The TECHNOLOGY Thread

[Flames]

I searched everywhere looking for a thread to post this, so I thought to just make a tech thread.

Quantum Levitation

[Sputnik]

Wow, that's awesome stuff...thanks flames, keep us updated!!

[KapitanScarlet]

just like a mini flying saucer and the military will b about 20 years ahead of that technology

[Flames]

"Locked in space"

That is interesting. I wonder what kind of human implications could be applied to quantum levitation. I'm sure some mad scientist out there knows the answer.

[Flames]

DARPA looking to master propaganda via 'Narrative Networks'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you just don’t know whether to laugh, cry or be alarmed when hearing about what the boys in secretive back rooms are doing in the name of antiterrorism, or homeland security, or whatever else they wish to call it. This time it seems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the semi-secret agency charged with coming up with new and cool ways to protect the citizens of the United States from foreign bad guys, wants to hire someone to figure out how vulnerable some people are to “narratives” (oral stories, speeches, propaganda, books, etc. that cause people to think) and then, supplant such messages with “better” messages to head off the path that for such people might lead them to becoming a terrorist.

Called the “Narrative Networks” project, DARPA has released a solicitation for research proposals by those that have both the know-how and the technology to implement such a program, which is divided into two parts. The first part would involve analyzing what happens to people when they hear or see a message. It’s thought that certain messages or images actually cause a change in the brain to accommodate the new ideas.

The second part of the study, quite naturally, would involve developing a means for taking advantage of what is learned in the first part. Or, in other words, to come up with a way to find out who is vulnerable to messaging, and then to blast them with a message that would overwrite any undesirable brain changes that occurred as the result of that person being subjected to “bad” messages, so that they would behave themselves.

At first blush, such a program would appear to be scary as all get out; after all, if our government gets its hands on technology that could reprogram people who have come to feel things the government doesn’t like, it seems like a really good way to control them, including its own population. On second thought though, as reality starts to kick in, it appears that while some research in this area might bear some fruit, it’s highly doubtful that any such program would meet with much success. After all, governments (and other entities) have been trying to figure out how to brainwash people for thousands of years with very little to show for their efforts.

On the other hand, the folks at DARPA seem to think that new advances in technology might have changed the game a little bit. New types of brain scans can, for example, can actually show a brain being changed due to a received message. And new highly sophisticated electronic sensing devices are able to pick up even the slightest nuances in facial expressions.

If the two technologies could be brought together, the thinking goes, perhaps people could be scanned without their knowledge and found to be either vulnerable to messaging or already changed in some way by messaging from a suspect source. In such case, they could be targeted for specialized messaging that has been shown through research to be effective in overriding what has occurred in their unknowing noggins.

Each phase is supposed to go for 18 months though there doesn’t appear to be any component of the project that calls for publicly publishing results found or describing product deliveries after completion.
© 2011 PhysOrg.com

Brainwashing

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Mircosoft HoloDesk - Direct 3D Interactions with a Situated See-Through Display

[KapitanScarlet]

amazing technology now, its going too fast to keep check of it all , superconductivity is the next big world changer once they figure out exactly how it works...publically

this is a good doc on it

[Flames]

Spherical Flying Machine Developed by Japan Ministry Of Defense

[Flames]

Robots everywhere. I wonder if this means less hand jobs in the slammer.

