Here's an interesting looking game called One Chance which only allows you to play it once.

One Chance is a game quite unlike any you have ever played online. It is about a scientist who created a pathogen that is inadvertantly wiping out all mankind on Earth. You then have six in-game days to decided how you will spend the rest of your life. Will you stay at the office and do all you can to find a cure? Will you finally step away from the office and spend some time with the family you have been neglecting? Or will the madness and impending doom jusr cause you to lose your mind?

What really sets One Chance apart is that you really only have One Chance to play it. The game picks up on your I.P and unless you have multiple computers with multiple I.P's, you really only do get one chance in One Chance, which is part of what makes it so spectacular.

-http://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/11/One-Chance-Might-Be-the-Bleakest-Game-You-Have-Never-Played/

(It actually just stores a cookie, so you can play it again if you clear your cookies or use Incognito/Private browsing mode.)

http://www.newground...m/portal/view/555181

DC Member skwire, in responding to a request on our Coding Snacks request section, has written a beautiful GUI front end to the excellent SigCheck commandline utility by Mark Russinovich from Sysinternals.

The tool will recursively scan folders (or active processes) and produce a nice grid (sortable of course) of results, showing the digitial secure signatures of applications and DLLs.

In addition to being a useful security tool, it's a neat way to find out more information about the applications installed on your pc.

Website | Download

Well!...It seems that my last couple of news posts went down well enough for me to be asked to do more, so here we go!!!  If you guys find any interesting stories and want me to post them in next weeks 'issue' then private message me links and such and I will get them included!

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This Mechanical Keyboard Switch Sampler Is My New Favorite Desk Toy

Enter the Max Keyboard Cherry MX Switch Pro Sampler, a ~$20 customizable kit that simulates what using each of the switch types actually feels like. The set includes red, black, blue, brown, green, gray, clear, and white switches, along with sound dampening rings, and an acrylic base to test the switches on.

Aside from being an extremely useful tool for choosing your keyboard, the Sampler is a cool addition to your desktop to fidget with, and makes for a great little gift for anyone into this sort of thing. There's even a cheaper ~$10 model that comes with just the 4 more common switch colors.

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Read more at http://lifehacker.co...new-favor-1630606204


Run Competitions On Your Website Simply and Easily, With Gleam.io

There’s something about getting stuff for free that ignites a frenzy in anyone, and it’s that compulsive fact of human nature which makes competitions so effective for any website. Gleam.io is the newest, and best way to run a promotional competition on a web project.

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Read more at http://www.makeuseof...asily-with-gleam-io/

Test Ebola treatments to be rushed to West Africa

In an extraordinary move, the World Health Organization plans to rush experimental Ebola vaccines and drugs to workers and patients in West Africa in the coming weeks and months. The move reflects a sense of urgency to get the epidemic there under control.

First on the agenda is immediate use of “convalescent serum,” an untested treatment that involves transfusion of blood from an Ebola survivor to a patient. Donors would first be tested for serious diseases such as HIV. Ebola survivors carry antibodies against the virus, but the value of a transfusion containing them is unknown.

I have seen Marc Maron on tv a few times and have never been a fan, but a friend recently turned me on to his podcast around the time that Robin Williams died (he had a pretty heavy interview with Robin Williams).

He has now done more than 500 podcasts -- which are 30-60 minutes in length and are mostly just one on one interviews with someone in comedy or music business.  I've been really impressed with them -- they are adult discussions, at times funny, sad, vulnerable, deep, etc.

Most of the podcasts are surprisingly deep and frank discussions with comedians, moving between discussions of personal struggles, work ethic, and the theory of comedy.  Really fascinating stuff.

http://www.wtfpod.com/

Highly recommended.  What other podcasts do you guys listen to?

Saffron, my cat and constant companion and friend of 17+ years passed away this week.

I have no words to describe how much I miss her.  There is huge hole in my heart that I don't know how to fill.

Rest in peace my dear cat. I miss you so much.

As some of you may know, I used to do some Tech News here at DC, but as the days went on, time got a little more constrained and real life slowly took over.  However...even though I can't promise a full time thing, what I can promise, is one for you right now!!

So...Here goes!

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Windowless Planes Offer Passengers Spectacular Panoramic Views:

An international design agency has come up with an intriguing and innovative new aviation concept that has won them a prestigious award - windowless jets.

