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Shellshock BASH Vulnerability Tester:

Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187, CVE-2014-6277) is a vulnerability in GNU’s bash shell that gives attackers access to run remote commands on a vulnerable system.

You can use this website to test if your system is vulnerable, and also learn how to patch the vulnerability so you are no longer at risk for attack.

There's a new article on NSA's Technology Transfer Program, a 1990s-era program to license NSA patents to private industry. I was pretty dismissive about the offerings in the article, but I didn't find anything interesting in the catalog. Does anyone see something I missed?

My guess is that the good stuff remains classified, and isn't "transferred" to anyone.

Slashdot thread.

Ireland denies secret tax deal with Apple Yorkshire Post IRELAND has denied striking a secret tax deal with technology giant Apple that would have allegedly broken EU rules on state aid. Dublin has moved to counter claims that a “back room” agreement was struck with the world's richest company dating back two ... and more »

Bagel company Einstein Noah sold for $364.5M Hilton Head Island Packet LAKEWOOD, Colo. — The owner of Einstein Bros. Bagels and other, similar chains is being acquired by investment group JAB Holding for about $364.5 million. The Einstein Noah Restaurant Group Inc. also owns Noah's New York Bagels and Manhattan ... and more »

A political candidate’s firing in Florida offers a reminder of a little-understood fact of American life: Companies have sweeping discretion to effectively regulate what their workers do outside of work, including running for elected office.

makomori:

that’s the whole movie

WASHINGTON—Saying the extra income would be a major boon both for individual citizens and the country at large, a study released Monday by the Congressional Budget Office confirmed that a mass extinction of the world’s flora and fauna could fr...

Dry conditions have caused the Aral Sea's eastern lobe to completely dry up for the first time in modern history. It was once the fourth largest lake in the world, but owing to a disastrous irrigation project, it's all but gone.

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Beloved Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch mispronounces the word “penguin” in several different and adorable ways while narrating a documentary about the South Pacific for the BBC.

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Saying there is no such thing as a legal right to clean running water, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes dismissed a request from Detroit residents to impose a six-month moratorium on water shutoffs by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) on Monday.

The plaintiffs had argued last week that the DWSD shutoffs over delinquent water bills violated the human rights of impoverished citizens who had no ability to pay what the city says they owe, and who were left without access to clean water by the shutoff policy.

“There is no such right or law,” Rhodes said, according to the Detroit News. He also rejected the idea that citizens have a right to “service based on an ability to pay.”

Those remarks are notable because Rhodes didn’t even have to speak to the substance of the plaintiffs’ arguments. Bankruptcy law doesn’t give him the power to force the city to take the sort of action the plaintiffs requested, so Rhodes could have dismissed the request on simple procedural grounds.

By choosing instead to rebuke the notion that the health and safety implications of being cut off from running water service due to dire financial straits constitutes a violation of Detroiters’ rights, Rhodes positioned himself opposite the United Nations. After activists made a formal request for U.N. intervention in June, a trio of U.N. experts called the DWSD’s aggressive approach to a multi-million-dollar backlog of water bills “a violation of the human right to water and other international rights.”

The U.N. Special Rapporteur on drinking water issues said that “when there is a genuine inability to pay, human rights simply forbids disconnections.” The city of Detroit has raised water rates by triple-digit percentages in recent years despite having one of the poorest customer bases in the country.

DWSD has been shutting off thousands of water pipes every month since the spring, with one brief break in late summer after the policy attracted months of negative press attention. Activists allege that the department has been far more willing to shut off water to individuals than to businesses even though delinquent bills from businesses are much larger on average and make up a disproportionate share of the total revenue DWSD is owed. (A DWSD official disputed that portrayal to ThinkProgress over the summer and promised to provide numbers proving those allegations are false, but never did.)

When the water shutoffs began, the city’s path out of bankruptcy was still rocky and complicated. The thorniest part of the city’s unpayable debts had always been the $5 billion in borrowing tied to the DWSD. When the future of the water department was up in the air, it made a certain brutal kind of sense to get aggressive about clearing up $175 million in unpaid bills in order to make the water department a more attractive asset in various negotiations.