South Korea Launches Robo Guards





Robo Freak

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http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/V-series_supervisor_droid

[KapitanScarlet]

BAE Systems win £1.6bn Saudi deal
(UKPA) – 16 hours ago
Defence giant BAE Systems has won a £1.6 billion contract to supply Hawk aircraft to Saudi Arabia, preventing more than 200 potential job losses at one of its factories.
The firm will supply 55 Pilatus PC-21 aircraft and 22 Hawk advanced jet trainer aircraft, as well as spares and technical support, to the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF).
Unions welcomed the deal but said it made no difference to the Hawk site at Brough in North Yorkshire, where manufacturing will end under previously announced cutbacks.
Guy Griffiths, BAE's group managing director International, said: "We have a long history in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and, working with Pilatus, we will provide the RSAF with the best training platforms to meet their requirements.
"Through the Hawk advanced jet trainer, the trainee fast jet pilots will have access to the very latest in advanced simulation for radar, weapons and defensive aids training to enable a smooth transition to frontline aircraft, including Typhoon."
Deliveries of the Pilatus PC-21, manufactured in Switzerland, will start in 2014. The UK-built Hawk aircraft will be delivered from 2016.
Ian Waddell, Unite's national officer for aerospace, said: "This is good news for BAE, but makes no difference to the Brough site. This contract was always in the plan and the announcement has been anticipated for the last year.
"We've managed to save about 200 jobs at Brough, but still have a massive challenge to save the other 650. There are other BAE sites across the North West where workers are also frightened for their future and thousands of jobs are at risk."
Conservative MP David Davis, whose Haltemprice and Howden constituency is close to Brough, said: "We are in much better position compared to where we were last year and this is down, more than anything else, to the courage of the workforce.
"They should be proud of all the tough tactics, the demo at the BAE AGM earlier this month, the debate in the Commons last year and articles in the press and the impact that these events have had. These have already changed the attitude of the company. It now looks difficult but possible to get a circumstance where there are very few to no compulsory redundancies. That should now be our target."
Copyright © 2012 The Press Association. All rights reserved.

Question - How does a nation that has previously accused and acted upon with deadly circumstances other nations it deems to have a repressive fanatical hoarding regime create the ability to then sell military technologies to a known repressive regime and have this transaction go through under the headline of "Saving Jobs"

Answer - The nation controls the flow of news reporting through an entity called "The press association" which with all the numbers of reporters under its remit, they all miraculously have a similar opinion on certain fragile news stories , as not one of those reporters has mentioned anywhere that the saudi is in fact a repressive regime even although also a best friend of the nation , which then would raise questions over the real substance of why certain repressive regimes get invaded whilst others prosper , and that would then in fact be a debate that would declare the press association as a truly free spirited acting press entity, instead of a processor of soundbites fed to it by a mysterious x-factor headline controller

THE PRESS ASSOCIATION

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News hurts my head. in an epistemological sense i dont see how it can be justified to know anything. arguements can be made to know things local to global. but for everything you learn of that is important, there are x things you dont know of that could be of interest or importance, but you are not the one selecting which information local or global is of importance.

if haiti has an earthquake and its 8 out of 10 on the arbitrary importance to know scale, then still 50 things could be happening elsewhere around the world that are 5 out of 10. maybe some country in africa has a warlord doing genocides at the same time. maybe chechnya has a problem or insurrection. maybe tensions are occuring between south american nations that those nations are talking about locally but dont know until it escalates to a global level but you never hear about it brewing over 6 months time. but yeah. haiti. its terrible. but why? Oh because charities need to create global awaress because without global awareness we cant be pressed upon to give donations?

just one of many problems....and as you said, when it happens to be an issue that is of interest to the public. well they're going to try their best so that you have the public opinion that is least dangerous for multitudes of people to have on it. and thereby stopping outcry before it starts.

then theres the issue of if you dont trust your news and you bring this to the attention of other people what you think, well, you could easily be setting yourself up for mocking remarks at the water cooler when you're not around, or worse, setting people to align against you.

then theres another issue actually. when certain topics become untaboo. all of a sudden, its OK to talk about wall street. wall street is seen for having no clothes. but people cant see it until they've been told to see it. and then they think they're smart cause they now see it and are talking about it. and they think they are talking about it freely and with critical analysis. and for a year or more you have to walk here or there and overhear people talk about things you had an interest in years before, and now if you talk about it now that its "hip" and "in" they might like you, cause its the new flavor of the month topic. maybe you can get in with some people and join the occupy thing with them. they're not going to align against you now, you can blend in a bit cause its cool right now.

people have no idea that there are invisible imbelical cords going to their minds.

sigh

[tgII]

BAE Systems, yeah, I bet anything their intelligence arm (industrial sabotage) was behind
taking down Russia's Sukhoi Superjet in Indonesia.

