US turns wikileaks into fiasco. Terrorism is dropped.

Yup – instead of just having been embarrassed and pointing out that every country makes the same kind of internal assessments, that these have to be brutally honest internally in order to be effective and then getting on with it, the US is flipping. H Clinton, the mad spying control freak, is now claiming it’s Read more about US turns wikileaks into fiasco. Terrorism is dropped.[…]

Partial reversal of aging achieved in mice

“When we flipped the telomerase switch on and looked a month later, the brains had largely returned to normal,” said DePinho. More newborn nerve cells were observed, and the fatty myelin sheaths around nerve cells — which had become thinned in the aged animals — increased in diameter. In addition, the increase in telomerase revitalized Read more about Partial reversal of aging achieved in mice[…]

How Google and MS load so quickly: they cheat on slow start

Basically they’re violating RFC-3390. You’re supposed to check the speed the receiver can handle before sending another packet, and then up your speed if it’s good, or stabilise if it isn’t. What they do is instead of waiting for the return packet confirming or denying the uprate in speed is good (initial window / IW), Read more about How Google and MS load so quickly: they cheat on slow start[…]

This is why you need courts to make decisions – torrent-finder.com taken down with no recourse to law.

Why is this strange? Well, torrent-finder doesn’t host any torrents, or contain a database with the location of torrents – it doesn’t even show any torrents: it shows torrent finding sites in iframes (ie outside of its own site). It’s been taken down unilaterally by ICE in the *cough* land of the *cough* free, the Read more about This is why you need courts to make decisions – torrent-finder.com taken down with no recourse to law.[…]

Windows 7 Phone Jailbroken

Windows Phone 7 unlocker released Today we have an exciting breakthrough for the Windows Phone 7 homebrew community – the ability for anyone to unlock a WP7 device without a Marketplace developer account. Unlocking allows the sideloading of experimental applications that would otherwise can’t be published to the Marketplace, such as those which access private Read more about Windows 7 Phone Jailbroken[…]

PLX Kiwi Wifi – Connect your iPhone / iPod Touch to your car’s OBD2 OBDII Port.

Kiwi Wifi is a plug and play wireless device measuring only 2.75 x 1.25 x 0.6 inches. Kiwi Wifi comes attached with a 6 ft OBDII cable for easy installation. It also comes included with a power switch built-in to prevent the need for having to constantly disconnect your unit from the OBDII port. It Read more about PLX Kiwi Wifi – Connect your iPhone / iPod Touch to your car’s OBD2 OBDII Port.[…]

Disinfectant using light

The technology decontaminates the air and exposed surfaces by bathing them in a narrow spectrum of visible-light wavelengths, known as HINS-light. Clinical trials at Glasgow Royal Infirmary have shown that the HINS-light Environmental Decontamination System provides significantly greater reductions of bacterial pathogens in the hospital environment than can be achieved by cleaning and disinfection alone, Read more about Disinfectant using light[…]

Schiphol Security chief criticises EU approach to air safety

He’s also pissed off with all the technology being put into airports and the ignoring of human intelligence. Marijn Ornstein, the manager of security policy at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, said: “If you look at all the recent terrorist incidents, the bombs were detected because of human intelligence not because of screening … If even Read more about Schiphol Security chief criticises EU approach to air safety[…]

Tory councillor arrested over Twitter stoning post

AND if Ireland isn’t crazy enough, England is just as mad – on the same day! Gareth Compton tweeted this: “Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan’t tell Amnesty if you don’t. It would be a blessing, really” And got arrested. For inciting violence. People, what is wrong with the world?! Yasmin Read more about Tory councillor arrested over Twitter stoning post[…]

Twitter prankster found guilty of … something

OK, so you’re frustrated because you go to some airport and it’s closed. So you joke ‘I’m gonna blow the place sky high’ on Twitter. Does anyone expect the next step to be: you get arrested and found guilty?! It happened to Paul Chambers in Ireland. So people are massively retweeting his message in protest. Read more about Twitter prankster found guilty of … something[…]

Very deep Anglo / French military cooperation

They’ll share carriers as well as R&D, set up a joint military force comprising 5000 personell from each country to start off with, jointly fund UAV MALE acquisition and train together for the A400M programme. These agreements should last for 50 years. UK–France Summit 2010 Declaration on Defence and Security Co-operation Joint carrier operations, UAV Read more about Very deep Anglo / French military cooperation[…]