...Burger Bots: Burger Making Machines That Will Revolutionize the Fast Food Industry Discussing the loss of human jobs to machines, Andrew McAfee, co-author of the book Race against the Machine, says “we ain’t seen nothing yet.” In the United States, the fast food industry has one of the highest employee turnover rates at 50 percent, costing the industry about $3.4 billion in recruiting and training. Many chains are already looking for ingenious ways to take humans out of the picture, threatening workers in an industry that employs 2.4 million wait staffers, nearly 3 million cooks and food preparers and many of the United States’ 3.3 million cashiers. Automation in the fast food industry has already started. In Europe, McDonald’s “hired” 7,000 touch-screen kiosks to handle cashiering duties, taking orders and handling payments. The use of touch screens at drive-thrus will also soon be available. While the full automation of fast-food cashiers isn’t here just yet, researchers and those in the business say it’s only a matter of time before ordering and payment become primarily self-service. In this essay I would like to discuss another type of automation, a technology which I believe will further revolutionize and potentially result in a significant number of jobs lost in the fast food industry, the burger making robot or burger bot. The burger bot doesn’t just flip the beef patties; it actually makes the burgers from start to finish. It may sound ludicrous at first, but...
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...Abstract—Nowadays, Botnets pose a major threat to the security of online ecosystems and computing assets. A Botnet is a network of computers which are compromised under the influence of Bot (malware) code. This paper clarifies Botnet phenomenon and discusses Botnet mechanism, Botnet architecture and Botnet detection techniques. Botnet detection techniques can be categorized into six classes: honey pot based, signature-based, mining-based, anomaly-based, DNS-based and network-based. It provides a brief comparison of the above mentioned Botnet detection techniques. Finally, we discuss the importance of honeypot research to detect the infection vector and dealing with new Botnet approaches in the near future. Keywords- Botnet; Bot; Malware; Malicious code; P2P; Honeypot functions programmed by the Bot-master in automated way. Bots can receive commands from the Bot-master and work according to those commands to perform many cyber crimes for example phishing [26], malware dissemination, Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) attack, identity theft etc. The process of Botnet can be broadly divided into three parts: (1) Searching: searching for vulnerable and unprotected computers. (2) Distributing: the Bot code is distributed to the computers (targets), so the targets become Bots. (3) Sign-on: the Bots connect to Botmaster and become ready to receive command and control traffic...
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... Internet bots, also known as web robots, WWW robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyzes and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. Each server can have a file called robots.txt, containing rules for the spidering of that server that the bot is supposed to obey. In addition to their uses outlined above, bots may also be implemented where a response speed faster than that of humans is required for example, gaming bots and auction-site robots or less commonly in situations where the emulation of human activity is required, for example chat bots. Recently bots have been used for search advertising, such as Google AdSense. (Juusi, 2012) Internet bots are also commonly used in games such as RuneScape, despite the fact that it's not allowed. RuneScape has now known bots as illegal and you will receive a fine of $500-$2,500. Another, more malicious use of bots is the coordination and operation of an automated attack on networked computers, such as a denial-of-service attack by a botnet. Internet bots can also be used to commit click fraud and more recently have seen usage around MMORPG games as computer game bots. A spambot is an internet bot that attempts to...
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...Botnets are computer programs that are designed to take control of your computer without your knowledge. They are designed to infect computers and allow hackers to remotely control your computer via an Internet connection. Most users are unaware their computer has been hijacked because little evidence can be found that the computer is not working as expected. Once a computer has been compromised it is sometimes referred to as a bot or zombie. Having antivirus or other security software on your computer can help reduce the risk of being compromised by botnets but hackers are constantly developing new ways to circumvent these measures. Updating antivirus software regularly is one way to minimize the likelihood that computers can be used for malicious purposes (“What are Bots, Botnets and Zombies?” n.d.). The impact of botnets on business functions can be profound. Not only can computers be made to perform tasks without the users awareness but software like GameOver Zeus, or GOZ, can be used to steal financial or any other type of data from consumers or businesses. Business owners should be very concerned about programs like GOZ because they have sophisticated techniques to compromise other computers on a network, therefore an entire corporate network could be compromised if just one computer were to become infected with GOZ. Also, businesses should be concerned about botnets because they can be used to perform distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using hundreds of thousands...
