Perfect Stranger & Pena - Ode Ao Sol

http://youtu.be/QRXNeeDYzLI

Gizmodo - Anonymous Leaks Marine Corps Massacre Case

Via Gizmodo

The bombs keep dropping from Anonymous—first local cops, then the FBI, and now the Marine Corps: sensitive documents from 2005's Haditha Killings trial. Anon doesn't think the Marine in charge should have gotten off so lightly. This is their payback.

Seven years ago, (then Sergeant) Frank Wuterich and several other marines he commanded killed 24 Iraqi citizens in Haditha, Iraq, in an apparent act of revenge for an unrelated IED strike. Despite admitting to the killings, Wuterich just last week officially got off with only a charge of "negligent dereliction of duty." No jail time, no serious conviction whatsoever.

Now the law firm that defended Wuterich, Puckett and Faraj has been hit with Anonymous long internet arm of "justice." Their site has been hijacked, and a giant 3 GB trove of personal information pertaining to the case (and other matters) busted wide open by Anon:

We went ahead and fired off some shots of our own - at the servers and personal email accounts of Puckett & Faraj. We defaced their website and dumped nearly 3GB of private email messages belonging to Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj. The contents of these email messages include detailed records, transcripts, testimony, trial evidence, and legal defense donation records pertaining to not only Frank Wuterich but also many other marines they have represented.

And to add a few layers of icing to this delicious caek, we got the usual boatloads of embarrassing personal information. How do you think the world will react when they find out Neal Puckett and his marine buddies have been making crude jokes about the incident where marines have been caught on video pissing on dead bodies in Afghanistan? Or that he regularly corresponds with and receives funding from former marine Don Greenlaw who runs the racist blog http://snooper.wordpress.com? We believe it is time to release all of their private information and court evidence to the world and conduct a People's trial of our own.

Anonymous draws an immediate comparison to Bradley Manning, the soldier behind the Wikileaks Cablegate bonanza whose trial has been a pretty far cry from transparent—about as opaque as brig walls.

Bradley Manning who was brave enough to risk his life and freedom to expose the truth about government corruption is threatened with life imprisonment.



When justice cannot be found within the the confines of their crooked court systems, we must seek revenge on the streets and on the internet - and dealing out swift retaliation is something we are particularily good at. Worry not comrades, it's time to deliver some epic ownage.

Unable to do anything about the Manning case, Anonymous will have to hope "epic ownage" is a decent replacement for activism and advocacy. So far, no promised torrent for the data has appeared on the Pirate Bay account Anonymous is pointing to, but that's sure to change any minute now.

Update 1: I placed a call to Puckett & Faraj, and they have no idea they've been hacked. Waiting for a call back.

Update 2: The firm's site is currently down.

Update 3: A source within Anonymous tells me all of today's strikes are indeed a coordinated effort, though not all tied to the Wuterich case: "Each attack has it's particular motivations. For example, boston police have been in our crosshairs ever since they started harassing the occupation movement there."

Update 4: You can find a screencap of the original defacement and manifesto here.

Update 5: A torrent of the firm's data is currently being prepared for the public.

Update 6: A day later and still no public torrent, although the snatched data is available via encrypted browser network Tor. Our pals at Gawker have already found some nuggets.

Aesop Rock - Coffee (Figure Remix)

http://youtu.be/RZqWQAeaxjM

Arduino Basics - Recreate Predator Like Timer With A Single Digit 7 Segment Display

The Schematic

The Implementation

http://youtu.be/c3KD8xtHOTQ

The Code

Ridiculously verbose I know, I'll be making this and a standard alphanumeric set into a library after tweaking it a bit.

[sourcecode language="c"]
int a = 10;
int b = 9;
int c = 12;
int d = 8;
int e = 7;
int f = 5;
int g = 6;
int dp = 11;

void setup(){
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void clearLCD(){
digitalWrite(a,0);
digitalWrite(b,0);
digitalWrite(c,0);
digitalWrite(d,0);
digitalWrite(e,0);
digitalWrite(f,0);
digitalWrite(g,0);
digitalWrite(dp,0);
}
void displayA(){
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
}
void displayB(){
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(d,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
}
void displayC(){
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(b,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
digitalWrite(d,1);
}
void displayD(){
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(d,1);
}
void displayE(){
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
digitalWrite(d,1);
}
void displayF(){
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
}
void displayG(){
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
}
void displayH(){
digitalWrite(b,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
}
void displayI(){
digitalWrite(g,1);
}
void displayJ(){
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
digitalWrite(a,1);
}
void displayK(){
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(b,1);
digitalWrite(d,1);
}
void displayL(){
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
}
void displayM(){
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(b,1);
}
void displayN(){
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(b,1);
}
void displayO(){
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(e,1);
}
void displayP(){
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
}
void displayQ(){
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(d,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
digitalWrite(b,1);
}
void displayR(){
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
}
void displayS(){
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(d,1);
}
void displayT(){
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(a,1);
}
void displayU(){
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
}
void displayV(){
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(d,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
}
void displayW(){
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
digitalWrite(b,1);
}
void displayX(){
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(b,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(e,1);
digitalWrite(c,1);
}
void displayY(){
digitalWrite(f,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(b,1);
digitalWrite(,1);
}
void displayZ(){
digitalWrite(a,1);
digitalWrite(b,1);
digitalWrite(g,1);
digitalWrite(e,1);
}

