Video Rewrite uses existing footage to create automatically new video of a person mouthing words that she did not speak in the original footage. This technique is useful in movie dubbing, for example, where the movie sequence can be modified to sync the actors’ lip motions to the new soundtrack.
You may know of the Church of the SubGenius, that parody religion that worships the almighty "Bob" and was a fixture of MTV and Night Flights back in the day. But do you know of its SECRET ORIGINS?
Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum
She then showed that "87% of the U.S. Population are uniquely identified by {date of birth, gender, ZIP}."
SoX is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms.
To defer the cost to Cox of compliance, payment of the following minimum fees is required for all subpoena, court order and warrant requests
Because there are around 7 billion humans on the planet, the identity of a random, unknown person contains just under 33 bits of entropy (two to the power of 33 is 8 billion). When we learn a new fact about a person, that fact reduces the entropy of their identity by a certain amount. There is a formula to say how much: ΔS = - log2 Pr(X=x) Where ΔS is the reduction in entropy, measured in bits,2 and Pr(X=x) is simply the probability that the fact would be true of a random person.
[Ever since reading Stephen Wolfram runs a keystroke logger to analyze his own computer usage, I have been very intrigued by how much I might type in a day and when]
RemoteSight is an application for video and audio transmission over a network. It captures video from any attached video input device (for example the built-in iSight camera included in many Macintosh computers), which can then be viewed on another computer over a network or the internet.
William E. Sparkman Jr. died of asphyxiation and was found with hands, feet and mouth bound with duct tape, a rope around his neck and the word "FED" written on his chest, investigators concluded. Passersby spotted his body on Sept. 12 in a remote area of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
The researchers wrote a program that connected to a server over Sprint's 3G wireless network 40 times per second, enough to flood the Call Data Channel. They say that they could get the same results by programming a computer to make seven VoIP calls per second or to fire off 42 SMS messages per second.
Headquartered in Crystal City, Virginia, just outside Washington, the FBI’s National Security Branch Analysis Center (NSAC) maintains a hodgepodge of data sets packed with more than 1.5 billion government and private-sector records about citizens and foreigners
“The Board of Education forbids the riding of bicycles by students to and from Maple Avenue Middle School.
The trial starts this afternoon, when several hundred people are expected to queue up for immunizations at the headquarters of the Boston Public Health Commission. Each of them will get a bracelet printed with a unique identifier code. Information about the vaccine's recipients, and the shot, will be entered into handheld devices similar to those used by delivery truck drivers.
From January through August, Phoenix collected about $231 million in sales-tax dollars, $23 million, or 9 percent, less than projected. That means fewer dollars to pay for such services as police and fire protection, parks and libraries. "It's devastating. It's much worse than the worst-case scenario," said Councilwoman Thelda Williams, who expected a midyear shortfall of less than $10 million. "This is too large to handle without making huge community sacrifices."
[I want to see pictures of the island of plastic crap, not plastic crap brought back.]
Conclusion The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ''radio location'' (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example, [3]). The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations. It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.
Chinese researchers have managed to create powerful stem cells from mouse skin and used these to generate fertile live mouse pups.
Emblems from the Pentagon's black world
The startling figures emerge from studies into toxoplasma gondii, a parasite carried by almost all the country’s feline population. They show that half of Britain’s human population carry the parasite in their brains, and that infected people may undergo slow but crucial changes in their behaviour.
The unit was given a new codename, Quasar Talent, at the beginning of the 1990s.
Last year, the AP reported that trace amounts of a wide range of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in American drinking water supplies. Including recent findings in Dallas, Cleveland and Maryland's Prince George's and Montgomery counties, pharmaceuticals have been detected in the drinking water of at least 51 million Americans. Most cities and water providers still do not test. Some scientists say that wherever researchers look, they will find pharma-tainted water.
In "little-noticed findings", researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 15 brands of baby milk contained perchlorate, an oxidizer in solid fuels used in explosives, fireworks, road flares and rocket motors, the EWG said.
Researchers led by Purnendu Dasgupta, a chemist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, US, have published the first known study of perchlorate in breast milk. They found the substance in each of 36 breast-milk samples taken from 18 states and in all but one of 47 dairy milk samples from 11 states.
Three new species of bacteria, which are not found on Earth and which are highly resistant to ultra-violet radiation, have been discovered in the upper stratosphere by Indian scientists.
The move by the Australian Communications and Media Authority comes after it threatened the host of online broadband discussion forum Whirlpool last week with a $11,000-a-day fine over a link published in its forum to another page blacklisted by ACMA - an anti-abortion website.
