Topic: NASA - on August 11, 2016 at 6:20:00 PM CEST
NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars
NASA has released a huge number of high-resolution photos of Mars captured from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRise camera, which has been capturing images of the planet since 2005. The latest dump consists of over a thousand images that can familiarize you with the red planet's many craters, impact sites, dunes, mountains, ice caps and other features. You can view every single photo captured on HiRise's official website.
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Topic: LEGO - on August 11, 2016 at 6:01:00 PM CEST
LEGO Architecture Studio
1210 white and transparent pieces make up the LEGO Architecture Studio. This fantastic set is geared towards builders! Summer is here and I'm running out of ways to occupy the kid!
boingboing.net Achtung Canvas-Fingerprinting
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 11, 2016 at 5:54:00 PM CEST
El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Crisis
If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week, take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels. How did they respond to a major loss in revenue? Like any company, they created an irresistible new product and flooded the market. The scariest part: this might not have happened with El Chapo in charge.
The phone rang. It was July 2014, and I was in a motel room in Tucumcari, New Mexico, about to step into the shower. My wife and I were two days into a cross-country drive from our home in California, and I wanted to clean up before we went to a sports bar across the parking lot to grab something to eat. Looking at the phone, I recognized the number and felt my heart drop. The woman was a close friend. Her twenty-three-year-old son had struggled with heroin addiction for several years. I knew the young man. He was smart, talented, funny—and charming when he wasn't high or jonesing. He was supposed to have called me that day to discuss getting back into school. I didn't get that call. It was his mother on the phone, sobbing, barely able to stammer out the words that I already knew she was going to say. "He's gone." That afternoon, she told me, he was walking to a treatment center that finally had a bed for him, but he stopped for one last "get well" fix. He died on the sidewalk.
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Topic: WEB - on August 11, 2016 at 5:51:00 PM CEST
Software Library taken down : Amiga
After a beta-testing period, the emulated Amiga programs at the Archive have been taken down for further development. Thanks to everyone for testing the Amiga In-Browser emulation package during the beta period, and especially a thank you to the Scripted Amiga Emulator project, as well as db48x and bai, for all the hard work with this experiment.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 11, 2016 at 5:01:00 PM CEST
DEA Rejects Attempt to Loosen Federal Restrictions on Marijuana
The Obama administration has denied a bid by two Democratic governors to reconsider how it treats marijuana under federal drug control laws, keeping the drug for now, at least, in the most restrictive category for U.S. law enforcement purposes. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Chuck Rosenberg says the decision is rooted in science. Rosenberg gave "enormous weight" to conclusions by the Food and Drug Administration that marijuana has "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States" and by some measures, it remains highly vulnerable to abuse as the most commonly used illicit drug across the nation.
npr.org DEA Reaffirms ‘Flat Earth’ Position With Regard To Marijuana Scheduling DEA decision keeps major restrictions in place on marijuana research
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 11, 2016 at 4:57:00 PM CEST
The Party Drug With The Power To Ease Anxiety, Depression, And PTSD
When New Yorker Stacy Berman was young, she would take MDMA (otherwise known as “molly” or “ecstacy”) once in awhile for recreational reasons. It just made her feel good, she says. So when she discovered as an adult that she’d been suffering from Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)—often found in victims of child abuse and Holocaust survivors—she thought she’d give MDMA another try. At the time, Berman was working to complete a doctoral program in mind/body medicine. She couldn’t believe how much MDMA helped. “The idea behind CPTSD is that in a situation where a person is not able to fight or flee, they tend to freeze up… MDMA allowed me to start feeling again,” she says.
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Topic: Linux - on August 11, 2016 at 4:55:00 PM CEST
Serious TCP Bug in Linux Systems Allows Traffic Hijacking
A serious vulnerability in the TCP implementation in Linux systems deployed since 2012 (version 3.6 of the Linux kernel) can be used by attackers to identify hosts communicating over the protocol and ultimately attack that traffic. Researchers from the University of California, Riverside and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are expected today at the USENIX Security Symposium deliver their paper, “Off-Path TCP Exploits: Global Rate Limit Considered Dangerous,” that explains the vulnerability and recommendations on how to mitigate it.
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Topic: TOR - on August 11, 2016 at 4:52:00 PM CEST
Tor can be cracked “like eggshells”, warns US judge
A US judge has put into the public record, during a hearing in Tacoma, Washington, an interesting pair of comments about Tor.
Tor, of course, is the so-called onion router network, originally designed by the US Navy as a technique for using the public internet in an anonymous way.
End-to-end encryption, such as you get when you point your browser at an HTTPS site like Naked Security, is good for confidentiality: eavesdroppers can’t keep track of which pages you’re most interested in, or sneakily sniff out your email address when you publish a comment.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 11, 2016 at 4:48:00 PM CEST
Arianna Huffington to leave Huffington Post
Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington said on Thursday she would leave the company to focus on running her new venture, health and wellness startup Thrive Global.
"I thought HuffPost would be my last act. But I've decided to step down as HuffPost's editor-in-chief to run my new venture, Thrive Global," she tweeted.
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Topic: weiss nicht - on August 11, 2016 at 4:43:00 PM CEST
WikiLeaks Offers $20K Reward for Information in Murder of DNC Staffer
WikiLeaks is offering a reward for information in the murder of a Democratic National Committee staffer. WikiLeaks said in a tweet Tuesday that the group is issuing a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the death of Seth Conrad Rich.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 11, 2016 at 4:40:00 PM CEST
Happy 20th, MP3-Piracy!
Gestern war der 20ste Jahrestag des ersten „illegalen“ MP3-Rips, die Compress 'Da Audio-Release-Group hatte damals die erste MP3-Sammlung per FTP-Server online gestellt. Es gab andere Release-Groups, die bereits vorher MP3s rippten, hatten aber anscheinend nicht denselben Impact auf die grade entstehende MP3-Scene.)
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 11, 2016 at 4:30:00 PM CEST
Nikon Develops Camera with 4 Lenses and 4 Sensors
The multi-aperture computational camera is an exciting technology that’s emerging in the world of photography, and it appears that Nikon wants in. The company has patented a “4-eye” camera that packs 4 lenses and 4 sensors. The startup company Light made splashes in the computational camera space in October 2015 when it announced the L16, a compact camera that combines the powers of 16 separate camera modules to shoot 52-megapixel “DSLR quality” photos.
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