Also, BAE Systems holds the patents on HAARP re: Jerry Smith's Weather Warfare.

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How the Blizzard Authenticators Work (and why you want one)
February 18, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog for a Public Service Announcement. This is a post I put up on my guild forums a while back, but with the recent report of a supposed account hack to an authenticator-enabled account, I figured I’d repost here for mass consumption. In regards to the above link, I’m calling BS until I see more about it, and this post should explain why I feel that way. I’m far more likely to believe that the account was compromised by some manner of social engineering (be it a Blizzard look-alike phishing site, an irl “friend” theft, a shared account, or some other manner – any and all of which involve user error) than I am to believe that one of the most widely-considered secure systems in the world, used by banks, casinos, credit bureaus, government agencies, and high-profile data security firms has been circumvented by Chinese wow hackers to be used for in-game gold theft rather than, say, nearly any other possible use of such technology/cracking ability. I just don’t buy it. Read on, and be informed.

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How the Blizzard Authenticator works, and why it improves security.

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On 26/06/08, Blizzard announced the Blizzard Authenticator, a device that provides your WoW account with an extra layer of security. They sell this device in their Blizzard Store for $6.50. You may consider buying it, but is the extra security really worth the money? How much more secure does it make your account? This post will explain how this device works, and exactly why it makes your account more secure.

===How the authenticator works===

The Blizzard Authenticator is a token that you can put for example on your keychain. It has a little display that, once your press the button will generate a 6-digit number that changes every minute.

This number is used as a 1-time password. This means the password is only valid once. When you use it to log in, the code becomes invalid and any hacker trying to access your account later with the same number won’t be able to log in.

A hacker wanting to access your account will now, in addition to keylogging your username and password, have to physically break into your house and steal the authenticator to see what number it displays. But hackers are clever people. Isn’t there any way for them to know which number the authenticator is going to display? The answer is no, and here’s why.

Every authenticator has a little built-in clock. This clock keeps track of the number of seconds since, for example the WoW release date, Tigole’s birthday or whenever. Each authenticator also has a unique key, which it uses to encrypt this number of seconds into what looks like a completely random number. There is no way, without knowing the encryption key, to guess what number is going to be displayed at any point in time. Even if the hacker has all the numbers you entered before, he can’t extrapolate that into what number will be showing next.

The hacker also can’t hack into the device itself to find out it’s key, because it doesn’t connect to the computer in any way. Even if the hacker were the mailman who delivered the authenticator to your house, he would have to open it up and extract the hardware that contained the key. These devices are generally tamper-resistant and will purge themselves when opened.

So, if the hacker can’t know your 1-time password, how is Blizzard going to know? The difference is, Blizzard has the key for every authenticator they made. When you log in, blizzard looks up which authenticator is associated with your account, and finds the matching key. They then use this key to decrypt the number you entered into the number of seconds the authenticator has been counting. They then verify that this number matches the current time.

Even if the time on your authenticator doesn’t exactly match the time on blizzard’s server, they still allow you to log in within a minute or so of the defined time, just in case the clock in your authenticator is running a little slower or faster than normal. This still does not allow hackers to use the number from a minute ago, because when you log in successfully, that number is then disabled and prevented from being used again.

If you still think someone may eventually find a way around it, this security measure is used by businesses and government agencies around the world to provide security, and they have a lot more sensitive information to guard than the login information to a WoW account. One of my good friends, who is a VIP services lead at Mohegan Sun, saw me log in once and went “wow, *I* use one of those to get into secure areas at work.” This is a tested method that has proven itself to be secure.

