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BYOPF (Bring Your Own Pitchfork)

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Beautiful GPS log visualisation!

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Craigslist Apartments

$1600 / 1386153BR 3BATH, MODERN SLIDING DOORS, GUEST ROOMS, GARBAGE DISPOSAL. FREE MANDATORY PARKING (ENFORCED). CONVENIENT TO ALDERAAN.

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Gallery: Last Night’s Auroras as They Appeared from Across the Hemisphere

Ã…lesund, Norway Northern Lights Anders Olav Bjorkavag via SpaceWeather.com

If you saw it firsthand then you had no choice but to notice it, but for the rest of us who weren’t so lucky, here’s the deal: yesterday a coronal mass ejection, a.k.a. a CME, a.k.a. a solar storm or a huge burst of solar wind emanating from our sun slammed into our atmosphere at about 2 p.m. EDT. That mass of charged particles compressed Earth’s magnetic field and sparked a pretty intense geomagnetic storm, resulting in what you see here: breathtaking auroras that are usually confined to high latitudes spilled out across North America, reaching as far south as New Mexico and Alabama.

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That’s pretty far south. SpaceWeather.com reports this morning that auroras were visible last night in more than half of U.S. states, an extreme rarity. Photographers submitted stunning pics to SpaceWeather from such unlikely locales as Tennessee, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. In the Deep South–a region unaccustomed to taking in the northern lights–skygazers reported seeing rare deep red auroras that only occur during serious geomagnetic storms and are poorly understood.

All that adds up to a special occasion for most of us in the lower 48 who never get to see even a wisp of an aurora, much less a dazzling display like those that were reported nationwide last night. If you missed it, you can still catch a glimpse of last night’s fireworks via the gallery link above.

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Nice OpenSSL usage tips and examples page

http://conshell.net/wiki/index.php/OpenSSL_usage_tips_and_examples

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Representative Line: The Deadly Cookie

Over the years, Armid transitioned from being a full-time developer to a full-time pen tester (as in penetration testing, not pen testing) and he hasn't looked back since. "I did enjoy writing code," he commented, "but there's something really satisfying about demonstrating an XSRF attack to that smug developer who swore up-and-down that his code was perfect." And with things like PCI Compliance to worry about, there are plenty of projects to keep him busy.

"It takes a lot to surprise me anymore," Armid added. "In fact, these days, I'm surprised if I don’t find a SQL Injection vulnerability. That being said, the public-facing operations engine of a large (3,000+ employee) company really surprised me. To say that it was filled with back doors would almost imply that someone thought to install doors — this system has more openings than walls. But there was one vulnerability in particular that trumped them all."

system("chmod 777 " . $_COOKIE["$sessionid"]);

"In fairness, this was one of the more secure lines of code, since most attackers will only mangle their cookies as their fourth… maybe fifth step. Plus, they'd be so distracted by all of the other vulnerabilities that they'd likely overlook this all together."

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A way to take out spammers? 3 banks process 95% of spam transactions



If you want to stop spam then going after the banks and payment processors that enable their lucrative trade may be your best bet, according to research performed by a team from the University of California-San Diego, the University of California-Berkeley, and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. After examining millions of spam e-mails and spam Web sites—and making over 100 purchases from the sites advertised by the spammers—the research team found that just three banks were used to clear more than 95 percent of spam funds.

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Pests Are Developing Resistance to Monsanto’s Engineered Supercorn

The Adult Stage of the Western Corn Rootworm USDA

Some consumers may have a problem with genetically modified food crops, but in at least one case described in an Iowa State University researcher’s paper there’s one customer that’s happy to consume Monsanto’s GM corn: rootworms, the very pest the corn is modified to thwart. According to the paper, western corn rootworms in at least four northeast Iowa corn fields have developed a resistance to the natural pesticide in corn seed produced by Monsanto, marking the first time a major Midwest pest has developed a resistance to GM crops.

That could spell all kinds of trouble for food crops, farmers, Monsanto, and pretty much everyone who isn’t a western corn rootworm. Though based on isolated cases thus far, the problem could be more widespread, and the paper is bound to rouse another debate on the benefits and demerits of GM crop cultivation and current farm management practices.

The big problem here would be, of course, the widespread proliferation of rootworm resistance. Monsanto first dropped their rootworm-resistant corn seeds on the market in 2003 at a time when its herbicide-resistant modifications had made Monsanto’s seed extremely attractive to farmers, who could blanket their fields in herbicide and kill everything but their food crop plants. The corn seed also contains a gene that produces a crystalline protein called Cry3Bb1, which delivers an unpleasant demise to the rootworm (via digestive tract destruction) but otherwise is harmless to other creatures (we think).

The seed was so successful that it’s estimated that roughly a third of U.S. corn now carries the gene. Which means one-third of U.S. corn could potentially be susceptible to rootworm again if the resistance that has reared its head in Iowa is indicative of a larger problem.

The good news is that the same rootworms that are resistant to Monsanto’s special sauce are susceptible to a competitor’s similar-but-different GM toxin. But if rootworms can develop a resistance to one strain of GM toxin, it stands to reason that–if farming practices remain unchanged–that it could eventually become resistant to others.

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Coca-Cola 8bits

Les ‘Space Invaders‘ ont débarqué sur les bornes d’arcades japonaises très précisément en 1978. Depuis ils n’ont cessé d’envahir notre monde, que ce soit sur nos écrans ou bien les rues des plus grandes villes : Paris, Londres, Los Angeles, Tokyo …

Mais ils ne s’arrêtent pas là et leur prochaine cible est les canettes de Coca-Cola comme nous le montre l’artiste Erin McGuire et son projet Coca-Cola – Pixel Edition

Coca 8bit - Diet Coca 8bit - Zero Coca 8bit - Original

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