One hacker got curious whether the RFID tags were being scanned elsewhere, so he tweaked his E-ZPass to blink a light and make a noise every time it was read. He tested the streets of New York City, and wasn't surprised to see it light up in plenty of places where there were no tollbooths to be found.
From the article: "It’s part of Midtown in Motion, an initiative to feed information from lots of sensors into New York’s traffic management center. A spokesperson for the New York Department of Transportation, Scott Gastel, says the E-Z Pass readers are on highways across the city, and on streets in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island, and have been in use for years.
The city uses the data from the readers to provide real-time traffic information, as for this tool. The DoT was not forthcoming about what exactly was read from the passes or how long geolocation information from the passes was kept.
Notably, the fact that E-ZPasses will be used as a tracking device outside of toll payment, is not disclosed anywhere that I could see in the terms and conditions. When I talked to the E-ZPass Inter-agency Group — the umbrella association that oversees the use of the pay-toll-paying tags in 15 different states — it said New York is the only state that is employing this inventive re-use of the tags. ... 'If NYDOT can put up readers, says [the hacker], 'other agencies could as well.'"
Hulk Hogan was on my flight, he sat in an exit row. Never have I felt so safe on an aircraft
Dr. Richard Feynman's lectures on physics have been iconic standards of physics education for the past five decades. Videos of the series were put online at Microsoft Research a few years ago, but now the entirety of Volume 1 is available over simple HTML (mirror).
In a letter to members of the Feynman Lectures Forum, editor Mike Gottlieb said, "It was an idea conceived many years ago, when through FL website correspondence I became aware of the many eager young minds who could benefit from reading FLP, who want to read it, but for economic or other reasons have no access to it, while at the same time I was becoming aware of the growing popularity of horrid scanned copies of old editions of FLP circulating on file-sharing and torrent websites.
A free high-quality online edition was my proposed solution to both problems. All concerned agreed on the potential pedagogical benefits, but also had to be convinced that book sales would not be harmed. The conversion from LaTeX to HTML was expensive: we raised considerable funds, but ran out before finishing Volumes II and III, so we are only posting Volume I initially. (I am working on finishing Volumes II and III myself, as time permits, and will start posting chapters in the not-too-distant future, if all goes as planned.)"
Todays quote:
"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun."
The computer lab in the new school I teach at has 4 of these bad boys still in their shrink wrap.
This truly sucks...
There was a spill in the harbor.
Other awesome food and such pipelines that you never knew existed.
What I want to know is how this arrangement came about and why?
Google Inc. GOOG -2.92% founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have to dig deeper to operate their fleet of private jets, after the U.S. Department of Defense ended a little-known arrangement that for years allowed the tech billionaires to travel on sharply discounted jet fuel bought from the Pentagon.
Yom Kippur begins tonight. That’s a good thing, because it means you won’t have to wait too long before asking forgiveness from both god and man for actually chuckling at a few of these Jewish Hunger Games jokes.
Eva's owner should have realized something.
My dinner with...Them
Most of my two readers are middle aged like myself...
In Japanese the word "ossan" is somewhat of a rude word for middle aged-dudes. How would you like to rent an ossan? Well, in Tokyo, you can.
I... I tried to eat a bee...
Some people are all American and chaff at the loss of privacy from a perceived over reaching government that takes and gives little in return...
TIL that an estimated $700-$800 million dollars is lost every Friday the 13th due to people's refusal to travel, make major purchases, and conduct business. Just plain stupid!
These are really khewl!
Sounds of outer space.
Perhaps their greatest gift to history, however, is their wonderfully strange taste in names. A wide variety of Hebrew names came into common usage beginning in 1560, when the first readily accessible English Bible was published. But by the late 16th century many Puritan communities in Southern Britain saw common names as too worldly, and opted instead to name children after virtues or with religious slogans as a way of setting the community apart from non-Puritan neighbors. Often, Puritan parents chose names that served to remind the child about sin and pain.
So this guy is driving in the rain with his dash cam on...when suddenly..."I'm outta here!"
Ya right...
Children living near nuclear power plants do not have an increased risk of developing leukaemia, a study says.
So apparently my dog can rock sunglasses better than most people can
America is for Americans!
TIL Steve Jobs confronted Bill Gates after he announced Windows' GUI OS. "You’re stealing from us!” Bill replied "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."
Well he did have a influence after all...
USS George Washington In all her Glory
Hank of "Hank's Electric in Costa Mesa California" rode one of these during the German occupation in Holland when he was a young teen..he still has it in mint operating condition in his garage...A hidden forest treasure
Driving behind some people irritates me and I quickly drive around them,,,not this time
Face the facts...Steve is gone...
Apple's shares fell more than 5% as investors worried that the firm's latest iPhone models may not help it increase its share in emerging markets
Mount Hood is good.
You really need to know this...
TIL that there is a 7-slotted grill on all Jeeps, because it signifies the fact that the Jeep brand was the first manufacturer to have its vehicle driven on all seven continents.
Honey...stop driving behind school busses and large trucks...
TIL that diesel fumes are more carcinogenic than cigarettes and cause lung cancer, according to the World Health Organization.
Fodo's Fantastic impossible workout supreme! The man is stronger then the bulbous bulky body builders by a long shot and way more flexible by miles. You just gotts see this, you won't believe it! Wow!!!
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