Check out the Radiation Network site for all kinds of info about radiation levels, normal background radiation fluctuation, and how you can participate in the network. Check out the live streaming broadcast of a Geiger counter in Tokyo, Japan on ustream. As of this writing, the reading is 23.05 cpm, which according to the Radiation Network is easily within normal background radiation levels.

When you carry a smartphone such as an iPhone or Android phone, you’re accepting the fact that you may be giving up a certain level of privacy. Most people are completely ignorant of this, and many others choose to ignore the whole situation. Data mining doesn’t just look at one data set in order to analyse a subject, it looks at a multitude of factors. Phones have turned from simple calling devices to full blown portable computers. The avenues of attack on privacy have increased exponentially.

Also, the studio that made Homefront is the same company that made Frontlines: Fuel of War. That game was pretty fun, but seemed incomplete and had control issues, I remember.
Here’s hoping they tweaked and tightened.

Did you know there’s a 237 mile point-to-point WiFi link in Venezuela that achieves 3 Mbps throughput? They used Linksys WRT54G wireless routers, one on each end. Both are running Linux-based firmware.

With one host connecting and launching dbus sessions, this should work. You can get the variable from running sessions in /proc/ /environ. But as soon as you have multiple hosts, you need to figure out which host you’re coming from.

With python 3 you can override the print function’s delimiter value to make it null or whatever else you want. But if you’re stuck with 2.5 or 2.6 like the rest of us, try this on for size. The only problem with this is when you want to use it like a progress bar. If you do this in a loop over time, you will get the expected output, but over time it won’t be the way you expected.

Get rid of Microsoft Visio once and for all. yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality drawings of diagrams. I love that I can run this anywhere I have the run-time environment available. You can output your charts in many formats, even in Flash.

ooking to sniff your VoIP traffic? ccording to the sourceforge site, UCSniff is a VoIP & IP Video Security Assessment tool that integrates existing open source software into several useful features, allowing VoIP and IP Video owners and security professionals to rapidly test for the threat of unauthorized VoIP and Video Eavesdropping.

Perhaps you don’t have iptables running or you don’t want to process icmp stuff in your firewall rules. Echo this as root, and it will take effect immediately. If you’re wondering if changing things like this, tcp timeouts, and open ports will trick nmap fingerprint scanning, the answer is no.

on’t call it a point-to-point phone network, that might scare small children. How about network-free communication or a self-organizing self-powered temporary network? Mobile phones and tablets communicating with each other without the need of infrastructure, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!