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...DCIT 65 - Web Development Botnet Edrilyn R. Fortuno BS IT 3 - 1 February 7, 2013 Botnet A botnet is a collection of computers that connected to the internet that interact to accomplish some distributed task. A bot is a type of malware that enables a network attacker to gain control over a computer and utilize it to launch third party attacks on the Internet. Software agents, or robots, that run autonomously and automatically. A group of computers running a computer application controlled and manipulated only by the owner or the software source. In the past, the concept of bots did not include harmful behavior by default.Bots can be very bene cial programs when they are designed to assist a human user, either by automating a simple task, or by simplifying a user's control over various programs or systems. Botnets are used for malicious activity like distributed denial of service attacks, identity theft, sending spams and phishing attacks. Typically botnets used for illegal purposes. Botnets are seen to be one of the main sources of malicious activity. Rapidly growing botnets and new methods for spreading malicious codes and launching attacks. Bots sneak into a persons computer in many ways. Bots often spread themselves across the Internet by searching for vulnerable, unprotected computers to infect. When they nd an exposed computer, they quickly infect the machine and then report back to their master. Their goal is then to stay hidden until they are instructed to carry...
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...CAPTCHA CAPTCHAs (completely automated public Test to tell computers and humans apart) are in common use today as a method for performing automated human verification online. The most popular type of CAPTCHA is the text recognition variety. However, many of the existing printed text CAPTCHAs have been broken by web-bots and are hence vulnerable to attack. We present an approach to use human-like handwriting for designing CAPTCHAs. A synthetic handwriting generation method is presented, where the generated textlines need to be as close as possible to human handwriting without being writer-specific. Such handwritten CAPTCHAs exploit the differential in handwriting reading proficiency between humans and machines. Test results show that when the generated textlines are further obfuscated with a set of deformations, machine recognition rates decrease considerably, compared to prior work, while human recognition rates remain the same. CAPTCHA is now almost a standard security technology. The most widely used CAPTCHAs rely on the sophisticated distortion of text images rendering them unrecognisableto the state of the art of pattern recognition techniques and these text-based schemes have found widespread applications in commercial websites. The state of the art of CAPTCHA design suggests that such text-based schemes should rely on segmentation resistance to provide security guarantee, as individual character recognition after segmentation can be solved with a high...
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...Botnet’s The term bot is short for robot. Criminals distribute dangerous software known as malware that can turn your computer into a bot, also known as a zombie. When this happens your computer can perform automated tasks over the internet without you knowing it Criminals use bots to infect large numbers of computers. These infected computers form a network or a botnet. Which is a large number of infected computers Criminals use botnets to send out spam email messages, spread viruses, attack computers and servers, and commit other kinds of crime and fraud. Botnet is a good reason to have a very good viruses protection on your computer. If your computer become part of a botnet , it might slow down and you might be helping criminals Large company’s here in the US have security breach by bots. January 2014 Target announced 70 million individual’s contact information had been taken during a breach in December 2013 where 40 million customer’s credit card and debit card information was stolen. Neiman Marcus announced that between July and October of 2013, credit card information of 350.000 individual’s was stolen and 9,000 of the stolen credit card information was used. There is a long list of company’s big and small. These heartless criminals attacked the Goodwill Industries between February 2013 and August 2014 malware infected the chain store through infected third party vendors. As cyber attacks on retail, technology and industrial company’s increases...
