Decius wrote:

A MOVE to arm police robots with stun guns has been condemned by weapons researchers.

On 28 June, Taser International of Arizona announced plans to equip robots with stun guns. The US military already uses PackBot, made by iRobot of Massachusetts, to carry lethal weapons, but the new stun-capable robots could be used against civilians.

"The victim would have to receive shocks for longer, or repeatedly, to give police time to reach the scene and restrain them, which carries greater risk to their health," warns non-lethal weapons researcher Neil Davison, of the University of Bradford, UK.

"If someone is severely punished by an autonomous robot, who are you going to take to a tribunal?" asks Steve Wright, a security expert at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

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RE: Armed autonomous robots cause concern - tech - 07 July 2007 - New Scientist Tech

Decius wrote:

Such is the situation with Apple's new DRM-free music: songs sold without DRM still have a user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them

My mind sees a parallel in technique between this and the "lets purge Myspace of child sex offenders" thing. If someone is stupid enough to be a convicted child sex offender and registers at a social networking site with their real name, location, sex and age, they deserve to get purged. If someone is stupid enough to buy music from iTunes and not spoof this embedded contact info before they share it, they deserve any sort of repercussions that could from from later being identified.

None of this would hold water in court I'm afraid. Much too easy to spoof so I doubt anyone will get popped by the RIAA because of this. I think the theory postulated in the article is correct: This will be a way of examining that casual piracy effect, possibly a back channel way of examing social networks of music tastes.

RE: Apple hides account info in DRM-free music, too

In one, you're riding a bus in which other riders appear and disappear, birds of prey claw at the windows, and voices hiss, "He's taking you back to the FBI!"

You mean, this doesn't happen for everyone else too? Shit!

RE: Virtual Hallucinating Device Drives Police Insane for a Day

Warmer colours like orange and red will produce more legible signs. "Combining red, green, and blue colours even enables us to create white light, which may provide more natural illumination," Saito says.

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Cool!

Full-colour glow-in-the-dark materials unveiled

Was doing research on de-interlacing NTSC, as well as reading up on HDTV broadcasting. Ran accross this excellent description of how the ~59.94 hz field rate came to be. It was an artifact of retaining backwards compatibility with black and white TV's.

I didn't know that technically the field rate was dropped by a factor of 1000/1001.

Why NTSC has a ~59.94 hz field rate

Decius wrote:
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Neat! It's a little too fast though, I recommend changing the interval to 30.

setInterval('A()',30);

RE: Go to Google News, and then past this into your URL window and hit enter

Fyodor has started NoDaddy.com in response to last week's shutdown of seclists.org...

I created this site to document instances of customer abuse at GoDaddy. The goal is for GoDaddy to either improve their policies and customer service, or suffer continued loss of market share to their customer-focused competition.

While I gave this site its bare skeleton, I'm hoping it becomes more of a community effort. If you have been frustrated by GoDaddy's behavior, please see our call for volunteers and join in.

But it turns out GoDaddy has defenders! I found this article linked off of Google News!

Screw Seclists.com, you should higher an internet security employee from MySpace to make sure you don't post our personal, highly secure information on your website. Obviously you aren't capable or maybe you just don't understand internet law.

Talk about Comedy Gold! The layers of irony in that passage are so thick its like a work of art!

NoDaddy.Com - Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names

None of this information is made public or shared in any way, instead it's used to grow a personal landscape, a kind of 'walk-in graph' uniquely shaped by the way you use the internet. With each day of network activity a new world can be generated, each of which are stored as tiny files for you to browse, compare and visit as time goes by. You can think of packet gardens as pages from a network diary.

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Julian has made the beta public. OSX version now available as well as Linux and Windows.

Packet Garden. Grow a world from network traffic.

Abaddon wrote:
Neoteric wrote:
] ] Do this dude edisoncarter cracked open what appears to be
] ] a cheesy 3rd party PS2 controller (save the good stuff
] ] for the gaming, we always say), hooked up the lines to a
] ] parallel port for signal injection, and then hash-cracker
] ] style used a custom app that ran brute force key
] ] combinations until he came up with a slew of unreleased
] ] cheat codes for GTA San Andreas. Damn, dude.
]
] That is so damn cool!

seems like a lot more work than just disassembling the rom images to find them...

--Abaddon

I was searching for info about this old hack I remembered hearing about and found a Memestream thread, cool!

What I'd like to do is have one PSX controller controlling two PSX's. I don't know if such a thing is possible, but I'd like to give it a shot for an experiment I want to try.

Technically, the "second" PSX won't really be a Playstation. It will be going to a PSX to USB converter. What I'd like to do is play a regular PSX game with the controller, but capture the padstrokes and joystick movements to the computer. Almost like a span port for the PSX controller if you will, TX from the controller only.

Anyone think this is possible?

-D

RE: Brute-forcing GTA San Andreas cheat codes

With each day of network activity a new world is generated, each of which are stored as tiny files for you to browse, compare and visit as time goes by. Think of them as pages from a network diary.

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Very cool concept. From the creator of fijuu and q3apd.

Packet Garden: Seeking Beta Testers