Government requests directed to Google and YouTube
Using the Google maps tool, you can see how many requests have been fielded by each government, as well as what kind of requests they have made. Government requests directed to Google and YouTube.
AIVD: The Netherlands is being spied on by hackers
The AIVD, the Dutch internal security police, have issued a warning that Dutch government and businesses are being spied on at an unprecedented rate, usually by trying to install trojans activated by email attachments. The spies are often foreign governments and China is being fingered specifically as a culprit. AIVD: Nederland steeds vaker digitaal bespioneerd Read more about AIVD: The Netherlands is being spied on by hackers[…]
How to Hack Toy EEGs
This is a comprehensive look at how to hack into Open EEG, Force Trainer, Mind Flex and Mind Set, in order to get some more output from them than the designers intended. How to Hack Toy EEGs | Frontier Nerds.
Synergy updates
Synergy is a system that allows you to control multiple computers (with multiple screens) with a single mouse and keyboard. It also supports clipboard sharing. To install it, though, for Linux or Mac, all you had was command line. QSynergy gives you a GUI to set it up on Linux, Mac and Windows. QSynergy — Read more about Synergy updates[…]
Birding News and Features — eBird
If you’re a birdwatcher, eBird is the site for you to go – huge maps of species and countries, you can follow the birds as they’re reported in by other eBirders. Birding News and Features — eBird.
Even the Economist has had it with Mickey Mouse copyright
The Economist weighs in and says that extending copyright doesn’t increase creativity, it stifles it and Europe should think long and hard before going down the American way and extending it for perpituity. Protecting creativity: Copyright and wrong | The Economist.
Animals That Live Without Oxygen discovered
Scientists have found the first multicellular animals that apparently live entirely without oxygen. The creatures reside deep in one of the harshest environments on earth: the Mediterranean Ocean's L'Atalante basin, which contains salt brine so dense that it doesn't mix with the oxygen-containing waters above. Previous samples taken from the water and sediments in the Read more about Animals That Live Without Oxygen discovered[…]
Chinese scientists use arsenic to kill blood cancers
Chinese doctors have used arsenic in the treatment of APL (leukemia) with cure rates of 90% since 1992 without the side-effects of chemo (hair loss, suppression of bone marrow function). A paper from Shanghai shows that it works by targetting specific proteins that feed the cancer. China scientists show how arsenic treats blood cancer | Read more about Chinese scientists use arsenic to kill blood cancers[…]
Marion Hyper-Sub
This is a powerboat which can go underwater, available in 3 versions allowing up to 5 people to cruise 500 miles on the surface at 40 knots or submerge to 1200 feet using an electric self-recharging engine at up to 3.7 knots. Marion Hyper-Sub.
Congressman Duncan Blasts “Useless” Air Marshal Service
We now have approximately 4,000 in the Federal Air Marshals Service, yet they have made an average of just 4.2 arrests a year since 2001. This comes out to an average of about one arrest a year per 1,000 employees.Now, let me make that clear. Their thousands of employees are not making one arrest per Read more about Congressman Duncan Blasts “Useless” Air Marshal Service[…]
Why the Google antitrust complaint is not about Microsoft
This is an interesting read: It’s about the current EU antitrust complaint filed against Google – not by Microsoft, as it happens. It covers whitelisting of people and Google using its search engine results to push its own services, which is anti-competitive. Specifically two examples are mentioned: on line map services (where MapQuest lost out Read more about Why the Google antitrust complaint is not about Microsoft[…]
Dutch fingerprint database supposedly safe in 3rd party hands
The current (demissionary) minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin has made himself a total idiot by declaring a database into which he wants to put fingerprints of all the Netherlands ‘safe’. Hasn’t he learnt yet, when it comes to databases, there is no such thing as safe?! Further, the data will be stored at a third, non-governmental Read more about Dutch fingerprint database supposedly safe in 3rd party hands[…]
Dutch electronic patients database unsafe
Hardly surprisingly, it turns out that the Electronische Patienten Database is unsafe and offers unfettered access to your private details to almost anyone and their dog. Onderzoek: beveiliging EPD fundamenteel zwak | Webwereld. Fortunately you can opt out here (PDF)
EC wants global filter: claims kiddyporn
That’s how these misused things always start – anti-terrorlaws, jew extermination: no, we just want to do this one little thing. Once the mechanism is in there, well we might just as well increase its functionalities just a little bit – it’s there anyway! Anyway, the EC wants to implement a technically totally unviable kiddy Read more about EC wants global filter: claims kiddyporn[…]
Unix Command-Line Kung Fu
This pdf has a couple of fun bash shell tricks, such as using find, replacements for the up arrow, cut, sed, awk and a few more in a very readable format. Unix_Command-Line_Kung_Fu_ SANS .pdf application/pdf Object.
