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jsundquiston Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks

I notice at the end of the article it says a filename was hack.bat.

Looks like they are windows based machines. Wonder if they left auto-play running on them?

jsundquiston Building a tiny ARM-based server

Thanks for the info...really appreciate it. That is exactly what I was looking for.

jsundquiston Building a tiny ARM-based server

This is something I am looking for to experiment with. Where did you buy your IFC6410? I keep looking for a source of ARM based machines where I can play with Linux or Android...but in a different form factor than a phone (Something I could put on top of my rack), and a little more power than a Raspberry PI.

jsundquiston Hollywood Moguls Stopping Obama Donations

That is the sad part of this issue. Almost every politician votes across money lines with SOPA (Democrat and Republican). I am very impressed that Obama came out against it considering the $9.2 million the entertainment industry has given him:

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?cycle=2008&...

jsundquiston Honeybee deaths linked to seed insecticide exposure

If this is true, then what about the honey they produce? Wouldn't the honey have high levels of these toxic substances? Then in turn consumers would be getting a heavy dose of these chemicals. Scary stuff.

jsundquiston List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

Just checked, and Time Warner is on the list of supporters of SOPA:

http://theoriesofconspiracy.com/2011/11/list-of-major-compan...

jsundquiston List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

Exactly. Just imagine the cash flowing from the Movie/Music industry directly in their pockets. With that happening I don't see how it can be stopped. They will just keep trying.

jsundquiston List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

Sadly the support for it is directly connected to where they get their money from (For democrats and republicans).

Here is Bachmann's top sources of donations:

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N0002...

Notice no Movie/Music Industry in the top 5

Then here is Franken's:

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N0002...

Time Warner is his number one supporter. I would imagine that they are for it.

jsundquiston List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

CWIZO,

Unfortunately many democrats live in areas where the Movie, recording industry is located...therefore they get lots of $$ from them. Thus the widespread support from both dems and republicans.

This depresses me even more:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/indus.php?cid=N00009638

Obama got almost $9 million from the Movie industry. I would suspect he would not veto it.

jsundquiston List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

Very depressing. Almost without any exception (I admit there are a couple) every single for or against can be determined by how much money they get from the computer industry(Against) or from the Music / Movie industry (For).

All of this happens across party lines...

jsundquiston Ask HN: What's with the giant & clunky web designs?

Yep. Totally agree with you. The same is with the new Gmail. Looks great on my Apple Cinema display...way too huge on most other computers. It has got to be that these designers are using huge displays with resolutions to match.

Same thing happens to programmers...work on a very fast machine, and never realize how slow something is on an average users computer.