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Source: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-06/first-clown-space-shares-his-photos-world
In 2009 Laliberté became the seventh civilian to spend a two-week vacation aboard the ISS by way of a ride on a Russian Soyuz capsule, arranged by Space Adventures. And he may be the last for some time; Space Adventures has suspended paid civilian rides now that the Space Shuttle's retirement has left the Russian Soyuz as the only way to ferry astronauts and supplies up to the ISS (though the Russians have plans to build an additional fifth Soyuz vehicle for launch in 2012, which could potentially carry a space tourist).
Laliberté is the first Space Adventures passenger to come from a primarily creative rather than scientific background, which is an intriguing first. Given that, it's only fitting that he's become the first space tourist to present his souvenir photographs as a body of artistic work for the public.
It's also interesting to remember that the stunning oeuvre of photographs taken from space over the last half century have all been the work of government employees on scientific missions. Which is certainly not to diminish their status as one of the great visual examples of human creativity, but in Laliberté's case, like all the space tourists before him, he was able to fire away from the ISS porthole with no other agenda other than his own. As a result, many of the images take a more abstract view of the Earth from orbit, a view we're not as accustomed to seeing. Many of the images are almost biological in their texture, with fields of lakes and and mountains resembling muscle cells under a microscope.
"Trust me, these are great pictures," Laliberté told me, speaking of the imagery captured by astronauts on NASA missions. "But I think as an ensemble, [my work] has its own personality, and that's what I'm proud of."
Click here to launch a gallery of Laliberté's images
Laliberté worked with the Nikon D3 and D3x DSLRs already aboard the ISS, paired with a variety of long telephoto lenses ranging from 200mm to a gigantic 800mm supertelephoto. (Recall also the work of astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who famously fired away with the same gear during his time aboard the ISS). That Nikon 800mm f/5.6 lens weighs 12 pounds here on Earth, but in microgravity, it's considerably easier to wield.
To keep track of the locations in the frames (which Laliberté left largely uncropped for the book), the photos' timestamps were synced with the ISS's mission computer, which were then placed and sorted with Google Earth. There are plans to make a much wider collection of the images available via a similar Google Earth application in the future.
As someone who enjoys travel photography myself, I'm often interested in those moments where you decide to actually put down the camera and acknowledge that for some experiences, photographs don't really suffice as an accurate representation or memory. If you enjoy it, it's important to shoot, but also important not to shoot. For Laliberté, these moments came at night, which happens to come in 30 minute bursts 16 times per every 24-hour Earth "day," as the ISS orbits at over 17,000 mph.
"These were the times where I lived more personally," Laliberté said. "I was not taking too many pictures during those times. Even if there was a full moon, I was living that for myself. I was just stunned. But then, after that, I got to work."
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Source: http://lifehacker.com/5808749/mystream-lets-you-share-your-iphones-music-without-sharing-headphones
MyStream's music-sharing abilities are also really nice if you're working with others who want to listen to your music. Maybe you want to share spoken word content with other people in the car, but without playing it on the car stereo. There are a lot of use cases for this app if you think of them, but each one is a little bit niche. Nonetheless, there are plenty of circumstances where MyStream can really come in handy. It's a good app for you and your iDevice-carrying friends to have in case you want to use it, seeing as it's free.
For MyStream to work, all you have to do is be on the same network as anyone else running the app and their devices will show up in the list of available streaming devices. One person needs to put a playlist together and the other person needs to connect to it. That's all that's involved in the sharing process.
The main disadvantage is that the listener's audio lags behind the source audio. It's only about a difference of one second, which shouldn't really be a deal breaker for anyone, but you'd think MyStream would be able to offset the source based on information from the listener's device. That's probably easier said than done, but it would be nice if the two devices could play the streams almost completely in sync with each other.
All of that said, we're talking about an app that works pretty well for providing its intended solution. At a price it might cause an adoption roadblock that would limit its usefulness, but for free MyStream is a pretty worthwhile download.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5809336/turns-out-those-securid-tokens-arent-as-secure-as-once-thought
EMC Corp. confirmed the incident yesterday, saying that Lockheed Martin Corp. (a weapons manufacturer client of RSA's) was hacked back in March, into using information stolen from RSA Security. While they claim customer and employee data remains uncompromised, they're willing to go the extra yard just to be sure, and replace each and every SecureID device. [WSJ]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5809360/well-theyre-cheaper-than-the-real-thing-i-guess
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