A JPL release about solving "Stuart's Event" - the direct observation of an asteroid impact of the lunar surface.

JPL News Release - NASA Solves Half-Century Old Moon Mystery

Here's how you can play music with your wireless network card.

I like the simplicity of this hack. This is a really good example of using technology in a way it wasn't intended. This is what hacking is all about.

Poor Man's Theremin

quoted (use cpunk@cpunk.com as email address for login) :
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Systems biologists envision a hulking database where all biological knowledge can be stored, freely accessed, and designed to interact. From it, researchers could easily extract data to construct virtual molecular pathway models working in their respective networks and in dynamic contexts of time, space, and various environmental cues. Hypotheses could be plucked like apples from the electronic tree of knowledge, and drug targets would fall like leaves. Some want to play out this tremendous vision, but they know it cannot be done at a single lab, by a single investigator. Members of Alliance for Cellular Signaling (AfCS), call for a new scientific world order--a shift toward socialist science.
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I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it socialist science! However, this sort of information system sounds extremely powerful.

The Scientist :: The People's Biology, Feb. 24, 2003

] Saddam Hussein indicated on Monday that he does not intend
] to follow U.N. orders to destroy his Al-Samoud 2
] missiles, and challenged President Bush to an
] internationally televised debate via satellite linkup.
]
] In a three-hour interview with CBS anchor Dan Rather, the
] Iraqi leader said he envisioned a live debate with Bush
] along the lines of those in a U.S. presidential campaign,
] according to the network.
]
] Rather reported on the interview during the evening
] newscast. CBS said it planned to broadcast excerpts on
] Tuesday and the entire interview on Wednesday.

This interview might be interesting...

Newsday.com - In Interview, Saddam Challenges Bush to Debate

] The High Court in London has imposed an injunction on
] Cambridge University security experts who claim to have
] uncovered serious failings in the system banks use to
] secure ATM PIN codes.

Right or wrong, Bill Joy is here.

Citibank obtains an injunction against distribution of research paper!

Whats in a logo?

Macnyt - The history of the Apple logo - a new series of articles at Macnyt

] Take a huge data file--in this case his computer's
] memory file--and fool Quicktime into thinking it's a
] video file. Then press play. Your computer's memory is
] now video art. Quicktime plays right through, not knowing
] that the squiggles and shards on the screen are actually
] the bits and bytes of the computer's own brain.

Music Videos only a geek would love.

DATA DIARIEZZZZZZ

Jeremy wrote:
] At this late date, an attempt to "suppress" the paper seems
] pointless.
]
] Have you read the paper?

I scanned it. I saw your post, which is why I forwarded this here. Felton's point about court cases is interesting, if a little "black helicopterish." (U: Felton was right! This IS in fact directly related to the court cases. Anderson's team was actually hired by a plaintif who claims his money was stolen!) If the document was surpressed then it couldn't be raised in a court even if it was relevent. I think a more likely explanation, however, is that from Citibank's perspective, why NOT try to supress it. Whats the worst thing that could happen? They can't keep it out of everyone's hands, but they can make it hard to get access to. However, I don't think, in the US, that they have a case with this, and therefore I don't think it will get them anywhere.

Echos of Bill Joy... I can't post DeCSS on my website. The DMCA won't help with this, but it does set a precident that Congress could go back around and ban the distribution of things like this as well.

A little off topic, but I was responding to a post from Elonka about the requirements on ISPs for dealing with Law Enforcement information requests, and it struck me that the disclosure requirements are much more, well open, for intellectual property crimes then for, say, rape, murder, etc... If I think that you're pirating my works, I can contact your ISP and they have to tell me who you are. If I think that you murdered my cousin, the ISP can't say a damn thing unless I get a court involved.

IMHO, courts exist to validate the legitimacy of these kinds of requests, and the DMCA is in error. I just thought the state of things was a little ironic. You can see how this will be flipped on its head. People will be pissed off because they get ISPs to disclose all the time on DMCA notices but they can't get disclosure on a murder case. Down the slippery slope we go! Wheeeee....

RE: Banks try to supress recent ATM vulnerability paper.

Title says it all. Blogging so I can follow it..

Joi Ito's Weblog

] Researchers at Cambridge University published information
] on a flaw in banks' procedures that rogue bank employees
] may have been using to learn the PINs from many
] customers' ATM cards. Now some banks are apparently
] trying to suppress the research.

This is a blog thread. Ed Felton linking K5 linking some documents posted by Ross Anderson.

Banks try to supress recent ATM vulnerability paper.