The problem begins with the electric power grid. "Electric power is modern society's cornerstone technology on which virtually all other infrastructures and services depend," the report notes. Yet it is particularly vulnerable to bad space weather. Ground currents induced during geomagnetic storms can actually melt the copper windings of transformers at the heart of many power distribution systems. Sprawling power lines act like antennas, picking up the currents and spreading the problem over a wide area. The most famous geomagnetic power outage happened during a space storm in March 1989 when six million people in Quebec lost power for 9 hours: image.
Mitchell, who's also in the midst of treatments for Morgellons syndrome, an infectious and potentially debilitating skin condition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons
Panasonic Corp. has ordered Japanese employees in some foreign countries to send their families home to Japan in preparation for a possible bird flu pandemic, a spokesman said Tuesday. Family members of Japanese employees in parts of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, former Soviet states and Latin America will fly back to Japan by the end of September, Panasonic spokesman Akira Kadota said.
Ghostery scans the web pages you visit to find web bugs. Web bugs are used to track your behavior on the web in order to help the sites you visit to understand their own audiences and to allow advertisers to target ads at you.
"I know you're listening"
[Austin is just outside the constitution-free zone] Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders. The government is assuming extraordinary powers to stop and search individuals within this zone. This is not just about the border: This " Constitution-Free Zone" includes most of the nation's largest metropolitan areas.
A new 60-page Government Accountability Office report said the department "lacks assurance that NAO operations will comply with applicable laws and privacy and civil liberties standards," according to a person familiar with the document. The report, which is unclassified but considered sensitive, hasn't been publicly released, but was described and quoted by several people who have read it. The report cites gaps in privacy safeguards. The department, it found, lacks controls to prevent improper use of domestic-intelligence data by other agencies and provided insufficient assurance that requests for classified information will be fully reviewed to ensure it can be legally provided.
[It says Ring Bell, but they really walked into his house, up the stairs, into his bedroom, and woke him up. To tell him his door was unlocked...]
The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to lock people up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders who make money off prisoners' work lobby for longer sentences, in order to expand their workforce
Unfortunately, new figures this week reveal that house prices have already fallen 14.1% More than in any year during the Great Depression, 10.5% at its worse.
Is all this the end of the world? For the richest country on the planet, certainly not.
As long as the dollar was the only acceptable payment for oil, its dominance in the world was assured, and the American Empire could continue to tax the rest of the world. If, for any reason, the dollar lost its oil backing, the American Empire would ceas
Islamic scholars have been seeking to devise a global banking system that would serve as an alternative to the usury-based scheme now in control internationally, and Iran has led the way in devising that model
Rothkopf has identified roughly 6,000 individuals who have "the ability to regularly influence the lives of millions of people in multiple countries worldwide."
what's inside: an arsenal of sophisticated surveillance and tracking equipment powerful enough to read license plates — or scan pedestrians' faces — from high above the nation's largest metropolis.
A few years back, one prominent oil producer switched to trading in euros per barrel. That country was Iraq
I’m going to provide a one paragraph summary, just to make sure that the implications of this are clear to everyone:
The few times officials have spoken of the practice, they have understated it, portraying sedation as rare and "an act of last resort." Neither is true, records and interviews indicate.
The number of illegal immigrants detained Monday in Postville has risen to 390 in what federal officials now describe as the largest single-site raid of its kind nationwide.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency personnel are trained and ready. Buses and vans are standing by for raids. Detention facilities have expanded. All that is lacking is clearance from the courts. Employers should be prepared in the coming mont
The defendants’ lawyers say that there could have been no conspiracy at all without Anna. Documents from the investigation reviewed by SN&R suggest that Anna provided much of the financial support, the encouragement and the know-how needed to turn their
But suppose the worse. Suppose abundance is over. Must we fear that? The answer is no.
Security experts say there may be some subtle signs your phone is invaded:
While no Fifth Amendment right protects the data on your laptop or phone, one federal court has held that even a judge cannot force you to divulge your password when the act of revealing the password shows that you are the person with access to or control
Really, Walton Feed's mission is two fold: We supply foods already packed for long term storage and we are also a low cost source of whole, unprocessed, nutritionally sound foods for immediate consumption.
Austin police said Thursday that they are leaning toward a ruling of suicide in the death of a middle school teacher and activist whose body was found Wednesday in Lady Bird Lake with his hands and legs bound and tape over his eyes.
"That is an untenable inventory demand, in our opinion," she said. "Consequently, we believe demand must be rationed or there needs to be a big supply response from other growing regions of the world."
Banks are a safe place to put money, even if there are failures, because deposits are insured up to $100,000 and self-directed retirement accounts (IRAs) are insured up to $250,000.
