Month: December 2016

Researchers map areas of the U.S. with the most infidelity

Michael Chohaney and Kimberly Panozzo used the data, retrievable online after hackers swiped it last year from the website Ashley Madison, to map areas of the United States with the most unfaithful husbands. The result was a first-of-its-kind geographical look at internet-facilitated infidelity, and serves as a warning to the wives of affluent Fairfield County, Connecticut, home to tony Greenwich and Stamford.

Vermont utility finds malware code attributed to Russians

A state electric utility confirmed on Friday it had found on one of its laptops a malware code the U.S. government says is used by Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department said U.S. utilities were alerted by the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday of a malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name Homeland Security has applied to a Russian campaign linked to recent hacks.

Obama leaves Trump with difficult decision on Russian hacking sanctions

President Barack Obama is forcing his successor Donald Trump into a difficult choice: reverse the sanctions the departing president just imposed on Russia for hacking the U.S. election or put at risk his campaign vow to improve relations with Vladimir Putin. Hours after Obama imposed penalties on Russian agencies, individuals and companies and ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian operatives Thursday, Trump issued a terse statement far milder than his previous assertions that Democratic emails may well have been stolen and leaked by “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.”

Provocative study maps unfaithful husbands

Michael Chohaney, a University of Toledo graduate student, did research with Kimberly Panozzo that was recently published in the jourA nal GeoA graphA iA cal Review. Michael Chohaney and Kimberly Panozzo used the data, retrievable online after hackers swiped it last year from the website Ashley Madison, to map areas of the United States with the most unfaithful husbands.

Bring Down The Curtain With World Patent Marketing’s New Household…

The home appliance industry is worth $214 billion,” says Scott Cooper, CEO and Creative Director of World Patent Marketing. “Smart appliances are starting to become big this year, forcing the industry to respond with connected home appliances… World Patent Marketing, a vertically integrated manufacturer and engineer of patented products, introduces the Rodless Curtain, a household invention that gives people curtains that are easy to store and maintain.

GOP Joe Walsh Claims ‘Many’ Fox People Think Obama’s A Muslim

Deadbeat dad former Congressman Joe Walsh , who has denigrated double-amputee Tammy Duckworth’s war record despite never bothering to serve his country himself, went on quite the Twitter rant today accusing President Obama of being a Muslim.From Walsh’s Twitter feed : For the past week, everybody has been asking again why Obama hates Israel. The answer is simple really: I think Obama is Muslim.

Richmond: Officials working to determine source of rotten-egg smell

Air district and Contra Costa health officials are continuing to work to find the source of a rotten-egg smell reported in both Richmond and San Francisco, officials said Friday. The foul smell has been prevalent in Point Richmond and San Francisco this week and may be connected to flaring incidents at the Chevron refinery that the county says were not properly reported.

The top 10 Army modernization efforts of 2016

The Improved Turbine Engine Program will eventually replace the existing General Electric T700-GE-701C/D engines that now power AH-64 Apache like this one and UH-60 Black Hawk aircraft. The right technology can ensure overmatch against future adversaries in an increasingly complex and dangerous world, where the threat is often “elusive and ambiguous,” according to Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen.

NASA photograph

This artist’s concept of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane’s specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. NASA Aeronautics researchers will use the X-57 to demonstrate that electric propulsion can make planes quieter, more efficient and more environmentally friendly.

Mojave a ” thinking outside the box

Doug Scroggins of Scroggins Aviation works on block buster movies often using old planes from Mojave’s boneyard. His helicopter built for the film Jurassic World, was part of the second highest grossing film until Star Wars bumped it out.

Air Force Test Center

In 2012, Air Force Materiel Command redesignated the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., as the Air Force Test Center. As the AFTC, the center assumed responsibility for the 412th Test Wing at Edwards, the 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and the Arnold Engineering Development Complex at Arnold AFB, Tenn.

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When astronauts set foot on Mars, they may stay for months rather than days as they did during Apollo missions to the moon. The surface of Mars has extreme temperatures and the atmosphere does not provide adequate protection from high-energy radiation.

Year in review: 2016 became a year of a Stranger Thingsa

It’s in that acclaimed Netflix show set in 1983 that a group of average folks in Hawkins, Indiana, confront the existence of “The Upside Down” – a cold, dark, dank parallel dimension. Shockingly, they find it’s been there for years with only a thin veil separating them from the dreadful place.

Year in review: 2016 became a year of a Stranger Thingsa

It’s in that acclaimed Netflix show set in 1983 that a group of average folks in Hawkins, Indiana, confront the existence of “The Upside Down” – a cold, dark, dank parallel dimension. Shockingly, they find it’s been there for years with only a thin veil separating them from the dreadful place.

What’s the diplomatic message behind Kremlin’s largesse?

There appeared to be two separate messages coming out of the Kremlin on Friday, when Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that 31 American diplomats would be expelled as retaliation — and then Russian President Vladimir Putin announced no U.S. diplomats would be ousted. Lavrov’s announcement of a tit-for-tat expulsion — President Obama said on Thursday that 35 Russian diplomats would be expelled from the U.S. — is a common practice that goes back to the Cold War.

What’s the diplomatic message behind Kremlin’s largesse?

There appeared to be two separate messages coming out of the Kremlin on Friday, when Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that 31 American diplomats would be expelled as retaliation — and then Russian President Vladimir Putin announced no U.S. diplomats would be ousted. Lavrov’s announcement of a tit-for-tat expulsion — President Obama said on Thursday that 35 Russian diplomats would be expelled from the U.S. — is a common practice that goes back to the Cold War.

33C3: Works for Me

The Chaos Communication Congress is the largest German hacker convention by a wide margin, and it’s now in its thirty-third year, hence 33C3. The Congress is a techno-utopian-anarchist-rave with a social conscience and a strong underpinning of straight-up hacking.