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What is this? Joss Whedon shared a picture of a Firefly Magazine on his Facebook Page. There was no comment or clue as where it came from, but it certainly is lovely. We desperately want to read the "Making the most of your bunk" article.
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off-the-wall-geek:
So I went on Omegle today out of boredom and I meet up with three police officers from Iraq. We all became best friends and had a competition of “who can balance an object on their head the longest.” I chose a shoe and they chose a gun. I ended up winning with the shoe. I think this screenshot really captures the spirit.
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“the creation of a world without involuntary pain is a precondition for a civilized society”
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Growing up in the swamps outside of New York City I was surrounded by tall radio and TV towers. Because of this, we had wonderful reception on the UHF band. So I spent a lot of my childhood cruising through … Continue reading →Unfurl
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Courtesy of Morgan Conley comes the Famicom Software Project, which emphasizes the latter half of the console’s full name, that being the Family Computer.
To be honest, it’s not the wackiest ideas in the world. After all, Nintendo did release Family BASIC in Japan, which allowed one to create their own games for the platform.
The above reminds of the time someone created a special cart that allows the Sega Genesis to run Mac OS, which again is not too far-fetched, given how that system’s main processor is the Motorola 68000, which was the heart of Macintosh during its earliest days.
Unfortunately, I’m unable to find any images online, circa 2013 (happy new year, by the way). Though this old Sega-16 forum thread has some details. Anyhow, Conley also created the following to show what the Famicom version of Photoshop would be like…
Thanks to Albotas for the head’s up!
The post Google Chrome Is My Browser Of Choice, Even On The Famicom appeared first on Attract Mode.
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WASHINGTON—As night settled over the nation’s capital Wednesday and a bright, full moon hung amid the twinkling stars and cast long shadows over the National Mall, all nine Supreme Court justices could be overheard drowsily bidding one another...
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Hurricane Sandy relief efforts continued over the holidays with volunteers dropping off meals on Christmas eve and confidential documents being returned from the wreckage to their rightful owners. But good will can only go so far and victims in the north east are still waiting for federal aid to trickle in. More »Unfurl
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Some might argue that this is the best "photo with Santa" ever — and thousands of Facebook likes do make a strong case — but for my money, iconoclast wins over cutesy any day. More »Unfurl
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What's likely to become a health threat you never expected next year? 4Chan griefers could actually deliver death or injury from the safety of their forums with a virus designed to infect medical devices. Many of these devices, such as pacemakers, can be reprogrammed wirelessly. And that means bad guys could reprogram your pacemaker (or insulin delivery system) with some bad code. No, it's not science fiction. The John J. Reilly Center at University of Notre Dame has released its first annual "List of Emerging Ethical Dilemmas and Policy Issues in Science and Technology" for 2013, and near the top of the list is "hacking into medical devices."
They write:
Barnaby Jack, a hacker and director of embedded device security at IOActive Inc., recently demonstrated the vulnerability of a pacemaker by breaching the security of the wireless device from his laptop and reprogramming it to deliver an 830-volt shock. Because many devices are programmed to allow doctors easy access in case reprogramming is necessary in an emergency, the design of many of these devices is not geared toward security. We don't yet have evidence of a hacker breaching the security of a medical device with malicious intent, although we now know that it's possible, and over the last few months, government and health care agencies have been discussing the best ways to protect patients.
This fall, the US Government Accountability Office released a report detailing their concerns about how hostile actors could attack people with remotely-programmable medical devices in their bodies. The GAO notes reassuringly:
Although researchers have recently demonstrated the potential for incidents resulting from intentional threats in two devices-an implantable cardioverter defibrillator and an insulin pump-no such actual incidents are known to have occurred, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
So nobody has been hurt yet, thankfully. But if we take no steps to secure these medical devices, next year could mark the first assassination by computer virus.
Read more of the Reilly Center's report on emerging ethical dilemmas and policy issues on their website.
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There's six degrees of separation between us and the celebs at ROFLrazzi!
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As if traveling into deadly anomalies and encountering hostile aliens wasn't bad enough, occasionally the Enterprise loses a (figurative) redshirt just because Riker is lost in thought. Inspired by scifi pulp covers, artist Melanie Schultz created this squidy portrait of our beard-stroking Number One.
William T. Riker [Melanie Schultz via Ian Brooks]
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Here's a picture of Cory Booker reacting to Peggy Noonan on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. This was his expression when he heard her say that video games were to blame for gun violence in America. It's the same look that TV viewers at home have been giving to Peggy Noonan for years. Major props to Cory Booker for putting it out there on national TV. More »Unfurl
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