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.
Powered by Open Street Map, this is a free version of the paid application that turns your PC into a tomtom type device
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 siphoned from the account of the Czech based register. A notice posted on the Web site of the Czech based registry said that it was “not accessible for technical reasons” on Thursday.
The EC followed suit: issuing a statement on Wednesday evening saying that the EC was suspending transactions for all EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) members until January 26 in light of “recurring security breaches in national registries over the last two months.”
via Carbon Trading Halted After Hack Of Exchange | threatpost.
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 battery level on your iphone, next to the battery indicator of the iphone.
The price: $129,- for all this bluetooth headset goodness.
Shake the Baby! Jawbone’s Newest Headset Likes it Physical.
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.
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 the same spatial location — one coupled to the field in the past and the other coupled to the field in the future. The procedure used here demonstrates a clear time correlation as a requirement for extraction, e.g. if the past detector was active at a quarter to 12:00, then the future detector must wait to become active at precisely a quarter past 12:00 in order to achieve entanglement.
via [1101.2565] Extraction of timelike entanglement from the quantum vacuum.
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 Object.
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 occur daily worldwide, but most go undetected.
“These signals are the first direct evidence that thunderstorms make antimatter particle beams,” said Michael Briggs, a member of Fermi’s Gamma-ray Burst Monitor GBM team at the University of Alabama in Huntsville UAH. He presented the findings Monday, during a news briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.
via NASA – NASA’s Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space.
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 in 3 … 2 … 1 …
Minister wil alle kentekens opslaan | Webwereld.
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 deemed unbalanced. News programs cannot use more than 20 percent of their airtime on crime-related stories, and journalists may be forced to reveal their sources.Presenters at Hungarian state-run radio have already been dismissed for protesting the law on air.
via VOA | Hungary Introduces Europe’s Most Restrictive Media Law | Europe | English.
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 winning reelection in November 2012.
via Mission Statement « Primaries For Palin.
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 is too late! It is even rechargeable and includes a wall charger and carrying case.
Only $89,99
via ZAP Cane With Flashlight – BUDK.
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 the economy in this country. For want of a better name, I shall call it foundation X. That is not its real name, but it will do for the moment. Foundation X was introduced to me 20 weeks ago last week by an eminent City firm, which is FSA controlled. Its chairman came to me and said, “We have this extraordinary request to assist in a major financial reconstruction. It is megabucks, but we need your help to assist us in understanding whether this business is legitimate”. I had the biggest put down of my life from my noble friend Lord Strathclyde when I told him this story. He said, “Why you? You’re not important enough to have the answer to a question like that”. He is quite right, I am not important enough, but the answer to the next question was, “You haven’t got the experience for it”. Yes I do. I have had one of the biggest experiences in the laundering of terrorist money and funny money that anyone has had in the City. I have handled billions of pounds of terrorist money.
Baroness Hollis of Heigham: Where did it go to?
Lord James of Blackheath: Not into my pocket. My biggest terrorist client was the IRA and I am pleased to say that I managed to write off more than £1 billion of its money. I have also had extensive connections with north African terrorists, but that was of a far nastier nature, and I do not want to talk about that because it is still a security issue. I hasten to add that it is no good getting the police in, because I shall immediately call the Bank of England as my defence witness, given that it put me in to deal with these problems.
The point is that when I was in the course of doing this strange activity, I had an interesting set of phone numbers and references that I could go to for help when I needed it. So people in the City have known that if they want to check out anything that looks at all odd, they can come to me and I can press a few phone numbers to obtain a reference. The City firm came to me and asked whether I could get a reference and a clearance on foundation X. For 20 weeks, I have been endeavouring to do that. I have come to the absolute conclusion that foundation X is completely genuine and sincere and that it directly wishes to make the United Kingdom one of the principal points that it will use to disseminate its extraordinarily great wealth into the world at this present moment, as part of an attempt to seek the recovery of the global economy.
And it just keeps getting better!
Lords Hansard text for 1 Nov 201001 Nov 2010 (pt 0003).
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 attackers and five wanted gunmen.
“With VHS people held 31 tapes, one for each day of the month, and it did not require specialist officers to get hold of the stuff.
“People are now being confronted by computers and hard drives and told to get those images and it is not as easy.”
via BBC News – ‘Six crimes a day’ solved by CCTV, Met says.
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 some patterns in how people use status updates differently, and how their friends interact with different status updates.
via What’s on your mind? (56).
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 the power to take down websites and only inform the owners months later.
