Finally! They’ve passed testing and can be implemented! You can plug an mp3 player into them, they’re not as huge and unsightly as the current hearing aids and they are much much more effective than the old school ones.
Bone-anchored hearing aids filter out noise, finally ready for human implantation.
Utah scientists have developed a liquid that turns semi solid in the presence of semen, trapping the AIDS virus. If a woman uses the liquid before sex, sperm gets trapped in a gel like structure. By the time the gel melts into liquid, the AIDS virus has died. So it’s not a sure fire contraceptive, but good for the most virulent and dangerous sexual disease. Now if they can only get it to solidify for ALL sexually transmitted diseases…
Bill Gates-funded boffins develop anti-AIDS stealth condom • The Register.
The register has had enough of reporting on space and the hugely expensive space programmes, and (probably following on the tail of the UK Space Cheese project) has decided to launch their own paper space program in an attempt to keep the UK space race open!
El Reg to launch space paper plane • The Register.
They’ve even got a name for it: Vulture 1
The National ID card was hacked – last week. It only took 12 minutes to do. Now the government is flying in the face of the evidence and bluntly stating it never happened. Maybe if they say it often enough it’ll become true. Or not.
Government rubbishes ID card hack report • The Register.
After all the millions spent on it, after all the privacy concerns and the backlash, after the bloody minded determination of the Wacky Jacqui to implement this, it only took 12 minutes to clone the fucker.
Slashdot IT Story | UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes.
Basically zoom in to pictures and it will correct the pixellation for you.
SmillaEnlarger Enlarges Your Images without Artifacts – Image Editing – Lifehacker.
Of course only in the jolly old UK:
The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes
They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.
Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction.
The best bit? They’ve allready put 2000 families through this!
via Daily Express | UK News :: Sin bins for worst families.
For $8000 you can launch your own satellite into low earth orbit at 310 km. It’ll stay up there for around 3 weeks untill it burns up in reentry. They come in kit form and you can stuff whatever you want in there as long as it weighs less than 0.75 kg and fits into the tube they send you. You can double, triple or quadruple the tubesat, allowing you to launch greater payloads. They will be launched on Interobital’s Neptune rocket, which carries 32 tubesats per time. They expect to launch 1 rocket per month from 2010 from the IOS Spaceport Tonga.
UCSniff can be placed on a laptop and put in a network where it will VLAN hop untill it finds the VoIP VLAN channel. It then throws out spoofed ARP packets like a man-in-the-middle attack and gets all voice and video traffic thrown to itself. Together with a plugin called VideoJak they can then insert video loops into the stream, meaning that whoever sees the camera output (the guard) will only see the loop and not what the webcam is seeing.
Surveillance camera hack swaps live feed with spoof video • The Register.
This page crawls your website and takes a screenshot using one of a vast amount of browsers available so you can see what that browser sees without having to actually install that browser.
Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test – Browsershots.
Of course it wouldn’t take long before a program was developed to rip music from spotify. Easy instructions in the link.
Ripping music from Spotify using Spotify Ripper | Spotifyripping.com.
Turns out if you spend much much more money on organic food for health benefits, you can save yourself the cash.
Organic food ‘no healthier’ blow | News.
David Pogue is waging war on those carriers that make you listen to a stupid canned message from them after you listen to a personal voicemail message. Those 15 seconds of canned bullshit are there to make you rack up mobile expenses.
One way to avoid them is to press:
*-1-# in a row
This is because the secret skip the message code is different for each carrier and this should get them all.
How to bypass stupid voicemail instructions
There are loads of ways to complain in the US to your carrier – we should start this in Europe as well!
‘Take Back the Beep’ Campaign – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com.
The Pirate Bay has been told to block access to Dutch users in some magical fashion during a court session in which the subpoena’s were delivered via Twitter and Facebook and the defendants were not able to come to the courtroom to defend themselves. They sent a written response, but this was ignored due to their non presence.
Is this the beginning of the end of free speech on internet in the Netherlands? If it’s up to the SS like stichting Brein it is: and they’ll be the arbiters of what we are and aren’t allowed to see.
Dutch court rules that The Pirate Bay should be blocked | Security and the Net.
Who said Apples don’t get virusses? In a one character SMS message, an attacker can take over your phone entirely: turn on or off the camera, send the contacts list, dial out, etc etc etc.
Oddly enough the first people to patch it are the people Apple is intent on stopping from working on software for the iPhone: the jailbreakers!
Mp3Extractor is a tool for copying several portions from an MP3 audio file into new (numbered and tagged) MP3 files easily.
Mp3Extractor: the show cutter.
MegaTux, the Dell Thunderbird with 4480 Intel processors will run 1 million copies of bots in a limited area botnet over Wine in order to create simulations of differnet botnets on a massive scale. Researchers can then stop the simulation at any point and have a look at the state of the different virtual PCs.
Researchers Try to Stalk Botnets Used by Hackers – NYTimes.com.
Hours after Apple rejected GV on the appstore, you can now get it for free via Cydia. Fuck you, Apple!
GV Mobile Now on Cydia [ ModMyi Repo ].
It turns out that those people who jump jams at the turn offs, change lane or pass on the wrong side are actually increasing the flow of traffic by widening the area through which traffic passes. In computer models, it turns out that the best traffic flow is reached when around 60% of the people conform to the rules.
A Cure for Traffic Jams: Rule-Breakers – ABC News.
The aptly-named “WebOS Quick Install” from our very own Jason Robitaille. It’s a simple desktop Java-based app that you can download and install on a Mac, PC or Linux machine. First, install the webOS SDK (Update, version 1.1 has just been released and it uses the Recovery ROM – take a quick look at the notes on the linked post), then you just need to put your Pre into Developer Mode and then run the app on your desktop (Mac users note the small caveat in the readme file). You can drag and drop files downloaded from our Homebrew Apps forum into the app, click install, and you. are. done.
via Installing Homebrew Apps: Desktop Drag ‘n Drop, On-Device too! | PreCentral.net.
There’s a second way to install Pre apps in there as well called filecoaster…
Very simply put, this takes the compas, the time and the GPS to determine where on earth you are. It then uses the camera input and shows you the constellations you’re looking at, tells you what they are and you can click on suns and planets for a more detailed view.
Pocket Universe 1.7 • Register Hardware.
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