Waitress Who Posted No-Tip Receipt From "Pastor" Customer Fired From Job

Andre 'Loki' Barbosa Claims $2.5M Boca Raton Mansion Under 'Adverse Possession' Law

A $2.5 million South Florida mansion has been taken over by a crafty squatter and the police are powerless to order an eviction.


The 7,500 square-foot residence in Boca Raton, Fla., is currently being inhabited by Brazilian national André Barbosa. The 23-year-old is using an antiquated legal covenant called "adverse possession" that allows a vacant property’s title to be acquired by anyone openly occupying and maintaining the site and paying real estate tax for seven years.


"Nobody’s happy – we all spent a lot of money to live on this street," a neighbor told ABC News. "This guy is trying to pull something."

Full Article at NewsFeed

http://youtu.be/OHzTNj_WVhE

Congressmen Demand 7 Answers From Aaron Swartz's Prosecutors

1: What factors influenced the decision to prosecute Mr. Swartz for the crimes alleged in the indictment, including the decisions regarding what crimes to charge and the filing of the superseding indictment?


2: Was Mr. Swartz's opposition to SOPA or his association with any advocacy groups considered?


3: What specific plea offers were made to Mr. Swartz, and what factors influenced the decisions by prosecutors regarding plea offers made to Mr. Swartz?


4: How did the criminal charges, penalties sought, and plea offers in this case compare to those of other cases that have been prosecuted or considered for prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?


5: Did the federal investigation of Mr. Swartz reveal evidence that he had committed other hacking violations?


6: What factors influenced the Department's decisions regarding sentencing proposals?


7: Why was a superseding indictment necessary?

Full Article at Ars Technica

http://youtu.be/gJxSDlfWp_g

Fort Lauderdale FL - Rick Ross Gets Shot At And Crashes Rolls Royce

Rapper Rick Ross was out celebrating his 37th birthday at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., diner early Monday morning when he became the alleged target of a drive-by shooting.

Police say Ross and his girlfriend were leaving the 24-hour diner The Floridian at around 5 a.m., after eating a late meal, when someone unloaded close to two dozen bullets into Ross’ gray Rolls Royce.

Ross reportedly tried to flee the shooting, but ended up crashing his car into an apartment near 15th Avenue and Las Olas Boulevard.

Full Article at ABC News

http://youtu.be/EiVQD-uYiRU

This is what long time rival 50cent had to say about the event.

Hahaha fat boy hit the building?lol it looks staged to me. No hole's in da car instagr.am/p/VCHWuPML2G/

— 50cent (@50cent) January 28, 2013

Silhouette Man - WTF Are Americans Thinking

Firefox OS - A New Alternative To The Android / Windows / iOS Mobile OS Market

Firefox OS (project name: Boot to Gecko also known as B2G) is an Linux-based open source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers being developed by Mozilla. It is designed to allow HTML5 applications to integrate directly with the device's hardware using JavaScript. It has been demonstrated on Android-compatible smartphones, and the Raspberry Pi.
The first smartphones running Firefox OS is slated to be released in the first half of 2013. It will first be released in South America, and will later come to Asian and European markets. ZTE confirmed at CES 2013 that they will ship a smartphone with the OS.

Firefox OS Wiki Entry

Mozilla Firefox OS Landing Page

Firefox OS Screenshots

Kim Dotcom Interview - Encrypt Half The Internet, Government Spying Out Of Control

http://youtu.be/mphBRtr030s

Extracting data with USB HID

Creating Good Passwords

Arduino - Controlling A Servo Motor Through Serial Input

Arduino Servo Motor Schematic

Arduino Servo Motor Code

[sourcecode language="c"]
#include <Servo.h>
Servo s;
char serialIn[3];
int pos = 0;

void setup(){
Serial.begin(9600);
s.attach(9);
s.write(pos);
}

void loop() {
while(Serial.available() > 0) {
if(Serial.read() == 'R') {
for (int i = 0; i < 3; serialIn[i++] = Serial.read());
pos = atoi(serialIn);

if(pos >= 0 && pos < 181) {
Serial.println(pos);
s.write(pos);
} else {
Serial.println('Value beyond servo range');
}
}
}
}
[/sourcecode]

