NASA Satellite Catches Moon Crossing Earth And Reveals The Dark Side

NASA cameras captured the ‘dark side’ of the moon as it orbited the earth last month, revealing the fully illuminated far side for the first time.

NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has captured a unique view of the Moon from a million miles away, as its orbit crossed the orbital plane of the moon. NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the DSCOVR satellite orbiting between the Sun and Earth has the primary mission of real-time solar wind monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Twice a year EPIC will capture the Moon and Earth as their orbits inevitably line up and will reveal more on the mysterious ‘dark side’ of the Moon. The animation shows the Moon passing over the Pacific on July 16 and reveals the tidally locked moon from the ‘dark side’ for all to see.
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EPIC maintains a constant view of the fully illuminated Earth as it rotates, providing scientific observations of ozone, vegetation, cloud height and aerosols in the atmosphere. Once EPIC begins regular observations next month, the camera will provide a series of Earth images allowing study of daily variations over the entire globe. About twice a year the camera will capture the moon and Earth together as the orbit of DSCOVR crosses the orbital plane of the moon.

These images were taken between 3:50 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. EDT on July 16, showing the moon moving over the Pacific Ocean near North America. The North Pole is in the upper left corner of the image, reflecting the orbital tilt of Earth from the vantage point of the spacecraft.
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New malware turns your computer into a cellular antenna

A group of Israeli researchers have improved on a way to steal data from air-gapped computers, thought to be safer from attack due to their isolation from the Internet.

They’ve figured out how to turn the computer into a cellular transmitter, leaking bits of data that can be picked up by a nearby low-end mobile phone.

While other research has shown it possible to steal data this way, some of those methods required some hardware modifications to the computer. This attack uses ordinary computer hardware to send out the cellular signals.

Their research, which will be featured next week at the 24th USENIX Security Symposium in Washington, D.C., is the first to show it’s possible to steal data using just specialized malware on the computer and the mobile phone.

“If somebody wanted to get access to somebody’s computer at home—let’s say the computer at home wasn’t per se connected to the Internet—you could possibly receive the signal from outside the person’s house,” said Yisroel Mirsky, a doctoral student at Ben-Gurion University and study co-author.

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FBI: Retweeting a Terrorist’s Tweet Could Land You In Trouble

— The FBI’s best informant has played a role in dozens of terrorism cases over the past several years and provided endless intelligence on extremists across the United States. The informant is young, rich, well-connected, easily distracted and really into reality television.

The informant’s name? Twitter.

The social network is an “extraordinarily effective way to sell shoes, or vacations, or terrorism,” and it puts propaganda in the pocket of kids and those with troubled minds, FBI Director James Comey said recently. “It’s buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz. It’s the constant feed … the devil on your shoulder all day long, saying, ‘Kill, kill, kill.'”

FBI agents have cited suspects’ tweets in a slew of recent terrorism cases. Federal prosecutors have charged several Twitter users who allegedly support the Islamic State with lying to federal agents about their Twitter activity. In other cases, the FBI has pointed to Twitter activity — including retweets — as probable cause for terrorism charges. In one case, a 17-year-old pleaded guilty to providing “material support” to a designated foreign terrorist organization by tweeting out links.

Law enforcement officials are ramping up their monitoring of Twitter. The company received 2,879 information requests from federal, state and local law enforcement authorities within the U.S. in 2014 — a 66 percent increase from the 1,735 it received in 2013, according to its transparency report. Overall, there was a 72 percent jump in the number of accounts affected by such requests in the second half of 2014. The requests could be seeking additional user information, IP addresses and even the content of direct messages sent through the network.

Twitter’s report does not specify how many requests came from the federal government in particular. But it’s notable that FBI agents investigating terrorism are likely based in some of the locations with the highest number of Twitter requests in the second half of 2014. There were 195 requests made in Virginia, 170 requests out of New York state, and 125 requests that originated in the nation’s capital.

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Psychologist’s Work for GCHQ Deception Unit Inflames Debate Among Peers

Andrew Fishman

Aug. 7 2015, 1:18 p.m.

A British psychologist is receiving sharp criticism from some professional peers for providing expert advice to help the U.K. surveillance agency GCHQ manipulate people online.

The debate brings into focus the question of how or whether psychologists should offer their expertise to spy agencies engaged in deception and propaganda.

