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Another year has come and gone with it another Chaos Communication Congress. For those of you who don't know the CCC is an annual hacker conference held in Germany. Luckily for me many of the talks are in English. Videos of the talk have been trickling onto youtube and I wanted to highlight...

One of the minds behind recaptcha recently gave a talk at TEDxCMU about an interesting new project. Duolingo hopes to address the problem of translating the large body of web content into other languages. They also hope to make learning foreign languages accessible to people who can't afford...

I've censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet--a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit: http://americancensorship.org/posts/10120/uncensor As...

http://blog.norml.org/2011/11/07/norml-attorneys-file-multiple-constitutional-challenges-to-federal-medical-marijuana-crackdown/ I'm not an expert but it seems like they have a chance of at least stopping federal interference.

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.2435.html http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/10/is-the-placebo-effect-partially-caused-by-cannabinoids.ars

Oh great, the cops have spy drones now. It gets even better seeing as the Government may have helped pay for the spy drone. I'm sure they won't invade our privacy with them. :frown: These fuckers are going to be a lot harder to spot then helicopters since most operate a very high altitudes...

The Department of Homeland Security has admitted that the Government is aware of cases where foreign manufactured hardware and software has been preloaded with malware before even hitting store shelves. Further more the Whitehouse has expressed concerns over the security of the supply chain for...

The future of facial recognition software is here. Facebook is now more frightening then the FBI. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218903/Profile_pics_on_social_media_sites_pose_privacy_risk_researcher_warns

The mutilated corpses of witnesses and journalists serve as a potent reminder that violent criminals are profiting from prohibition. However a disturbing new trend has emerged. Vietnamese gangs are trafficking children into the UK to tend the cannabis plants as indentured servants. Despite...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-crime-identification-iris-idUSTRE76J4A120110720 Oh yeah that bit about false positives at the end really makes me feel good about the facial recognition part of this $3k gizmo. Can't wait to explain to the judge that I just look like a mob boss to...

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Firefox plugins you need to know about. AdblockPlus http://adblockplus.org/en/ A cookie (the kind you eat not the kind that tracks you) for the person who figures out that AdblockPlus blocks ads on web pages. You subscribe to a list of advertising addresses. AdblockPlus then blocks those...

This is the funniest music video I have ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjigODNy3jk Also Scare Goat is a great song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5cRE2xqR7Y

Strain: Lowlife Great White Shark Growth: I don't know what that means. Ebb & Flow? Veg under t5 fluorescents, bloom under 400w hps then later in the bloom 600w hps? Does that answer the question? Nutes: Technaflora complete line though I am seriously questioning if Thrive Alive B-1 Red is...

I need some help troubleshooting a problem I've been having with with my 400watt HID bulb/ballast. I have it setup on a 20/4 timer for some lowlife (sp?) great white shark and kush and I watched it to make sure it worked the first day. I get up today and go to check on the plants and the *******...

Technically I've been growing weed for a year or two but those grows were little more then exercises in unplanned chaos. However I've recently gotten a 400w hps bulb and I really want to get more serious about growing. I've been reading info that's been archived from the now defunct overgrow and...