Steven Viola
Adventures of a Computer Engineer
This is a peer-to-peer filesharing networkHack a Day
Oct 30th
[Aram Bartholl] is building his own filesharing network that screws those fat cats who want to control your freedom. He’s added file cache devices throughout NYC (five so far but more to come) that are anonymous and free to use. Upload what you want, download what you want. They’re completely offline which means monitoring who’s doing what gets a lot harder and quite possibly requires a warrant from a Judge (we’re obviously not legal experts, your mileage may vary).
As for the slew of comments that are sure to point out the dangers of malicious USB device; We think everyone knows they’re taking on some risk when connecting to a USB plug protruding from a brick wall.
[Thanks Neckbeard]
Filed under: misc hacks
Set Gmail to Auto-Advance to Another Message After Archiving or Deleting [Gmail Labs]Lifehacker
Oct 27th
Introducing Zulu – A Suite of µTorrent Apps
Sep 25th
Winner of the µTorrent App Developers Challenge
Zulu consists of two incredible apps allowing you to discover and download free music and your favorite TV shows. Both apps consist of an intuitive simple interface built inside µTorrent allowing browsing, searching, downloading and playback all in one place. Zulu apps require the latest µTorrent beta client named Project Griffin. Installing the apps is simple and only requires a few clicks. Once the app installs, they will be updated automatically.
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RFID readers, writers, and spoofersHack a Day
Sep 25th
[Carl] has done a lot of work developing a collection of RFID hardware. The two cards you see above are spoofers that can be programmed in the field using the keypad on the left, or the rather intimidating banks of DIP switches on the right. We also enjoyed his look at the Atmel T5557 and ATA5567 on-card chips used for the tags themselves. He shared the schematics for his designs but unfortunately he’s not distributing the firmware. None-the-less, if you’re interested in learning more about RFID this is a wonderful resource as it covers readers, writers, spoofer, and tags.
Passengers Tossed Like Ragdolls Inside Storm-Stricken Cruise ShipThe Consumerist
Sep 17th
CCTV video has recently resurfaced showing what happened inside a Pacific Sun cruise ship during a severe storm. Passengers smack to the floor and locomote from port to sideboard and back again like ragdolls on ice, cling desperately to anything they can get a hand on, and try to dodge the piles of furniture caroming around. Cruise ships can be fun, but out there on the open seas Mother Nature can have her own ideas about what constitutes a good time.
@bonked Thanks for the awesome coin. I’ve got number 152. Truly value for value. Also thank you to @adamcurry and @therealdvorak. Amazing!
