Author: m1k3y

ledgergermane:

  • Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets to theft, according to a computer-security company that discovered the breach. -via- WSJ Broad New Hacking Attack Detailed.

and the infographic above is how they did it.

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Lepht Anonym – Scrapheap Transhumanist

h+ has a great piece written by a genuine Grinder:

I’ve made scalpel incisions in my hands, pushed five-millimeter diameter needles through my skin, and once used a vegetable knife…

Lepht Anonym – Scrapheap Transhumanist

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seej500:

Brit Awards 2010.

This year the show was completely and deservedly dominated by Teh GaGa.  Do watch that whole performance, please.  You need to see the sampler/guitar/keyboard thing in the second half.  And watch it quick, since I suspect the video will probably get taken down again soon when TV people start shrieking and flapping about copyright.

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OK, so back to GaGa.  Last year she performed with The Pet Shop Boys, and most people only had a vague notion who she was.  This year she’s one of the biggest popstars on the planet, with a reputation for wildly eccentric and ruthlessly inventive work.  Personally, I want my popstars to be larger than life.  I want them to really fucking live their persona; to really commit to their ideal.  GaGa does that better than anyone else.  She understands that her performance lasts longer than the time that her record’s playing, and she understands that we want to deify our stars, not know that they’re just like us.

And she’s utterly bloody talented.  Prior to the death of Alexander McQueen, her performance was supposed to be something involving a Rolls-Royce on stage.  Clearly, at the eleventh hour, when faced with a need to give tribute to her friend, she dramatically revised her plans, came up with a new arrangement and modified lyric for one of her songs, and put together a new performance.  Most acts would struggle to do something like that, but she’s flicked from one tower of brilliance and lunacy to another and made it look easy.  She won all three awards she was nominated for and, really, was there ever any doubt?

 Seej500 speaks the truth

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2010book:

In the year 2010 everyone wears a jumpsuit and shoes. The clothes may look odd, but they are sensible. The jumpsuits and shoes are made in thousands of colors, from a material so light you can hardly feel it. The material keeps you warm when it is cold and cool when it is hot.

Notes: “In the year 2010 everyone wears a jumpsuit and shoes,” I love that line. I would hope that somewhere in England today, Geoffrey Hoyle is sitting enjoying a sherry in a comfortable chair, wearing a jumpsuit and wondering why nobody else realizes just how sensible an item of clothing it truly is. Don’t stop believing, Geoffrey.

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Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station bears little resemblance to SpaceX’s sleek headquarters. The Air Force used the site most recently for the launching of Titan rockets, now obsolete. SpaceX has leased the site for two years, knocking down the launch tower. In its place it has built a hangar, 225 feet long, 75 feet wide, where the two stages of the Falcon 9 rocket, laid out horizontally, can be mated together along with a Dragon capsule on top.

Much of the launching pad seems like it was assembled during a scavenger hunt. A 125,000-gallon liquid oxygen tank from the Apollo era was bought for $86,000 — the price of scrap metal — and refurbished. SpaceX bought some rusty railroad cars that NASA had used to transport helium and refurbished those, too.

Private Companies Like SpaceX Look to Take Over From NASA – NYTimes.com

building the future on the ruins of the past

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the length of the streets of this one-of-a-kind town was exceeding 350 km (200 miles) if combined. There were nine stored buildings, schools, industry complexes and fountains. Lawns with green grass and children playing ball. And all that is forty two kilometeres from the nearest Earth surface (via English Russia » Oil Stones: A Soviet City in the Middle of the Sea)

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