Dr. Mandeep K. Dhami, in a 2011 paper, provided the controversial GCHQ spy unit JTRIG with advice, research pointers, training recommendations, and thoughts on psychological issues, with the goal of improving the unit’s performance and effectiveness. JTRIG’s operations have been referred to as “dirty tricks,” and Dhami’s paper notes that the unit’s own staff characterize their work using “terms such as ‘discredit,’ promote ‘distrust,’ ‘dissuade,’ ‘deceive,’ ‘disrupt,’ ‘delay,’ ‘deny,’ ‘denigrate/degrade,’ and ‘deter.’” The unit’s targets go beyond terrorists and foreign militaries and include groups considered “domestic extremist[s],” criminals, online “hacktivists,” and even “entire countries.”

After publishing Dhami’s paper for the first time in June, The Intercept reached out to several of her fellow psychologists, including some whose work was referenced in the paper, about the document’s ethical implications.

One of the psychologists cited in the report criticized the paper and GCHQ’s ethics. Another psychologist condemned Dhami’s recommendations as “grossly unethical” and another called them an “egregious violation” of psychological ethics. But two other psychologists cited in the report did not express concern when contacted for reaction, and another psychologist, along with Dhami’s current employer, defended her work and her ethical standards.

A British law firm hired to represent Dhami maintained that any allegations of unethical conduct are “grossly defamatory and totally untrue.”

The divergent views on the paper highlight how the profession of psychology has yet to resolve key ethical concerns around consulting for government intelligence agencies. These issues take on added resonance in the context of the uproar currently roiling the American Psychological Association over the key role it played in the CIA torture program during the Bush administration. The APA’s Council of Representatives voted Friday to bar psychologists from taking part in national security interrogations or to advise on confinement conditions. Dhami’s consultation with JTRIG and the APA’s role in support of the CIA torture program are disparate — there is no suggestion that Dhami advised on interrogations involving torture nor that her paper was part of an ongoing relationship with JTRIG — but Dhami’s GCHQ work, like the APA scandal, provokes heated disagreement and criticism.

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NASA: Ice Caps Have Not Receded At All

Updated data from NASA satellite instruments reveal the Earth’s polar ice caps have not receded at all since the satellite instruments began measuring the ice caps in 1979. Since the end of 2012, moreover, total polar ice extent has largely remained above the post-1979 average. The updated data contradict one of the most frequently asserted global warming claims – that global warming is causing the polar ice caps to recede.

The timing of the 1979 NASA satellite instrument launch could not have been better for global warming alarmists. The late 1970s marked the end of a 30-year cooling trend. As a result, the polar ice caps were quite likely more extensive than they had been since at least the 1920s. Nevertheless, this abnormally extensive 1979 polar ice extent would appear to be the “normal” baseline when comparing post-1979 polar ice extent.

Updated NASA satellite data show the polar ice caps remained at approximately their 1979 extent until the middle of the last decade. Beginning in 2005, however, polar ice modestly receded for several years. By 2012, polar sea ice had receded by approximately 10 percent from 1979 measurements. (Total polar ice area – factoring in both sea and land ice – had receded by much less than 10 percent, but alarmists focused on the sea ice loss as “proof” of a global warming crisis.)

A 10-percent decline in polar sea ice is not very remarkable, especially considering the 1979 baseline was abnormally high anyway. Regardless, global warming activists and a compliant news media frequently and vociferously claimed the modest polar ice cap retreat was a sign of impending catastrophe. Al Gore even predicted the Arctic ice cap could completely disappear by 2014.

In late 2012, however, polar ice dramatically rebounded and quickly surpassed the post-1979 average. Ever since, the polar ice caps have been at a greater average extent than the post-1979 mean.

Now, in May 2015, the updated NASA data show polar sea ice is approximately 5 percent above the post-1979 average.

During the modest decline in 2005 through 2012, the media presented a daily barrage of melting ice cap stories. Since the ice caps rebounded – and then some – how have the media reported the issue?

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Sex with robots to be ‘the norm’ in 50 years, expert claims

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Future: Experts believe humans could be having sex with robots in the near future

Humans could soon be having sexual relationships with robots, a top academic has claimed.

Dr Helen Driscoll said advances in technology mean the way in which humans interact with robots is set to change drastically in the coming years.

Dr Driscoll, a leading authority on the psychology of sex and relationships, said ‘sex tech’ was already advancing at a fast pace and by 2070, physical relationships will seem primitive.

Already you can order a mannequin partner online. And robotic, interactive, motion-sensing technology is likely to become more and more central to the sex industry in the next few years.

“It could really start to enable mannequin partners to ‘come to life'”, according to Dr Driscoll, from the University of Sunderland.