===Is existing security not already enough?===

While the authenticator provides an extra security layer strong enough to make your account virtually unhacklable, you can already secure your computer a lot. Is the authenticator really needed?

If you’re running Firefox with Noscript, Flashblock, adblockers, 5 different virus and spyware scanners, a NAT router with it’s ports strictly regulated, using Linux/MacOS X or another operating system, and other security measures I can’t think of at the moment, you are probably really secure. The danger is hackers finding a new way to enter your system that isn’t being guarded yet. Until the vulnerability is patched, or instructions to disable the exploited software are issued, you could potentially get infected with a virus or other malicious software during that short time. The more security measures you take, the lower the chance you will be vulnerable. But security is an ever-changing thing. You have to keep things up-to-date constantly in order to stay secure.

Using an authenticator is completely optional, but it does solve the problem by taking another approach. Instead of preventing keyloggers from getting onto your system, it makes you virtually immune to them. They can try, but with a login code that is always changing logging your keystrokes won’t be any good.

I use one of these now to secure a game of mine. Didnt understand how it worked after I set it up so used google to find the answer, and thought it was interesting.

[KapitanScarlet]

The new Cold War is Now Virtual, secuirity and covert infiltration of computer software and hardware , but is it state sponsored or corporate sponsored or state sponsored by corporate sponsor

Kaspersky the russian internet anti-virus company recently discovered the FLAME malware , the most sophisticated piece of py software ever discovered which was relaying spy info to 80 servers dotted around the globe , themselves being accessed by its creators to trawl the results , and kaspersky reckon it was around undiscovered since 2010, and that a full analysis of its complexity might take 10 years

This is mind boggling and is a warning for a future world that will become infinitly more automated with every passing year, that it is the ultimate weapon of terrorism , completly anonymous to an extent with the ability to turn ones own weapons against ones-self

Eugene Kaspersky, whose lab discovered the Flame virus that has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East, said on Wednesday only a global effort could stop a new era of "cyber terrorism".

"It's not cyber war, it's cyber terrorism and I'm afraid it's just the beginning of the game ... I'm afraid it will be the end of the world as we know it," Kaspersky told reporters at a Tel Aviv University cyber security conference.
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"I'm scared, believe me," he said.

News of the Flame virus surfaced last week. Researchers said technical evidence suggests it was built for the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear programme in 2010.

In recent months U.S. officials have become more open about the work of the United States and Israel on Stuxnet, which targeted Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment facility.

The West suspects Iran is developing atomic weapons. Tehran denies this, says it is enriching uranium only for civilian use.

Security experts say Flame is one of the most sophisticated pieces of malicious software so far discovered. They are still investigating the virus, which they believe was released specifically to infect computers in Iran and across the Middle East.

Kaspersky named the United States, Britain, Israel, China, Russia and possibly India, Japan and Romania as countries with the ability to develop such software, but stopped short of saying which nation he thought was behind Flame.

When asked whether Israel was part of the solution or part of the problem regarding cyber war, Kaspersky said: "Both."

"Flame is extremely complicated but I think many countries can do the same or very similar, even countries that don't have enough of the expertise at the moment. They can employ engineers or kidnap them, or employ 'hacktivists'," he said.

Kaspersky said governments must cooperate to stop such attacks, as they have done with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Operating systems must be redesigned, he added.

"Software that manages industrial systems or transportation or power grids or air traffic, they must be based on secure operating systems. Forget about Microsoft, Linux, Unix."

Kaspersky said malware like Flame and Stuxnet have a limited lifetime and said undiscovered viruses could be out there.

"It's quite logical that there are new cyber weapons designed and maybe there are computers which are infected."

DECONSTRUCTING THE FLAME VIRUS - HOW IT WORKS

Footnote - The most obvious cuplrit for me to install malware or viruses are the ANTI-VIRUS Companys themselves, they have the perfect backdoor into a computer and the perfect alibi

[highnoon]

http://www.wimp.com/buildsmachine/



perpetual motion.