What's now clear is that the contagion of sub-prime has moved to prime and, with it, billions of dollars worth of carnage will follow. As more than $16 billion of Carlyle's assets hit the market, prices will fall further and other banks will rush to liqui
According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records
In a first ever study of which companies have the most identity theft incidents, Bank of America, HSBC, and Washington Mutual were named as the companies with the most incidents per billions of dollars of deposits
Regulators are bracing for well over 100 bank failures in the next 12 to 24 months, with concentrations in Rust Belt states like Michigan and Ohio, and the states that are suffering severe housing-market problems like California, Florida, and Georgia,
Prof Roubini is even fonder of lists than I am. Here are his 12 – yes, 12 – steps to financial disaster.
If voices in your head aren't disturbing enough, the report also goes on to theorize about a microwave weapon that could use electromagnetic pulses to disrupt the brain's functioning.
During a week of attempting to cloak every aspect of daily life, our correspondent found that in an information age, leaving no trace is nearly impossible
To strike the provisions providing immunity from civil liability to electronic communication service providers for certain assistance provided to the Government.
At its most basic level, InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector. InfraGard is an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedi
Your login information and email address (should you choose to provide it) are kept strictly confidenial and used only for the ffunctioning of the website [are typos legal grounds for getting out of binding agreements?]
Pentagon officials had previously stated that the voice came from one of the boats, but they are now distancing themselves from that claim, saying instead that they do not know the source of the transmission.
What would prevent them from creating an incident that could be used as justification? A sudden moral line that cannot be crossed? Or perhaps a lately developed conscience?
One company plans deeper implants that could vibrate, electroshock the implantee, broadcast a message, or serve as a microphone to transmit conversations.
He claims that the supernotes are of such high quality and are updated so frequently that they could be produced only by a U.S. government agency such as the CIA.
Ted Wallis, a doctor in Austin, Texas, recently came upon a lost child in tears in a mall. His first instinct was to help, but he feared people might consider him a predator. He walked away. "Being male," he explains, "I am guilty until proven innocent."
If dad goes for a walk with his daughter and holds her hand, apparently Virginia Department of Health officials wants you to pick up the phone and destroy his life by reporting him as a possible sexual abuser. I would’ve thought this article about this
"It's good to see change in this job and the way we do it, especially if you put it in to the context of some of the troublesome transitions of power that we see happen in other countries," added Fratto. "We sort of take it for granted the way we do it. W
Published (shortly) before the assassination. "Pakistan should be carefully watched because it could prove to be a significant flashpoint in the coming year," US think tank Strategic Forecasting said.
This is wonderfully blunt.
Who knew that insurance companies spied on people...
Unfortunately, the improvements in lethality that we have already seen are just the beginning. The arc of productivity growth that lets small groups terrorize at ever-higher levels of death and disruption stretches as far as the eye can see.
You just shoot the other guy and "rig up a thing where you tie a string to one end of a spoon," he told me, "and tie the other end to the guy's key. Then you can sit in your chair and twist your key with one hand while you yank on the spoon with the other
"A mobile sitting on the desk of a politician or businessman can act as a powerful, undetectable bug," the article said, "enabling them to be activated at a later date to pick up sounds even when the receiver is down."
Under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, police officers may randomly stop someone without reasonable suspicion, providing the area has been designated a likely target for an attack. The power is currently in force across the whole of London.
"So many people in America think this does not affect them. They've been convinced that these programs are only targeted at suspected terrorists. … I think that's wrong. … Our programs are not perfect, and it is inevitable that totally innocent Americ
The very phrase used ... "enhanced interrogation techniques" - is a term originally coined by the Nazis. The techniques are indistinguishable. The methods were clearly understood in 1948 as war-crimes. The punishment for them was death.
It was not immediately clear which brands of toothpaste sold in the Unites States are made in China.
Then, you will never not know what blood type you are, and you won't have to worry about your blood
LEADER IN PERSONAL LOCATION SERVICES USHERS IN A NEW ERA OF FOOTWEAR-BASED GPS TRACKING TECHNOLOGY AT THE WORLD SHOE ASSOCIATION (WSA) TRADE SHOW IN LAS VEGAS, FEBRUARY 1, 2007.
Tomas, a "cram school" (an after-school tutoring center), is now having students check in and out with RFID-enabled cards. And just to make sure parents know exactly what's going on, the school uses SMS to automatically inform parents when their kids have
My point is that whenever the government starts putting restrictions on currencies, or on metals, there is reason to be concerned.
The U.S. Commerce Department's security office warns that "a cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone.
The ball-point pen type MP3 player "USB MP3 Pen with voice recorder" that includes extremely well received voice recorder function has been renewed.
Paraben's Passport StrongHold Bags block wireless signals to protect your personal information from being read by would-be identity thieves or other people who wish to invade your privacy.
Fewer conversations are ephemeral, and we’re losing control over the data. We trust our ISPs, employers and cellphone companies with our privacy, but again and again they’ve proven they can’t be trusted.
