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ZAnti Pentester’s Worldcup tournament open for Hackers
Today is a great day to be a security enthusiastic since Zimperium kicked off the first ever penetration testing tournament. — Welcome to the Pentester’s Worldcup! Zimperium, a mobile security software start-up was founded by Itzhak “Zuk” Avraham, a world-renowned white-hat hacker, in 2011. The Pentester’s World Cup is part of Zimperium’s efforts to increase awareness about mobile security, and simultaneously enhance the security of its range of award-winning products.

You may recall Anti, The first comprehensive Penetration Testing software offered on Smartphones, Zimperium created a killer mobile app that is so simple to use, any technical person is able to perform pentest on his network to get status of which devices that are attached to the network are vulnerable, what ports are opened and additional information that is a must have for anyone who cares about the safety on his network. Last year at DEFCON, Avraham, also known as @ihackbanme, introduced the ethical-hacking tool, "Android Network Toolkit," dubbed Anti for short. At that time, it was in Beta, but now the new app is being released as Zimperium's ANTI, or zAnti for short.

“We live in a dangerous mobile world today, and our goal is to significantly raise awareness about security and take steps toward securing our mobile future,” said Avraham. “The World Cup also presents an opportunity for the world’s best hackers to challenge our products and make them better. We know of several companies that changed their network configuration because of ANTI, This allows us, the users to be safer. We're thrilled to know that ANTI raised security awareness!"

Avraham explained, “World Cup Competitors will use our zAnti penetration testing software for smartphones and perform a variety of tasks such as scanning networks, finding vulnerabilities and security holes in the networks, or even cheating. The entrants will be scored on their performances and also rewarded for finding bugs.”, ANTI was originally developed to provide one-click tool to perform penetration testing tasks with a reasonable price. Most features of ANTI are free,

The winner will be awarded the “Black Card,” an entrance ticket worth $2,000 for the Black Hat event during July 25-26 and hotel accommodations in Las Vegas. The top 10 players will receive free Platinum, Gold or Silver accounts in zAnti.

Top 10 researchers will receive T-shirts and wristbands to enter Zimperium’s closed event at the Las Vegas Black Hat event. Researchers who find a bug and report it to Zimperium will receive 500 points and a cool zAnti t-Shirt.- The reported glitch will affect the score of every participant who used it - a hacker's duel! The World Cup ends July 16.
May be Intel has paid them to publish these numbers? Otherwise I have no idea why they are stupid enough to post it on the net.
While I'm sure Joel has some interesting points of view; for some reason I always get this error when I try to read them. This webpage is not available
The connection to joel.is was interrupted.
This seems like a Hanlon's razor situation to me. A lot of these lists are purchased from third parties who do this for a living (make blacklists).

While we cannot say anything for certain until Microsoft responds - I think their response will essentially blame a "partner" and release an update which removes the FSF from the gambling blacklist.
This information is for sure valuable and I would definitely include readings from stable infrastructure devices in any environmental monitoring.

On the other hand, sometimes you want to measure cabinets where either no easily accessible monitoring device is located (servers operated by contractors, telecommunications equipment that does not connect to ethernet or standard protocols,...) or you want to have readings directly at cold-air-outlets/hot-air-inlets, or in the middle of corridors.

In that situation some independent sensor network might be a reasonable solution, I had good experience with onewire temperature sensors, not the most precise thermometers, but rather cheap, and very easy to connect in parallel to a 3-wire cable (GND, +5V, Data). All devices have a worldwide unique ID and can be read out by a simple...

cat /mnt/onewire/01-ABCDEFGHIJKL/temperature

- DS18S20 temperature sensor
http://www.maxim-ic.com/datasheet/index.mvp/id/2815

- DS9490 USB to 1Wire interface
(like a USB stick with a RJ11 connector on the back)
http://www.maxim-ic.com/datasheet/index.mvp/id/3834

- Onewire Filesystem
http://owfs.org/
I don't see this account lasting too long before being shut down.
If I had a penny for every time I doled out ~$50 for a business registration when I was ~10-15 years old... I would have ~10 cents.