Technicon Design’s idea is not to ruin your views while cruising through the air, but to enhance them. This would be achieved by filming the exterior environment and displaying it on inside surfaces throughout the cabin. Rather than being restricted to a small window, passengers would experience a spectacular panoramic views of the world. Of course, it would also be possible to display other things on the screen besides the sky, such as movies.

While this may sound gimmicky, removing windows has the added benefit of weight reduction and would also simplify plane construction. It would also allow greater flexibility when designing the interior of the plane.



Read more at http://www.iflscienc...#k77557fLHpV346hZ.99

Scientists Find Traces Of Ancient Star From The Beginning Of The Universe:

An ancient star has revealed traces thought to be from one of the Milky Way’s first supernovae. The discovery may help us understand the nature of the giant stars that once populated the universe.



Read more at http://www.iflscienc...#8OLKpVM1kS4ZzgMm.99

NSA and GCHQ agents 'leak Tor bugs':

The Tor Project says it believes some NSA and GCHQ agents are surreptitiously leaking it information to protect anonymity on the net.



Read more at http://www.bbc.co.uk.../technology-28886462

Super-famous Instagranimals and their owners:

Wired.co.uk speaks to the people behind some of the most popular social media animals to find out how they build their audiences and what opportunities have arisen



Read more at http://www.wired.co....als-and-their-owners

Android web apps get extra security with privacy wrapper:

On a mobile application, users typically have a single choice to protect their privacy: install the application or not...



Read more at http://www.wired.co....vacy-wrapper-android

Hacking our ears: how Dolby is bringing Atmos into the home:

Since Dolby Atmos arrived on the cinema scene in 2012, the technology has set a precedent for movie sound.
The intricate but sparse sonic landscape of Gravity, Godzilla's guttural roar, the rain-soaked urban jungle of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes... all of these have benefitted from the Dolby Atmos Cinema Processor and its support of up to 128 discrete audio tracks.



Read more at http://www.techradar...nto-the-home-1262350

Gmail app hack works 92 percent of the time:

Computer scientists have discovered a method of hacking smartphone apps across Android, iOS and Windows devices that is effective up to 92 percent of the time on six of seven popular apps, including Gmail.



Read more at http://www.wired.co....ail-hacks-92-percent

Heart failure patients healthier after ear stimulation:

Heart failure patients could live healthier lives by having nerves in their ears stimulated with a portable Tens machine.

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (Tens) machines are commonly used to alleviate back pain and are even used during labour. Now a team from the University of Leeds wants to adapt it to tackle health problems that are impacted by changes in the sympathetic nervous system, including heart disease and hypertension. The technique works by altering the signals that can make a heart beat too hard, by stimulating the vagus nerve.



Read more at http://www.wired.co....art-disease-patients

Hackers easily seize control of nearly 100 traffic lights:

Taking over a city's intersections and making all the lights green to cause chaos is a pretty bog-standard Evil Techno Bad Guy tactic on TV and in movies, but according to a research team at the University of Michigan, doing it in real life is within the realm of anyone with a laptop and the right kind of radio. In a paper published this month, the researchers describe how they very simply and very quickly seized control of an entire system of almost 100 intersections in an unnamed Michigan city from a single ingress point.



Read more at http://www.wired.co..../traffic-light-hacks

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In Other News

Ebola crisis: The economic impact:

With more than 1,300 reported deaths from Ebola in West Africa, the virus continues to be an urgent health crisis, but it is also having a devastating impact on the economies of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

"The economy has been deflated by 30% because of Ebola," Sierra Leone's Agriculture Minister Joseph Sam Sesay told the BBC.



Read more at http://www.bbc.co.uk...ws/business-28865434

Ice Bucket Challenge ALS Donations Break $50 Million Mark:

The organization raised $64 million in all of 2013

The Ice Bucket Challenge is the gift that keeps on giving for the ALS Association. The organization raised more than $10 million on Thursday alone, it said, bringing its total haul since July 29 to $53 million. For comparison’s sake, the group raised $2.2 million during the same period last year.



Read more at http://time.com/3159...challenge-donations/ (Warning: Contains a video that Auto-Started on my browser.)

Giant Crack Appears In Earth In Mexico:

Video footage has emerged of a kilometre-long crack thought to have been triggered by an underground stream in northwest Mexico.

The eight-metre (26ft) deep trench opened up last week and severed Highway 26 between Hermosillo and the coast.

Captured by Hermosillo Desde El Cielo, the footage was shot by a drone flying along the length of the trench, which is up to five metres (16ft) across.



Read more at http://news.sky.com/...s-in-earth-in-mexico