| 97 | To placate the Praetorians of Germany, Nerva of Rome adopts Trajan, the Spanish-born governor of lower Germany. | |
| 1553 | Michael Servetus, who discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood, is burned for heresy in Switzerland. | |
| 1612 | A Polish army that invaded Russia capitulates to Prince Dimitri Pojarski and his Cossacks. | |
| 1806 | Emperor Napoleon enters Berlin. | |
| 1809 | President James Madison orders the annexation of the western part of West Florida. Settlers there had rebelled against Spanish authority. | |
| 1862 | A Confederate force is routed at the Battle of Georgia Landing, near Bayou Lafourche in Louisiana. | |
| 1870 | The French fortress of Metz surrenders to the Prussian Army. | |
| 1873 | Farmer Joseph F. Glidden applies for a patent on barbed wire. Glidden eventually received five patents and is generally considered the inventor of barbed wire. | |
| 1891 | D. B. Downing, inventor, is awarded a patent for the street letter (mail) box. | |
| 1904 | The New York subway officially opens running from the Brooklyn Bridge uptown to Broadway at 145th Street. | |
| 1907 | The first trial in the Eulenberg Affair ends in Germany. | |
| 1917 | 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York. As the largest state and the first on the East Coast to do so, New York has an important effect on the movement to grant all women the vote in all elections. | |
| 1922 | In Italy, liberal Luigi Facta's cabinet resigns after threats from Mussolini that "either the government will be given to us or we will seize it by marching on Rome." Mussolini calls for a general mobilization of all Fascists. | |
| 1927 | Fox Movie-tone news, the first sound news film, is released. | |
| 1941 | In a broadcast to the nation on Navy Day, President Franklin Roosevelt declares: "America has been attacked, the shooting has started." He does not ask for full-scale war yet, realizing that many Americans are not yet ready for such a step. | |
| 1962 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offers to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the U.S. removes its missile bases in Turkey. |
Coastal areas from Florida to Maine will feel some effects, mostly from the hurricane part, he said, and the other parts of the storm will reach inland from North Carolina northward.Read more about Frankenstorm. here
"It will get broader. It won't be as intense, but its effects will be spread over a very large area," the hurricane center's chief hurricane specialist, James Franklin, said Thursday.
One of the more messy aspects of the expected storm is that it just won't leave. The worst of it should peak early Tuesday, but it will stretch into midweek, forecasters say. Weather may start clearing in the mid-Atlantic Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 in the Northeast, Cisco said.
"It's almost a weeklong, five-day, six-day event," Cisco said Thursday from NOAA's northern storm forecast center in near Washington. "It's going to be a widespread serious storm."
Flight enthusiasts, however, recently discovered that the bar codes printed on all boarding passes — which travelers can obtain up to 24 hours before arriving at the airport — contain information on which security screening a passenger is set to receive.A security expert points out that the whole idea behind random screening is that the terrorists don’t know what to expect. Well, now they do!
Details about the vulnerability spread after John Butler, an aviation blogger, drew attention to it in a post late last week. Butler said he had discovered that information stored within the bar codes of boarding passes is unencrypted, and so can be read in advance by technically minded travelers.
Simply by using a smartphone or similar device to check the bar code, travelers could determine whether they would pass through full security screening, or the expedited process.
The problem is, the passenger and flight information encoded in barcode is not encrypted in any way. Using a web site I decoded my boarding pass for my upcoming trip.Butler goes on to explain the horrifying implications:
M1PUCK/COLWMR YXXXXXX PHXEWRUA XXX 294RXXXFXX 11F>30BSo, here you see my flight information for my United flight from PHX to EWR. It is my understanding that this is similar to digital boarding passes issued by all U.S. Airlines; so the same information is on a Delta, US Airways, American and all other boarding passes. I am just using United as an example. I have X’d out any information that you could use to change my reservation. But it’s all there, PNR, seat assignment, flight number, name, ect. But what is interesting is the bolded three on the end. This is the TSA Pre-Check information. The number means the number of beeps. 1 beep no Pre-Check, 3 beeps yes Pre-Check. On this trip as you can see I am eligible for Pre-Check. Also this information is not encrypted in any way.
WWXXX BUA 0E016 3
Seriously, no one at TSA thought about this?What terrorists or really anyone can do is use a website to decode the barcode and get the flight information, put it into a text file, change the 1 to a 3, then use another website to re-encode it into a barcode. Finally, using a commercial photo-editing program or any program that can edit graphics replace the barcode in their boarding pass with the new one they created. Even more scary is that people can do this to change names. So if they have a fake ID they can use this method to make a valid boarding pass that matches their fake ID. The really scary part is this will get past both the TSA document checker, because the scanners the TSA use are just barcode decoders, they don’t check against the real time information. So the TSA document checker will not pick up on the alterations. This means, as long as they sub in 3 they can always use the Pre-Check line.