Robot Touchscreen Analysis
This shows pretty conclusively that the iphone has the best touchscreen followed by the Palm Pre. The Androids don’t do too well at all. labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » Robot Touchscreen Analysis.
Full body scanners: fine for us, but not for them
The BAA employee took a photo of his co-worker, Jo Margetson, when she inadvertently went through a scanner. “I can't bear to think about the body scanner thing,” she told the Sun. “I'm totally traumatised. I've spoken to the police about it. I'm in too much of a state to go to work.” BAA said: Read more about Full body scanners: fine for us, but not for them[…]
Gerald Blanchard: Masterthief
This guy started stealing at 6 and never looked back. Banks, jewelry, skimming, scamming, he’s done it all. Using high-tech gadgets and doing parachuting in or using air ducts, he got in anywhere. A gripping read of a real life Pink Panther style master thief, who made a few too many mistakes and got caught. Read more about Gerald Blanchard: Masterthief[…]
Computer Engineer Barbie
Yup, it finally happened, Barbie® I Can Be…™ dolls and accessories empower girls to play out different roles and “try on” fabulous careers, including computer engineer, the first Barbie® profession chosen by popular vote! Always a reflection of the times, this digital diva engineers the perfect geek-chic look, with hot pink accessories and sleek gadgets Read more about Computer Engineer Barbie[…]
A school with normal times gets impressive results.
A school that has allowed its pupils to start the day an hour later says it has seen absenteeism decline.At Monkseaton High School, in North Tyneside, 800 pupils aged 13-19 have started lessons at 10am since October.Early results indicates that general absence has dropped by 8% and persistent absenteeism by 27%. via BBC News – Read more about A school with normal times gets impressive results.[…]
ALL models are bad for women’s self esteem
Whether they’re plus sized, normal sized or skinny, women will feel bad about themselves whenever they see a model. There really is no pleasing them! Plus Size Models Don’t Raise Self Esteem | The Frisky.
Foil impressioning lockpicking
The way the tool works is that you first take some aluminum foil and make a ‘U shaped’ form using the special tool to do so and make small incisions on pre-determined positions. Next thing you do is put the foil over a special blank that already has the profile of your target lock. The Read more about Foil impressioning lockpicking[…]
Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation with a Registry Hack – Windows Tip – Lifehacker
Launch regedit.exe HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer AdvancedGo to Edit->New->DWORD 32-bit ValueName the value LastActiveClick Hit enter to assign the value and change it to 1Restart Explorer and you're good to go. via Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation with a Registry Hack – Windows Tip – Lifehacker.
F-35 price hiked by 90%
Not only is the F-35 underperforming and overpriced, it’s also not an air dominance fighter. It’s a point defence fighter with the same limitations of the F-16 when it first came out. If you want to play with the big boys, you gotta have a big stick, and the F-35 just isn’t it. Now it’s Read more about F-35 price hiked by 90%[…]
US Army takes down CIA / Saudi extremist website
Showing there is little unity and policy when it comes to cyber warfare in the US, the military took down a website used to gather intelligence on extremists. In the process of doing so they took down around 300 servers around the world and pissed off all the other intelligence gathering agencies that were covertly Read more about US Army takes down CIA / Saudi extremist website[…]