I don't blame people for running out to incorporate their business or register their new idea with the local government, since that is seemingly the first step you must take before starting a business.

After you register a few business' however, you find out it's not.
Hands on: Microsoft Surface review
I think Davis is a good place to run a startup. The only downside is that it's too hot in summer.
You're right. 98% of the problem here is WaPo's. I cleared cookies and got in to read page two, where they hide the (sub)lede and get around to discussing betrayal, like the HTML title and URL slug implied they would.

iProject and I can share the other 2%, for propagating without comment, and reacting without all the data, respectively.

Terrible article though, it reads like an OpEd written for a high school paper. I sometimes feel like the MSM response to the blogger incursion into their domain by setting up blog-editorial departments to show the world just how bad writing can be when done by professionals. This article would never pass editorial at the real WaPo, but stupid is apparently OK for online.

FWIW, I never actually flagged the article. But I do think it's a waste of time to read. Perhaps exceeded only by this thread.
That should be easy to fix, all you have to do is to ask them who knows the most about the question you have - then they can help you without being dishonest or losing face.
JavaZone 2012 Trailer: The Java Heist
Well, truth being said, using free software without the support you get from buying Microsoft is a gamble.
Opinsy.com - creating the opinion graph?
The Pillars of Connecting With Absolutely Anyone
Too late for people who don't need cheap access to billions of dollars worth of high resolution satellite imagery.
I gladly pay $4.65 a month for my newsdemon account. Maxes out my pedestrian 20 mbps dsl line and can't remember the last time the servers went down.
Page Said to Tell Google Staff ‘Nothing Seriously Wrong With Me’
Nice! Im'm currently working on a similar project with bootstrap adm decided to use qTip. It plays nice with bootstrap
I would try to avoid damaging the insulation to add an additional sensor, and if you just try to sneak a cable through the front door, the added small gap will let in enough moist air to give you a problem with ice forming.

What kind of controller does your freezer use? You could try to tap into the analog singnal inside of the controller or try to find a serial port (most temp.controllers have some kind of protocol specified where you can adjust timing parameters (P.I.D. constants, duty-cycle limits, ...)). Even a 7-segment display can be converted back to digits on a serial port easily.
Imagine a television news report custom-made just for your liking
Maybe, but like skipping socks on the first day, it could potentially harm you for little or no gain to you personally so why risk it?
> and is completely risk free because the US government is monetarily sovereign.

So what? Ctrl+P is cheap, but that's besides the point. The reason USA is not Ctrl+P-iing now, but is borrowing instead should at least serve as a hint.

My point: If it is OK to Ctrl+P at later date as the Is-Safe-To-Borrow propaganda wants us to believe why is not safe to Ctrl+P now? Why borrow when you can print?

So, no. No such thing as free cookies or risk-free debt. At least this side of the Jupiter orbit.

Yes, it would be a different endgame, as the one for Greece, but this is not the same as risk-free.
ad RAM: the platform (if it is real) is little bit more interesting - they have cards with 16GB RAM per four 4-core CPUs (SoCs) - these cards are to be used together in amount of tens, connected with high speed switched fabric in the host board.. so it's something like server cluster on board design.. http://www.calxeda.com/technology/products/energycards/quadn...
Git for iPad
Which part? The questions themselves or the commingling of credit histories?
The Brain Behind Brave: An interview with Pixar's Katherine Sarafian
The WaPo syndicating VentureBeat is like HBO carrying Topeka public access.

Whatever have we wrought?

No offense to Kansas. Their public access channels are probably awesome.
The best comment was something like

Think of it not as a startup but an experiment.

So much of our self worth gets rolled up in this great idea that if it is attacked, criticised or does not take off we feel personal failure. Putting up a once-removed buffer is likely to make that first step easier for many more people than the traditional entrepreneur mindset.

