This is the extraordinary story of how someone with an average memory became the fastest American to memorise a deck of cards.
Secrets of a Mind-Gamer – NYTimes.com.
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EU Economic and Social committee slams perv scanners
An obscure EU Committee has slammed the introduction of body scanners, raising concerns over the health and human rights risks of the technology.
via EU bottoms up committee slates body scanners • The Register.
Iraqi Treasury Gets Partial Refund on Magic Wands
Some refer to these as “ADE-651 bomb detectors,” but those people are crooks, like Jim McCormick, the head of the British company that sold them. He was arrested last year for fraud (but is currently out on bail). What he sold the Iraqis, and many others, was – literally – a plastic handle with a TV antenna stuck onto it, which the company claimed could find explosives in the same way a dowsing rod finds water. I guess that’s true in a sense, because dowsing rods also don’t work. This, however, did not stop the Iraqis from spending $85 million to buy 1,500 ADE-651s.
via Iraqi Treasury Gets Partial Refund on Magic Wands – Lowering the Bar.
Get inPulse and Hack Your Watch
inPulse is the perfect hacker accessory – a fully programmable Bluetooth SmartWatch.
inPulse is totally customizable. Our SDK can get you saying ‘Hello, Watch!’ in 5 minutes! Dive deeper and create your own app running right on top of our embedded OS. Code in C and get control over the OLED display, Bluetooth connection, vibrating motor, button, timers, interrupts and more.
via Get inPulse and Hack Your Watch | Hack inPulse: Features.
Anything goes if you justify it with the fight vs kiddieporn – 84000 websites wrongfully shut down by feds
And plastered with a message saying the site was shut down for kiddie porn. Are the FBI embarressed? Apologetic? Hell no!
They’ve done this before and they’ll do it again. This is why we like governments to have NO say in how the internet runs.
Feds Accidentally Shut Down 84,000 Websites over Wrongful Kiddie Porn Accusation.
Handy Tips On Being A Better PC Gamer
This guy starts at how you sit behind the PC, stretching, how you hold your mouse and position your hand over the keyboard and goes on from there.
Some Handy, If Obvious Tips On Being A Better PC Gamer.
Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List
Whilst she was visiting the family in Pakistan. It took her 3 years to get off the list, when the man put in for a promotion and they discovered he was married to a terrorist during the routine background check.
Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List – Lowering the Bar.
Mindflex Duel Game – jedi knight training
Based on Mindflex, the original mental acuity game, Mindflex Duel lets two players engage in battles of intense “mind-eye” concentration. This amazing game comes with two lightweight headsets, which allow players to levitate the foam ball and move it across the game platform–all with their minds. Alternate between states of concentration and relaxation to control the sphere and master the five interactive challenges. Recommended for ages eight and up, the games offer solo, head-to-head, and co-op modes for hours of telekinetic fun.
via Amazon.com: Mindflex Duel Game: Toys & Games.
How to: Greenpois0n Animated Boot Logos
With the release of the untethered jailbreak of iOS 4.2.1 in the form of GreenpoisOn came the added bonus of custom animated boot logos. Today in Cydia, three new tweaks for this option were released. They include iDevice Daily BootLogo, Windows7 BootLogo and Windows Shattering Apple Boot Logo. Members of our own forums have also been busy churning out custom animations. To use the tweak, use the following instructions (as provided by bocharwood):
How to Install
*** You need the Animate tweak from Cydia ***
1.) Download the desired Animation.
2.) unZIP the contents of the file onto the desktop
3.) SSH onto your iDevice
4.) Navigate to /Library/BootLogos
5.) Create a folder
6.) Copy the 0.png – x.png into the folder
7.) Go to Settings > BootLogo > Folder
8.) Reboot your iDevice
via How to: Greenpois0n Animated Boot Logos – iFans – iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch Fans.
Fonebook – sync Facebook with Outlook
Fonebook allows you to copy your friends photos (+ a load of other info!) onto your mobile via Microsoft Outlook. Its compatible with any version of phone just so long as you are connected to Outlook. Best of all it has the ability to keep the photos in sync – so you can always have your friends latest photos on your phone!
Google Ngram Viewer
This compares the incidence of words in Google Books over the years, so you can see that since 1955 people have written more about ‘space’ than ‘earth’.
Torrent Butler
This site gives you a list of movies in a XBMC style visual interface, suggesting the latest torrents to you as though you were in a videotheque instead of having to search for specific movies.
Movies & Torrents | Torrent Butler.
Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code
Using statistical analysis of the amount of times that numbers only appear once on a scratch lottery card, Mohan Srivastava can easily double his chances on the cards and has done way way better than that. The companies aren’t taking him very seriously, so here’s a hole which is still way open.
Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code | Magazine.