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Cincinnati Hospitals to Screen All New Moms, Newborns for Heroin

CINCINNATI (Reuters) — Bubbly and athletic, Heather Padgett, raised in a loving family in the Cincinnati suburbs, would not fit the stereotype of a heroin addict.

But the 28-year-old former administrative assistant’s addiction was so bad, she used heroin while pregnant. Her twin girls were born 9 months ago while she was in treatment, and they suffered tremors from withdrawal.

“I never thought I’d be pregnant and using drugs,” Padgett said. Until she got clean last August, she was part of what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called a heroin epidemic — a 100% rise in heroin addiction among Americans between 2002 and 2013.

The sharp rise in heroin addiction, coupled with the risks of newborns developing withdrawal symptoms after they are sent home, has led a group of Cincinnati hospitals to try what they say is the first program of its kind in the United States: testing all mothers, or their infants, for opiates regardless of background, not just those who seem high-risk.

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EFF Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard For Web Browsing

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting for Web browsing—a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software, will better protect users from sites that try to secretly follow and record their Internet activity, and incentivize advertisers and data collection companies to respect a user’s choice not to be tracked online.

The EFF and Disconnect’s partners in this launch are the innovative publishing site Medium, major analytics service Mixpanel, popular ad- and tracker-blocking extension AdBlock, and private search engine DuckDuckGo.

“We are greatly pleased that so many important Web services are committed to this powerful new implementation of Do Not Track, giving their users a clear opt-out from stealthy online tracking and the exploitation of their reading history,” said EFF Chief Computer Scientist Peter Eckersley. “These companies understand that clear and fair practices around analytics and advertising are essential not only for privacy but for the future of online commerce.”

DNT is a preference you can set on Firefox, Chrome, or other Web browsers as well as in the iOS and FirefoxOS mobile operating systems to signal to websites that you want to opt-out of tracking of your online activities. Tracking by advertisers and other third parties is commonplace on the Web today, and typically occurs without the knowledge, permission, or consent of Internet users. You can see evidence of this when ads appear around the Web that are eerily based upon your past browsing habits; meanwhile, the underlying records and profiles of your online activity are distributed between a vast network of advertising exchanges, data brokers, and tracking companies.

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Couple Burns Down Their Own Home for Insurance Money, Claims Neighbor Did it as ‘Hate Crime’

Liars: Carol Ann and Laura Stutte reduced their own house to a pile of charred rubble in 2010 in order to get the $276,000 insurance pay out but it has now been uncovered as a ruse. A court has ruled that the lesbian couple scrawled the homophobic abuse on their own garage

A court has ruled that the lesbian couple scrawled the homophobic abuse on their own garage

A federal jury ruled in favor of the insurance company and they will not have to pay out on the insurance claim on the house in Venore, reports the Knoxville News Sentinel.

The court heard how the couple spray-painted the word ‘queers’ on their garage and later blamed their neighbor Janice Millsaps.

They claimed that, a month before the blaze, Millsaps said: ‘Do you know what is better than one dead queer? Two dead queers.’

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How to Turn an Android Device into a Web Server

Written by Christian Cawley 

Need a low-powered device to run your website? Need the space your web server is taking up? Want to share some potentially controversial information with a select group of people but don’t have the financial resources to run a full-scale web server?

The solution to all of these problems — and some others — is to host your web page on an Android device, turning your smartphone or tablet into a web server.

The Inexpensive Way to Power a Website

Websites do not need expensive servers; they don’t even need inexpensive servers. We’re now at the stage where a dynamic, database-driven website can be hosted on a modest device. For instance, it might be a common desktop PC or laptop, but as this takes up a lot of space, you can scale back. We’ve already seen how the Raspberry Pi can be used as a web server, and it’s also possible to use an Android smartphone or tablet in the same way.

Your hosting costs are immediately removed, and as long as the page views are low, you should find that your website runs without locking up the device (although you shouldn’t be expecting to be able to multitask while the site is running!).

Installing Your Server Software on Android

Various server software apps are available for Android. These range from the straightforward PAW Server for Android designed to run basic, non-dynamic sites (although a PHP plugin is available for PAW) to Ulti Server: PHP, MySQL, PMA, which, as the name suggests, supports the use of database driven websites written in PHP.

We’re using PAW Server for this tutorial, with which we’ll upload a basic index.html file and browse to from a PC on the same network to illustrate using Android as a web server. Other apps rely on all of the same principles — the same concepts and processes are required to serve a web page to a viewing browser.

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