Unbelievably, the man convicted of being responsible for the greatest disaster in Scotland, is possibly being released on ‘compassionate grounds’ of all things!
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Lockerbie bomber ‘to be released’.
This comes back a lot – we know people are basically not honest, that lying is taught to us by our parents from an early age. Robert Feldman’s latest study shows that even when we don’t have an agenda, we lie around 12 times per 10 minutes – and these are just the lies we are willing to admit to! Should we have an agenda, we will happily lie with a much greater frequency.
Being honest just isn’t in us!
MinnPost – We lie a lot. And that’s the truth..
It turns out that Palm wants your data – as much as possible! The Pre sends the following information home daily:
Apparently Palm says you can turn it off, but they don’t tell you how. You OK it by agreeing to their privacy policy (so – who here has ever read a privacy policy / eula they’ve agreed to?).
More and more companies (Apple, Google, to name a few) feel they have ownership of the devices they sell you, and feel that collecting this kind of private data is fine.
Of course, some of the apps on the phone need this kind of data in order to work (eg apps that show things close to you in Google Maps) but does Palm need this data too?
via FYI: The Pre Reports Your Location to Palm | PreCentral.net.
It’s Hidden is a Dutch VPN service that allows you to surf the web and bittorrent anonymously. They say they don’t store any data and they encrypt it for you. The results I’ve seen so far show that they’re a fast service.
Home.
Finally! They’ve passed testing and can be implemented! You can plug an mp3 player into them, they’re not as huge and unsightly as the current hearing aids and they are much much more effective than the old school ones.
Bone-anchored hearing aids filter out noise, finally ready for human implantation.
Utah scientists have developed a liquid that turns semi solid in the presence of semen, trapping the AIDS virus. If a woman uses the liquid before sex, sperm gets trapped in a gel like structure. By the time the gel melts into liquid, the AIDS virus has died. So it’s not a sure fire contraceptive, but good for the most virulent and dangerous sexual disease. Now if they can only get it to solidify for ALL sexually transmitted diseases…
Bill Gates-funded boffins develop anti-AIDS stealth condom • The Register.
The register has had enough of reporting on space and the hugely expensive space programmes, and (probably following on the tail of the UK Space Cheese project) has decided to launch their own paper space program in an attempt to keep the UK space race open!
El Reg to launch space paper plane • The Register.
They’ve even got a name for it: Vulture 1
The National ID card was hacked – last week. It only took 12 minutes to do. Now the government is flying in the face of the evidence and bluntly stating it never happened. Maybe if they say it often enough it’ll become true. Or not.
Government rubbishes ID card hack report • The Register.
After all the millions spent on it, after all the privacy concerns and the backlash, after the bloody minded determination of the Wacky Jacqui to implement this, it only took 12 minutes to clone the fucker.
Slashdot IT Story | UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes.
Basically zoom in to pictures and it will correct the pixellation for you.
SmillaEnlarger Enlarges Your Images without Artifacts – Image Editing – Lifehacker.
Of course only in the jolly old UK:
The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes
They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.
Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction.
The best bit? They’ve allready put 2000 families through this!
via Daily Express | UK News :: Sin bins for worst families.
For $8000 you can launch your own satellite into low earth orbit at 310 km. It’ll stay up there for around 3 weeks untill it burns up in reentry. They come in kit form and you can stuff whatever you want in there as long as it weighs less than 0.75 kg and fits into the tube they send you. You can double, triple or quadruple the tubesat, allowing you to launch greater payloads. They will be launched on Interobital’s Neptune rocket, which carries 32 tubesats per time. They expect to launch 1 rocket per month from 2010 from the IOS Spaceport Tonga.
UCSniff can be placed on a laptop and put in a network where it will VLAN hop untill it finds the VoIP VLAN channel. It then throws out spoofed ARP packets like a man-in-the-middle attack and gets all voice and video traffic thrown to itself. Together with a plugin called VideoJak they can then insert video loops into the stream, meaning that whoever sees the camera output (the guard) will only see the loop and not what the webcam is seeing.
Surveillance camera hack swaps live feed with spoof video • The Register.
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