K4t434sis - Recursion

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K4t434sis - Mica Reddo

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Unlocking Your Phone Now Carries 10 Year Sentence And $1M Fine - DMCA At Its Finest

ADVISORY

BY DECREE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS

IT SHALL HENCEFORCE BE ORDERED THAT AMERICANS SHALL NOT UNLOCK THEIR OWN SMARTPHONES.

PENALTY: In some situations, first time offenders may be fined up to $500,000, imprisoned for five years, or both. For repeat offenders, the maximum penalty increases to a fine of $1,000,000, imprisonment for up to ten years, or both.*


That's right, starting this weekend it is illegal to unlock new phones to make them available on other carriers.

NEW ABSURD CRIME

When did we decide that we wanted a law that could make unlocking your smartphone a criminal offense?

The answer is that we never really decided. Instead, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998 to outlaw technologies that bypass copyright protections. This sounds like a great idea, but in practice it has terrible, and widely acknowledged, negative consequences that affect consumers and new innovation. The DMCA leaves it up to the Librarian of Congress (LOC) to issue exemptions from the law, exceptions that were recognized to be necessary given the broad language of the statute that swept a number of ordinary acts and technologies as potential DMCA circumvention violations.

Every three years groups like the American Foundation for the Blind have to lobby [warning:PDF download] Congress to protect an exception for the blind allowing for books to be read aloud. Can you imagine a more ridiculous regulation than one that requires a lobby group for the blind to come to Capitol Hill every three years to explain that the blind still can't read books on their own and therefore need this exception?

Full Article on The Atlantic

You can check out the government document here.
Library of Congress - Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies

The Backlash On YouTube Has Already Begun

http://youtu.be/iQbhBC4SJvo
http://youtu.be/nxlBxjURaOg
http://youtu.be/win-mjqgUjg
http://youtu.be/cnw20YcKSDA
http://youtu.be/kIKBY1pfH30

OWS Aniversary 2012 Newspaper

This is from the OWS newspaper circulating around Foley Square on the 16th & 17th.

Anonymous Threatens Massive WikiLeaks-Style Exposure, Announced On Hacked Gov Site

Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, is threatening perhaps their biggest play ever: a massive WikiLeaks-style exposure of sensitive U.S. government secrets.

As proof of their power, they announced details of the plan on hacked government website, the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC.gov). Citing the recent death of free information activist Aaron Swartz, they explain, "With Aaron’s death we can wait no longer. The time has come to show the United States Department of Justice and its affiliates the true meaning of infiltration."


Swartz was facing up to 50+ years in prison and a $4 million fine after releasing pay-walled academic articles from the popular JSTOR database. Some legal scholars have argued that releasing copyrighted material, or breaking the “terms of service” of a website, should not carry such harsh penalties. Anonymous is demanding that legislation be passed to no longer consider such violations a felony–a law that Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CrunchGov Grade: A) has already introduced.

If legal reforms are not enacted, Anonymous has threatened to activate files containing embarrassing or incriminating secrets.

Full Article on Tech Crunch

http://youtu.be/WaPni5O2YyI

Mt Eden Dubstep - Sierra Leone

http://youtu.be/16bRiH5zfOY

Arduino Binary Clock - Photo Step By Step

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Spor - Aztec

http://youtu.be/k2UBYA_dRlY

CAMOVER - Real Life Game To Destroy Surveillance Cameras

Activists in Berlin are teaming up to trash surveillance cameras. Points are given, with bonus scores for the most innovative modes of destruction

The rules of Camover are simple: mobilise a crew and think of a name that starts with "command", "brigade" or "cell", followed by the moniker of a historical figure (Van der Lubbe, a Dutch bricklayer convicted of setting fire to the Reichstag in 1933, is one name being used). Then destroy as many CCTV cameras as you can. Concealing your identity, while not essential, is recommended. Finally, video your trail of destruction and post it on the game's website – although even keeping track of the homepage can be a challenge in itself, as it is continually being shut down...


