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Bridge over Fish Hatchery to offer relief for cyclists, pedestrians
via madison.com - RSS by WSJ: GENA KITTNER608-252-6139 on February 12, 2008
Walkers and cyclists trekking along the Capital City Trail in Fitchburg in the coming months will no longer have to dart across busy Fish Hatchery Road to continue their jaunt.
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Canon Hopes To Use The Photographer’s Iris For Copyright Protection
via OhGizmo! by Andrew Liszewski on February 12, 2008
By Andrew LiszewskiCanon has filed for a patent they hope will revolutionize digital watermarking when it comes to photographs. Future cameras from the company could have a ‘REG’ setting on the Mode dial that will actually take a photograph of the user’s iris as they look through the viewfinder.This image, which is as unique as a fingerprint would be added to the photo’s metadata once a...
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Secrecy Fail
via The FAIL Blog by leechio on February 26, 2008
Thanks to OMARWRX for:
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Do math to turn off your alarm clock
via Hack a Day by Will O'Brien on February 17, 2008
Filed under: misc hacks[nickjohnson] sent in what might just be the most incredibly evil alarm clock ever. It's a fairly simple pic project with a PIC, LCD and input buttons. When the alarm goes off, you have to solve math problems before it will shut off. If you answer correctly, you make it stop. In my case, I'd probably add a mute button that can be held down while you do the math....
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ShmooCon 2008: Intercepting GSM Traffic
via Hack a Day by Eliot Phillips on February 14, 2008
Filed under: consBack in August, [h1kari] presented an analysis of the A5 crypto spec used in GSM systems. Almost all GSM conversations in the US and Europe are encrypted using this standard. At the time they were still in the planning stages of building their rainbow table of shift register states. Today we heard an update on the progress. The whole space is 2^58 in size and would take a...
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Aging Security Vulnerability Still Allows PC Takeover
via Slashdot by Zonk on March 03, 2008
Jackson writes "Adam Boileau, a security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password. By connecting a Linux machine to a Firewire port on the target machine, the tool can then modify Windows' password protection code and render it ineffective. Boileau said he did not release the tool publicly in 2006 because...
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Ultimate Game
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on March 06, 2008
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BBtv - How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on March 18, 2008
A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags), with promises of enhanced security and speedy transactions. But on today's episode of Boing Boing tv, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman shows Xeni how you can use about $8 worth of gear bought on eBay to read personal data from those credit cards -- cardholder name, credit card number, and...
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Visualization API for Google Docs
via Hackszine.com by Jason Striegel on March 20, 2008
This looks really useful. Google recently released an API for using Gadgets and visualizations inside of (or pulling from) the Google Docs spreadsheet system. Developers can create useful visualization models, like Gantt charts or geographic heat maps, and Docs users can use these tools inside their own documents.The Gadgets in Docs framework also allows the visualizations to be plugged into...
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