Oops. It just gets worse and worse.
Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers – Slashdot.
Airport perv scanners seem to cause cancer – also to TSA workers
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Silver pen allows electrical circuits to be handwritten on paper and other surfaces
Pretty cool – the world is your PCB board!
Silver pen allows electrical circuits to be handwritten on paper and other surfaces.
Google Swiffy – convert flash to HTML5
Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads).
Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0, and the output works in all Webkit browsers such as Chrome and Mobile Safari. If possible, exporting your Flash animation as a SWF 5 file might give better results.
via Google Swiffy.
triple battery life with Aluminum-Celmet metal foam
Groovedown – Grooveshark.com mp3 Downloader
Turn Your PC Into a Motion Sensing Security Device
There’s quite a few ways to turn your pc into a motion detector, the most common seems to be using a webcam and flash.
This works well, but here are a few ways to do it differently:
This is the DIY way
Turn Your PC Into a Motion Sensing Security Device with .NET.
NB the ultrasonic sensor in above article can now be found at Parallax inc here
This guy hooked up his PIR motion sensor to a logitech mouse to simulate the mousepress and turn his monitor on.
The Go!Motion is a complete expermenters tool, so not so good for the kiosk market but interesting nonetheless. It costs $135,-
Circuitgizmos.com has a USB PIR motion detector for $44,99. It looks like it’s pretty basic and still quite DIY.
The KSL Embedded Glob-x USB PIR sensor goes for $55,- and looks most like a plug and play product. It comes with some lovely software to set the sensitivity and what actions to perform when triggered.
The dark science of the traffic jam: UK traffic explored in detail
This article includes pictures of what the traffic managers see on their screens and how the information gets there. Unfortunately, ghost jams are generally caused by human idiot drivers:
But often we have only ourselves to blame: staying in the middle lane rather than keeping to the left whenever possible, getting too close to the car in front and subsequently having to brake, or simply changing lanes. When we overtake, for example – perhaps to get past the person in the middle lane – we create a space in the lane we’ve left. When that happens often enough, we create a phantom jam – a congestion from nowhere that will radiate exponentially backwards and take significantly longer to dissipate than it took to develop in the first place
Nintendo DS hacking
This is done with an R4 chip:
buy one: http://www.ts-shops.eu/nintendo-dsi-xl/flash-cards
There’s a difference between the r4 and r4i
You then put a kernel on the chip:
http://www.r4i-sdhc.com/downloade.asp
Instructions for formatting your r4 card
http://www.r4dscards.com/R4i-DS-Card/
Download games to put on:
http://www.dgemu.com/
Napping in a hammock – faster and better
Here we aimed to demonstrate that swinging can modulate physiological parameters of human sleep. To this end, we chose to study sleep during an afternoon nap using polysomnography and EEG spectral analyses. We show that lying on a slowly rocking bed 0.25 Hz facilitates the transition from waking to sleep, and increases the duration of stage N2 sleep.
via Current Biology – Rocking synchronizes brain waves during a short nap.
Pioneer’s AppRadio delivers iPhone integration, automotive and audio bliss for $400
Which is a shitload cheaper than the JVC KD-AVx77 (EUR. 600,-) or KW-AVX840 (EUR 500,-). It’s a two DIN unit and there’s not so much functionality as the JVC’s have – it only has 4 apps which are limited but Pioneer say they will be adding more.
Pioneer’s AppRadio delivers iPhone integration, automotive and audio bliss for $400 — Engadget.
US plan to hold EU passenger data for 15 yrs
This is totally stupid, ridiculous and unecessary!
US plan to hold EU passenger data for 15 yrs ‘unlawful’ • The Register.
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Dutch .gov accidentally votes for internetfilter destroying intended net neutrality
US soldier Isaias Hernandez ‘re-grows leg’ after pig bladder hormone injection
Well… 70% of his upper thigh. Still impressive though.
US soldier Isaias Hernandez ‘re-grows leg’ after pig bladder hormone injection | Mail Online.
Bitcoin crashes slowly and interestingly
It has decided to roll back a days’ trading as a result of the stolen bitcoins, which were dumped on the market, crashing the value of a single bitcoin. Apparently there wasn’t that much cash involved (only $1000,-) which means that the bitcoin currency isn’t very strong at all.
Concurrently, a trojan has been found that scours your hd for bitcoins, and on top of that a hacker has released accounts and passwords for a slew of bitcoin users.
Huge Bitcoin sell off due to a compromised account – rollback
Bitcoin collapses on malicious trade • The Register.
Recovering Exchange using eseutil
This tries to repair exchange databases instead of restoring from backups.
Help! My Exchange server just rebooted • The Register.
ICANN approves gTLDs for everyone – with money
ICANN Approves Historic Change to Internet’s Domain Name System
Board Votes to Launch New Generic Top-Level Domains
Singapore | ICANN’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet’s Domain Name System. The Board vote was 13 approving, 1 opposed, and 2 abstaining.
During a special meeting, the Board approved a plan to dramatically increase the number of Internet domain name endings — called generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — from the current 22, which includes such familiar domains as .com, .org and .net.
“ICANN has opened the Internet’s naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today’s decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. We hope this allows the domain name system to better serve all of mankind,” said Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN.
via ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Skydive: Proximity Flight – game
LulzSec cleartext accounts and passwords
On June 16, 2011, LulzSec released over 62,000 accounts containing emails and passwords in cleartext obtained from random sources. LulzSec announced the release in a Twitter post at https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/81327464156119040. The table below is the list of these accounts. Passwords have been partially masked to protect the users from further attacks.
Kinect for Windows SDK Download
The Kinect for Windows SDK beta is a starter kit for applications developers that includes APIs, sample code, and drivers. This SDK enables the academic research and enthusiast communities to create rich experiences by using Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect sensor technology on computers running Windows 7.
via Kinect for Windows SDK Download – Microsoft Research.
Apple patents an old Japanese location interest dating app
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 crass that Apple is now patenting this in the US. Can’t they think up their own products?
United States Patent Application: 0110142016.
European Council: Creating hacking tools should be criminal across EU. Idiots.
“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 that it also makes penetration testing tools illegal. Which means we won’t be able to know if code others write in closed source is secure at all.
via European Council: Creating hacking tools should be criminal across EU • The Register.
GE Combines Natural Gas, Wind, and Solar in hybrid powerplant
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, California-based startup that GE recently invested in
via GE Combines Natural Gas, Wind, and Solar – Technology Review.
Most Common Lockscreen PINs – 15% of all only 10 codes
1234, 0000, 2580, 1111, 5555, 5683 (spells LOVE), 0852, 2222, 1212, 1998
via These Are the Most Common Lockscreen PINs – Lifehacker.