[tgII]

Re: video above. I think it's becoming obvious that vortex technology related to nature
is a big part of our existence.

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Citizen Drone Warfare...I am going to need six of these surrounding me at all times linked together and controlled through a pair of glasses.

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Holy Shit, QSC! That's terrifying!

It seems weapons technology has reached the point where people will just now simply murder each other from the comfort of their own living rooms, inspired of course, by what the military is already doing.

[tgII]

The American with the Russian accent, right. That drone isn't firing those high power
military rounds. If it was the recoil would send that drone in every direction.

Probably a production of some type with an independent gun doing the firing and
effects added for impact.

All this killing technology in a culture of death will eventually start taking its toll on its
operators. That is why robotics and cyber human-like robots will eventually have to be
used. Humans cannot endure the detached dissociative killing for long without
destroying their remaining humanity.

The Woes of an American Drone Operator

And since it is incredibly stressful determining what are and aren't legitimate targets
in Pakistan, it has just been decided that children get blasted in drone attacks which
then takes stress off drone operators.

Military Official Gives OK To Target Children in Drone Attacks

Clever, no?

Here is "CIA John", ladies and gentlemen, he decides who gets attacked and who doesn't
in drone kills. Have a look at his attitude reflected in his smile: "Fuck 'em, kill 'em all."

Nazi mentality redacted Version 2.1

CIA John Behind the CIA Drone Assassinations

[KapitanScarlet]

NEW RUSSIAN DESIGNED DOUBLE SIDED SMARTPHONE

Nice idea, uses the usual colour battery sucking screen on one side but with an optional electric paper barely uses power screen on the other side like a kindle style

[Flames]

The following is an older article (March 17th/2012), but it's something I've been thinking about since I read it last year.


Overview of Camp Williams site before the construction works began. UDC will be located on the west side of the highway, on what was previously an airfield (Image from www.publicintelligence.net)


NSA Utah ‘Data Center’: Biggest-ever domestic spying lab?

The biggest-ever data complex, to be completed in Utah in 2013, may take American citizens into a completely new reality where their emails, phone calls, online shopping lists and virtually entire lives will be stored and reviewed.

US government agencies are growing less patient with their own country with every month. First, paying with cash, shielding your laptop screen and a whole list of other commonplace habits was proclaimed to be suspicious – and if you see something you are prompted to say something. Then, reports emerged that drones are being fetched for police forces. Now, the state of Utah seems to be making way in a bid to host the largest-ever cyber shield in the history of American intelligence. Or is it a cyber-pool?

Utah sprang to media attention when the Camp Williams military base near the town of Bluffdale sprouted a vast, 240-acre construction site. American outlets say that what's hiding under the modest plate of a Utah Data Complex is a prospective intelligence facility ordered by the National Security Agency.

Cyber-security vs. Total awareness

The NSA maintains that the data center, to be completed by September 2013, is a component of the Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative. The facility is to provide technical assistance to the Department of Homeland Security, collect intelligence on cyber threats and carry out cyber-security objectives, reported Reuters.

But both ordinary Americans and their intelligence community were quick to dub it “a spy center.”

The highly-classified project will be responsible for intercepting, storing and analyzing intelligence data as it zips through both domestic and international networks. The data may come in all forms: private e-mails, cell phone calls, Google searches – even parking lot tickets or shop purchases.
“This is more than just a data center,” an official source close to the project told the online magazine Wired.com. The source says the center will actually focus on deciphering the accumulated data, essentially code-breaking.

This means not only exposing Facebook activities or Wikipedia requests, but compromising “the invisible” Internet, or the “deepnet.” Legal and business deals, financial transactions, password-protected files and inter-governmental communications will all become vulnerable.

