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The biodiesel factory, a three-story steel skeleton crammed with pipes and valves, squatted on a concrete slab between a railroad track and a field of storage tanks towering over the Houston Ship Channel. Jeffrey Kimes, an engineer for the Environmental Protection Agency, arrived there at 9 a.m. on a muggy Wednesday in August 2011.

He’d come to visit Green Diesel, a company that appeared to be an important contributor to the EPA’s fledgling renewable fuels program, part of an effort to clean the air and lessen U.S. dependence on foreign fuel. In less than three years, Green Diesel had reported producing 50 million gallons of biodiesel. Yet Kimes didn’t know the company. He asked other producers, and they weren’t familiar with Green Diesel either. He thought he ought to see this business for himself.

Kimes, who works out of Denver, was greeted at the Green Diesel facility by a man who said he was the plant manager. He was the only employee there, which was odd. “For a big plant like that, you’re going to need a handful of people at least to run it, maintain it, and monitor the process,” says Kimes, a 21-year EPA veteran. The two toured the grounds, climbing metal stairways and examining the equipment. The place was weirdly still and quiet. Some pipes weren’t connected to anything. Two-story-high biodiesel mixing canisters sat rusting, the fittings on their tops covered in garbage bags secured with duct tape. Kimes started asking questions. “They showed me a log, and from that you could see they hadn’t been producing fuel for a long period of time,” he says.

This image, captured with the NASA/ESA
Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest
and sharpest image ever taken of the
Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as
M31.
This is a cropped version of the full
image and has 1.5 billion pixels. You
would need more than 600 HD television
screens to display the whole image.
It is the biggest Hubble image ever
released and shows over 100 million
stars and thousands of star clusters
embedded in a section of the galaxy’s
pancake-shaped disc stretching across
over 40 000 light-years.
This image is too large to be easily
displayed at full resolution and is best
appreciated using the zoom tool .
Credit:
NASA, ESA , J. Dalcanton (University of
Washington, USA), B. F. Williams
(University of Washington, USA), L. C.
Johnson (University of Washington,
USA), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler.

A man has finished building an enormous computer in the sitting room of his bungalow in Cambridge.
James Newman started work on the "Megaprocessor", which is 33ft (10m) wide and 6ft (2m) high, in 2012.
It does the job of a chip-sized microprocessor and Mr Newman has spent £40,000 ($53,000) creating it.
It contains 40,000 transistors, 10,000 LED lights and it weighs around half a tonne (500kg). So far, he has used it to play the classic video game Tetris.
In a video demonstration he admits the game isn't easy to play.
Mr Newman, a digital electronics engineer, started the project because he was learning about transistors and wanted to visualise how a microprocessor worked. The components all light up as the huge device carries out a task.
"The machine on your desk may be a million times better than what I have built - but mine is much prettier," he told the BBC.
"Mine has 10,000 times more LEDs."
Mr Newman hopes the Megaprocessor will be used as an educational tool and is planning a series of open days at his home over the summer.
"I doubt I'll be able to sell it," he said.
"My dream is that it goes to a museum or educational institute so that people can learn from it."

YOU CAN NOW INSTALL A GSM NETWORK USING APT-GET
This is great news: You can now install a GSM network using apt-get!

Thanks to the efforts of Debian developer Ruben Undheim, there's now an OpenBSC (with all its flavors like OsmoBSC, OsmoNITB, OsmoSGSN, ...) package in the official Debian repository.

Here is the link to the e-mail indicating acceptance into Debian: https://tracker.debian.org/news/755641

I think for the past many years into the OpenBSC (and wider Osmocom) projects I always assumed that distribution packaging is not really something all that important, as all the people using OpenBSC surely would be technical enough to build it from the source. And in fact, I believe that building from source brings you one step closer to actually modifying the code, and thus contribution.

Nevertheless, the project has matured to a point where it is not used only by developers anymore, and particularly also (god beware) by people with limited experience with Linux in general. That such people still exist is surprisingly hard to realize for somebody like myself who has spent more than 20 years in Linux land by now.

So all in all, today I think that having packages in a Distribution like Debian actually is important for the further adoption of the project - pretty much like I believe that more and better public documentation is.

Looking forward to seeing the first bug reports reported through bugs.debian.org rather than https://projects.osmocom.org/ . Once that happens, we know that people are actually using the official Debian packages.

As an unrelated side note, the Osmocom project now also has nightly builds available for Debian 7.0, Debian 8.0 and Ubunut 14.04 on both i586 and x86_64 architecture from https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/network:osmocom:nightly. The nightly builds are for people who want to stay on the bleeding edge of the code, but who don't want to go through building everything from scratch. See Holgers post on the openbsc mailing list for more information.