For those who oppose CCTV, petitions and letters only go so far in the German capital. A group of 40 protesters walked the streets of Berlin for 1984 Action Day (protests against CCTV cameras and other surveillance, named after the novel by George Orwell) in June and pressure group Control Berlin has screened short films documenting CCTV's rise. But Camover's direct-action approach revolves around a small but committed group who call themselves "workless people – we are shoplifters, graffiti sprayers, homeless and squatters". They claim to have snuffed out as many as 50 cameras since the game began a few weeks ago.

Full Article on The Guardian

You can try to check out the site mentioned in the article, but it looks like the German government may be blocking it

http://youtu.be/9GCsd2TJKjQ

Anonymous hacker group: Two jailed for cyber attacks: The first convictions for DDoS in the UK

Mord Fustang - The Electric Dream

http://youtu.be/fGksXB6a6s0

Assange - Wikilieaks Movie By Dreamworks Is Mass Propaganda Against Wikileaks And Iran

Dreamworks is following the lead of Columbia Pictures' Zero Dark Thirty, making entertaining yet skewed films that seem to only distract the public from the real facts. I guess it's working seeing as how the average American will argue their beliefs with facts they've gleaned from films. Journalism in America is an absolute joke and it doesn't help that the major film producers are playing into the sensationalism around these topics instead of giving unbiased facts.

http://youtu.be/quGToHOOIcA

Assange last night said WikiLeaks had managed to get hold of a copy of the script of the DreamWorks movie.


And he doesn't like what he's read.


"It is a mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks the organisation," the 41-year-old Australian told students in Oxford via a video-link from the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
But it is not just an attack against us - it is an attack against Iran.
It fans the flames to start a war with Iran."

Full Article at Herald Sun

Jeremy Blum - Arduino Tutorial Lessons 1-3

Tutorial 01 for Arduino: Getting Acquainted with Arduino

http://youtu.be/fCxzA9_kg6s

Tutorial 02 for Arduino: Buttons, PWM, and Functions

http://youtu.be/_LCCGFSMOr4

Tutorial 03 for Arduino: Electrical Engineering Basics

http://youtu.be/abWCy_aOSwY

Proposed New Mexico Bill Criminalizes Abortions From Rape Claiming 'Tampering With Evidence'

A Republican lawmaker in New Mexico introduced a bill on Wednesday that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial.


House Bill 206, introduced by state Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R), would charge a rape victim who ended her pregnancy with a third-degree felony for "tampering with evidence."


“Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion, of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime," the bill says.


Third-degree felonies in New Mexico carry a sentence of up to three years in prison.


Pat Davis of ProgressNow New Mexico, a progressive nonprofit opposing the bill, called it "blatantly unconstitutional" on Thursday.

Full Article on Huff Post

TYT - Forcible Rape: New Mexico Considers Outrageous Policy

http://youtu.be/Iz6MLy8LIvc

How an Unsigned White Rapper Changed Music

MSNBC Incorrectly Reports No Permits Were Requested To Protest Obama’s Inauguration

During MSNBC’s day-long marathon coverage of President Obama’s second inauguration, in which exciting details such as the first lady’s bangs and outfits were discussed, host Rachel Maddow at one point remarked that no protest permits had been requested.

The statement was significant for a couple reasons. One, it created the impression that President Obama was re-elected with unified glee. Why, no one even bothered to request a permit to protest! Because Obama is perfect! No one could even think of a reason to raise any grievances!

