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Citigroup atm heist

Posted on October 31, 2012 by robertwilkie

Nice attack where if everything was timed right and the amounts the same, you could make several withdraws look like one if I am reading this correctly. http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/atm-heist-clears-1-million-exploiting-citigroup-e-payment-flaw/

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Is Xerox pulling an HP/EDS?

Posted on October 31, 2012 by robertwilkie

Interesting article that asks the question if Xerox is sinking its ACS arm in the same way HP has sunk EDS.  Reason this is interesting is Xerox announced 10-50 mil in restructuring cost possibly in the services area.  Which is … Continue reading →

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Portable Bow

Posted on October 30, 2012 by robertwilkie

Basically taking a slingshot and putting arrows to it.  Clever idea. http://www.instructables.com/id/The-BEAST-Barts-Eight-Arrow-ShooTer

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PS3 Security Cracked again

Posted on October 30, 2012 by robertwilkie

Came out a week ago that PS3’s can be cracked wide open again. http://hackaday.com/2012/10/25/lv0-encryption-key-cracks-current-and-future-playstation-3-firmware/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

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OK the real way to make a flaming pumpkin

Posted on October 30, 2012 by robertwilkie

Got too much slack for my other one, but this is a real one (with an ardiuno controller no less). http://www.instructables.com/id/Flamethrowing-Jack-O-Lantern/  

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Gartner ranks Xerox a leader in MPS

Posted on October 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

MPS == Managed Print Services. http://www.mspnews.com/channels/cloud/articles/313624-xerox-ranked-leaders-quadrant-gartner-mps.htm

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$10 Dollar Robots

Posted on October 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

There was a contest for $10 and under robots for education, below is a link to the 2nd place winner from China (out did MIT). (contest was here https://sites.google.com/site/afron10dollarrobot/) http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/Photo_gallery_and_video_links-AFRON

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How to make a flaming pumpkin

Posted on October 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

Nice video write-up on making a flaming pumpkin with toilet paper and kerosene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NFErgnaSRRY FYI: Yes this one is a joke

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Air based bots help swarm bots

Posted on October 26, 2012 by robertwilkie

Nice idea of using quad copter bots to help swarm bots (on the ground) get from one point to the other.  Any military applications here? http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/iros-2012-ar-drone-helps-swarm-of-selfassembling-robots-to-overcome-obstacles#disqus_thread

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Raspberry PI has a fully functional opensource video driver

Posted on October 26, 2012 by robertwilkie

This is very important since many video drivers for linux are limited, or you only get the binaries. http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/10/25/r-pi-arm-side-source-for-bcm2835-soc-graphics-driver-released/

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