Debian Package Tracker

Edwin Wishes all Hackers Page a HAPPY EASTER HOLIDAY.

Power is a force that needs an object: To have power, a person has to have it over something, or someone.

One would think that this would be the appeal of power—to be able to control things, to change them to fit your vision of reality. (This can obviously be good or bad, depending on who’s in power and what their vision is.) But a new study suggests that people who desire power are mostly looking to control one thing—themselves.

The study authors, from the University of Cologne, the University of Groningen, and Columbia University, present two different conceptions of power—power as influence and power as autonomy. “Power as influence is expressed in having control over others, which could involve responsibility for others,” they write. “In contrast, power as autonomy is a form of power that allows one person to ignore and resist the influence of others and thus to shape one’s own destiny.” Their question: Which of those things, influence or autonomy, would satisfy people’s desire for power?

Want to Read more follo this link

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/people-want-power-because-they-want-autonomy/474669/?single_page=true

People Want Power Because They Want Autonomy New research suggests being in charge is appealing because it offers freedom—not because it allows people to control others.

About the Deer Cam
***Note 3-20-16 10:45pm PST: Deer Cam is frozen. It will be back online tomorrow at 3:00pm PST.***
***Note 3-20-16 10:00pm PST: The Deer Cam computer will likely crash in the next 5 hours, and the admin is away. If the Deer Cam is offline, it should return 3-21-16 by 3:00pm PST***

San Andreas Deer Cam is a live video stream from a computer running a hacked version of Grand Theft Auto V, hosted on Twitch.tv. The hack creates a deer and follows it as it wanders throughout the 100 square miles of San Andreas, a fictional state in GTA V based on California. The deer has been programmed to control itself and make its own decisions, with no one actually playing the video game. The deer is ‘playing itself’, with all activity unscripted… and unexpected. In the past 48 hours, the deer has wandered along a moonlit beach, caused a traffic jam on a major freeway, been caught in a gangland gun battle, and been chased by the police.

For more information about the San Andreas Deer Cam project,

http://bwatanabe.com/GTA_V_WanderingDeer.html

Brent Watanabe : San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam, 2016;

Whatsapp Hacking service by Real hackers

My boyfriend had a hidden relationship, today I have my eyes open, that cheeky no idea that was going to come and see their private conversations. - Susana Maria Lopez

# Amazing how productive to use this service .They hacked my cheating wife's whatsapp account today. now i will be able to track what she is doing to trick me. - Javier Ariana

127.0.0.1 is the place to be....

Ransomware is a type of malware that locks you out of your
computer until you pay a ransom. In some cases, it can actually
cause more serious problems by encrypting the files on your
system's hard drive.
Last year, Symantec discovered an android malware with hybrid
characteristics of Fake AV and Ransomware. Last month,
Bitdefender identified an android version of Ransomware which
was being sold in the underground market. The malware bluffed
victims into paying a ransom but didn't actually encrypt the files.
Until now, there have been no reports of android malware that
encrypts the files.
Security researchers at ESET say they have spotted the first
variant of Ransomware that encrypts files in your Android Device.
The malware, dubbed as Simplocker, shows a ransom message
written in Russian which informs victims that their device is
locked for viewing and distribution child p**n.
It scans the SD card for certain file types such as image, document
or videos, encrypts them using Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES), and demands money in order to decrypt them.
It also gathers information about the infected device and sends to
a command and control server. The server is located in Tor
".onion" domain for purposes of anonymity.
Don't Pay:
"We strongly recommend against paying up – not only because
that will only motivate other malware authors to continue these
kinds of filthy operations, but also because there is no guarantee
that the crook will keep their part of the deal and actually decrypt
them" Researchers at ESET say.

Google has just agreed to buy
Titan Aerospace, a maker of high-
altitude solar-powered drones that
was in acquisition talks with
Facebook just a few months ago.
According to the Wall Street
Journal, the Mountain View
company hopes to use these long-
lasting autonomous vehicles to
assist its Project Loon project,
which aims to broadcast internet
signals to parts of the world that
can't get online. Facebook, on the
other hand, went ahead with
another drone company called
Ascenta for Internet.org, its own
worldwide internet initiative .
Google has uses for Titan beyond
just Project Loon, however. The
drones could also be useful for
Makani, a Google project to build
an energy-efficient airborne wind
turbine. As the unmanned planes
are also able to collect high-res
images of earth and support voice
and data services, they could also
be of use in other Google
divisions, such as Maps. While all
Titan employees are now a part of
Google, they'll remain in New
Mexico for the time being. The
terms of the purchase have not
been disclosed.