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This is the second time scientific results are being questioned on a very deep level in a very short time. It’s a very disturbing trend. In just the last two months, two pillars of preventive medicine fell. A major study concluded there’s no good evidence that statins drugs like Lipitor and Crestor help people with Read more about A lot of medical science in question[…]
This guy has taken a whole list of old games, such as GTA and added some effects, making them look a whole lot newer and more re-playable. ENBSeries.
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.
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.
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 Read more about Iraqi Treasury Gets Partial Refund on Magic Wands[…]
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 Read more about Get inPulse and Hack Your Watch[…]
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 Read more about Anything goes if you justify it with the fight vs kiddieporn – 84000 websites wrongfully shut down by feds[…]
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.
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.
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 Read more about Mindflex Duel Game – jedi knight training[…]
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 Read more about How to: Greenpois0n Animated Boot Logos[…]
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 Read more about Fonebook – sync Facebook with Outlook[…]
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’. Google Ngram Viewer.
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.
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 Read more about Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code[…]
“Inexcusable”: TSA STILL Refusing To Release Naked Scanner Safety Reports.
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; Read more about Even republicans are now finding some bits of the patriot act scary[…]
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 Read more about Russia stops art loans to US, due to fears of US gov stealing it[…]
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.
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 Read more about OV chipkaart hacked, software available[…]
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 Read more about Facebook ads use your face for free[…]
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 Read more about Theme it – find themes for your jailbroken iphone easily[…]
It turns out that every Tunisian ISP was keylogging all login attempts to facebook and other sites from Christmas. The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic.
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 Read more about Ultrafast quantum computer closer: Ten billion bits of entanglement achieved in silicon[…]
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 Read more about SMB Traffic Analyzer[…]