Second, the statement simply isn’t true. Five groups secured permits to protest. In fact, here’s a NBC affiliate interviewing a spokeswoman about those very permits:

“They have to apply for a permit and give us what time they are going to be here, what they’re going to do and about how many people they have, but as I said, we accommodate them,” National Park Service spokeswoman Carol Johnson said. “It’s their right to be here.”

http://youtu.be/lncpy8S7igs

Hive - Ultrasonic Sound

http://youtu.be/5WFS0HMEm7E

Arduino Micro - Counting In Binary With LEDs

Step one for making a binary clock accomplished. Now I just need some more LEDs to finish the project. I had a lot of fun with this 2 hour project so I'll be nice and share. I present the 4 LED array schematic.

Arduino Micro - The Setup

And here's the code to run it. Im running off pins 4-7 in the code, so this should port over to other Arduino models with no problem; ignore the 3bit and 4bit bit methods, just me prepping for the final project.

LED Array Binary Counting Code

[sourcecode language="java"]
int timeDigits[4][4] = {
{4,5,6,7},
{4,5,6,7}, // Fill these in later
{4,5,6,7},// with the proper pins
{4,5,6,7}
};

void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(timeDigits[1][1], OUTPUT);
pinMode(timeDigits[1][2], OUTPUT);
pinMode(timeDigits[1][3], OUTPUT);
pinMode(timeDigits[1][4], OUTPUT);
}

void set4BitBinaryDigit(int timeDigits[], int binaryRow[], int index) {
Serial.print("Binary ");
Serial.print(index);
Serial.print(": ");
Serial.print(binaryRow[0]);
Serial.print(binaryRow[1]);
Serial.print(binaryRow[2]);
Serial.println(binaryRow[3]);
Serial.println(" ");

digitalWrite(timeDigits[0], binaryRow[0]);
digitalWrite(timeDigits[1], binaryRow[1]);
digitalWrite(timeDigits[2], binaryRow[2]);
digitalWrite(timeDigits[3], binaryRow[3]);
}

void set3BitBinaryDigit(int timeDigits[], int binaryRow[]) {
digitalWrite(timeDigits[1], binaryRow[1]);
digitalWrite(timeDigits[2], binaryRow[2]);
digitalWrite(timeDigits[3], binaryRow[3]);
}

void set2BitBinaryDigit(int timeDigits[], int binaryRow[]) {
digitalWrite(timeDigits[2], binaryRow[2]);
digitalWrite(timeDigits[3], binaryRow[3]);
}

void loop() {
int binaryMatrix[10][4] = {
{0,0,0,0}, // 0
{0,0,0,1}, // 1
{0,0,1,0}, // 2
{0,0,1,1}, // 3
{0,1,0,0}, // 4
{0,1,0,1}, // 5
{0,1,1,0}, // 6
{0,1,1,1}, // 7
{1,0,0,0}, // 8
{1,0,0,1},// 9
};



for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i)
{
for (int i = 0; i <= 9; ++i) {
set4BitBinaryDigit(timeDigits[1], binaryMatrix[i], i);
delay(800);
}
}
}
[/sourcecode]


And a little video footage showing it in action.

Binary Counting With LEDs - Video Footage

http://youtu.be/hRk3L37uTxs

Blank Banshee - Ammonia Clouds

http://youtu.be/cKaXXuHGKdM

Technical Itch - Heavy Metal

http://youtu.be/fE5UTC891B0

Benga - Crunked Up

http://youtu.be/jVKboRPgu0U

3.5 Inch Floppies

Army Col. Denise Lind Judge In Charge Of Bradley Manning Pre-trial Speaks Up For Manning On Twitter - Possible Hoax

Not quite sure if this is legit or a possible hacked account but it's making a stir online nonetheless