void loop(){
displayA();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayB();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayC();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayD();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayE();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayF();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayG();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayH();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayI();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayJ();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayK();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayL();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayM();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayN();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayO();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayP();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayQ();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayR();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayS();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayT();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayU();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayV();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayW();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayX();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayY();
delay(500);
clearLCD();

displayZ();
delay(500);
clearLCD();
}
[/sourcecode]

Why DVD's Are Illegal To Watch On Linux And The Story Of Hacking The Content Scrambling System

Via How-To-Geek

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes unlocking cell phones, ripping DVDs, removing eBook DRM, and jailbreaking tablets illegal in the USA. However, there’s another surprise: simply watching a DVD on Linux is also illegal.

This is why Ubuntu and other Linux distributions don’t include out-of-the-box DVD support, forcing you to run a command that downloads and installs libdvdcss from elsewhere – not the Linux distribution’s software repositories, or they would get in trouble.

If you are an American who’s watched a DVD on Linux, there’s a good chance the DMCA makes you a criminal.

What the DMCA Says

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act came into effect in 1998 in the USA. It’s a copyright law that includes anti-circumvention measures. Essentially, it makes it illegal to circumvent “technological protection measures,” including cell phone locks and protections against installing unapproved software on tablets like Apple’s iPad and Microsoft’s Surface RT (jailbreaking).

Technological protection measures are also found on eBooks, so breaking the DRM on an eBook to read it on another eReader is technically a crime, as well. (Not all eBooks have to contain DRM, however. Our eBook has no DRM, although it’s published through Amazon.)

You can find more information about the DMCA and its anti-circumvention measures on the Chilling Effects website.

Video DVDs are Encrypted

Playing a commercial video DVD is normally as simple as placing it in a DVD player or a computer’s DVD drive. If it’s a computer, the appropriate software starts up and starts playing it automatically. In an age of DRM-tainted eBooks and other types of files that may not play on all your hardware, DVDs are a convenient way to watch movies without any restrictions.

That’s what it feels like, at least. However, most commercial video DVDs are encrypted using the Content Scramble System (CSS). If you wanted to produce your own DVD player, you’d have to license CSS support from the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA). As part of this licensing scheme, you would also have to implement other copy-protection features, such as the region code system that prevents DVDs purchased in one part of the world from being played on DVD players purchased elsewhere.

DeCSS

In 1999, there was no way to play DVDs on the Linux operating system. While DVD players built into computers came with licensed DVD-playing software for Windows, they didn’t function on Linux. A Norwegian programmer named Jon Lech Johansen created DeCSS by reverse-engineering a poorly-protected DVD player. DeCSS was capable of decoding the CSS encryption, allowing unlicensed software to access the data on a DVD video disc. Before DeCSS, Linux users had no ability to watch video DVDs on Linux.

In response, his home was raided by Norwegian police in 2000 and the DVD CCA attempted to prosecute him under the Norwegian criminal code. He was ultimately acquitted, but the court process took several years.

libdvdcss

Modern Linux machines don’t use DeCSS. However, through examining the DeCSS code, people realized that CSS was vulnerable to a brute-force attack. CSS uses 40-bit encryption and doesn’t use every possible key, so it’s an extremely weak type of encryption. A modern computer can crack a DVD’s CSS encryption through brute force – that is, by trying every possible key and seeing which one works – in just a few seconds.

This is what libdvdcss does. With libdvdcss installed on Linux, after you insert a DVD into your computer’s DVD drive, your computer will brute-force its encryption in a few seconds. It may look like the DVD is just opening in VLC, but your computer is cracking the encryption key in the background to make it viewable.

If you don’t have libdvdcss installed, DVDs won’t play back at all.

Legal Status

Unlike DeCSS, there have been no legal challenges against libdvdcss in particular, although it appears to be illegal under the DMCA.

