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Double rainbows, annoying oranges and bed intruders: the year on YouTube
Clear iSpot gets easy web-based 'jailbreak'
by A Googler (The Official Google Blog)
For hackers, Clear must have known that its iSpot mobile hotspot would be hard to resist -- $100 for the device contract-free plus unlimited WiMAX for $25 a month is a pretty insane deal, after all, and the only catch is that they try to lock non-iOS devices out of the action. Indeed, it took mere hours for unlocks to start coming out of the woodwork, but now it's easier than ever: the developer of one of the original iSpot hacks has circled back to create a new unlock that requires nothing more than a couple link clicks while you're on a machine connected to the hotspot. How is that possible? Turns out there's a vulnerability that makes it possible to execute arbitrary commands on the iSpot through web code, and Clear hasn't yet updated the firmware to patch it. On that note, the developer tells us that there are actually some iPads that aren't able to connect to the iSpot without the hack, ostensibly because Apple is using some MAC addresses that the iSpot's current firmware isn't expecting -- so ironically, you might need this "jailbreak" just to use the thing the way Clear intended. As always with these sorts of things, proceed with caution -- we don't have an iSpot lying around to try this ourselves, so let us know how it goes. Clear iSpot gets easy web-based 'jailbreak' originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| iSpot Unrestricted, seclists.org| Email this| Comments
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(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog) It’s time to rewind back through the YouTube videos that people in the U.S. and around the world were watching and searching for in 2010. These lists of most-watched videos reflect the people, places and events that captured our collective attention and imagination throughout the year. During 2010, you all watched more than 700 billion YouTube videos, and uploaded more than 13 million hours of video. We met a bunch of new faces, some new words and phrases entered our shared lexicon, and we celebrated as some new YouTube partners hit the big time with millions of views. Remember these moments? • It started with a crime scene and ended up on the Billboard chart: when Antoine Dodson met the Autotune the News guys, a viral hit was made. • Columnist Dan Savage took to YouTube to respond to a spate of suicides by gay teenagers by launching the“It Gets Better” project to send messages of hope to bullied gay teens. The campaign went viral, with everyone from President Obama to Pixar employees taking part. • The next Justin Bieber? That was the buzz, as this performance by 13year-old Greyson Chance went viral and led to a record deal for this sixth grader from Edmond, Okla. • He’s an orange and, yeah, he’s pretty annoying. And that’s been the key to this channel’s meteoric rise in 2010: in less than one year, more than
1 million people have signed up for a regular dose of wise-cracking citrus. • Paul “Yosemite Bear” Vasquez’s emotive footage of a spectacular rainbow in Yosemite National Park caught the attention of a few pop culture sites and comedian Jimmy Kimmel, whose tweet helped make this clip and the “double rainbow” one of the most beloved memes of 2010. And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for … here are the mostwatched videos of 2010, compiled based on the view counts of videos uploaded during 2010. In some instances we aggregated totals across multiple versions of the same video to find the most-watched clip that really set YouTube on fire this year. Globally, as of November 2010, the most-watched YouTube videos (excluding major label music videos) were: • BED INTRUDER SONG!!! (now on iTunes) • TIK TOK KESHA Parody: Glitter Puke - Key of Awe$ome #13 • Greyson Chance Singing Paparazzi • Annoying Orange Wazzup • Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like • Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow 1-8-10 • OK Go - This Too Shall Pass Rube Goldberg Machine version • THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE - Trailer • Jimmy Surprises Bieber Fan • Ken Block's Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l'Autodrome
the most-watched major music label videos were: • Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris • Shakira ft. Freshlyground - Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Song) • Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna • Eminem - Not Afraid • Rihanna - Rude Boy • Justin Bieber - Never Say Never ft. Jaden Smith • Justin Bieber - Never Let You Go • Lady Gaga - Alejandro • Justin Bieber - Somebody To Love Remix ft. Usher • Lady Gaga - Telephone ft. Beyonce The most-searched for queries on YouTube during the year show what was on our collective minds as 2010 played out. Like Google Zeitgeist, these lists reveal the interests, issues and entertainment that connected us. January - haiti February - luge March - eclipse trailer April - ipad May - eminem not afraid June - shakira waka waka July - double rainbow August - bed intruder September - halo reach October - whip my hair November - firework For more reminders of the people, places and events that played out on YouTube during 2010, visit youtube.com/rewind or check out YouTube Trends for more detailed lists. Posted by Mia Quagliarello, Community Manager, YouTube
(Engadget) Submitted at 12/13/2010 11:46:00 AM
And globally, as of November 2010,
Leaked Memo Shows EPA Doubts About BeeKilling Pesticide (Wired: Wired Science) Submitted at 12/13/2010 1:02:18 PM
Over the concerns of its own scientists, the Environmental Protection Agency continues to approve a controversial pesticide introduced to U.S. markets shortly before the honeybee collapse, according to documents leaked to a Colorado beekeeper. The pesticide, called clothianidin, is manufactured by German agrochemical company Bayer, though it’s actually banned in Germany. It’s also banned in France, Italy and Slovenia. Those countries fear that clothianidin, which is designed to be absorbed by plant tissue and released in pollen and nectar to kill pests, is also dangerous to pollen- and nectareating bees that are critical to some plants’ reproductive success. In 2003, the EPA approved clothianidin for use in the United States. Since then it’s become widely
used, with farmers purchasing $262 million worth of clothianidin last year. It’s used on used on sugar beets, canola, soy, sunflowers, wheat and corn, the last a pollen-rich crop planted more widely than any other in the U.S., and a dietary favorite of honeybees. During this time, after several decades of gradual decline, honeybee colonies in the United States underwent widespread, massive collapses. Up to one-third have now vanished, troubling farmers who rely on bees to fertilize some $15 billion worth of U.S. crops and citizens who simply like bees. Though colony collapse disorder likely has many causes — from mites to bacteria to fungus to the physiological stresses and epidemiological risks of industrial beekeeping — pesticides are a prime suspect, and the EPA’s leaked documents(pdf) are troubling. The memo, obtained by Colorado
beekeeper Tom Theobald and publicized by the Pesticide Action Network, was written in November by scientists from the EPA’s Environmental Fate and Effects Division, who are considering Bayer’s request to use clothianidin in cotton and mustard. They describe how a key Bayer safety study used by the EPA to justify its original clothianidin approvals, which were granted before the study was actually conducted, was sloppily designed and poorly run, making it a “supplemental” resource at best. “Clothianidin’s major risk concern is to nontarget insects (that is, honey bees),” write the EFED researchers(pdf). “Exposure through contaminated pollen and nectar and potential toxic effects therefore remain an uncertainty for pollinators.” Some beekeepers and activists have now asked the EPA to reverse its clothianidin approval. An EPA
spokesperson told Grist’s Tom Philpott that clothianidin will again be on sale this spring. According to the EPA’s website, the clothianidin review has been moved back to 2012. Image: Flickr/ Jack Wolf. See Also: • The Silent Spring of the Honeybees • Mysterious Bee Disappearance Could Disrupt U.S. Agriculture • Whatever Happened to Whatever Happened to the Bees? • Bee Colony Collapse May Have Several Causes • EPA Reverses Controversial ‘Human Guinea Pig’ Rule • Human Pesticide Testing’s Greatest Hits Brandon’s Twitter stream and reporter’s notebook; Wired Science on Twitter.