Henley school of business claims to be able to identify the personality type that will succeed as an entrepreneur. I think what we are seeing the lean startup movement might send them back to the drawing board.
From the article: "Proprietary security software is an oxymoron -- if the user is not fundamentally in control of the software, the user has no security."

I could not agree more.
I've had a similar experience; despite repeated attempts to correct it, my dad's AmEx invariably shows up on my Equifax report. Apparently I've had quite a nice line with them since I turned 8.
There you go: www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf
Could someone explain how a mistake like this happens?

If there was a person typing IP addresses into a list I can imagine them making a typo, but obviously that's absurd and these lists are auto-created. So how does a website get labelled as a gambling site?
Each of these systems are probably different, but the way one vendor's system has been explained to me is that an automated classifier will eventually visit most sites and will come up with a computed category for only the main page. The system does not want to give full access to the site with a lot more potential harm, so if a customer visits one of these automatically classified sites and sees it is restricted, they can submit a classification at which point an employee will verify the classification and unlock the full site. Sometimes the restrictions are bizarre, such as allowing the HTML content to be viewed, but not the CSS. This process takes up to 24 hrs. From what I've seen, these automated classifiers are not always friendly to hostnames tacked onto a domain name (e.g., fsf.org/donate would probably be better than donate.fsf.org). They also routinely prevent visiting new domain names thrown up in Show HN posts until the URL is submitted for classification and gets whitelisted.
Storing information insecurely, releasing someone else's data without their permission, etc.

EDIT: Here's the official guidance from the regulator: (http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/sector_guides/financ...)

(http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_the_public/topic_specific_guides/c...)

Page 12 of this document talks about "associations" (http://www.experian.co.uk/downloads/consumer/creditRefAgency...) - credit reference agencies cannot use data about one person at an address to rate a different person at that address, even if they have the same surname, unless there is some financial link.
The browser tax and Internet credulity
This looks very similar to "Shadow Physics". If you have not seen the game, it was shown off at GDC 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb5DjyoDObA). It got a lot of attention and then 3 years later was canceled. Here is a video of the Failure Workshop from GDC 2012 describing what went wrong (click on -> What Happend With Shadow Physics Intro): http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015751/The-Failure

I hope the developers can get past the initial "Wow" factor and actually make the game fun to play.
It's because he uses Tumblr. I repeatedly have this problem with my own and other tumblr blogs (the only pattern I have noticed is that they all use custom domains) and the only way to get around it is to refresh a few times and then it'll let you through. It's incredibly annoying, not sure if it's my ISP (who do you use?) or a problem with Tumblr.
Evidence Of Water On Mars?
Does this have a file size limit? I'm pretty sure dropbox's API has a 300MB limit.
Twitter ActiveRecord Reputation System Gem 1.2.0
Serious question: Why are most electronics rated to -40? (Note: -40C and -40F are the same... =)

Anyway, is it due to thermal contraction/expansion at that temp vs. "room temperature" that they spend at least some of their life at?
But in those regards, NY and Tokyo are like SF turned up to 11. And how can you cite guns as a reason to prefer European cities to American ones?
Try searching 2008, when the procedure actually occurred, and you'll find quite a few.
New La. law: Sex offenders must list status on Facebook, other social media
It's likely some of the alleles allowing for very dark skin were simply lost. This would be unsurprising since these people are descendants of lighter skinned people who had no need for dark skin anyway and so there was no selective pressure to retain these genetic traits.
Based on non-Microsoft software, what happens is that uncategorised sites are fed back upstream, so the software provider receives a list of pages.

They will then forward this to a partner likely owned in the West but who out-sources most of the actual work to somewhere cheap: like India or perhaps China.

Then you have a bunch of people who come into work, and work their way through a massive list of web-pages trying to spend no more than few seconds on each (metrics etc) and put them into boxes:
- Adult
- Web Mail
- Social Media
- News
- Entertainment
- Gambling
- et al

These lists are then sold to many companies like Microsoft, firewall vendors like Sonicwall, Parent Software like Netnanny, and also sold on to people who write anti-spam software.

