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Samstag, 25. Dezember 2004 |
Erfolgreiche Trennung von Cassini und Huygens
ausführlich mit Hintergründen
1:10:05 PM
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CallABike hacked by mischievous Germans
It started as a crunchy,
environmentally-friendly service called CallABike that
allowed German city-dwellers to rent bikes and leave them locked wherever when done. It ended as an IT war that has
resulted in hackers turning the rental bikes into HackABikes with backdoor access for a select few. The hackers were so
intent on gaining free access to these things that they abused several bikes to the point of paying for them until they
figured out how to re-flash the EEPROM. Now that they know how to do this, they claim they have hacked roughly 10% of
the 1700 rental bikes in the city of Berlin. The backdoor code supposedly allows them to rent the bikes for free.
As it should be. Free bikes. For hackers. Yeah.
[Via Slashdot]
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Introducing Asteroid 2004 MN4
Numerous readers wrote in with bits about a potential asteroid collision: "The recently discovered asteroid 2004 MN4 is currently listed as having a 1/233 chance of hitting the Earth. It is 420 m across and if it strikes the Earth it will release an energy of 1,900 Megatons of TNT (the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, Tsar Bomba had a yield of only 50 Megatons). It is also the only asteroid that currently has a Torino scale value of 2." So, in summary, there's a 1-in-233 chance of the worst disaster in recorded history happening on April 13, 2029, and a 232-in-233 chance of nothing happening. Have a nice day! Update: 12/24 22:14 GMT by M: The rock is now rated a 4 on the Torino scale, or a 1-in-62 chance of impact.
(Slashdot.)
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'Something' Cleaning Mars Rover
bluenirve writes "'Something' has been cleaning the solar panels of the Mars rover Opportunity. "NASA's Mars rover Opportunity seems to have stumbled into something akin to a carwash that has left its solar panels much cleaner than those of its twin rover, Spirit. A Martian carwash would account for a series of unexpected boosts in the electrical power produced by Opportunity's solar panels.""
(Slashdot.)
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Asteroid Flies Under the Radar, Literally
mrn121 writes "Space.com is reporting that a 16-foot wide asteriod has passed the Earth in a phenomenally close call. The Asteroid, named 2004 YD5, passed just below the 22,300 mile range where geostationary satellites sit. What makes the incident most interesting is that the asteriod was not seen until after it passed the Earth, due to the well-known Cosmic Blind Spot caused by the Sun."
(Slashdot.)
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Podcast Setup Pictures
After a horrible description in a previous DSC podcast, Tim Joransen dedicated himeslf to creating a diagram of my Podcast Setup. 
(Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog.)
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Zaubersprüche für Kinder
Zaum und Zaus und Sausewind, dass der Trick mir gut gelingt!
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