Late Night Hardware Hacking - Self Aware LED Array

http://youtu.be/0tCH0Vq0Uok

Self Aware LED Array Arduino Code

[sourcecode language="java"]
int led1 = 13;
int led2 = 12;
int led3 = 11;
int led4 = 10;
int pcpin = 0;
int pcread;
int x = 0;

void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(led1, OUTPUT);
pinMode(led2, OUTPUT);
pinMode(led3, OUTPUT);
pinMode(led4, OUTPUT);
pinMode(pcpin, INPUT);
}

void log() {
pcread = analogRead(pcpin);
Serial.print("Photocell light level = ");
Serial.println(pcread);
delay(150);
}

void loop() {
log();
digitalWrite(led1, HIGH);
log();
digitalWrite(led1, LOW);

log();
digitalWrite(led2, HIGH);
log();
digitalWrite(led2, LOW);

log();
digitalWrite(led3, HIGH);
log();
digitalWrite(led3, LOW);

log();
digitalWrite(led4, HIGH);
log();
digitalWrite(led4, LOW);
}
[/sourcecode]

Just open up a serial monitor to watch your Arduino watch itself o_0

Aeph & Maize - Rebirth

http://youtu.be/H6DdlruRMCA

Second Build - Arduino Uno Photocell LED Controller

Here's the Arduino code to control this, I'm using A0 for the photocell and the LED requires a PWM pin for this application so I used ~11. The photocell detects if the light source drops below a certain level and turns on the LED if so.

[sourcecode language="java"]
int ledPin = 11;
int pcPin = 0;
int pcIn;

void setup(void) {
Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop(void) {
pcIn = analogRead(pcPin);
Serial.print("Analog reading = ");
Serial.println(pcIn);
pcIn = 1023 - pcIn;

if (pcIn > 400) analogWrite(ledPin, 255);
else analogWrite(ledPin, 0);

delay(100);
}
[/sourcecode]

Here's some video footage of it in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55GxkP6wnqM

First Build, Mintduino - DIY Arduino

Years of working with copper wire with jewelry is paying off on the electronics side now [:
[caption id="attachment_1352" align="aligncenter" width="545"] Mintduino DIY Arduino[/caption]

Whoops! Front Paged On Google For Sun Sentinel Post

Full Article: kat5.postfix - Sun Sentinel Caught In Lie About Location Of Navy Jet “Chaff” Drops

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Blackwax - Trapped Dub

http://youtu.be/IyI8jokLYSI

A Tired Assange Has A Message From The Box

TSA - Overreaching, Ineffective And Coming To A Train Station Near You

[caption id="attachment_1307" align="aligncenter" width="545"] Are you in?[/caption]

Early Adopter Of TSA Oversight Seen This Wednesday In California

People are used to seeing TSA inspectors at airports but on Wednesday, a specialized team made their presence known at the Amtrak station in Emeryville. Train stations are difficult to secure because they're so wide open but on Wednesday, the TSA showed up unannounced to let the public, especially potential troublemakers, know that they are keeping an eye on the rails.


Amtrak passenger Vera Molina said she noticed all the black-clad TSA inspectors right away and it's a presence she appreciates. Asked if she would like to see them more often she said, "I would, can't hurt, just in case you never know." As part of their nationwide "Viper Team" effort, the Transportation Safety Administration put about a dozen agents at the station to see and be seen, although some of the inspectors also work undercover.

Full Article on ABC

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TSA Is Ineffective

I almost cannot believe the reaction from people over this. The whole "just in case" story is starting to get a little old and yet we keep chasing the boogeyman on the issue. What really bothers me with this TSA expansion isn't even the concerns with invasion of privacy, it's that their efficacy in catching terrorists is nonexistent. Statistics gleaned from Representative Jason Chaffetz's hearings on TSA Oversight show that out of 25,000 recorded security breaches caught by TSA 0 (that's ZERO) were terrorists. So we are paying more and more for a service that is proven it's incompetent at it's main stated goal? Peter Greenberg speaks on the matter on his blog:

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A security breach is broadly defined as anything from a misplaced checked bag to someone caught in the act of breaching security.


TSA spokesperson Greg Soule responded with the statement that “[the TSA] takes every security breach incident seriously and take[s] appropriate action accordingly which is why the TSA keeps close track of all the ‘breaches.’ Many of these instances were thwarted or discovered in the act.”


