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Like wikileaks for the Middle East, it shows concessions made by the Palestinians weren’t good enough for Israel and the US was running around showboating, not doing much constructive. The story behind the Palestine papers | World news | The Guardian.
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The European Commission (EC) suspended trading in carbon credits on Wednseday after unknown hackers compromised the accounts of Czech traders and siphoned off around $38 million, according to published reports. EU countries including Estonia, Austria, The Czech Republic, Poland and France began closing their carbon trading registries yesterday after learning that carbon allowances had been Read more about EU Emissions Trading System down after hack siphons off $38 million from Czech traders[…]
My current jawbone has a worse speaker than the Jabra and the earpiece holder doesn’t work so well for me. Now they have a new system to hold it in your ear which hopefully works better, but they’ve addressed all the other niggles I had AND added an accellerometer! oh, and you can see the Read more about Jawbone Era – with 10mm HD speaker, uUSB charger and accellerometer[…]
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This runs as a java applet on your side and also analyses traffic on the university of Berkely servers, giving you a good view of connection problems from both inside and outside of your network. It takes a few minutes to run though. ICSI Netalyzr.
Recently, it has been shown that the massless quantum vacuum state contains entanglement between timelike separated regions of spacetime, in addition to the entanglement between the spacelike separated regions usually considered. Here, we show that timelike entanglement can be extracted from the Minkowski vacuum and converted into ordinary entanglement between two inertial, two-state detectors at Read more about Time travel using entanglement[…]
Oddly enough, if you have a 7Hz wave and 2 testtubes, one filled with twater and one with bacterial DNA, after 18 hours you will find the DNA teleported to the water! The best thing about this quantum entanglement is that the effect lasts for a very very long time, it’s not transient. 1012.5166v1.pdf application/pdf Read more about DNA Teleports into water[…]
Allthough you lose quite a few subscribers, you keep the subscribers who are interested in your messages and you increase conversions. You won’t be put on a spamlist (if you mail a subscribed list with an option to unsubscribe). It also outperforms using social media. Extreme Email Experiment: How Much Is Too Much?.
Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash TGF, a brief burst produced inside thunderstorms and shown to be associated with lightning. It is estimated that about 500 TGFs Read more about Antimatter created by Thunderstorms[…]
The Dutch have a system on roads that read number plates automatically for speeding purposes. Now – surprise surprise – they want to store not only the number plate information, but also the pictoral information (including the driver’s face) for a period of four weeks. I’m sure they’ll be trotting out the paedofile capturing arguments Read more about Dutch .gov wants to store all the car trips you’ve made[…]
turns your iphone into a disk and lets you copy files to and from it. It’s different from iphone folders in that it should work under 64 bit windows and it’s different from iphone disk in that it’s free. iPhone Explorer – A USB iPhone browser for Mac and PC.
The XO of the Enterprise used to hold movie nights featuring funny, sexually tinted skits. One or two people got upset, it got out and now the USN top is going nuts in a frantic attempt to show how humorless they are. Enterprise Skipper Condemned, Defended.
Under the new law, a government-appointed media council will have the power to decide whether a publication has broken rules on what it calls balanced and ‘moral’ reporting, and can issue heavy fines. Print and Internet media can face fines of more than $100,000 and broadcasters nearly $1 million, if, for example, their coverage is Read more about Hungary goes dictatorship – crazy media law requires “balance” (whatever that is) or huge fines[…]
PrimariesForPalin.com aims to nominate Sarah Palin as the Republican presidential candidate by encouraging Democrats and Independents to purposefully vote for her in state primaries. In head-to-head polls with President Barack Obama, Palin consistently fares worse than other possible Republican candidates because of her divisiveness. If Palin is nominated, Obama has a much better chance of Read more about Primaries For Palin – Democrats want you to vote for the weakest Republican![…]
It sends your personal information, can be commanded from remote servers and comes packaged with legal software in certain compromised Chinese Android marketplaces… The Official Lookout Blog | Security Alert: Geinimi, Sophisticated New Android Trojan Found in Wild.
This ZAP Stun Cane features an adjustable walking cane, an ultra-bright LED flashlight and a stun gun with an unheard of 1-million volt charge that will knock down any attacker. The cane has a weight capacity of 250 lbs and is adjustable from 32″ to 36″. They’ll think it is just a cane until it Read more about ZAP Cane With Flashlight[…]
For the past 20 weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue with the two noble Lords, in the course of which I have been trying to bring to their attention the willing availability of a strange organisation which wishes to make a great deal of money available to assist the recovery of Read more about Lord Blackheath has laundered GBP 1bn of IRA money and has a foundation X willing to invest GBP 5bn in the UK[…]
Yup, the little kids have to fork over the money if they want to sing modern songs covered by copyright. Kindergartens ordered to pay copyright for songs | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 28.12.2010.
Using GnuRadio you record the data from the air, Airporbe parses the data, Kraken cracks the A5/1 key and Airprobe decodes voice. GSM is broken. Fortunately, UMTS isn’t. Decrypting GSM phone calls | srl.
The number of suspects who were identified using the cameras went up from 1,970 in 2009 to 2,512 this year. The number of cameras in Britain has gone up from 21,000 in 1999 to 59,753 in 2010, The Met said among the 2,512 suspects caught this year, four were suspected murderers, 23 rapists and sex Read more about London CCTV: Only 1% of crimes caught are serious. 96% of the camera’s are wasted money. Police don’t understand ‘hard drives’ but can handle VHS.[…]
Because a wish for privacy is extremely suspicious and counter to our overlords controlling intentions. ‘Afschermen IP-adres is verdacht gedrag’ | Webwereld.
The commission on human rights gently reminds governments that in order for people to be able to be part of a democracy they have a right to know what their governments are up to and there are only very strict exceptions to this. UN defends human right to WikiLeaked info • The Register.
People use status updates to share what’s on their minds, to tell others what they’re doing, and to gather feedback from friends. The different ways people use status updates form some interesting patterns. In this study, we looked at the usage of words in different “word categories” in status updates. This led us to discover Read more about Facebook status updates analysed[…]
Not only was it prepared by a recent college graduate, agent Andrew Reynolds basically just listened to the MPAA – who have a vested and misinformed agenda. This takedown is a horrible joke gone wrong: no one seems to have any idea of how technology, or indeed just surfing the internet, works, but they have Read more about Why .gov should stay out of DNS – DHS ‘evidence’ for DNS takedowns is a joke[…]