Through a process involving thin layers of material deposited on a surface and then selectively etched away, the MIT team produced a surface covered with tiny cones, each five times taller than their width. This pattern prevents reflections, while at the same time repelling water from the surface
via Researchers find a way to make glass that's anti-fogging, self-cleaning and free of glare.
It turns out that basically copying succesful apps is the best way to actually make money on the app store.
The Artificial Life of the App Store – the Best Strategy to Succeed.
This is an excellent array of methods to keep your cables organised.
Taming Gadget Cables: 30 Holders & Organizers You Can Buy.
You can buy most of them at The Container Store
Unfortunately this shop doesn’t work in Firefox and won’t ship outside the US / Canada.
Turns out that yes, darker websites consume less power.
Blackle vs. Google Monitor Power Consumption Tested – PCSTATS.com.
The European Parliament has approved the controversial data transfer agreement, the bilateral PNR (passenger name register), with the US which requires European airlines to pass on passenger information, including name, contact details, payment data, itinerary, email and phone numbers to the Department of Homeland Security.
Under the new agreement, PNR data will be “depersonalised” after six months and would be moved into a “dormant database” after five years. However the information would still be held for a further 15 years before being fully “anonymised”.
The US is really going a bit crazy in their totalitarian wish to know everything about everyone.
European Parliament agrees to send airline passenger data to US – ComputerworldUK.com.
A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards.
Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), calls for “Mandatory Event Data Recorders” to be installed in all new automobiles and legislates for civil penalties to be imposed against individuals for failing to do so.
“Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall revise part 563 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, to require, beginning with model year 2015, that new passenger motor vehicles sold in the United States be equipped with an event data recorder that meets the requirements under that part,” states the bill.
Way to go, land of the ummm free? Hitler would be jealous.
Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically modified corn may be devastating the dying bee population, it is evident that Monsanto is under serious fire for their role in the downfall of the vital insects. It is therefore quite apparent why Monsanto bought one of the largest bee research firms on the planet.
Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm – BlackListedNews.com.
Feeding rats bucky balls (Buckminster Fullerine) resulted in a doubling of the lifespan for rats. Immortality is coming!
oral administration of C60 dissolved in olive oil (0.8 mg/ml) at reiterated doses (1.7 mg/kg of body weight) to rats not only does not entail chronic toxicity but it almost doubles their lifespan
Whilst you’re running you collect powerups and evade zombies whilst you’re on a mission. You’re put through the game narrative through your headphones.
Zombies, Run! Will Force You To Care About Exercise.
Have they gone nuts? They say that as code isn’t something physical, it can’t have been stolen. So it’s OK to take as much sources from a previous employer and do whatever you want with it.
“He argues that: [1] the source code was not1a “stolen” “good” within the meaning of the National Stolen2Property Act, and [2] the source code was not “related” to a3product “produced for or placed in interstate or foreign4commerce” within the meaning of the Economic Espionage Act.5The judgment of the district court is reversed. Judge6Calabresi concurs in the opinion and has filed an additional7concurring opinion.”
But taking a photograph of a classified document does constitute espionage? Or is that also OK now?
U.S. vs. Sergey Aleynikov, former Goldman Sachs programmer.
Edge Blending software allows you to connect multiple projectors so that they overlap and then set them up so that the output of each beamer is aligned and the brightness of the overlapping area is corrected so that the image looks seamless.
Quite a few of these packages only allow the output to be corrected in an openGL / DirectX environment.
Below is an overview of Edge Blenders that also allow the whole windows desktop to be projected over all the beamers.
Some of these can auto set up using a webcam.
Fly Elise NG Immersive Desktop costs EUR 69,- for non-commercial use, and EUR 150,- for commercial use.
These are guys in Eindhoven who built the software to power their garage built full motion flight simulator.
Costs EUR 229,- / EUR 69,-
Allows 10 monitors per PC for GBP 330,-
For up to 6 desktops.
Also allows projection mapping.
2 channels for CAD $799,-
Not only is it inherently distasteful to try to censor the internet and force sites to shut down, it’s also very impractical, as BREIN is finding out.
After gaining court injunctions for 2 Dutch ISPs to close access to the pirate bay, hundreds of proxy sites went up and BREIN is now going after all of them.
The Dutch Pirate Party is standing up to them.
Pirate Party Refuses to Shutdown Pirate Bay Proxy, Faces Lawsuit | TorrentFreak.
The 10-metre wide, helium-filled inflatable turbine, called the Airborne Wind Turbine (AWT), was sent up into the sky more than 100 metres above ground, where stronger winds can be found. The prototype was also used to lift the top-selling Southwest Skystream turbine, which was able to produce more than twice the power at high altitude that was generated at conventional tower height.
Altaeros aims to harness the stronger winds found more than 300 metres in the air with the use of helium-filled inflatable devices that can be quickly installed or taken down. In the short term, Altaeros wants to provide an alternative to diesel generators, but in the long term it wants to scale up the technology to reduce costs in the offshore wind market.
Blimp-like inflatable wind turbine tested at high altitude (Wired UK).
The Joint Forces Command has been established to ensure that a range of vital military capabilities, functions and organisations – such as medical services, training and education, intelligence, and cyber – are organised and managed effectively and efficiently to support success on operations.
On 2 April 2012, the following organisations transferred to the Joint Forces Command:
• The Permanent Joint Headquarters (known as PJHQ)
• The Permanent Joint Operating Bases in Gibraltar, Cyprus, British Indian Ocean Territory and South Atlantic Islands
• The Joint Force Headquarters
• The Joint Force Logistics Component
• The Joint Counter-Terrorist Training and Advisory Team
• The Directorate of Special Forces
• The Defence Academy
• The Development Concepts and Doctrine Centre
• Defence Intelligence
• Surgeon General’s Headquarters and the Joint Medical Command
• The Joint Arms Control Implementation Group
• The Defence Centre of Training Support
• The Defence Cyber Operations Group.
This is a move which is long overdue. Hopefully this can settle the huge inter service rivalries which cost not only money, but also effectiveness.
This technique by Intelligent Textiles has been developed for military purposes, but can obviously have benefits for everyone. Using a central battery pack, wiring is woven in such a way that it can charge several items at once.
“One of the problems with conventional cables is that breakages can be catastrophic. What we do here is build in redundancy, so that if the fabric gets cut, damaged or torn, we still have a way of re-routing the data.”
In addition, it removes the hindrance of the many wires and cables required in military equipment. These can add weight and can tangle and snag.
BBC News – Smart fabric for new soldier uniform.
Meta data, such as time, location, ip / person from and to, will be freely available without a warrant but the content will only be available with a warrant. They say. I thought Echolon allready did this, but apparently now they’re putting it out into the open. 1984 wasn’t supposed to be a manual, Big Brother!
BBC News – Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws.
So they’re withdrawing Flash from Mobile and now from Linux as well. Are they committing sepukku? Air isn’t going to solve all their problems…
Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux « Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player Team Blog.