These inquiries into the TSA come after several high-profile lapses and public outrage over TSA security practices.

Among the latest outrages: TSA Says It Acted Appropriately In Demanding Removal of Terminally-Ill 95-Year-Old’s Adult Diaper.

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Full Article - TSA: 25,000+ Security Breaches, 0 Terrorists Caught

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Salon - Poverty Increasingly Means The Employed

There are 10.4 million American households that qualify as working poor, according to an economic analysis reported in Reuters. This amounts to more than 47 million Americans living in “near poverty,” defined as earning less than twice the official poverty rate, $22,811 for a family of four.


The recession officially ended in 2009 and unemployment levels have slowly receded, but income inequality continues to grow as more workers taking low-wage service jobs, many of them without benefits. The report, put out by the Working Poor Project, found that ”nearly one-third of working families now struggle, up from 31 percent in 2010 and 28 percent in 2007, when the recession began.”

Full Article on Salon.com

Admin Script Controller - Ruby Command Line Tool

I use a lot of custom made scripts at work to make my life a little easier (or to be lazier, whichever) and sometimes have trouble finding a specific one. My solution was to make a command line interface to control the assorted scripts. To implement grab all the needed scripts and drop them in a folder with this script. To make it a bit more user friendly I suggest making a bash alias like so, alias utility="ruby ~/Documents/Code/utility-scripts/utility.rb".


[sourcecode language="ruby"]
#! /usr/bin/ruby
abort("Usage: `utility <script name>` or `utility list` to list") unless script = ARGV[0]
basedir = File.expand_path File.dirname(__FILE__)
puts %x(tree #{basedir}) if script == 'list'
interpreters = {'.rb'=>'ruby','.php'=>'php','.sh'=>'sh'}

Dir.new(File.dirname(__FILE__)).each do |file|
unless ['.', '..'].include? file
if script == File.basename(file, File.extname(file))
ext = File.extname(file)
command = "#{interpreters[ext]} #{basedir}/#{script}#{ext} #{ARGV[1]} #{ARGV[2]} #{ARGV[3]}"
puts "Calling: #{command}"
exec command unless script == 'utility'
end
end
end
[/sourcecode]

PDFTribute.net PDF Link Scraper - Command Line PHP Tool

[sourcecode language="php"]
function unshorten_url($url) {
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => FALSE,
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE,
));
curl_exec($ch);
$url = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
curl_close($ch);
return $url;
}

$target_url = "http://pdftribute.net/"; // Simply add page number for a specific page ie pdftribute.net/3
$userAgent = 'Googlebot/2.1 (http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$target_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
$html= curl_exec($ch);

$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$hrefs = $xpath->evaluate("/html/body//a");
$urls = array();
$pdfs = array();

for ($i = 0; $i < $hrefs->length; $i++) {
$href = $hrefs->item($i);
$url = $href->getAttribute('href');
$urls[] = $url;
}

foreach ($urls as $url)
if (substr(unshorten_url($url), -3, 3) == 'pdf') $pdfs[] = unshorten_url($url);

print_r($pdfs);
[/sourcecode]

Facing 30 Years Prosecutors Turn Down Internet Activist Aaron Swartz's Plea Deal 2 Days Before His Suicide

• Internet activist Swartz, 26, committed suicide on January 11 at his Brooklyn home as he faced 30 years in jail



• Prosecutors turned down Swartz's lawyer over plea deal on January 9



• U.S. attorneys file to dismiss case in court today after Swartz's death



• Internet activist faced decades in prison over hacking charges for allegedly downloading more than four million academic journals



• Hundreds of academics post copyright-protected journals for free in tribute to Swartz



• Hacker group Anonymous crash MIT website over prosecution of Swartz, described as a 'grotesque miscarriage of justice'

Full Article on Dailymail.co.uk

F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

http://youtu.be/Fgh2dFngFsg

Huffington Post - Anonymous Hacks MIT, U.S. Department Of Justice In Aaron Swartz Tribute

Internet activists with the group Anonymous claimed credit for hacking the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website Sunday, in memoriam of the Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-founder who recently committed suicide.