Suddenly, online private lives are becoming company business.
A "swarm" of simple-minded robots that teams up to move an object too heavy for them to manage individually has been demonstrated by robotics researchers. [Video clip 2 is the best]
The Wintec WBT-200 is a cute GPS receiver in a tiny package that streams NMEA data over Bluetooth and USB. It can also log GPS data for subsequent download.
Laughter erupts as Lifehacker helps us all out again. This time, recording conversations. Texas, a single-party consent state, allows you to record any conversation you participate in. I cannot make that point enough.
It goes like this: when a link has been visited, you can use the :visited pseudo-class to style it. Using Javascript, you can walk through all of the links on your page and grab their styles.
The variety, known as LLRICE 601, is endowed with bacterial DNA that makes rice plants resistant to a weed killer made by the agricultural giant Aventis.
"There may come an occasion when you just don't see anything out of the ordinary for a month at a time, but I'm sure that if you are looking for it, you'll see something."
An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids," by Radley Balko.
A little more research, and I found that that board spliced in between the keyboard and the ethernet chip is little more than a Keyghost hardware keylogger.
The following exercise in watershed awareness was hatched 30 years ago by Peter Warshall, naturalist extraordinaire.
Thanks to a GPS steering system developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the 60-meter long helium-filled balloon will remain stationary at 21 kilometres above the earth.
“You’re under arrest for trespassing.” “We’re not trespassing; we’re overthrowing the government.”
"Of course, we know that these radical students are not going to take over the government. What they are going to do is provide the excuse for the government to take over the people, by passing more and more repressive laws to 'keep things under control'.
BYOMS are personalized instant messaging search you creat from information sources you trust and rely on. And someone else getting to watch your search history.
Regardless of the government you live under, your actions on the internet are being tracked. Your every search recorded and kept in a database for future use/abuse.
Monitors allow you to keep a careful watch over the government. Representatives, bills, subjects, committees, and votes can be tracked using monitors
Browsing a government Web site, he pulled up a local divorce document listing the parties' names, addresses and bank account numbers, along with scans of their signatures. With a common software program and some check stationery, the document provided all
Amnesty International, with the support of The Observer, is launching a campaign to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress.
Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news.
Perhaps you are happy with the growth of the US government. Perhaps you feel it is not large and powerful enough, that it needs to be larger and more powerful.
You will need a magnetic head which are very common I recommend a magnetic head from an old tape deck. It is important to be careful not to damage the head when removing it.
Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the company, which alleges that AT&T illegally cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic-surveillance program. In th
On its blog, The Blotter, ABC News reports that a senior government source has told its reporters that the reporters’ phone calls with sources are being tracked by the U.S. government “to root out confidential sources.”
The firm said it would make an entry into the rapidly expanding oxygen market and begin selling cans of oxygen on May 24. (I bet this also spurs research into air quality.)
On April 13, 2029, asteroid 2004 MN4 will fly past Earth only 18,600 miles (30,000 km) above the ground. For comparison, geosynchronous satellites orbit at 22,300 miles (36,000 km).
It's not a conspiracy when the "conspirators" spent years writing Op-Eds in the Washington Post.
He argued with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld after a speech in Atlanta, GA on May 4, 2006, accusing the Secretary of lying about the rationale for the Iraq War. [2] He is said to be suspicious of the official account of 9/11. He mentions older CIA
Developed by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), the Terrorism Knowledge Base offers in-depth information on terrorist incidents, groups, and trials. [With WIZARDS!]
Texas Penal Code § 16.02: So long as a wire, oral or electronic communication — including the radio portion of any cordless telephone call — is not recorded for a criminal or tortious purpose, anyone who is a party to the communication, or who has th
The federal law makes it unlawful to record telephone conversations except in one party consent cases which permit one party consent recording by state law. (a person can record their own telephone conversations without the knowledge or consent of the oth
Phlink 3 features call snooping, powerful multiple voice mailbox integration, 10-digit and 11-digit dialing as well as intelligent international dialing, and much more.
The PF is a special optical device that helps to visually penetrate an object's surface in order to view whatever lies below. The PF makes it possible for you to see images that are normally invisible to the human eye
With some modification, I create my own version of FM Telephone bug complete with stripboard layout. Theortically, the frequency range is from 88MHz to 94MHz but you may experiment with the coil structure to tune it
They still can't read your thoughts just by looking at you, but researchers can now see what your brain is doing just by shining beams of light into your head.
The key to this project is the government’s Enhanced 911 program, which will soon require all cellphones to transmit a GPS signal so that police can locate callers in need.
But this is the first time I've been on an Internet-connected vehicle, travelling 950kph, that changed its connection to the Internet. If this interconnection architecture is used by others, this could signal the rise of all kinds of interesting uses of t
