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BERLIN (Reuters) – A German entrepreneur is bypassing a European Union ban on light bulbs of more than 60 watts by marketing his own brand as mini heaters. Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law have come up with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light bulbs — by producing them in Read more about Buy light bulbs as heatballs[…]
These things are ruggedised and for the price they aren’t expensive at all… GoPro Official Store: Wearable Digital Cameras for Sports.
Yup, if you implement a population controlling measure ‘to save the children’ then the useage of the measure goes far beyond the original remit. The internet is meant to be free and people in democracies – being deemed intelligent enough to vote – should be allowed to choose what sites they watch. It’s none of Read more about Countrywide filters are great sliding scales – see Australia[…]
PhoneSnoop demonstrates how a BlackBerry can be used to spy on its owner. You call it using a preprogrammed trigger number, and it turns on the speakerphone for you to hear what’s going on. via Chirashi Security | Remote Listening for the BlackBerry.
Phone creeper is for Windows Phone. An Android version is coming soon. It can be silently installed by just inserting an sd card with the files below on it.The program does not show up under installed programs or running programs and allows for a useful array or features. Phones running this software can be remotely Read more about Phone Creeper V0.95 BETA Espionage Suite[…]
The Norwegian traders, Svend Egil Larsen and Peder Veiby, were handed suspended prison sentences and fines for market manipulation after outsmarting the trading system of Timber Hill, which is a unit of US-based Interactive Brokers. The two men managed to work out how the computerised system would react to certain trading patterns. This allowed them Read more about Norwegian traders convicted for outsmarting US stock broker algorithm[…]
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Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at WikiLeaks and its founder, Read more about WikiLeaks funding has been blocked. Claims US / AU government blacklisting is the cause.[…]
Which means they have to conform to data retention and data tapping laws, as well as a registration fee to the OPTA. Which also means that anyone offering free WiFi (MacDonalds, Airports, Starbucks, etc) is liable to be seen as an ISP. Guess the OPTA is desperate for money. OPTA jaagt op hotels met internet Read more about NL telecom oversight says hotels are ISPs[…]
UPC, one of Ireland’s largest internet service providers, has won a major legal victory against four of the world’s most powerful record companies over the much-contested issue of online music piracy. The High Court in Dublin ruled today that there was no precedent in Irish law to force ISPs to identify and disconnect people accused Read more about In Ireland, law is not made by big companies[…]
Brein, the NL anti-download people self-charged with finding and destroying file sharers, is using highly dubious methods with which to do this. FTD: Brein uploadt wél illegale bestanden | Webwereld.
Some games are very complex – Minecraft, Little Big Planet and Dwarf Fortress, for example. These games allow you to build a working computer inside them – if you have the time for it! Geeky Gamers Build Working Computers out of Virtual Blocks.
Any Android phone can now be easily rooted. [APP]SuperOneClick v1.4 (Root, Enable Non-Market App, Get UNLOCK code) – xda-developers.
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BLADE is a new Windows immunization system that prevents surreptitious drive-by download exploits from infecting vulnerable Windows hosts. BLADE is implemented as a series of kernel extensions, which interrupt the covert binary installation phase of current malware drive-by exploits. Ie. it checks if you authorised the download and execution of a file. via BLADE – Read more about BLADE – Block All Drive-by Download Exploits[…]
This jailbreak has some political ramifications, as the greenpo1son jailbreak was slated for release and Geohot (the author of this jailbreak) jumped the gun and released this without permission from two of the code writers. There’s no phone unlock yet, but it’s untethered and should work, even though getting your phone into DFU mode is Read more about limera1n – IOS 4.1 jailbreak[…]
Israeli researchers have created the tiniest-ever optical gyroscopes, as small as a grain of sand, but still maintaining the keen accuracy of their counterparts hundreds of times larger. Optical gyroscopes are generally used for navigation in airplanes, ships and satellites, in which they track movement without reference to external navigation points, by measuring the vehicle’s Read more about Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground[…]
This isn’t so easy to do. There are a few different options: 1) The software route Open Source VVVV vvvv is a graphical programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many Read more about Seamlessly joining multiple projectors[…]
Lockheed Martin’s objective is to deliver 15 field-testable and hardened prototype systems by October 2011 that provides the capability to profile downrange crosswind and range to target in near real time, at longer ranges, and improved probability of a first round hit. The system’s integrated spotter scope ISS should measure crosswinds, maximum effective range of Read more about One Shot program – auto aiming for snipers[…]
oshiba will offer a 12-inch model and a 20-inch model. They’ll cost around ¥120,000 (US$1,430) and ¥240,000 respectively. Toshiba didn’t announce launch or pricing plans for markets outside of Japan. … Behind this lens screen is a custom-developed LCD (liquid crystal display) panel. Each screen has 8.29 million pixels — four times the number of Read more about Toshiba to launch no-glasses 3D TV this year[…]
Well, this is Google’s take on TV. You buy either a Logitech box or a Sony TV and it’ll let you browse the web, watch youtube, use some apps and do some other stuff on it. You can control it using your iPhone or Android. Looks like it could be interesting. Quick Tour – Google Read more about Google TV[…]
This is how the US sees EU how the Germans see it And there are a few more… Mapping Stereotypes by alphadesigner.
Paste your data into it and choose a way to visualise – there are loads of different options. You can also explore the visualisations that have allready been made, also many available. Many Eyes.
4 electric motors mounted at the wheels and two micro gas turbine engines that top up the lithium ion batteries. It’ll go faster than a Lambo and be more energy efficient than a Prius.
Farming spiders for their silk is very very difficult. Farming silkworms is easy. Spider silk is one of the strongest light materials known to man and is better for all kinds of things than hemp, including making lightweight bulletproof vests. GM silkworms to produce super spider silk | COSMOS magazine.