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It’s Your Passenger Talking To You…
An FAA report reveals that the computer network in the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger jet setled in the Dreamliner’s passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight internet access, is connected to the plane’s control, navigation and communication systems. The two system are linked and separated just trough a firewall…
The report continue saying that there can be serious security vulnerability in its onboard computer networks that could allow passengers to access the plane’s control systems. What about a passenger that can infiltrate the navigation system trough that cute passenger’s joystick..
The revelation is causing concern in security circles because the physical connection of the networks makes the plane’s control systems vulnerable to hackers. A more secure design would physically separate the two computer networks. Boeing said it’s aware of the issue and has designed a solution it will test shortly.
“This is serious,” said Mark Loveless, a network security analyst with Autonomic Networks, a company in stealth mode, who presented a conference talk last year on Hacking the Friendly Skies (PowerPoint). “This isn’t a desktop computer. It’s controlling the systems that are keeping people from plunging to their deaths. So I hope they are really thinking about how to get this right.”
by Kim Zetter
STRP Festival – Art meets Technology in Eindoven
The STRP Festival is one of the largest art & technology festivals in Europe, presenting a four-day multidisciplinary programme with more than 120 artworks, performances, and artists. The composition of the programme is based on the principle that STRP should be a low-threshold festival, geared to a large audience. The programme
centres on robotics, music, visuals, and interactive art, and comprises an exhibition, a visuals programme, a music programme, and a programme containing performances, workshops, and lectures.
Leading American media artist Ken Rinaldo, will premiere Our Daily Dread: the mechanization of our food production, which is expressed through an installation of robot arms cow’s ears, video images, and abattoir sounds. The Interactive Balloon Ballet by Christopher Bauder (GER) is an enormous work consists of a grid of balloons that, illuminated from the inside, float through space like atoms.
Robert Henke, better known as Monolake, composed the sound environment for this work. During a special performance, the balloons drift around in a graceful choreography. Italian Sonia Cillari presents an interactive theatrical work at the STRP festival. In her interactive performance ‘If you are close to me’, a dancer is standing on a floor full of sensors. By approaching her, the visitor influences an electromagnetic field around her that reveals itself in fabulous visuals and audio compositions. Cillari was awarded an Honourable Mention for this work during the prestigious Ars Electronica Festival in 2007. Also Otolab (IT) will performe a live audiovisual performance: Circo ipnotico
Another prize-winning work is Camera Lucida by Evelina Domnitch and Dimitri Gelfand (RUS/USA). In their ‘sonochemical observatory’, they lend sound an amazing visual dimension.
The visuals programme comprises video art/video clips, live cinema, animation, and documentaries. The live cinema performances are a once in a lifetime experience in which image and sound are in perfect harmony with one another, almost creating a new dimension. Feed by the Austrian Kurt Hentschläger, is a mind-blowing experience in which all senses seem to crash. Starting at a calm pace, the performance soon enough literally builds up steam, immersing the audience in a dark space full of smoke, stroboscopes, projections of androgynous creatures and ear-deafening sound. Feed was developed for ‘Theatre Biennial Venice 2005’.
During the Animation Festival on Sunday, George Pal (1908), who used to live in Eindhoven, and the animation software Blender take centre stage. Pal developed the stop motion animation technique that earned him worldwide acclaim as the founding father of contemporary animation. Pal was awarded two Oscars and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Blender is free open source software for 3D animation, creating animation films that quality-wise equals those of the large Hollywood studios. Elephants Dream, a film entirely made with Blender, premiered in 2006; it was worldwide the first animation film ever made with open source software, and in HD quality to boot.
The STRP Festival opens on 22 November with a concert by one of the world’s most celebrated electronic bands: The Chemical Brothers. The music programmes of Friday and Saturday start at 20.00 and continue until six o’clock in the morning.
The extensive music programme presents alongside big names also superb high-tech experiments in the field of electronic music. The performance by 5MM (DJ Akufen and VJ Coutu-Dumont), is a true audiovisual gem of deep soundscapes and alienating projections. A world apart from the French Aufgang, which consists of two grand pianos and electronics: Jeff Mills meets Keith Jarrett!
The full programme and all information can be found on www.strp.nl
Daily Echo. Boy George – The War Song
Boy George – The War Song
George Alan O’Dowd, better known as Boy George (born June 14, 1961 in Eltham, London) is a rock singer-songwriter and Club DJ. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, since he was heavily influenced by Rhythm and Blues and reggae. Mainly O’Dowd is a essential part of the British new romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s and was popularised in the early 1980s. He and Marilyn, born Peter Robinson were regulars at ‘The Blitz’, a highly stylised nightclub in London run by Steve Strange of the musical group Visage, and a place which spawned many early 1980s pop stars such as Spandau Ballet.
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From 1979 he worked as a DJ alongside Jeremy Healy until he joined forces with DJ Michael Craig and drummer Jon Moss in 1982 to form the 80’s super group Culture Club. Over the next four years, the group made history with their music including the huge hits “Karma Chameleon” and “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me”. The group split in 1986 and reformed in 1998.
http://www.culture-club.co.uk/
Dread-locked Boy George challenged the traditional boundaries of gender: wore makeup, exotic outfits and brought this androgyny to a mainstream market, which was later dubbed as gender bending.
