance,and financial collapse... http://www.youneedabudget.com/

PANOPTICON

Peter Vlemmix

Fame Fortune and a Famous Star

Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Backdoor?

A backdoor has multiple meanings. It can refer to a legitimate point of access embedded in a system or software program for remote administration. Generally this kind of backdoor is undocumented and is used for the maintenance and upkeep of software or a system. Some administrative backdoors are protected with a hardcoded username and password that cannot be changed; though some use credentials that can be altered. Often, the backdoor’s existence is unknown to the system owner and is known only to the software maker. Built-in administrative backdoors create a vulnerability in the software or system that intruders can use to gain access to a system or data. MORE

27 - Millennials Host

friends "Millennial Falcon Crew" from Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada guest host the audio chat...http://www.bgccan.com  




 truelies podcast on talkshoe.com

Political correctness pumps up productivity on the job

Newswise — ITHACA, N.Y. – Political correctness, loathed by some as censorship awash in leftist philosophy, actually boosts the creativity of mixed-sex work teams, according to new research published in Administrative Science Quarterly. “Our work challenges the widespread assumption that true creativity requires a kind of anarchy in which people are permitted to speak their minds, whatever the consequence,” said Jack Goncalo associate professor of Organizational Behavior at the Cornell ILR School and lead author of the study. MORE

AT&T Stops Using ‘Perma-Cookies,’(may start again)

AT&T says it has stopped using a controversial mobile technology that could be misused by advertising networks to track online users regardless of their wishes. Until last week, the company had been inserting a unique identifier in web traffic sent by phones and other devices on its wireless network. It was doing this as part of a test program, which has now been stopped, says Emily Edmonds, an AT&T spokeswoman. News of this change was first reported by Pro Publica. Privacy advocates hate these unique identifiers, which are also used by Verizon, because there’s no way to turn them off. That means that they can be used by advertising networks to circumvent privacy tools such as do-not-track lists or private browsing settings.MORE

Hit with the Evil-Stick

Flight Data recorder teardown

What's inside a "black box" flight data recorder..?
mikeselectricstuff

The Evilstick

Have you heard of the “Evilstick” yet? If not, let me give you a quick recap (or you can just watch the video below).

 

A mom in Dayton, OH bought her child an “Evilstick” (yes, that is what this toy is called)
from the local dollar store. To the mom’s horror, behind the foil covering, there was a Photoshopped

picture of a girl cutting herself. 

Well, as all weird stories do, this one took off in the social media world...

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State Dept.Free To Direct Its Broadcasting Arm At Americans

"information produced by VOA for audiences outside the United States shall not be disseminated within the United States … but, on request, shall be available in the English language at VOA, at all reasonable times following its release as information abroad, for examination only by representatives of United States press associations, newspapers, magazines, radio systems, and stations, and by research students and scholars, and, on request, shall be made available for examination only to Members of Congress."
 -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith-Mundt_Act

The US government has a bit of a PR problem at the moment, thanks to Ed Snowden's leaks and a decade-plus of general antipathy towards its constituents' rights and liberties growing out of its War on Terror.

Fortunately, the government now has a chance to aim its official version of today's news at US citizens, thanks to the repeal of a so-called "anti-propaganda" law earlier this month.

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 came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts.

The Broadcast Board of Governors, which produces programming like the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, has been prevented from aiming its programming at Americans since the 1970's when the Smith-Mundt Act (which authorized the State Dept. to communicate with foreign audiences via many methods, radio being one of them) was amended to prohibit domestic dissemination of the BBG's broadcasts. This was done to distance the State Department's efforts from the internal propaganda machine operated by the Soviet Union. MORE

Silk Road 2.0 targeted in dark-web takedown

Law enforcement agencies from 17 countries flew into The Hague as 40 digital investigators collaborated on one of the biggest dark-web takedowns to date.
From the clinical environment of Europol’s Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce operations room, officers would use their scrambled communications to co-ordinate with those in the field, making arrests and seizing servers during the final stages of a six-month long investigation into underground sites used to sell drugs, guns and hitmen.
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OMOTE / REAL-TIME FACE TRACKING & PROJECTION MAPPING from something wonderful on Vimeo.

This video is worth the two minutes it takes to watch, particularly if you’re a fan of CGI effects. Producer Nobumichi Asai used Omote to create an array of makeup styles on the face of a living model in real time. Omote uses tracking technology to follow the woman’s face so that the “makeup” can be projected onto her while she moves.

Asai has already worked on projecting images to buildings and other objects. Projecting makeup to a face is a more dramatic project, and it’s already getting plenty of attention. The video starts off with some very subtle applications and builds to jaw-dropping faces that turn the model into something unreal – all while she moves her head from side to side and nods.

The video is a little unsettling to watch, but it’s mesmerizing, too. You’ll have an urge to watch it again as soon as the credits hit. You can see other Asai projects here, including work done for Subaru.

Isolated computer to be hacked with only a cellphone at Denver cybersecurity conference

Security researchers at Ben Gurion University have found a way to infiltrate a closed network to lift data from an isolated computer using little more than a cellphone’s FM radio receiver.
To evade air-gap security measures, keylogging app Airhopper, as its known, uses radio frequencies to transmit data from a computer, all by exploiting the computer's display.
“This is the first time that a mobile phone is considered in an attack model as the intended receiver of maliciously crafted radio signals emitted from the screen of the isolated computer,” according to a release by Ben Gurion University.
“AirHopper demonstrates how textual and binary data can be exfiltrated from physically a (sic) isolated computer to mobile phones at a distance of 1-7 meters, with effective bandwidth of 13-60 (bytes per second). Enough to steal a secret password.”
Researcher Mordechai Guri, along with Professor Yuval Elovici of Ben Gurion University, are to present Airhopper on Thursday at MALCON 2014, an international cybersecurity and malware conference in Denver.
The Airhopper method of data theft, researchers say, was developed by the University in order to protect against potential intrusions of its kind in the future.
"Such technique can be used potentially by people and organizations with malicious intentions and we want to start a discussion on how to mitigate this newly presented risk." said Dudu Mimran, chief technology officer of the Ben Gurion University’s cybersecurity labs.
Previously, researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Communication developed malware that could communicate with machines no more than 65 feet away using audio and without network connectivity. The findings was published in the Journal of Communications in Nov. 2013.

more here

Exit From The Matrix: why is imagination rejected?
by Jon Rappoport

Instead of being viewed as a core human power, imagination is usually relegated to the status of “a toy for children.”
Upon attaining the status of “mature adult,” a person is expected to offload remnants of imagination and get down to the serious business of living.
This means fitting in, finding a niche, specializing, and “making himself useful.”
These factors eventually add up to existing in a hypnotic state.
If there is rescue, it is framed in terms of some external force that delivers a longed-for prize.
But in fact, everything a person wishes for requires action on his part—and that action emerges out of his own imagination.
Why? Because that is where new realities are conceived. That is the source of unlimited energy.
Everything else amounts to waiting around in a cosmic bus station, hoping for a ride that will provide The Answer.
Matrix is the sum of all consensus reality at all levels of mind, emotion, energy, perception, and psyche.
It is built for the purpose of stifling the creative force in every individual.

from John Rappaports Blog