How secure is your credit card?

Chip and PIN was supposed to help protect us all from card fraud. But Cambridge researchers, Steven Murdoch and Saar Drimer, have found a number of ways that the criminally-minded could crack it - and extract your account number and PIN and all the details needed to create a cloned card.




See also: PIN Entry Device (PED) vulnerabilities, Author's technical report
P.S. If you are a victim of a credit card fraud accused by your bank, show them this video!
P.P.S. Check also these articles about ATM skimmers:

• Barclays' new ATM to beat fraud
  
• Внимание! Будьте бдительны..
  
• Мошенники подделывают банкоматы
  

Death of a Nation: Russia

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the West has purposefully ignored the devastation which resulted. The West merely shrugged it's shoulders or pulled faces in 2005 when Putin called it "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century."

A once great country is now nearing terminal collapse. By 2050 Russia may have lost 50% of its population. Male life expectancy has plummeted like no time in recorded human history (now 56).

In this chaos opportunism has reached new depths. Oligarchs stole billions of dollars of assets which under Soviet times had belonged to all people. These are like new tzars, embraced by church and state.

Violence and the rise of the far-right is turning Russian against Russian on the basis of ethnic origin.

Drug abuse, alcoholism, suicide, abject depression flow from a people who once worked together for a better and brighter Communist future. In its place is emptiness.

"The rise in mortality is unprecedented in a developed country. Its as though the country is at war"



P.S. Film consists of six parts. At the end of the part, move mouse cursor over the video window to select other parts.

Бабка жжет на пожаре

Преподаватель вождения в ПТУ просто отдыхает перед бабкой :-)



P.S. Если мат - это непроизвольный стих, то бабуся воистину достигла вершин поэзии!
P.P.S. Вот правильная книжка, которуя я нашел, не поверите, в библиотеке Texas A&M University! Впоследствии книжка стала незаменимым атрибутом всех вечеринок. От себя добавлю что автор действительно разбирается в предмете и даже защитил докторскую по этой теме: все слова которые знал я, в словаре были, но большинства других слов я никогда в жизни не слышал. Воистину великий и могучий :-)

Marvelous Far Remix

Nice remix of a soundtrack to famous soviet movie "Guest from the future". My best attempt at translating the name of the song "Прекрасное далеко" would probably be "Marvelous far"...

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

A very interesting video by Philip Scott Johnson that portrais artistic trends in depicting women over a period of 500 years...



Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma. To see the list of the portraits used in this video, visit author's web page

Nacked Girl Illusion

Here is a nice test of which side of your brain is more developed. If you see the girl rotating clockwise, right semi-sphere of your brain is more developed. If you see her rotating counterclockwise, you've got brain with more developed left semi-sphere. If you can force yourself to see her rotating in both directions, you've got a really high IQ.

P.S. The trick to see her rotating in the opposite direction to the one your brain is good at, is to look on something else on the page and see the girl with your side vision. Once your side vision picks the opposite direction rotation, focus on the girl entirely. Good luck!

Урок вождения в ПТУ

Если вы забыли как у нас сдают на права, то эта видео-ностальгия именно для вас :-)



P.S. Вот правильная книжка, которуя я нашел, не поверите, в библиотеке Texas A&M University! Впоследствии книжка стала незаменимым атрибутом всех вечеринок. От себя добавлю что автор действительно разбирается в предмете и даже защитил докторскую по этой теме: все слова которые знал я, в словаре были, но большинства других слов я никогда в жизни не слышал. Воистину великий и могучий :-)

Take me back to your house

Amazing song, incredible music video and outstanding dancing by Basement Jaxx...



See also: Basement Jaxx Official Website, Take Me Back To Your House Lyrics

P.S. If you can't play the video, see this YouTube post of it. Unfortunately it is in mono, which is why I keep here stereo version in Windows Media.

Ремонт у Галкина

Полный бизнец :-)

Ваша USAша

5 баллов! Равшан и Джумшуд в Белом Доме :-)

Vagina Monologues

Apparently February 1 is also known as the V-Day - a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. I learned about it after I saw that many of the universities were staging a play with an intriguing and contoversial name "Vagina Monologues". Unless you are sensitive to hearing V-word 5 times in every sentense, you've got to see this masterpiece and better in real than on youtube if you get a chance...



In the most conservative university of the most conservative state, the show was sold out completely for both days. When I was walking from the parking lot to the show (late as usual), a woman stopped her car by and asked conspiratively if I am a student and if I know where a building with a strange name she couldn't remember is. She was obviously looking for MSC and I guasked her if she was going to Vagina monologues? She blushed, then smiled, and then said: "Yes, actually" :-)