Essentially it is an entire industry.
Registering a company here in Australia costs enough that you usually need some traction first (it tended to be at least $1k in government fees, and ballpark $3k if you used an accountant, although I see now there are services for ~$500).
We will see.

I am very well aware of what is going on in "torspace" (some parts of Hidden Wiki made my stomach go inside out). If it will become that bad, I will have to shut it down.
In any sane workplace, pretending like you know the answer to something you really don't will harm you far more than simply admitting you don't know, especially on the first day when you can't really be expected to know things.
"This reminds me of another situation several years ago, when BadVista campaign pages were conspicuously absent from Microsoft's live.com search results,..."

If you have poo, fling it now!
Startup Stories Blog Post: A Wild Pivot From Dried Fish to Smartphones
It has been said that this is the character of programming in Ada: if you can get the damn thing to compile, it works perfectly.
My service is not seeding it anonymously at all.

The only "anonymizing" part is that I stop the seeding after it got 20 seeders (based on what trackers tell me) and delete the file from my disk.

On the other hand, the upload is on hidden service so I can't even possibly know the credentials of the uploader.
Shields for Privacy in a Smartphone World
I hope that by the time it gets 20 seeders, the torrent has enough "life" to sustain itself, but it's not yet so popular to get any complains.
"The security professions need to learn a lesson which doctors have understood for some time now: treating everyone for a rare threat does more harm than good."

Nanny states need to learn this principle too: "First do no harm".
eCompuCloud - Computing Cloud for home and small businesses
A lot of the money essentially evaporated when borrowers defaulted on bank loans. Banks have the ability to temporarily create new money (subject to reserve requirements) by issuing a loan, and then that extra money is gradually retired as the borrower repays with interest. But when the borrower defaults the created money goes away all at once and reduces the bank's capital reserves, which in turn reduces the amount the bank can lend in the future.
For most users I could not agree less.
Useful jQuery Plugins for improving Typography
If you were a Qt core developer at Nokia, then what other employer would actually take you on? Even if it's just 12-18 more months, at least that gives you the opportunity to put food on the table while you pivot into another opportunity.
JqmPhp : HTML Code Generator for jQuery Mobile Framework
I do but I've not blogged about iOS stuff really. You've got a couple things to consider. One of the big ones is maintainability going forward - old code & processes cost more to maintain and add to software entropy overall.
why doesn't (s)he use "\n"?
The reason USA is not Ctrl+P-iing now, but is borrowing instead should at least serve as a hint.

Actually, the US is Ctrl+P-ing now. That's what QE is all about: from the perspective of the private sector, QE is equivalent to the government creating money out of thin air to pay back the debt. This is only obfuscated a bit by the fact that treasury and central bank have separate balances.

Why borrow when you can print?

My guess is a combination of (a) most people are afraid of change (case in point: you), (b) the people owning treasury bonds effectively get a hidden subsidy via the interest paid by government, and (c) the problem is framed in such a way that most people never even question the existing institutional arrangement - and when they do, they tend to do it in terribly uninformed ways.

No such thing as risk-free debt.

Please explain under which conditions the US government would become unable to fulfill the promises implied by its debt.
Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will
Now that's interesting. Why on earth aren't they leading with it?

I can understand these kinds of faux benchmarks and whitepapers to convince pointy haired bosses to switch between mature, mainstream technologies.

But the early adopters of fringe technology like this are going to be companies with specific needs, and those making the decisions are going to be highly technical. Not to generalize, but they (me included) love details and possibilities, and abhor marketing puffery.

Calxeda should be sketching out novel ways to use the interconnect bandwidth to solve hard problems, with power efficiency x86 can't touch. Not running ab against an ARM core and misinterpreting the results. Sheesh.
Make software secure-by-default, make it difficult to override defaults by accident, easy to override on purpose. This is the thought process that seems to be behind, for example, CyanogenMod's recent decision to disable root access by default.