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...finish setup) Step 2: Download the latest bot here (Although I already sent version 5.7.2 to your email) http://clashbot.org/forums/index.php?/forum/32-announcementsreleases/ (Please create an account to download from the forums) Latest bot as of March 13, 2015 is 5.7.2 Step 3: Make sure bluestacks is closed even from the tray (Tray is the lower right corner of your PC where minimized apps are stored) then run 820*720 from your bot folder. Just press enter after highlighting it to run. Step 4: Open COC Bot Things you need to know after opening BOT -Open COC from Bluestacks. You will notice that Bluestacks got smaller. -VERY IMPORTANT: Please zoom out clash of clans by pressing arrow down. Keep pressing arrow down until you can’t zoom it out anymore. General Tab -Set the max number of trophy you want for your bot. This is good to maintain the farming league of your bot. It will automatically drop your trophy if your current is higher than settings. (I personally prefer the 1400 league because mostly they are TH8 which is good for my barchers BOT troops) Search Tab -Set the max number of loot for your bot to search then check MEET GOLD AND ELIXIR. -Set the max lvl of TH to 10. (there...
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...Acknowledgements I would like to appreciate God Almighty for his faithfulness and for the strength, without him I am nothing. I would like to thank my supervisor Dr Hatem Ahriz for his guidance throughout the writing of this report. I would like to thank Richboy and Ete Akumagba for their guidance and for proof reading this report. I would like to thank my family for their support and love. ii Abstract This era of explosive usage of networks have seen the rise of several opportunities and possibilities in the IT sector. Unfortunately, cybercrime is also on the rise with several forms of attack including, but not limited to botnet attacks. A Botnet can simply be seen as a network of compromised set of systems that can be controlled by an attacker. These systems are able to take malicious actions as needed by the attacker without the consent of the device owner and can cause havoc. This paper is the first part of a two-part report and discusses on several reportedly known botnets and describes how they work and their mode of infection. Several historic attacks and the reported damage have been given to give a good picture and raise the bar on the capabilities of botnets. Several existing tools have been considered and examined which are useful for detecting and terminating botnets. You would find that each tool has its own detection strategy, which may have an advantage on some end than others. iii Table of Contents Declaration ................
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...SELF NAVIGATING AUTONOMOUS BOT Major-Project Report by Arjun Surendran B080001EC Deepak Venga B080027EC Nandu Raj B080585EC Priyanka G Das B080312EC Sanjay George B080270EC Under the guidance of Dr. S. M. SAMEER Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Technology In ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT Kerala, India April 2012 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING CERTIFICATE This is to certify that this report titled SELF NAVIGATING AUTONOMOUS BOT is a bona fide record of the major-project done by Arjun Surendran Deepak Venga Nandu Raj Priyanka G Das Sanjay George B080001EC B080027EC B080585EC B080312EC B080270EC In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Degree of Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut. Dr. S. M. Sameer (Project Advisor) Assistant Professor Dr. P S Sathidevi Professor & Head April 2012 NIT Calicut i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to thank Dr. S. M. Sameer, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering for his guidance and inspiration in helping us complete this project. We are also grateful to Dr. P S Sathidevi, Professor and Head, Department of Electronics and Communication...
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...Marine coastlines have held great importance for humans for thousands of years. We enjoy the beauty of the landscape, nourish ourselves with fish, crustaceans, and bivalves from the shore, and are highly dependent on marine algae which provide a major percentage of the oxygen found in the air we breathe (Walker, 1980). As economies have grown exponentially over the past century, so has the demand on our marine resources. Over the years we have seen a great reduction in the populations of fisheries we depend on. Not only does over harvesting affect our way of life, it has an even greater impact on the ecosystem and various habitats , and the biodiversity found along our coast (Worm et. al, 2006). Marine protected areas (MPA’s) are designated stretches of coastline that have become important in terms of fisheries and ecosystem restoration (Palumbi, 2001). These reserves allow marine flora and fauna to have a chance to return to healthy populations to allow for sustainable harvest and rehabilitation of species that have been affected by overharvesting (Gleason et. al, 2010). MPA’s in California have been implemented by legislature for the purpose of preserving and rehabilitating our coasts. In 1999, the Marine Life Protection Act was passed, requiring an overhaul to the design of the MPA system to increase its success and efficiency (www.dfg.ca.gov, 2013; Gleason et. al, 2010)1. In California there are now a total of 124 protected areas, of which 119 are MPA’s and the remainder...
