Monthly Archives: April 2011

Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Gym machines are boring, CrossFit is sadistic, and dieting sucks. Luckily, none of them is essential to being truly fit. Through years of trial and error — and humiliation at the hands of some of the world’s top trainers — the author discovered the secrets to real health.

The article starts to get useful at page 4

There are four fitness goals you can go for: Strength, power, muscle mass and endurance.

In order to achieve most of these goals you don’t need to spend more than 3 hours per week, using the most basic equipment.

via Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie | Men’s Journal.

New Disposable, Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

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The German Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration recently reported the development of a camera with a lens attached that is 1 x 1 x 1.5 millimeters in size, which is the size of a grain of salt. At about a cubic millimeter in size, this camera is right at the size limit that the human eye can see unaided. The camera not only produces decent images but it is also very cheap to manufacture…so cheap in fact that it is considered disposable.

Resolution: 250 x 250 @ 40Hz

New Disposable, Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt | Singularity Hub.

EU Votes on copyright extension soon – mail your local JURI MEP today!

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Background: In 2009, the EU discussed the issue of a term extension for the ”neighbouring rights” that record companies have to recorded music. These neighbouring rights are now 50 years from the recording of a song. The proposal was to extend them to 95 years. After a lively debate in the European Parliament, it was decided to extend them to 70 years. Then the issue got stuck in the Council of Ministers, where several countries (including Sweden and Denmark) felt that no extension was necessary. Now it appears that the Danish government has folded, which means that there is no longer a blocking minority in the Council.

Right now: On the agenda for the meeting of the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee JURI this Monday and Tuesday, there has appeared a point about making certain formal corrections to the text that the European Parliament adopted (such as the date when the new rules should enter into force). It appears that they have been trying to give the issue a low profile. The documents were not sent out to members of the JURI committee until last Friday, after we had explicitly asked for them.

Copyright term extension will be voted this week « Christian Engström, Pirate MEP.

Difference Between LED Backlit and Full LED TVs and monitors

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Summary:

1. LED Backlit TVs only have LEDs on the edges, while Full LED TVs have LEDs spread out all over the screen
2. Full LED TVs have more LEDs than LED Backlit TVs
3. Full LED TVs have a more even lighting than LED Backlit TVs
4. Full LED TVs can attain better contrast than LED Backlit TVs
5. Full LED TVs can be slightly thicker than LED Backlit TVs

Difference Between LED Backlit and Full LED TV | Difference Between | LED Backlit vs Full LED TV.

 

NB Backlit LED = Edge LED

Facebook not a place for corporate pages say studies

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A new study by Forrester Research found that maintaining a Facebook presence is less effective at drumming up business than plain old email newsletters or search ads. Companies interviewed for the study “received little benefits from Facebook,” according to the Wall Street Journal. Another recent study found that even print ads were better at fostering consumer engagement with brands than a Facebook page. Hundreds of thousands of people may “like” a brand’s Facebook page, but they don’t actually like it

via Nobody Actually Likes Your Brand’s Stupid Facebook Page.

Net giants challenge French data law that stores your password as plaintext

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The law obliges a range of e-commerce sites, video and music services and webmail providers to keep a host of data on customers.

This includes users’ full names, postal addresses, telephone numbers and passwords. The data must be handed over to the authorities if demanded.

This means that the data which is handed over can be used to access your accounts.

via BBC News – Net giants challenge French data law.

Electromagnetic automobile suspension demonstrated

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The Eindhoven suspension is not only electromagnetic but also active, meaning that it doesn’t just mechanically respond to bumps in the road, but is controlled by an onboard computer. That computer receives input from accelerometers and other sensors on the vehicle, and adjusts the suspension accordingly within a fraction of a second. While active suspension is nothing new (at least, not for cars), it has previously mainly been integrated into hydraulic systems. According to the Eindhoven researchers, however, hydraulics can’t react as quickly as their electromagnetic system, and therefore can’t match the smoothness of its ride.

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With a peak consumption of 500 watts, the suspension uses about a quarter of the power of hydraulic systems. It also stretches its battery life by using road vibrations to generate electricity. The designers believe that with refinements, the suspension’s energy-efficiency could be improved even further.

via Electromagnetic automobile suspension demonstrated.

Key music industry lawyer now EU copyright chief

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The European Union’s new point person on copyright policy won’t take up her post until mid-April, but she’s already stirring up controversy. That’s because Maria Martin-Prat spent years directing “global legal policy” for IFPI, the global recording industry’s London-based trade group, before moving back into government. The appointment raises new questions about the past private-sector work of government officials, especially those crafting policy or issuing legal judgments on the same issues they once lobbied for.

The US has judges who used to be music industry lawyers sitting on copyright cases – I thought the EU had more sense than installing people with such clear conflicts of interests.

via Key music industry lawyer now EU copyright chief.

Power Data Recovery for windows free with a bootdisk version

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Unlike other data recovery software, MiniTool Power Data Recovery is an all in one data recovery software for home and business user. It can recover deleted data from Windows Recycle Bin, restore lost data even the partition is formatted or deleted, restore data from corrupted hard drive, virus infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure. It support IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB hard disk, memory card, USB flash drive, CD/DVD, Blue-Ray Disk, iPod. MiniTool Power Data Recovery contains five data recovery modules – Undelete Recovery, Damaged Partition Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, Digital Media Recovery, CD & DVD Recovery. Each data recovery module focuses on different data loss scenario. The best of all, it is absolutely free for home user.

via Free File Recovery Software – Power Data Recovery is an all-in-one free data recovery software that could help you to recover your lost data from hard disk, CD, DVD disk, memory stick, memory card, and flash drive..

NL leaves Gonggrijp to dry under US ‘justice’ for wikileaks

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The Dutch foreign minister has stated that if the US comes up with some trumped up charges, he’ll happily deliver Rob Gonggrijp –  founder of XS4ALL – to the US for helping to spread wikileaks information and the gunship videos.

That this isn’t a crime in NL is no barrier to throwing him to the 4th reich wolves.

Nederland staat open voor uitleveren Gonggrijp – UPDATE | Webwereld.

RE-35 | Digital cartridges for analog 35-mm cameras

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This features a pull out system for your old 35 mm camera, turning it into a digital one. It has a USB connection for copying the pictures and recharging. Unfortunately, it looks like it’s not real, but an April Fools joke.

Everyone who sees it wishes it was a real product though, it’s making huge noise on tha intarwebs.

RE-35 | Digital cartridges for analog 35-mm cameras.