Today Boy George is recognized foremost as a leading dance music DJ, a solo artist and for his Broadway musical Taboo.
Boy George Feb 2007 DJ Tour Press
Out of Orbit Recordings: Laika, Moan and Trentemøller Live Band
Laika (from Russian: Лайка, a breed of dog, literally: “Barker”) was a Russian space dog which became the first recorded living creature from Earth to enter orbit. At one time a stray wandering the streets of Moscow, she was selected from an animal shelter. Originally named Kudryavka (Russian: кудрявка), she was renamed Laika after her breed type. After undergoing training with two other dogs, she was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 and was launched into space on 3 November 1957.
Laika died a few hours after launch from stress and overheating, probably due to a malfunction in the thermal control system. The true cause of her death was not made public until decades after the flight. Although Laika could not survive the trip, the experiment proved that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure weightlessness. It paved the way for human spaceflight and provided scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.
For the 50th anniversary of the russian dog, Laika, Directors Niels Grabøl and Ulrik Crone dedicated their beautiful video for Danish DJ and producer Anders Trentemøller Moan to the Russian space dog. The song “Moan” by Trentemøller feat. Ane Trolle was a big hit in Denmark as well as a top 30 hit in the Belgium Singles Top 50 for 2007. Check the video:
Trentemøller and his live partner DJ. T.o.m. Bertelsen played more than 100 shows over the last 1 and a half years with their raving and energetic live sets mainly based on Trentemøller‘ s dancefloor singles. Trentemøller will play live in concert @ I Love Techno Festival 10.11.2007 in TBA, Belgium . In 2006, his debut album “The Last Resort“ on Poker Flat gathered a big haul in many many reader polls and scored the #1 album of the year in many magazines.
This year for the first time Trentemøller Live Band are performing tracks from the album „The Last Resort“ live on stage! The band members are: Henrik Vibskov on drums, Mikael Simpson (guitar/bass) and of course Trentemoller.
Gone Astray. The Extravagant Sound of Troy Pierce in Italy
After being raised in the cornfields of Indiana and brought up on Midwest house & techno (Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills, Derrick Carter, D-Wynn), in 1994 Troy moved to New York to study photography and blew the remainder of his cash on a pair of turntables. His flatmate was also the manager of Temple Records: an endless supply of quality tunes on hand from labels like Perlon.
Troy hooked up with Magda at the Detroit Music Festival in 2001, who in turn introduced him to Mark Houle six months later. An immediate chemistry developed between the three of them and although Magda was now in Berlin, Mark in Windsor and Troy in New York they started swapping music files over the net. By the time the Run Stop Restore project finally crystallised into their debut release in early 2003, Troy had already moved to Berlin.
The release of the Minimise to Maximise compilation in 2005 and the accompanying tour left a lasting impression on clubbers.
Minimalism lines developed for a dance floor allows him to work in between. The resulting hybrid sound exploits the fractal space between the beats and push out into the hearing dimension.
Troy is a strong advocate of cutting edge technology like Ableton Live, Final Scratch and sample tools like Cyloop. The ability to shift between these sound sources offers him spontaneous improvisation. The result is a montage of scratchy subliminal textures and grinding beats driven by dark funky acid bass riffs.
His new album is entitled Gone Astray released with Label M_nus , Catalog#: MINUS 52 CD
6 Aug 2007. Cover album and artwork design by Jason Patterson. Photography by Gibby Miller. Remix – Konrad Black (tracks: 
, Louderbach (tracks: 10). Vocals – Gibby Miller (tracks: 5, 10)
Troy Pierce - Turin
WHEN: nov 10 Troy Pierce in Italy
WHAT: Club to Club Festival
WHERE: Club to Club Festival
Daily Echo. Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals – Juxtaposed With U
Probably the earliest evidence of recorded activity by SFA is a track called ‘Dim Brys, Dim Chwys’ (recorded in 1994 for the seminal ‘Heno Bydd Yr Adar Yn Canu’ programme on Radio Cymru, and subsequently featured on the ‘Triskadekaphilia’ compilation album released in August 1995).
However this track did not appear on their debut release – the ‘Llanfairpwllgwyngyllllantysiliogogogoch(In Space) EP’ – which appeared on the Ankst label in June 1995 (Ankst57).
As it happens, this release was also listed in The Guiness Book of World records – as the longest ever title for a commercially-released EP.
Next up was the ‘Moog Droog’ EP (Ankst62), which followed in October 1995 (featuring a first outing for ‘God!Show Me Magic’, which would later be released as a single).
Towards the end of 1995, Mark Bowen, a thrusting A+R man from Creation Records managed to persuade label owners Dick Green and Alan McGee to sign SFA which saw them joining a roster which was already home to, amongst others, Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream and Oasis.
Since then the band have gone on to produce and release an astonishing and wide ranging collection of albums; details of which can be found on _
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