Showing posts with label Geek stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geek stuff. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Computer Geek Dream Job?

"Meet The Hackers Who Sell Spies The Tools To Crack Your PC (And Get Paid Six-Figure Fees)" full story at Forbes:
Bekrar won’t detail Vupen’s exact pricing, but analysts at Frost & Sullivan, which named Vupen the 2011 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year in vulnerability research, say that Vupen’s clients pay around $100,000 annually for a subscription plan, which gives them the privilege of shopping for Vupen’s techniques.

Note that $100k just lets you see the catolog, doesn't actually pay for any product, from what the story suggests the products can easily cost more than $100k.

What surprised me, is that this is legit, or so the story says, I don't understand how that can be, since they are hacking one company's products for other companies & governments.

A very interesting article.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Nerd News: Star Trek Tricoders one step closer to reality!

Source and full story:  http://www.extremetech.com/computing/114975-nano-scale-terahertz-antenna-created-hand-held-tricorders-incoming

This is just totally cool to a Nerd like me!  Terahertz frequencies can penetrate skin a short distance, additionally in the Terahertz freq range, molecules and atoms have an unique signature, or "fingerprint", which means it can not only image, but analyze things!

Someone may actually cash in on the X Prize Offers $10 million for a Real-Life Star Trek Medical Tricorder

Friday, November 25, 2011

Geek Stuff: Analyzing Angry Birds projectile motion

I thought this was interesting.  Perhaps very interesting for people thinking about being Game Developer or other hard science Nerds.


The link below with the details is from Open Source Physics,  a cool site that recently won the SPORE award.

http://www.compadre.org/OSP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11562&DocID=2481


 I blogged about that on one of my other Corners.