The Linkielist

Author: Robin

  • F-35 Lightning II hacked

    They’re not sure what the attackers took, because the information was encrypted directly as it was taken and sent. The scream is “China Did It”, but the US military seems to be blaming all cyber attacks on China nowadays.

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  • 3d connexion Space Pilot Pro

    It’s a 3D mouse. With an LCD screen and loads of buttons. For around $500,-.

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  • DealExtreme: Cool Gadgets at the Right Price

    This gadget site is chock full of iphone / ipod gadgets, watches, USB stuff, car electronics, lasers, flashlights, spy pens, nature digital sound recorders, toys, crossbows, gunsights, GSM bugs and signal blockers, PSP Pandora batteries, and god knows what else, and for insanely low prices – with free shipping! Have fun overspending here 🙂

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  • Ze Nazi’s closing down more free speech

    After Merkel’s reich has allready raided wikileaks headquarters, they have now managed to get DENIC (the German registrar) to take down the wikileaks.de domain citing vague nonsense. What is it with Germany and it’s antipathy to free speech?

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  • Beatscanner

    Point this free app at your music library, tell it how many bpm you want it to look for and it will come up with a list of music. If you set the bpm between 120 – 140 you should get the perfect workout music playlist.

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  • Amazon hates gays

    Coincidentally, I was listening to Lilly Allen’s Fuck You very much when I read this: Amazon has taken down all references to gay, lesbian and transgender literature from their search engines with some “it’s bad for children” bullshit excuse. What are they going to take off their searches next? Anything written by black people? Fuck…

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  • European Union Considering a Ban on Carrier VoIP Filtering

    Sometimes the EU just gets it right. Telling the Telco Carriers they can’t be anti-competitive dicks and filter out applications like Voipbuster or Skype is a great move that lets you think that sometimes – yes – they think about consumers as well.

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  • Irvin RAF Sheepskin Flying jackets

    Irvin doesn’t make them any more, but Aviation Leathercraft is licensed to build them. They also build the Tornado and Harrier aircrew leather jackets.

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  • SwarmScreen (Hiding in the Crowd)

    The main goal of this plugin is to make it harder for an attacker to figure out your downloading habits in BitTorrent. One of the reasons BitTorrent works so well is that it lets you download from large numbers of connections — but these same connections offer multiple of opportunities for eavesdropping. Our recent study…

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  • 100 Cool Things to do With Your Wii

    Quite a good list of things to do outside of the box with your Wii

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  • Bumptop

    Bumptop changes your desktop into a physical type of room, with 3 walls and a desk. You can push things around the desk and create stacks of things very easily. Larger objects have more weight. It’s a neat concept, allthough I’m not sure how practical it is.

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  • The Pirate Bay’s Ipredator

    For $6,- you connect to the Pirate Bay’s VPN (called Ipredator). They give you a random IP from their own range and they don’t do any logging. This means you can torrent away happily without your IP being linked to the IP in the VPN.

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  • AutoBrake Automates DVD Ripping

    It automates Handbrake. For more DVD Ripping software (such as the DVD encryption breaking) also follow this link.

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  • Why women don’t rule the world

    This is a heartrending story of a stupid woman who thought an all-woman company would be a good idea. In great detail, she shows how badly women get along with each other, ending in the sordid downfall of her company.

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  • Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer

    For around $450,- these guys have documented how they made their own microsoft surface thing. They used open source tools for the applications, and got it looking very slick. It took them about two weeks to do, so with instructions, you should be able to make it more quickly. Maximum PC’s Multitouch Surface Computer from…

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  • lee gainer: ‘two months salary’

    Lee Gainer had a look at what kind of engagement rings two months salary will buy you and came up with some interesting stuff: 1) The two months figure was perpetuated by de Beers in 1947 and has been kept up ever since. 2) To me, it doesn’t seem to matter how much money you…

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  • Radical Image Optimization Tool Provides Side by Side Image Comparison

    Windows only: Radical Image Optimization Tool makes it easy to see how compression affects the image quality of the pictures you’re optimizing with a handy side-by-side interface. Lifehacker – Radical Image Optimization Tool Provides Side by Side Image Comparison – Image Editing

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  • UK Internet records to be stored for a year

    Well, in the Netherlands they’ve been stored for 5 years since around 2002, so there’s hardly any news there. What is news, however, is that the UK government seems to be giving this information to all and sundry to peruse at their leisure. Whether this is because they know they can’t secure it or because…

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  • Brein bullys Dutch Bittorrent sites

    Brein, which is like the Dutch version of RIAA, went and physically visited a server colo host and through intimidation and threats managed to get him to take the sites down. Under Dutch law, running a bittorrent site isn’t illegal. That’s currently being decided by the outcome of the Mininova lawsuit. That these kind of…

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  • Skype client op Appstore

    So using wifi it’s cheap calling, together with the chat and all other Skype functionalities.

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  • Politicians smallminded about ISS

    Apparently, in a bid to really lower morale on the International Space Station, Russia and the US are forbidding their astro/cosmonauts to use each other’s facilities, extending to sharing food, using the toilet and gym. Because obviously it’s a politically very very important issue who uses what crapper up there.

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  • Weatherpoof Timelapse Garden Video Camera

    A lovely piece of hardware that takes 1280×1024 pictures at customisable intervals for only $159.99

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  • Women’s lust for shopping linked to periods

    In the 10 days before the actual ovulation, women go nuts – because they need to offset the negative feelings and because they want to look at their best when they’re able to make babies. So, the week before they go – take away their credit cards!

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  • Action games ‘improve eyesight’

    Specifically, they improve contrast sensitivity. The effects last quite some time after having played the games.

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  • UN votes that ripping the piss out of muslims is illegal

    Apparently these followers of the paedophile prophet are so worried about people blackmouthing them, they feel that the UN needs to encourage its members to outlaw free speech. Of course if I was a member of a religion mainly implemented in a way to keep the masses stupid and opressed, I wouldn’t want my people…

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