Team Camaro – Day Three, the Final Day!
Today was one hell of a good final drive to the big state of Texas. After a fun night celebrating at the Cherokee Inn in Catoosa, Oklahoma, we all met in the parking lot again early in the morning for a quick prep-talk. The dedicated teams in the Ford Raptor, Subaru WRX, and new Camaro SS decided to depart a bit earlier, in hopes to follow their plan of driving the mother road and stopping at just about every Route 66 landmark. John and I took a few minutes to run to the local gas station, fuel up, pick up some breakfast snacks, and head back to the starting line.
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Fastmac U-socket Now Going For $20
And here you were thinking this thing had vanished into the never-ending Lairs of Vaporwareville. Lucky for you, the gents and gals over at FastMac have been hard at work caving to the also never-ending list of demands from the UL and various other safety agencies. That means that the utterly brilliant U-Socket is indeed still on track for mass production, but it'll be slightly redesigned and stacked with a few bonus features by the time it hits the market. According to an update sent out to loyal pre-orderers (which can be seen in full after the break), the USB sockets have been relocated as a compliance measure, but now, they're of the SuperSpeed variety. Each one is also capable of 10W power and it also smokes the EPA's Energy Star requirements.
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Two Motorcycles Become One Car
This is the real deal in modern wild design. This is the “Plug-In” affordable youth mobility project by Ramesh Gound. According to Gound, there is a big “buy 1 get 1 free” shopping attitude in the market around the Ahmedabad area of India. This simple concept gave Gound the idea to take two motorcycles and attach them in the middle. Each motorcycle is owned by its respective party, a young person with a big appetite for sports vehicles but a small pocketbook, then they attach. Once two motos attach in the middle, they become that fantastic sports car from heaven. Two drive-by-wire bikes are owned by separate people. They wanna attach them for a longer drive or some sort of trip that’s not great for motorcycle, or hey, if they just wanna cruuuze… they attach in the center of the two. The hood is made of D3O, which when the bikes are not attached, stows away in the bike configuration. This whole concept is aimed to take on congested cities such as Mumbai.
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Prevent Clickjacking Attacks
The scary thing about a clickjacking attack is there isn't any foolproof way of detecting when it is happening to you. Through clever hackery, some dastardly villain somewhere will show you a website that looks harmless, but they can use it to steal your clicks, making you do something drastically different than what you think you're doing. Clickjacking, put simply, is when a button, image, video, or some form of embedded content on a website is overlaid by an invisible layer that sits on top of the site underneath it. For instance, you may see a page with a movie embedded on it. You want to watch the movie, so you click on the play button. You don't think twice about it -- you've done it a million times. Meanwhile, a hacker has superimposed an invisible web page over the movie. It just so happens that a button allowing access to your camera and microphone has been placed over the movie's play button. Now, when you think you're playing the movie, you're actually permitting the hacker to access your video camera and microphone.
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