To me, the essence of that quote is that any sane security model must include the vendor as a threat, but when I do not have control over my own hardware and software, I have little to no ability to respond to that threat. Moreover, without access to source code, I have little to no ability to audit my own security. Fundamentally, I do not believe in the idea that security can reasonably exist without auditability.
I think you may be confusing two issues.

It's almost certainly true that they could republish the data without violating any law. That has nothing to do with whether they have the right to scrape the data from the website.

IE do not confuse their right to republish the data with the right to get it from a particular source in a particular way.

The line of cases you are citing is also about trespass to chattels, which is a pretty bad claim to make about website scraping (for the reasons the california supreme court set out in Intel vs Hamidi). It was mainly used back in the days when courts barely knew what websites were. Trespass to chattels may still get used when you can show actual harm caused by the scraping, but most claims nowadays would be around terms of use violations, which are a much more grey area (some courts have gone for it, some not).
Attain the cutting edge - Let's build science-technology country (North Korea)
Looks like a good overview of Clojure and functional programming. Anyone have a review?
I wish White Europeans and American etc. Could get over it, you owe your white skin to Africans becoming light skin asians It has almost nothing to do with Europe except that is where the settlements ended up. The genetic trace has all been done. Yes we are all as much Asian as African believe it or not.

This is why I wish more scientists would speak up because of debates like this where the evidence is out there but no scientist to presents it, instead just random blog posts faking the science behind it.
Try 'ad hominem'
Were you using the API, or just scraping HTML?
'Not familiar with Computer Numerical Control? You obviously haven’t been to North Korea lately...

For almost two years, citizens of North Korea have been exposed to a lengthy campaign extolling the virtues of CNC.

The song, called "Attain the Cutting Edge," is "available on karaoke machines nationwide" and the lyrics "include reminders that CNC is 'an example of self- reliance and strength' and that 'the people’s pride is high…let’s build a science-technology great power.'”'

http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articl...
I live in emerald hills and I'd say about 80-90% (no exaggeration) of calls drop within the first 60 seconds. (Not an iPhone thing, a AT&T thing, of course.)
> By the way, the "race" categories that are used in the United States are arbitrary, subject to rewriting from time to time for political considerations, and do not correspond to any scientific view of geographical populations.

These categories are hardly arbitrary, they are political. We separate people into republicans and democrats, too, but just because this separation is not based on genetics or geography does not make it arbitrary or even bad.
Yeah, I think the easiest way would be this:

multilineString.replace('\n', '\\n');
Slightly related: stabyourself.net/orthorobot/
This isn't fair. The FDA does a pretty decent job at it's regulation. I'd say we have the best (or near the best) regulated food supply and drug supply of any nation. It's impressive when you consider that the country is also the third largest by population and fourth by land mass.

I develop for one of the countries largest medical software companies ("EHR companies" now, I guess), so I have a little bit of an idea of what medical software does and what the industry wants to do with apps. (And dealing with regulation). Some Telehealth solutions go far beyond just displaying EHR data and help actively manage a patient's health by taking/accepting certain vitals, drug reminders, etc. And apps are going to be doing this / already doing this.

The FDA absolutely is the regulator for medical devices. Here is the relevant federal code (http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Legislation/Federal...) that covers medical devices. And I do absolutely agree that a smartphone app, when used to manage patient healthcare, patient ehrs, drug schedules, etc is a 'medical device' that should be regulated by the FDA.

The FDA isn't some archaic, out-of-date and ineffective regulatory agency. They do a good job and aren't shy about recalls, huge fines and enforcing compliance.
Introduction to Object Oriented JavaScript
The Baltic clearly has anomalous high temperatures for it's latitude.

http://montessorimuddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Annua...
I think he is trying to make something that is open for everybody to use. Trying to control what people use it for is like Comcast trying to throttle bit torrent traffic