Since then, the city has struck an agreement with neighboring counties to put a regional water authority in place — something that should help to make service more affordable for Detroit residents in the long run while also bringing in much-needed revenue for repairs to the aging pipes and filtration infrastructure. The chief financial officer of the DWSD told the Detroit Free Press that it must keep the pressure up on poor Detroiters in order to fulfill its agreement with the suburban counties and maintain its bond rating.

The total outstanding water bills have been cut in half to less than $90 million since the spring. As the water shutoffs were getting underway in April, Rhodes approved the city’s request to pay that same amount of money to a trio of banks over some legally questionable financial deals tied to casino revenue. Rhodes had previously said the city should sue to cancel those deals rather than buying their way out of the bad debts.

The post Judge Says Poor Have No Right To Clean Water, Allows Detroit Water Shutoffs To Continue appeared first on ThinkProgress.

Despite all of the pleasures of instant noodles—the salty, MSG-packed broth, the little freeze-dried nubs of vegetables, the slippery, way-too-soft noodles—wouldn't it be great if you could get all of that same convenience and pleasure—the portability, the just-add-water cooking, the lunch-sized portions—but pack it full of fresh vegetables and real, honest-to-goodness flavor? Here's a secret: you can, and it's easier than you think. Read More

Harry and Mary Crosby with their dog Narcisse Noir

MAKE has some more details on the new Arduino 3D printer –

…the Italian 3D printing site 3discover.it reports that the printer is a collaboration between Arduino and Italian 3D printer maker Sharebot, showing one additional angle of the machine.

From the Sharebot site, it looks like the Arduino Materia 101 has many similar features to the Sharebot Kiwi 3D. If this is indeed a rebadged machine, expect something with a 140mm x 100mm x 100mm print capacity (5.5in x 3.9in x 3.9in), that prints with 1.75mm PLA filament. While those prints are not particularly large, the overall size of the Kiwi machine is also diminutive at 310mm x 350mm x 330mm (12.2in x 13.77in x 13in). It also has print-from-SD card capabilities. We’ll continue to check if these indeed share the same specs. The Kiwi 3D starts at 696€ (~$882).

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The pizza cake craze started when a Canadian pizza chain made a version of a pizza cake. And a brave Redditor then created their own cake as well.

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Colin Jost was born and raised in Staten Island, New York.[4][5][6] He is the son of Dr. Kerry J. Kelly, the Chief Medical Officer for the New York City Fire Department and a physician on Staten Island, and Daniel A. Jost, a former teacher at Staten Island Technical High School.[7][8] He attended Regis High School in Manhattan[9] and Harvard University,[4] where he was president of the Harvard Lampoon.[5][9] Career[edit] Shortly after graduating from Harvard, Jost was hired as a writer at Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 2005[4] at 22 years old

Denzel Washington's "The Equalizer" was unmatched at the box office this weekend, up against family film "The Boxtrolls" and "The Maze Runner."

Ello, the social media website that's grown in massive popularity of the past week, is currently down. Whether for maintenance or more nefarious purposes, it isn't outwardly explicit.

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Forget the bad weather. Forget the crooked teeth. Forget the quiet, reserved, tea-drinking aristocrat. Britain is fast painting a new image of itself: a nation with a drinking problem.

Facebook’s controversial plan to split its messaging feature into a separate mobile app is working.

David Cronenberg has had two distinct careers as a filmmaker. The first was as the foremost creator of “body horror,” a genre that examined psychological issues through the physical, the flesh becoming a place where neuroses and psychoses manifested themselves. From early work such as Rabid to his adaptation of The Fly, Cronenberg turned the human body into something alien and grotesque, exploring the limits of sexuality and the ravages of disease. His work for the past decade has been qualitatively different, less genre-specific and more interested in the reverberations of violence (both sexual and otherwise). Though recent films like A Dangerous Method have very explicitly explored many of the same themes as his early work, it seemed as if he’d left body horror behind entirely. Instead, he’s changed the medium. His novel, Consumed, seems, in some ways, to fit better with the Cronenberg of the 1970s than ...

Rob Williams and Simon Fraser continue their run on "Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor" with a trip to the Bayou to confront a devilish dealmaker.

Once slated to direct the movie adaptation of Brian K/ Vaughan and Pia Guerra's series, Dan Trachtenberg confirms rights have reverted back to its creators.

bengrill:

montreal | may 2014

Emblemata Nobilitati, British Museum, 1592

Schelte Adamsz Bolswert, Christ standing on top of Death and a dragon, 17th century

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