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...MEANINGS OF BOT, BOOT, BOO, BLT BOT (BUILD, OPERATE TRANSFER) BOT finds extensive application in the infrastructure projects and in public private partnership. In the BOT framework a third party, for example the public administration, delegates to a private sector entity to design and build infrastructure and to operate and maintain these facilities for a certain period. During this period the private party has the responsibly to raise the finance for the project and is entitled to retain all revenues generated by the project and is the owner of the regarded facility. The facility will be then transferred to the public administration at the end of the concession agreement, without any remuneration of the private entity involved. Some or even all of the following different parties could be involved in any BOT project: • The host government: Normally, the government is the initiator of the infrastructure project and decides if the BOT model is appropriate to meet its needs. In addition, the political and economic circumstances are main factors for this decision. The government provides normally support for the project in some form. (provision of the land/ changed laws) • The concessionaire: The project sponsors who act as concessionaire create a special purpose entity which is capitalised through their financial contributions. • Lending banks: Most BOT project are funded to a big extent by commercial debt. The bank will be expected to finance the project on “non-recourse”...
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...CHAPTER 2 2.0 Literature Reviews This project on Intelligent Conversation Bot, as presented in this study, relies on several terms as well as theories. The literature review is actually written to Narrate about what has been published on Artificial Conversational Entity in the summary. This chapter provides the most important results in the above mentioned areas. All these literatures were guiding the research of the kind of work have done before. Chapter two sought to find the appropriate foundations of references that describe, summarize, evaluate, and clarify the previous studies in Intelligent Conversation Bot, Natural Language Processing, AIML, Online Customer Care System and E-government. Also, some basic methodologies will also be covered....
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...Proceedings of the Fourth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference Learning to be a Bot: Reinforcement Learning in Shooter Games Michelle McPartland and Marcus Gallagher School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering University of Queensland St Lucia, Australia {michelle,marcusg}@itee.uq.edu.au Abstract This paper demonstrates the applicability of reinforcement learning for first person shooter bot artificial intelligence. Reinforcement learning is a machine learning technique where an agent learns a problem through interaction with the environment. The Sarsa( ) algorithm will be applied to a first person shooter bot controller to learn the tasks of (1) navigation and item collection, and (2) combat. The results will show the validity and diversity of reinforcement learning in a first person shooter environment. Introduction Over the past decade substantial research has been performed on reinforcement learning (RL) for the robotics and multi-agent systems (MAS) fields. In addition, many researchers have successfully used RL to teach a computer how to play classic strategy games such as backgammon (Tesauro 1995) and go (Silver, Sutton, and Muller 2007). However, there has been little research in the application of RL to modern computer games. First person shooter (FPS) games have common features to the fields of robotics and MAS, such as agents equipped to sense and act in their environment, and complex continuous movement...
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...Reading Prompt #4 Star of Ethiopia and other DuBois Writings 1. What is necessary in order to perform The Star of Ethiopia? What is necessary for “The Star of Ethiopia” is in each scene there is a narrator giving a description of what the African American topic will be. For an example, some scene begins with the phrase “Hear ye, Hear ye!” along with a summary or description of what is going to happen. Additionally a banner that is in every scene is draped down that has written text for each scene that outlines the history of African American history. The banner contains useful information that tells the audiences what will happen in the scene, whatever it be a gift of iron, American slave trade, or the involvement in Egypt.”. 2. In terms of form and content, how is The Star of Ethiopia similar to The Melting Pot? How is it different? Both have similar form of being an educational play that teaches the audience through the content of both play through performance. Each play has a story to tell in terms of history and foreshadow. The Star of Ethiopia tells the history of African American to the audience and the progression of an African American becoming a part of society. This concept is similar to “The Melting Pot” as it involves telling the audience of the “Melting Pot/Crucible” of how every race will be gathered in a single area and the thoughts about it. The difference between the two is how the message of the story is portrayed. The Star of Ethiopia’s is told through a...
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