These things are ruggedised and for the price they aren’t expensive at all…
GoPro Official Store: Wearable Digital Cameras for Sports.
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Countrywide filters are great sliding scales – see Australia
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 government’s business what we visit.
First off, according to a report this week in The Australian, the amount of online content referred to the Australian Classification Board for a ruling by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) more than tripled – up from 77 referrals in 2008-9 to 258 in 2009-10. This year, more than five times as many URLs were banned as last year – the figures went from 14 last year to 78 in this.
via The great Aussie firewall is back – and this time it’s personal • The Register.
Remote Listening for the BlackBerry
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 V0.95 BETA Espionage Suite
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 controled by sms text messages. All commands will be silently received and deleted immediately and results will be issued back to sender.pre-configured settings can be added to the installer to have your own default password and phone number to receive live updates. By default, this program will silently reinstall itself even after a hard reset, if the memory card with these files is still in the device.
via [App][2010.10.15] Phone Creeper V0.95 BETA Espionage Suite – xda-developers.
It has quite a huge list of commands…
Norwegian traders convicted for outsmarting US stock broker algorithm
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 to influence the price of low-volume stocks for their own gain.
via Norwegian traders convicted for outsmarting US stock broker algorithm – ComputerworldUK.com.
I agree – it’s like jailing someone for using Word to write a letter – if you know that’s the functionality, that’s what you’re going to exploit it for. Then Timber Hill shouldn’t have used something so predictable as a computer algorithm and certainly not without oversight. Just because there’s money in it, it’s a crime?!
Why patents suck: Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)
Dear website owner, congratulations on your excellent site, which includes features covered by our registered patent, #5,251,294. As the description indicates, many of the components on your pages, particularly your menus, rollover images, and shortcuts, are detailed in our claim. We would be delighted to lease these to you at a reasonable royalty rate of $80,000. Please call our offices at your convenience to arrange a payment schedule
Webvention acquired the property from the great patent gobbler itself, Intellectual Ventures, and has been having a grand old time with it ever since. The firm is suing Abercrombie and Fitch, Bed Bath & Beyond, Dell, Gamestop, E*Trade, Neiman Marcus, Visa and ten other companies for patent infringement on ‘294. And the outfit wants jury trials in Texas. East Texas.
via Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please).
WikiLeaks funding has been blocked. Claims US / AU government blacklisting is the cause.
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, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, in one of the US army’s biggest leaks of information.
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Moneybookers moved against WikiLeaks on 13 August, according to the correspondence, less than a week after the Pentagon made public threats of reprisals against the organisation. Moneybookers wrote to Assange: “Following an audit of your account by our security department, we must advise that your account has been closed … to comply with money laundering or other investigations conducted by government authorities.”
via WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting | Media | The Guardian.
NL telecom oversight says hotels are ISPs
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 | Webwereld.
In Ireland, law is not made by big companies
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 of illegally downloading copyrighted files, which means that despite the record companies requests, UPC will not be required to take part in the three strikes programme that had been on the table for some time now.
Brein uploads illegal files in order to ‘unmask’ illegal file uploading
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.
Gamers Build Working Computers out of Virtual Blocks
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.
SuperOneClick v1.4 (Root, Enable Non-Market App, Get UNLOCK code)
Any Android phone can now be easily rooted.
[APP]SuperOneClick v1.4 (Root, Enable Non-Market App, Get UNLOCK code) – xda-developers.
Kobi Levi- Footwear Design
BLADE – Block All Drive-by Download Exploits
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 – Block All Drive-by Download Exploits.
limera1n – IOS 4.1 jailbreak
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 a bit of a trick.
Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground
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 rotation rate and linear acceleration. This is called inertial navigation. It’s extremely accurate but, up until now, only possible in gyroscopes and weighing two to three pounds.
They only need to set their position once, quickly, and then they can remember where they are for quite some time.
via Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground | Popular Science.
Seamlessly joining multiple projectors
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 users simultaneously.
C-nario’s state of the art seamless projection application breaks down the barriers of traditional wall casting and provides endless possibilities for multiple, high definition displays projection on any shape, any size, 360 degrees surface. Now you can enjoy seamless projection with digital signage added values.
Sol7 corrects imagery for projecting:
* onto non-planar screen shapes such as curved screen displays
* from unusual angles
* a seamless image from multiple projectors
* any combination of the above to achieve an immersive visual display
Sol7 is a versatile software tool that can be used to:
* align real-time content onto curved and non-planar screens
* align movies onto curved and non-planar screens
* edge blend multiple projectors
* align and edge blend multi-projector displays
* align and edge blend stereoscopic displays
* align and edge blend curved screen displays
* align unique display systems
This doesn’t just meld the displays in all kinds of funny angles, it also supports loads of different feeds: live video, file kinds, different sound files, etc.
Scalable Display Technologies makes trailblazing software used to calibrate multiple projector digital displays. Our auto-calibration system brings simplicity, reliability and brilliant high-resolution to displays across many industries and applications.
We help partners in a wide variety of markets enable Scalable auto-calibration in their products for cost-effective, eye-catching results.
2. The hardware route
One Shot program – auto aiming for snipers
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 the weapon, temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, cant and pointing angles, and GPS coordinates, as well as allow direct day and night observation of targets with continuous updates of the aim point offset corrections, with no alignment verification of the laser/crosswind optics to the spotting scope necessary.
The rifle scope also should communicate the aim point offset and expected crosswind variability to the rifle scope using a wired or wireless data link
Toshiba to launch no-glasses 3D TV this year
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.
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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 pixels in a conventional “full HD” television — organized into groups of nine pixels of each color. The nine lenses split light from each bank of pixels and send it to nine points in front of the TV
If the viewer sits in one of these sweet spots they get the 3D illusion.
The nine spots should enable several family members to watch a 3D image at the same time.
The set-up means that despite the large number of pixels in the screen, the resulting picture seen in each of the nine spots is equivalent to a 720p high-definition image, said Toshiba.
Google TV
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.
Since then I have been contacted by Kevin of jofoandroid.com and he has a complete guide online https://joyofandroid.com/android-tv/Android TV: Everything You Need To Know
Mapping Stereotypes by alphadesigner
This is how the US sees EU
how the Germans see it
And there are a few more…
Mapping Stereotypes by alphadesigner.
Many Eyes data visualisation
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.
Jaguar C-X75 jet powered hybrid car
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.
Jaguar C-X75 hybrid concept is part electric, part frickin’ jet | Crave | CNET UK.
Silkworms to produce spider silk thread
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.
US demands right to snoop the world
It’s throwing out the month old SWIFT (Financial) data mining agreement and has decided it not only wants to track and keep ALL financial data going in or out of the country, but also any encrypted data needs to be fitted with a master key, so that they can read your facebook passwords, blackberry emails, etc. Privacy? Don’t think so. At least the EU is getting pissed off about it.
US demands right to snoop the world • The Register.