Once communication data is stored, a process known as data-mining will begin. Everything a person does – from traveling to buying groceries – is to be displayed on a graph, allowing the NSA to paint a detailed picture of any given individual’s life.

With this in mind, the agency now indeed looks to be “the most covert and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever,” as Wired.com puts it.
William Binney, NSA’s former senior mathematician-gone-whistleblower, holds his thumb and forefinger close together and tells the on-line magazine:
“We are that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.”

‘Everybody is a target’

Before the data can be stored it has to be collected. This task is already a matter of the past, as the NSA created a net of secret monitoring rooms in major US telecom facilities – a practice that was exposed by people like William Binney in 2006.

The program allowed the monitoring of millions of American phone calls and emails every day. In 2008, the Congress granted almost impecible legal immunity to telecom companies cooperating with the government on national security issues.

By this time, the NSA network has long outgrown a single room in the AT&T building in San Francisco, says Binney:

“I think there are ten to twenty of them. This is not just San Francisco; they have them in the middle of the country and also on the East Coast.”
Binney suspects the new center in Utah will simply collect all the data there is to be collected. Virtually, no one can escape the new surveillance, created in the US for the War on Terror.

Some data, of course, would be crucial in the anti-terrorism battle: exposing potential adversaries. The question is how the NSA defines who is and who is not a potential adversary.

“Everybody is a target; everybody with communication is a target,” remarks another source close to the Utah project.

Breaking the unbreakable

Now, the last hurdle in the NSA’s path seems to be the Advanced Encryption Standard cipher algorithm, which guards financial transactions, corporate mail, business deals, and diplomatic exchanges globally. It is so effective that the National Security Agency even recommended it for the US government.

Here, the Utah data complex may come in handy for two reasons. First: what cannot be broken today can be stored for tomorrow. Second: a system to break the AES should consist of a super-fast computer coupled with a vast storage capabilities to save as many instances for analysis as possible.

The data storage in Utah, with its 1 million square feet of enclosed space, is virtually bottomless, given that a terabyte can now be stored on a tiny flash drive. Wired.com argues that the US plan to break the AES is the sole reason behind the construction of the Utah Data Center.

The eavesdropping issue has been rocking the US since the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, when domestic spying was eventually outlawed. Nowadays, a lot of questions are still being asked about the secret activities of the US government and whether it could be using the Patriot Act and other national security legislation to justify potentially illegal actions. The NSA’s former employees, who decided to go public, wonder whether the agency – which is to spend up to $2 billion on the heavily fortified facility in Utah – will be able to restrict itself to eavesdropping only on international communications.

Link

If that doesn't spell Police State I don't know what does.

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Utah is the most religiously homogeneous state in the Union.
Approximately 63% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS (Mormons), which greatly influences Utah culture and daily life. The world headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is located in Utah's state capital.

Very Druidic...no?

Utah is bordered by Colorado on the east, Wyoming on the northeast, Idaho on the north, Arizona on the south, and Nevada on the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico.

Lots of underground bases.

Mormonism...


Mormonism's Temple of Doom...

[KapitanScarlet]

I wonder if utah was once used for early chemical drug experiments on the brains of its children, that might explain the large percentage of brainwashed nutcases in that state

[tgII]

No, it comes from child abuse and pedophilia.

The CIA is chalked full of Mormon operatives.

Thomas Spencer Monson (born August 21, 1927) is an American religious leader and author, and the 16th and current President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). As president, Monson is considered by adherents of the religion to be a "prophet, seer, and revelator" of God's will on earth. [and we need the Mormon Church to tell us what that will might be?] A printer by trade, Monson has spent most of his life engaged in various church leadership positions and in public service.



Monson was ordained an apostle at age 36, served in the First Presidency under three church presidents and was the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from March 12, 1995 until he became President of the Church. He succeeded Gordon B. Hinckley as church president on February 3, 2008.

Religion sucks the energy out of humanity.

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