Mitt Romney often hits president Obama for calling for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans. But a Democratic source forwards to this rather lengthy list of fees Romney raised in Massachusetts. He was struggling to close a budget gap without raising taxes; but many of which citizens of the state saw them as hidden tax increases nonetheless - buzzfeed
“I’m not quite sure which Governor Romney we would be getting with respect to foreign policy,” the former secretary of state said on CBS’s This Morning. “I don’t sense he’s thought through these issues as thoroughly as he should have. He gets advice from his campaign staff that he then has to modify as he goes along.”
As the head of Greece largest oncology department, Dr. Kostas Syrigos thought he had seen everything. But nothing prepared him for Elena, an unemployed woman whose breast cancer had been diagnosed a year before she came to him.
By that time, her cancer had grown to the size of an orange and broken through the skin, leaving a wound that she was draining with paper napkins. “When we saw her we were speechless,” said Dr. Syrigos, the chief of oncology at Sotiria general hospital in central Athens. “Everyone was crying. things like that are described in textbooks, but you never see them because until now, anybody who got sick in this country could always get help.” - nytimes
In
March 2013, six people will spend four months on Hawaii's Mauna Loa
volcano simulating a Mars mission. Funded by the NASA Human Research
Program, HI-SEAS (Hawaii
Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) is focused on what future
astronauts might eat during long space adventures like a trip to the red
planet. More than 700 people with a variety of
science/tech/space/health backgrounds applied to participate in the
study. Science journalist Kate Greene, a former editor at Technology
Review, was one of those selected to be an astronaut "analog." Kate
says, "In particular, we are examining the hypothesis that astronauts
cannot live by rehydrated foods alone: we will be cooking and baking
with shelf-stable ingredients as astronauts on future Mars missions
might." Kate will be writing about her experience in various places,
including her blog. "Simulated Mars Mission"
Although
it is unclear whether Charlotte, North Carolina, is any more obsessed
with Halloween than other cities, there are some interesting people
there who take Halloween very seriously. Creative Loafing featured four
of those people and the ways they celebrate the holiday. Drew Badger,
pictured, is a haunted house consultant who also organizes the local
Zombie Walk, among other ghoulish activities.Drew Badger was only 10 when he inadvertently gave his first haunted house consultation, in 1977. His elementary school was holding its annual Halloween carnival, which included the "Tunnel of Terror." The "really lame attraction," Badger recalls, was comprised of taped-together refrigerator boxes and witches and ghosts made by first- and second-graders. So, Badger and his friend decided to fix it up.Also meet a man who makes giant monster costumes, a guy who drives a spooky hearse for fun, and a woman who had a Halloween "shotgun" wedding. More
"I cut a hole in one of the boxes, and my buddy got a bowl of ketchup," Badger says. "We smeared it on our arms and when the next group — a group of fifth-grade girls — got to the hole, we reached through and screamed and yelled. They screamed and yelled and got outta there. Within five minutes, we had a line out the door. Something must have clicked in me at that point."
After moving into the White House in 1945, Harry Truman wrote to his wife Bess about their spooky new abode: “I sit here in this old house … all the while listening to the ghosts walk up and down the hallway and even right in here in the study. The floors pop and the drapes move back and forth—I can just imagine old Andy [Jackson] and Teddy [Roosevelt] having an argument over Franklin [Roosevelt].”Some White House ghosts stand head and shoulders above others. Read the reports of the most common specters haunting the president's home.
Everybody in his family said almost exactly these lines: ‘You must sleep.’ He said, ‘No, you don’t understand; I’ve had nightmares before — this is different.’ He was given sleeping pills and told to take them and supposedly did, but he stayed up. I forget what the total days he stayed up was, but it was a phenomenal amount — something like six, seven days. Finally, he was watching television with the family, fell asleep on the couch, and everybody said, ‘Thank god.’ They literally carried him upstairs to bed; he was completely exhausted. Everybody went to bed, thinking it was all over. In the middle of the night, they heard screams and crashing. They ran into the room, and by the time they got to him he was dead. They had an autopsy performed, and there was no heart attack; he just had died for unexplained reasons.But that's just one of ten horror stories behind the movies you'll find at Flavorwire.