TSA Refuses To Release Perv Scanner Safety Reports to US Congress
Even republicans are now finding some bits of the patriot act scary
3 key provisions of the patriot act have not been extended in the House by a vote of 277 – 148.
One of the provisions authorizes the FBI to continue using roving wiretaps on surveillance targets; the second allows the government to access “any tangible items,” such as library records, in the course of surveillance; and the third is a “lone wolf” provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act that allows for the surveillance of targets who are not connected to an identified terrorist group.
44 – House rejects measure that would extend key Patriot Act provisions through December.
Russia stops art loans to US, due to fears of US gov stealing it
The Chabad organisation wants the Schneerson Library (in Russia) and has gotten a US court to order the Russians to hand it over. Russia says no, so the Chabad has threatened (in not quite so many words) to go to courts and impound Russian state museum loans to the US. So that means the Russians have stopped the loans and are really unhappy about the US.
Strange that stuff going into the US is so unsafe from US government stealing – such as your laptops and the data thereon…
Dispute Over Jewish Archive Derails Russian Art Loans to U.S. – NYTimes.com.
3D Springboard Icons
It depends on the gyroscope of an iphone 4, so no luck if you don’t have one – otherwise: have fun, it looks great!
3D Springboard Icons – DeepEnd | Tys iPhone Help.com – The Best iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch Site.
OV chipkaart hacked, software available
This forum has links to the sites which explain the hack and to the software itself, for as long as it’s up.
The hack comes down to filling up your anonymous chipcard once, then making a copy and restoring the copy every now and again. This is undetectable, especially during the week. Weekends are apparently trickier.
OV chipkaart software / hack downloaden – OV-chip is gekraakt – ovsaldo.exe.
Step by step instructions with link here
[edit 15/2/11]Kipje has gone and made OV Station, which allows you to check in and out on the card itself, making it totally undetectable. The sites are down, but you can still find the this proggie which is a GUI to only hack the important data, so it works in around 15 seconds. Unfortunately it looks like they’re detecting this hack and the NS (train services) are blocking hacked cards. Busses and trams still work.[/edit]
And here’s some guy who’s shared his practical experience with the Linux variant of the crack.
There’s another crack, where you prewrite the details of your trip at home, so when your card is checked you’re on a valid trip. You don’t have to use the check in/out points though, making the tampering completely invisible. Unfortunately the software for that is not available… yet…
Finally there’s a more involved method, where you skim the card data from nearby cards (hey, it’s NFC!) and then copy that to your own card.
Facebook ads use your face for free
Facebook introduced a handful of new ad units that combine your “Likes,” Facebook Places check ins, and your use of certain apps with advertisements for things like Starbucks, Coke, Levi’s jeans and Budweiser.
In other words, if you happen to click “Like” on the Starbucks page, check into your local faux Italian coffee bar, or use your Starbucks Greek iPhone app, your Facebook avatar could appear in an ad paid for by Starbucks and appearing on your friends’ pages.
Facebook ads use your face for free | ITworld.
Theme it – find themes for your jailbroken iphone easily
So far this looks like a great app – faster and easier to navigate than Cydia, it’s a shame that Saurik / Jay Freeman is showing exactly the Apple Monopolist Spirit that the jailbreaking community IMHO is trying to get rid of by forcing this package off the official repositories and by even going so far as to contact theme designers and theme it distribution partners in order to keep a hold of his theming stranglehold 🙁
Vive la choice!
Tunisia was busy stealing the whole country’s passwords over Christmas
It turns out that every Tunisian ISP was keylogging all login attempts to facebook and other sites from Christmas.
Ultrafast quantum computer closer: Ten billion bits of entanglement achieved in silicon
Scientists from Oxford University have made a significant step towards an ultrafast quantum computer by successfully generating 10 billion bits of quantum entanglement in silicon for the first time — entanglement is the key ingredient that promises to make quantum computers far more powerful than conventional computing devices.
via Ultrafast quantum computer closer: Ten billion bits of entanglement achieved in silicon.
SMB Traffic Analyzer
SMB Traffic Analyzer (SMBTA in the following) is a software package to monitor and create statistics about the data flow on one or more Samba servers. Statistical data can be automatically created for users, Samba services, as well as complete domains. In difference to typical network scanners, SMBTA does not listen on the network card directly. Instead a different approach has been chosen. SMBTA works from within the Virtual File System layer in Samba, runs completely transparent to the user, and transfers it’s collected data through the network to a receiver, building a SQL storage from the data.
SMB Traffic Analyzer « hhetter’s blog.
Palestine papers – Israel / Palestinian negotiation papers leaked
Like wikileaks for the Middle East, it shows concessions made by the Palestinians weren’t good enough for Israel and the US was running around showboating, not doing much constructive.
The story behind the Palestine papers | World news | The Guardian.
PC Navigator FREE
Powered by Open Street Map, this is a free version of the paid application that turns your PC into a tomtom type device