How Does Homeopathy Work?
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Quite an interesting site on Homeopathy and how it works. A bit light on depth but still an informative read:)
Read MoreBrowse the Complete PopSci Archive
We’ve partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. And today we're excited to announce you can browse the full archive right here on PopSci.com.
As you will soon see, it’s an amazing resource. Aside from bringing back memories for longtime readers, as a whole the archive beautifully encapsulates over a century of PopSci’s fascination with the future, and science and technology's incredible potential to improve our lives. Tracing our dreams and visions of the future back through time, you’ll see that not a lot has changed. Some things we projected with startling accuracy, and others remain today what they were then–dreams. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
In the future, we’ll be adding more advanced features for searching and browsing, so stay tuned.
via New! Browse the Complete PopSci Archive | Popular Science.
Read MorePerpetual Futility
Popular histories too often present perpetual motion machines as “freaks and curiosities” of engineering without telling us just how they were understood at the time. They also fail to inform us that even in the earliest history of science and engineering, many persons were able to see the futility and folly of attempts to achieve perpetual motion.
Sometimes a particular device comes to us with a label, such as “Bishop Wilkins’ magnetic perpetual motion machine.” Popular articles leave the impression that the inventor believed it was a perpetual motion machine. In fact, very often the device was presented and described to illustrate the futility of the quest for perpetual motion.
via http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/people/people.htm.
Read MoreAnatomy of a SQL Injection Attack
“SQL injection has become perhaps the most widely used technique for compromising Web applications, thanks to both its relative simplicity and high success rate. It's not often that outsiders get a look at the way these attacks work, but a well-known researcher is providing just that. Rafal Los showed a skeptical group of executives just how quickly he could compromise one of their sites using SQL injection, and in the process found that the site had already been hacked and was serving the Zeus Trojan to visitors.”
Los’s original blog post has more and better illustrations, too.
via Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters.
Read MoreNice and Free CSS Layouts
This site contains free css layout templates.
via Nice and Free CSS Templates.
Read MoreMariposa Botnet Beheaded
Slashdot News Story | Mariposa Botnet Beheaded.
Defense Intelligence of Ottawa working with ISPs and Spanish authorities have taken down yet another > 12M PC botnet, called Mariposa. The three top-level operators are in custody, but remain anonymous under Spanish law (how quaint: apparently in Spain, the accused have some right to privacy). AP is claiming that the botnet included systems in roughly half of the Fortune 1000 companies, scattered over 190 countries. Interesting details: none of the three principals has a prior criminal record. Although apparently hardworking, they are not uber-hackers, but rather had connections to the Spanish mafia, which apparently helped to equip them. At the time of arrest, they were not showing signs of their significant new income level. From the article: ‘Chris Davis, CEO of Ottawa-based Defence Intelligence, said he noticed the infections when they appeared on networks of some of his firm’s clients, including pharmaceutical companies and banks. It wasn’t until several months later that he realized the infections were part of something much bigger. After seeing that some of the servers used to control computers in the botnet were located in Spain, Davis and researchers from the Georgia Tech Information Security Center joined with software firm Panda Security, which is headquartered in Bilbao, Spain. The investigators caught a few lucky breaks. For one, the suspects used Internet services that wound up cooperating with investigators. That isn’t always the case.
Slashdot News Story | Mariposa Botnet Beheaded.
Read MoreThe Smashing Book
Quick Overview
The Smashing Book is a printed book about best practices in modern Web design. The book shares technical tips and best practices on coding, usability and optimization and explores how to create successful user interfaces and apply marketing principles to increase conversion rates. It also shows how to get the most out of typography, color and branding so that you end up with intuitive and effective Web designs. And lastly, you will also get a peek behind the curtains of Smashing Magazine.
Read Moremotographic – moto x bike numbers, graphics & decals
motographic – moto x bike numbers, graphics & decals.
Aarons the man! Checkout his work here also: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=150749&id=691751081
Read MoreFreshBooks | drupal.org
FreshBooks is a web based accounting application that makes it easy for you to track the time you spend on projects and invoice your clients. The company behind it is very web savvy and has managed to deliver a well documented, easy to use API for third party integration. This module aims to provide a full integration of the FreshBooks API for use by this and other Drupal modules.
This module was just born on Sept. 9, 2008 and so is under heavy development. To support this module's development and try FreshBooks for yourself, you can signup for a free account and test the functionality of the module as it develops.
Read MoreEscape Pod
By David D. Levine.
Read by Meg Westfox.
First appeared in Bones of the World, ed. Bruce Holland Rogers.
After a time she found a small patch of zeren. She spread across it, taking a little solace from its sparkling sweetness. “Zero-point energy” was what Old John called it, but to Gunai and the rest of her tribe it was zeren, delicious and rare. Gunai recalled a time when zeren was something you could almost ignore — a constant crackling thrum beneath the surface of perception — but now there were just a few thin patches here and there. These days the tribe subsisted mostly on a thin diet of starlight, and even that was growing cold. Soon they would be forced to move on again. Yeoshi had told her the foraging was better in the direction of the galactic core, but it was so far…
via Escape Pod.
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