How to make a 3D scanner
How to make a 3D scanner « Tinkernut.com.
KPN downgrades mobile upload speeds from 2Mbps to 0.1Mbps, will customers bend over?
So not only have they gone away from unlimited mobile internet AND increased the prices dramatically, KPN has now also fucked customers by severely limiting the upload speeds. My advice: bail out and move to another provider! KPN knijpt upload mobiel internet | Webwereld.
Wind-turbine Placement Produces Tenfold Power Increase
Wind-turbine Placement Produces Tenfold Power Increase, Caltech Researchers Say – Caltech Media Relations.
Jailbreak! Upgrading a non-upgradable Android
Jailbreak! Upgrading a non-upgradable Android | Mobile Technology – InfoWorld.
KPN goes back to stone age of internet, charges mobiles per MB
This should cost them a lot of customers. People will probably change to other providers which do offer them unlimited mobile internet for a reasonable price. This comes as a response to the Dutch parliament not allowing mobile internet providers to cut off certain services, such as whatsapp, viber and skype from mobile internet. KPN Read more about KPN goes back to stone age of internet, charges mobiles per MB[…]
Ultimate Stunts – A free racing game
Ultimate Stunts: Not just another racing gameUltimate Stunts is a remake of the famous DOS-game stunts. Racing in Ultimate Stunts involves some really spectacular stunts, like loopings, corkscrews, bridges to jump over, etc., but the best thing is that you can design your own tracks! The game Ultimate Stunts is not yet finished, but it Read more about Ultimate Stunts – A free racing game[…]
Is There Anything Good About Men
An interesting article who’s main premise is that feminists thought being a man was better because they were all over the place in top jobs, but forgot that men were also all over the bottom of society (in jail, being junkies, etc). Now there’s a load of anti-man / men are worse than women literature Read more about Is There Anything Good About Men[…]
First Demonstration of Time Cloaking
Time cloaking is possible because of a kind of duality between space and time in electromagnetic theory. In particular, the diffraction of a beam of light in space is mathematically equivalent to the temporal propagation of light through a dispersive medium. In other words, diffraction and dispersion are symmetric in spacetime. That immediately leads to Read more about First Demonstration of Time Cloaking[…]
Apple gets another ridiculous patent: being able to rotate between landscape / portrait
Incredibly these were awarded, despite this technology being in use since the 1990s! Apple Wins Two Original iPhone Patents Regarding Rotation Heuristics – Patently Apple.
EU court determines that intermediary is responsible for authenticity of goods sold on site
Het Hof geeft preciseringen over de aansprakelijkheid van ondernemingen die op internet een elektronische marktplaats beheren voor de door hun gebruikers gepleegde merkinbreuken De nationale rechter moet deze ondernemingen kunnen gelasten om niet alleen maatregelen te nemen om de inbreuken op de intellectuele-eigendomsrechten te doen eindigen, maar ook om nieuwe inbreuken van die aard te Read more about EU court determines that intermediary is responsible for authenticity of goods sold on site[…]
The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient and immune to dust
There’s a fundamental flaw with fan-and-heatsink cooling systems: no matter how hard the fan blows, a boundary layer of motionless, highly-insulating air remains on the heatsink. You can increase the size of the heatsink and you can blow more air, but ultimately the boundary layer prevents the system from being efficient; it’s simply a physical Read more about The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient and immune to dust[…]
USAF F-22 Fleet grounded
The Air Force’s fleet of F-22 super-jets has been grounded for more than two months now, but service officials had no details Friday about when the F-22s may fly again or even when engineers could finish the investigation into the fighters’ onboard oxygen systems. via DoD Buzz AF: No word when F-22s could fly again. Read more about USAF F-22 Fleet grounded[…]
Turn your DVD / Blu-ray player region free with these codes
DVD Player and Blu-ray Player region codes – VideoHelp.com.
Use Open-Xchange to get your Facebook friends into Google+
Open-Xchange | Blog.
SpaceSimCentral | space and scifi gaming community
The space sim genre is not dead! New stuff does come out, and some of it looks very good indeed. SpaceSimCentral | Your space and scifi gaming community.
Last Space Shuttle Flight – STS-135. No replacement in sight.
Atlantis and its four astronauts left Earth for the final space shuttle mission, which will cap off an amazing 30-year program of exploration, which launched great observatories, built an International Space Station, and taught us more about how humans can live and work in space. With the International Space Station flying 220 miles high and Read more about Last Space Shuttle Flight – STS-135. No replacement in sight.[…]
Centralised databases abused by > 300 police officers per year
Over 900 police officers and staff in the UK were subject to internal disciplinary procedures for breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) over the past three years, the Big Brother Watch revealed. After putting in a host of Freedom of Information (FoI) requests with forces across the UK, the Big Brother Watched discovered 98 police Read more about Centralised databases abused by > 300 police officers per year[…]
RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000
As for what kinds of tricks the labels use, well, Frascogna notes “breakage fees” of 20%, which are based on breakage rates for vinyl from half a century ago. That CDs don’t break so much and that digital files don’t break at all, doesn’t matter. The labels still try to get a super high breakage Read more about RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000[…]
KinectNUI: Kinect SDK NUI Hack – Minority report on Windows (open source)
KinectNUI is a Natural User Interface for Windows, built on the Kinect SDK. If you have a Kinect and a modern Windows PC, you should be able to get it to work. via KinectNUI: Kinect SDK NUI Hack.
Gadgets tied to 25 percent of US car crashes
Driving distractions, primarily by cellphones and other electronic devices, are associated with up to 25 percent of U.S. car crashes, according to a report released on Thursday. The study by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), a nonprofit group that works to improve traffic safety, assessed research from more than 350 scientific papers published since Read more about Gadgets tied to 25 percent of US car crashes[…]
vReveal Video Enhancement Software – Fix Dark, Shaky, Noisy, Blurry, Low-Resolution Videos for free
vReveal 3 for Windows is the best solution to manage and fix the videos from your cell phone, HD camcorder, digital camera, or any other video device. It sharpens, it brightens, it twists and twirls and tweaks and steadies your video to crystalline perfection. vReveal Video Enhancement Software – Fix Dark, Shaky, Noisy, Blurry, Low-Resolution Read more about vReveal Video Enhancement Software – Fix Dark, Shaky, Noisy, Blurry, Low-Resolution Videos for free[…]
legalising all drugs and treating addiction works in Portugal 10 years on
Portugal drug law show results ten years on, experts say – Yahoo! News.
Visegrad: A New European Military Force
On May 12, the Visegrad Group (Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary) announced the formation of a “battlegroup” under the command of Poland. The battlegroup would be in place by 2016 as an independent force and would not be part of NATO command. In addition, starting in 2013, the four countries would begin military Read more about Visegrad: A New European Military Force[…]
How to Clean Windows
How Do I Prevent Windows From Steaming In Winter? Preventing fog and steam is simple – just add a small amount of glycerin, or wash with soap and water, and watch your troubles disappear! You can also ensure that all outside ventilation sources in your home are open and flowing, so that moist air can Read more about How to Clean Windows[…]
How to create and upload a flash app for IOS without a mac
I used OpenSSL to create keystore and self-signed cerficiate. Then used this to get developer certificate from apple. With OpenSSL I could then create the iOS certificate which I needed together with my apple provisioning certificate to export to a valid iOS installer file (*.ipa). Hooked up the iPad to my windows machine and installed Read more about How to create and upload a flash app for IOS without a mac[…]