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ICARE Motorbike design

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Robin

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Using TV style voting in physics class

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Robin

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Professors in the US are using TV voting machines (called ‘clickers’) to test students’ knowledge of the subject being taught during lectures. As they vote, bar graphs go up in real time allowing people to see how the voting is going.

Students using the clicker system score 10% higher than without and it seems to level the field between the genders.

Even though the students are not forced to participate in the clicking, 90% generally do. If you add an incentive, 98% do.

EU tells UK to deal with Phorm – or else | The Register

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Robin

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Now the EU is in the mix

Phorm is a company that has been eavesdropping on the 3 largest UK ISPs (BT Internet, Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse) without a legal reason to do so or anybody’s consent.

I first got wind of it in April but the Register has been covering it very comprehensively.

Bell 609 tiltrotor

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Robin

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Bell is launching it’s civilian version of the V-22 Osprey, the 609. It has a 700 mile range and more speed than a helicopter, but can land on the top of buildings.

Kaspersky claims Intel chips hacked

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Robin

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Kris Kaspersky claims to have found an exploit which he plans to release into the wild with working proof of concept code at the upcoming Hack In The Box in Malaysia.
He claims that every intel box ever made is vulnerable, OS independent, as long as it’s running TCP/IP or javascript.