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Which goes to show why the current patent system is stupid. The Japanese have had this system in gadgets for years now – you fill in your interestes in the gadget and when you come close to someone with similar interests, the thing rings. You look around and – hey, there’s someone else ringing! Unbelievably Read more about Apple patents an old Japanese location interest dating app[…]
“The following new elements [should include] penalisation of the production and making available of tools eg, malicious software designed to create ‘botnets’ or unrightfully obtained computer passwords for committing the offences [of attacks against computer systems],” the Council of Ministers said in a statement pages 18-19 of 38-page/176KB PDF. The real problem with this, is Read more about European Council: Creating hacking tools should be criminal across EU. Idiots.[…]
GE has announced the first power plant to integrate wind and solar power with natural gas—a 530-megawatt plant that will start operating in Turkey in 2015. The power plant is made practical by a flexible, high-efficiency natural-gas system the company announced two weeks ago and a solar thermal power system created by eSolar, a Burbank, Read more about GE Combines Natural Gas, Wind, and Solar in hybrid powerplant[…]
1234, 0000, 2580, 1111, 5555, 5683 (spells LOVE), 0852, 2222, 1212, 1998 via These Are the Most Common Lockscreen PINs – Lifehacker.
How to Recover Windows and Software Keys from a Broken Computer – How-To Geek.
How do you steal 15 tonnes of aircraft engines from an Israeli military base?! ‘Stolen’ F100 engine caper at Israeli base – The DEW Line.
It doesn’t get more awesome than this! Top Gun Baby Romper Suit | Top Gun Onesie – CafePress UK.
Humans react in a seemingly irrational manner during emergency evacuations; sometimes, people even get trampled in the process. But what if architects and developers could predict how large crowds might move through their buildings in the event of an emergency–and then tweak the designs to ensure that everything runs smoothly?That’s the premise of MassMotion, a Read more about Mass Motion – 3d human crowd simulator[…]
Well, this is getting interesting. Last week, we noted that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, alone among the other G8 leaders, questioned today’s copyright laws, suggesting that they did not fit with the times, and pointed out that these century-old laws don’t seem to fit with today’s internet. What the ‘free’ west can learn from ‘oppressive’ Read more about Russian President Proposes Creative Commons-Style Rules Baked Directly Into Copyright[…]
The collections contained within the Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library are largely composed of digital versions of paper documents from the Combined Arms Research Library collections and student papers produced at the US Army Command and General Staff College. We have recently partnered with several Army educational and historical organizations whose collections appear here Read more about Combined Arms Research Library CARL Digital Library[…]
They keep discovering more and more water everywhere! Scientists detect Earth-equivalent amount of water within the moon.
In an announcement on the HTC Facebook page, the CEO has stated that after looking at user feedback, they’re no longer going to be locking up the bootrom. This should create an explosion of creativity for Android phones – iphone will one day sooner be left in the dust! “There has been… (25).
Today, astronomers unveiled the most complete 3-D map of the local universe (out to a distance of 380 million light-years) ever created. Taking more than 10 years to complete, the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) also is notable for extending closer to the Galactic plane than previous surveys – a region that’s generally obscured by dust. Read more about most complete 3D map of universe revealed[…]
The robotic precision of cron ensures that each subsequent job runs, on time, every time. But cron doesn’t check that the previous execution of that same job completed first — and that can cause big trouble. This often happens to me when I’m traveling and my backup cronjob fires while I’m on a slow up-link. Read more about run-one and run-this-one for Ubuntu – cron helpers[…]
gpedit.msc isn’t available for windows home versions. Because it’s basically just a frontend for the registry, you can download an excel spreadsheet with the gpedit settings next to the correct registry entry from Microsoft. Download details: Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows and Windows Server.
Defensie vult toekomst verder in | Ministerie van Defensie.
This page shows each ministry’s ICT projects, descriptions and budgets and how far they’re over or under budget. ICT-dashboard | ICT-dashboard.
After KPN’s Deep Packet Inspection and plans to ban services such as Skype and Whatsapp, there’s a motion to stop ISPs from discriminating on the type of traffic being sent – internet is internet. Tweede Kamer eist keiharde netneutraliteit | Webwereld.
Rain-X is a bottled polymer glass treatment that dramatically increases a car’s windshield visibility while driving through rain, snow, or sleet. It works by filling the tiny pores that are naturally present in any piece of glass. By doing so, the precipitation simply beads right off of the windshield instead of penetrating it fully. It’s Read more about Make your iDevice Fingerprint-Resistant with Rain-X[…]
The manufacturer, based in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, has now made a cooker which looks exactly like a traditional Aga, in cast iron, but which can be fired up with a flick of a switch. Rather than the usual six hour delay before the machine is ready to cook, the new Aga Total Control, will be ready Read more about New generation Aga: turns on in 8 minutes, by iPhone[…]
The Dutch government has decided that their data should be open and available for everyone, unless there’s a good reason for it not to be. So they’ve opened a website portal to that data. It’s a bit empty at the moment, but it should fill up with time. Overheid.nl | Open data.
at the Vienna University of Technology, a printing device has now been developed, which is much smaller, lighter and cheaper than ordinary 3D-printers. With this kind of printer, everyone could produce small, taylor-made 3D-objects at home, using building plans from the internet – and this could save money for expensive custom-built spare parts. It’s also Read more about Tiny 3D Printer for home[…]
The Christian Democratic Party is the only party in the coalition government who actively wants to spy on you and block your internets. How Christian of them! Omstreden kinderpornofilter van de baan – Emerce.
Kabinet: internetproviders mogen diensten blokkeren – Emerce.
It turns out that getting people to fill in a survey, the best way is to talk at a moderate pace and pause occasionally. Pitch doesn’t really factor in, unless you’re a male and talk with a naturally high pitch, which doesn’t work for you. Persuasive speech: The way we, um, talk sways our listeners.