Uxbridge, MA about midnight on Rt. 122 on 5/30 in front of Hannafords a GMC SUV had struck a pole and knocked it down. The pole had several transformers on it. I caught some footage of a nearby pole catching fire and several explosions. On the radio we heard there were a couple other poles down the street that had also caught on fire.

Some pictures

Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security (CAESS) reports successful hack.

“While the researchers tested their system on only two vehicles, the authors say that they have “no reason to believe that the issue is industry-wide.” However, due to the ubiquitous nature of the ODB-II port, they probably have no reason to think it isn’t industry-wide, either, but they chose not to say that.”

Read the full story at The Inquirer

Download the 16 page documentation HERE

Im not usually someone to help advertise a sale but thought this may be worth mentioning if your a geek like me. At this price though even if you have a remote interest in some tech you may just want to get one to scim through.
This is a 24 hour sale so hurry up. I’ve already ordered about 30 guides at this price and my past experience with their guides was part of my studies for Network+, Security+, and CCNA and found them to be helpful but failed my CCNA due to limitations with emulator at test center which has nothing to do with Mega Guide.
Go to Preplogic to order up

I have to admit that I’ve been a little impatient with nVidia. I mean I was in the market about six months ago to get a newer video card but I held off because the video cards offered then were not DirectX 11 compatible. AMD had direct X11 compatible cards that were a little cheaper and faster than nVidia solutions but that meant spending quite a bit more money in order to purchase a new motherboard, memory, and processor so that I could use a AMD graphics card.

Then about three months ago I went ahead and updated my system but decided to keep my current nVidia graphics cards in a bid that nVidia would have the long-awaited direct X11 compatible card just in time for my savings to catch up and order to purchased one.

looks like this card is going to be released tomorrow according to many sources. my savings however runs a little short. This card will be mad expensive so I think I will sit on the sidelines for now and wait for the cards drop about $100

let me list down interesting sources.
1. Geek Smack has a interesting photograph of the GPU next to a coin for size comparison. Click here to take a look and keep in mind there is over 3 billion transistors inside the chip.
2. Gizmodo has a blown up image off the chips die. Click here to take a look.
3. Endgadget has a detailed list of specifications here.

and finally have a look at this video

I love technology and most of my post I use Dragon naturally speaking to dictate the text you read. Now this new news has me debating if we should really be scared of this new technology due to privacy concerns or embrace it for all the advantages it brings.

IMEC reports that they have developed a device that can interpret brain waves into words.  they call it the Mind Speller. You can read more about that HERE.

They have also mentioned the ability to interpret brain ways and detect user emotions for the purpose of feeding this information back into games. should really check out their website and see how many projects they have merging human bodies and technology to work together.

http://www2.imec.be/be_en/home.html

Firefox has announced a freeze on Firefox for windows mobile due to new restrictions on the new Windows mobile version 7 platform. The new restriction does not allow native applications to be run on WM7 and so a has no intentions on building a client that they cannot have full control of.

You can read the blog HERE.

I have not posted in a while but this news has me a little bit excited.

Nintendo has announced that they will be releasing a version of their Nintendo DS with the capability of displaying 3-D without the need of any glasses. I don’t think that I will go out and buy a Nintendo 3DS ( although I might) but the main thing that has me a little excited is all the brand-new 3-D technology for televisions and computer screens require glasses. The fact that Nintendo is making a system that does not require any glasses may mean that we are a lot closer than I had thought to moving into 3-D projection without any visual aids.

we shall see in a couple of months exactly how visually appealing this technology really is on a cheap and portable gaming device. For all I know it may just be a fancy video capable hologram which is still a huge step up!

As part of the promotion for my hardware upgrade I got 3 Codemaster games. Grid, Dirt, and flash point. It was a little retarded that newegg didn’t just package the steam keys with the shipment of parts and instead shipped them via UPS.

Anyway been spending a bit of time on Grid and just wanted to share my experience. Lets get my system configuration out of the way first.

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I work at a call center and today a customer called and had mentioned that you can die from sitting. I thought this was funny. I mean I sit pretty much all day. I get up and sit at my computer for several hours. I go to work and sit. Any time I’m traveling I sit. Any way I decided to see if this was true and googled “Sitting can kill you” and actually had some interesting findings.

Turns out 2Million people get Deep-Vein Thrombosis (DVT) per year and out of them 300,000 die. Not so funny any more.

Get more information HERE.

For the past couple of days I have been battling getting my new PC upgrade working. I had purchased MSI NF980-G65, AMD 965 Phenom II Black edition quad core 125 W, G.Skill DDR 3 2200 7-10-10-28 memory, hec Zephyr 1000 1000W power supply.
I had also purchased a 2nd identical board and processor plus Corsair DDR3 1600 ram for a friend.
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