Court rulings in the US have affirmed that breaking CSS encryption is a violation of the DMCA. RealNetworks once produced RealDVD, an application that allowed users to copy their own DVDs and create digital copies – essentially ripping them, as people rip audio CDs.

The DVD CCA argued that, although Real had licensed CSS encryption support from them, this was a violation of their agreement and a violation of the DMCA. The courts ruled that Real had violated the DMCA’s anti-circumvention measures. Other DVD-ripping applications, such as the popular Handbrake, are also illegal under the DMCA, although they’re widely available on the Internet.

While the DMCA has an exemptions process – this is why it’s legal to jailbreak a phone (but not a tablet) – an exemption has never been granted for watching DVDs on Linux. The government continues to consider this illegal, just as it considers ripping DVDs to your computer illegal.

Update: As of January, it’s not legal to unlock your phone without the permission of the carrier that you bought it from, assuming they locked it in the first place. You can buy an unlocked phone, of course, but that will cost more.

Actually, Linux Has a Few Licensed DVD Players

It was once true that Linux users had to become criminals to watch commercial video DVDs (at least in the USA). However, there are now licensed DVD players available for Linux.

For example, Ubuntu’s Software Center offers the licensed Fluendo DVD Player. This DVD player will cost you $25, although you have probably already paid for licensed DVD-playback software that comes with your computer’s DVD drive in the first place. If you purchased the licensed Cyberlink DVD player, which was previously the only legal option for watching DVDs on Linux in the USA, you probably need to buy the Fluendo DVD Player to play DVDs on modern versions of Ubuntu.

In practice, most Linux users will Google up a solution to watching DVDs on Linux and install libdvdcss, which is free and allows them to watch DVDs in VLC and other media players they already use.

We’re not lawyers here, and it’s certainly unclear whether this would stand up in court, just as it’s unclear if the courts would uphold a prosecution against someone for unlocking a cell phone or jailbreaking an iPad. However, this is what the DMCA says.

Laws as bad as this one aren’t restricted to the USA alone – other countries may have similar laws. For example, Canada now has a law that makes “breaking a digital lock” illegal, which would also make this illegal in Canada.

Boston Dynamic's Cinderblock Throwing Pack Mule Drone

Found this floating around Reddit... What are they up to o_0

http://youtu.be/2jvLalY6ubc

Seems Boston Dynamic Modified And Improved On Their First Design

http://youtu.be/W1czBcnX1Ww

Pastafarians Face Religious Discrimination in New Jersey

The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission does not accept the Flying Spaghetti Monster as a deity worthy of a religious-apparel photo wavier.

When resident Aaron Williams, 24, arrived at a MVC facility this month to have his driver’s license photo taken, workers refused to snap the picture. Why? “The issue was when Williams went to take his picture for license was wearing a pasta strainer on his head [sic],” according to a police report.

Head coverings are forbidden in license photos, unless the wearer qualifies for a religious exemption. No problem, Williams said — the colander was in fact a piece of apparel mandated by his professed religion, the timeless faith of Pastafarianism.

“The strainer is a showing of my devoutness to the religion,” Williams told a local news source.

Pastafarians worship a being called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and preach a “rejection of dogma” with “no strict rules and regulations . . . no rote rituals and prayers and other nonsense.” The religion was founded in 2005 in response to a plan by the Kansas School Board to teach intelligent design in school science classes.

Rampant Discrimination

Followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster have a history of being discriminated against in the U.S., despite the equal protection clauses in the Constitution. On at least two occasions, local governments have denied Pastafarians the right to put up wintertime displays on public property next to other religious decorations like nativity scenes.

There is precedent for religiously-motivated cookware being allowed in driver’s license photos, just not in this country. An Austrian Pastafarian in 2011 won a three-year battle to have his official photo taken with a strainer on his head. Officials made him pass a mental competency test first, then insisted that the photo exception was only made because his whole face was visible, not for any religious reasons.

Fortunately for everyone, the New Jersey incident ended without any major disturbance or arrests. A police officer who responded to the scene advised Williams that he would have to apply to the state to officially qualify for a religious photo exemption, Williams agreed to be photographed without his colander, and no bystanders were harmed.

“Had it been a turban or a head scarf, or something from a mainstream religion, then it would’ve been fine,” Williams said. “I guess since they hadn’t heard of the religion, that’s why they opposed it. But that’s not really acceptable to me. They’re not in a position to discriminate against religions that are mainstream, or not mainstream, just because they may not have heard about it.”

There are no plans for a lawsuit at this time.

Via Lawyers.com