Reddit users reported the entire mit.edu domain was down, including their school email service. The backup emergency site, emergency.mit.net, was reportedly down too. MIT's website was restored Sunday evening, as Anonymous admitted they were behind the attack.


"Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government's prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron died fighting for — freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it — enabling the collective betterment of the world through the facilitation of sharing — an ideal that we should all support," Anonymous' said in a statement, which replaced MIT's website.

Full Article on Huffington Post

Stop Using MD5 - POC MD5 Hash Crack PHP Script

This is just a proof of concept of how a malicious hacker can get your password very quickly using a short script if your security is based on md5 hashing. Wake up people start using better encryption and pay attention to password strength, dictionary words for passwords are crackable in seconds. I'm not sharing the code on this one just in case some stupid kid wants to do something equally stupid with it.


http://youtu.be/ElS0ml74HqU

Urban Scrawl - Digital Manipulation Style

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Self Portraits - Digital Manipulation Style

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Ganja White Night - Hindu Kush

http://youtu.be/p5QZTBalakw

NY Times - Indian Gang Rape Victim's Essay Goes Viral 29 Years After Publication - “I Fought For My Life...And Won”

THIRTY-TWO years ago, when I was 17 and living in Bombay, I was gang raped and nearly killed. Three years later, outraged at the silence and misconceptions around rape, I wrote a fiery essay under my own name describing my experience (warning PDF download) for an Indian women’s magazine. It created a stir in the women’s movement — and in my family — and then it quietly disappeared. Then, last week, I looked at my e-mail and there it was. As part of the outpouring of public rage after a young woman’s rape and death in Delhi, somebody posted the article online and it went viral. Since then, I have received a deluge of messages from people expressing their support.


It’s not exactly pleasant to be a symbol of rape. I’m not an expert, nor do I represent all victims of rape. All I can offer is that — unlike the young woman who died in December two weeks after being brutally gang raped, and so many others — my story didn’t end, and I can continue to tell it.

Full Article - NY Times

RT - Family Of Internet Activist Blaming Over-reaching Justice System For Death

http://youtu.be/Fgm59gpAa5k

Walk A Mile In Our Shoes March - Staten Island

At a time when the government seems unwilling to assist, I hope the people out at OccupySandy know they are American heroes. Keep up the good work helping the victims of this disaster.

/r/cableporn Delivers - Epic Wiring Skills

Aaron Swartz Computer Activist, Reddit Co-Owner Commits Suicide

Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment to The Tech. Swartz was 26.


“The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is, regrettably, true,” confirmed Swartz’ attorney, Elliot R. Peters of Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to The Tech.


Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly downloading millions of documents from JSTOR through the MIT network — using a laptop hidden in a basement network closet in MIT’s Building 16 — with the intent to distribute them. Swartz subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit “global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere.” Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded not guilty.

Full Article on tech.mit.edu

BGR - $35 Linux Mini PC, Raspberry PI Breaks 1 Million In Unit Sales

The numbers are in and the $35 Raspberry Pi Linux PC is a success. After pre-orders sold out in less than 24 hours, the credit card-sized computer faced a number manufacturing hiccups and distribution problems. In April, the first batch of Raspberry Pis finally arrived at distributors and begun to ship worldwide. The company announced this week that one of its two distributors, Premier Farnell, has sold more than half a million units.


“They’re only one of two official distributors,” the Raspberry Pi foundation wrote on its website. ”We don’t have completely up-to-date figures from RS Components yet, but Farnell’s news suggests that we’re well on the way to having sold our millionth Raspberry Pi.”

Full Article at bge.com

Photo - History Shelf

This has kinda been a tradition throughout my life, keep a shelf dedicated to relics of happy or exciting points in my past. The pic on the red Buddha is my grandmother with a baby goat