This site has quite a few examples of social engineering as well as links to a toolkit that allows you to easily clone sites for use as harvesting mechanisms of information.
Prevention of Influence, Deception, Identity Theft and Phishing Through Education.
This distro is being distributed together with a thumbdrive / wifi USB card in China in order to easily hack into WEP / WPA protected WiFi networks.
At 80 microns thin, it’s flexible and can be wrapped around a pencil. It’s 432 X 240 resolution and 4.1″ display looks crisp!
Sony’s Flexible OLED is Thinner Than a Strand of Hair.
# Call any telephone number from any application or web browser…
# Send complicated url with Map’s location or route to your iPad or iPhone in seconds…
# Simplify sending a long SMS to your friend, colleague or a client…
# Bring your notes or large amount of text with you in seconds…
# Send Images or Photos to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch from any application or web browser…
Best of all: desktop clients for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux
via iPhone on your Desktop | myPhoneDesktop.
Showing you how much governments care about free speech, Julian Assange, who moves around every few weeks, has had his passport confiscated for looking worn. They’re not giving him a new one, it seems, which means it’ll be easy to keep close tabs on him. This makes it very difficult for people to give him documentation exposing governments the world over anonymously.
WikiLeaks founder has his passport confiscated – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com.
It’s a good document, showing that NATO is definitely heading in the right direction. However, you can tell that much of the experts are stuck in the mud a bit and that the US is using this document to flex its muscles in Iran’s direction.
NATO needs to form a new and clear strategic vision, one that not only updates it’s doctrine and relevance, but also shows this to the rest of the world.
They now know where it is and where it’s going. Einstein said it couldn’t be done.
Children who returned hostility with hostility appeared to be the most mature, the researchers found.
Boys who stood up to bullies and schoolyard enemies were judged more socially competent by their teachers.
Girls who did the same were more popular and more admired by teachers and peers, the researchers found.
via Bullying ‘can be good for children’: Study finds those who fight back are more popular | Mail Online.
Entangled photons have been able to instantaneously transmit their states over 500 m before, but the Chinese have managed to increase this range massively, allowing them to be used for communicative purposes.
Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km.
If there is a happiness gap between you and your wife / partner, chances are she’ll break up with you… unless you’re the one more miserable.
Want to keep the wife happy? Be miserable | Mail Online.
What they did is email genetic code to a machine, which constructed DNA and implanted that in a virus cell, after removing the old DNA. The synthetic DNA then reproduced and it’s reproductions also carried the synthetic DNA. The reproduction is the ‘life’ bit.
They’re calling it Cynthia.
Scientists Create First Synthetic Cell – WSJ.com.
Google has opened up VP8 for anyone to use and encode in, as well as giving out the SDK – so now you have a free and open option over H.264 for web video.
The WebM Project : tools : VP8 SDK.
It looks like the UK is starting to be saved allreay! The ConLibs are devoted to things such as personaly privacy and are against mammoth centralised databases (such as the National ID fiasco). The government is looking to increase the safety of your data and keep much less of it. Well done, I hope this becomes a continuing trend!
ConLibs to outlaw kiddyprinting without permission • The Register.
Dupont has managed to print out a 50″ OLED screen, which tests say should be reliable for around 12 years, in 2 minutes time. This should speed up the production and implementation of OLED, as well as make it quite a bit cheaper.
Technology Review: New Inks Could Mean Cheaper OLED Screens.
Some of the following keyboard shortcuts will not work at all if Compiz (visual effects) if turned off.
Workspaces
Window Management
Accessibility
Ubuntu Community Documentation has more on keyboard shortcuts (although some of it is outdated now for Ubuntu 10.04). You can view and change some shortcuts using System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts.
Compiz Keyboard Shortcuts in Ubuntu 10.04 | Tombuntu.
England, the home of tidal energy generator projects, has a new one: a Swedish startup has models of a turbine attached to a kite wing and rudder tethered to the ocean floor.
‘Underwater kite’ aims to turn energy tide – CNN.com.
French researchers have found it very easy using just a normal pc and internet connection, to track exactly what IPs where seeding and downloading what files. 30% of all bittorrent traffic is generated by only around 100 IP adresses.
And if you’re behind Tor, you’re not safe either.
Researchers spy on BitTorrent users in real-time • The Register.
Finally, the long awaited moment has arrived!
Studio MekTek, in association with Smith and Tinker, INC., Virtual World Entertainment, LLC, Catalyst Game Labs, and Microsoft Games, is happy to announce the release of Mechwarrior4 Free.
Getting started is easy. Just download and install MTX, MekTek’s free content delivery and updating system. Once installed, simply click the Games Available tab, select Mechwarrior4: Mercenaries and click install. The game will download and install, all within MTX, and as updates become available, MTX will help you keep your game up to date.
Once again, a big thanks to Microsoft Games and all of our partners for making this free release possible, and a special thanks to all of you in the community. Without our community, MekTek wouldn’t be what it is today. Your continued support and financial contributions have made all of this possible.
Download Mechwarrior4: Mercenaries Free Release 1.7 GB via MTX today!
via Mechwarrior 4 Free Release.
One of the greatest features of MekPak3.1 and of Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries in general, is the ability to customize. Mechwarrior always has been about the Mechlab, especially multiplayer. The Mechlab truly distinguishes MW4 from a long list of shooters that have come out in the past 10 years. The ability to create literally thousands of configurations allows the game to continue in popularity over its lengthy life span. Since the Free Release not only comes with the original mechs and weapons of Mercenaries, but also with the Clan and IS Mech Packs and all the Mektek mechs and weapons here is what you are getting…for free.
It’s an easy thing to use, just make sure you use windows 98 / 95 compatibility mode, just to be sure…
