The Dutch version of the RIAA is called BUMA / STEMRA and they hunt down people for their own personal gain in about the same way RIAA does. They’ve sued a company for allowing their workers to listen to their own ipods. In NL companies apparently need to pay BUMA / STEMRA if they allow Read more about Buma / Stemra goes nuts and wins in NL[…]
Thus they can use adsense equipped sites to mainly show you the stuff they think you’re interested in. Privacy? Anonymous web surfing? No thank you! Fortunately they have a page where you can see what categories Google thinks you’re interested in and you can opt out of interests or opt in to new categories. The Read more about Google starts using your search history for contextual advertising[…]
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A group of Chinese hackers has succeeded in cracking Apple%u2019s algorithm for encoding iTunes Store Gift Certificates92, and are creating discounted certificates using a key generator. Outdustry reports that a number of the codes are available on the site Taobao, with $200 cards selling for as little as $2.60. The owner of the Taobao shop Read more about Chinese hackers crack iTunes Store gift codes, sell certificates | iLounge News[…]
As if privacy isn’t enough of a bother for the people of the UK, the government now wants to kill net neutrality: ie the choice to connect wherever you like to on the internet. This bill would allow ISPs to say which sites you can and can’t connect to, a bit like TV stations. One Read more about UK Government Really hates freedom[…]
SS general Jaqui Smith has found that violence against women is unnaccaptable at any time and is shocked to find that 1 in 5 men find it acceptable if there is sufficient cause for it. She is also surprised to find that 40% of British men think that if a woman has been flirting heavily Read more about UK home secretary thinks violence agains men fine[…]
The SIDN – the Dutch .nl zonefile owners – have decided they want only large registrars and have decided to give owners of > 100.000 domain names up to 8% discount. Becoming a registrant is subject to an annual fee, which is the same for all registrars, so the smaller registrars, that have to make Read more about NL Zonefile wants to kill small registrars[…]
This has just been put into law, without any debate whatsoever, in response to a high court judge’s ruling that MP’s adresses should be published. This from the house that pushes the wide eyed innocent “but if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear” argument all over the place. Are they afraid, Read more about In the UK only the MPs have privacy[…]
Introducing SPOT %u2013 The World%u2019s First Satellite Messenger Whether you%u2019re just checking in, allowing others to track your progress, or calling for help %u2013 SPOT gives you a vital line of communication with friends and family when you want it, and emergency assistance when and where you need it. And since it utilizes 100% satellite Read more about SPOT Europe, The World’s First Satellite Messenger[…]
“Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill, currently being debated by the UK Parliament, would allow any Minister by order to take from anywhere any information gathered for one purpose, and use it for any other purpose64. Personal information arbitrarily used without consent or even knowledge: the very opposite of ‘Data Protection.’ An ‘Information Read more about UK Government Wants To Kill Data Protection Act[…]
It turns out that people who doodle – a light cognitive load – can recall information better than people who don’t. Presumably because they daydream, which is a heavy cognitive load.
The Toradex Robin Modules for Intel Atom are tiny and cheap: around $129,- and up.
Some of these takes are long… really really long. No editing crap, just one, pure, heavy take.
Of course these guys, The Fertility Clinics, are under fire from all kinds of people who don’t think we aught mess with things we know not wot of, but in any case this is clever: Choose your babies gender, eye and hair colour, as well as checking for diseases, all through the wonders of modern Read more about Design your own baby![…]
By hooking up an MRI and looking at the visual cortex whilst the subject looks at an object creates a pattern. When the subject recalls that object in short term memory, you can recognise that pattern and tell what object the subject is thinking of. This has 2 implications: 1) We can read a specific Read more about Mind reading with MRI[…]
Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are limited by a lack of user privacy. By design, services like BitTorrent and Gnutella share data with anyone that asks for it, allowing a third-party to systematically monitor8 user behavior. As a result, P2P networks can only be safely used by those comfortable with wholly public Read more about OneSwarm: Privacy preserving P2P[…]
It’s been known for some time that eyewitnesses to an unpredictable and violent event have differing and even conflicting memories and testimonials of the event. Interestingly they also suffer from a deep need to conform: eyewitnesses put before a line-up will point out a person if they’ve been told that one of the line-up has Read more about Eyewitness identification severly unreliable[…]
This is a huge huge list of video sharing websites you can use as a YouTube alternative.
How to turn a motion detector into a USB device that will lauch a multimedia presentation.
Moxie Marlinspike has thought up a new method of doing man in the middle, he’s calling SSLstrip.
Astrometry.net will give you back the celestial coordinates of an image of the sky you upload to them.
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This is so simple, it’s absolutely brilliant! If you don’t want to agree with something you’re not going to read, you can use the fravia method to hack the software to switch the buttons, so you press the ‘disagree’ button. But this takes time and effort. Alternatively, you could use a bit of cardboard and Read more about Get your car to agree to the EULA[…]
And why not put an accellerometer on the SIM card?
I’m pretty sure they won’t be too happy with you if you use it in a casino!