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The register has had enough of reporting on space and the hugely expensive space programmes, and (probably following on the tail of the UK Space Cheese project) has decided to launch their own paper space program in an attempt to keep the UK space race open! El Reg to launch space paper plane • The Read more about El Reg to launch space paper plane[…]
The National ID card was hacked – last week. It only took 12 minutes to do. Now the government is flying in the face of the evidence and bluntly stating it never happened. Maybe if they say it often enough it’ll become true. Or not. Government rubbishes ID card hack report • The Register.
After all the millions spent on it, after all the privacy concerns and the backlash, after the bloody minded determination of the Wacky Jacqui to implement this, it only took 12 minutes to clone the fucker. Slashdot IT Story | UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes.
Basically zoom in to pictures and it will correct the pixellation for you. SmillaEnlarger Enlarges Your Images without Artifacts – Image Editing – Lifehacker.
Of course only in the jolly old UK: The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals. Private security guards will also be sent round Read more about This is where CCTV leads to![…]
For $8000 you can launch your own satellite into low earth orbit at 310 km. It’ll stay up there for around 3 weeks untill it burns up in reentry. They come in kit form and you can stuff whatever you want in there as long as it weighs less than 0.75 kg and fits into Read more about Interorbital Tube Sat[…]
UCSniff can be placed on a laptop and put in a network where it will VLAN hop untill it finds the VoIP VLAN channel. It then throws out spoofed ARP packets like a man-in-the-middle attack and gets all voice and video traffic thrown to itself. Together with a plugin called VideoJak they can then insert Read more about UCSniff updated[…]
This page crawls your website and takes a screenshot using one of a vast amount of browsers available so you can see what that browser sees without having to actually install that browser. Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test – Browsershots.
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Of course it wouldn’t take long before a program was developed to rip music from spotify. Easy instructions in the link. Ripping music from Spotify using Spotify Ripper | Spotifyripping.com.
Turns out if you spend much much more money on organic food for health benefits, you can save yourself the cash. Organic food ‘no healthier’ blow | News.
David Pogue is waging war on those carriers that make you listen to a stupid canned message from them after you listen to a personal voicemail message. Those 15 seconds of canned bullshit are there to make you rack up mobile expenses. One way to avoid them is to press: *-1-# in a row This Read more about ‘Take Back the Beep’ Campaign[…]
The Pirate Bay has been told to block access to Dutch users in some magical fashion during a court session in which the subpoena’s were delivered via Twitter and Facebook and the defendants were not able to come to the courtroom to defend themselves. They sent a written response, but this was ignored due to Read more about Dutch courts go nuts again[…]
Who said Apples don’t get virusses? In a one character SMS message, an attacker can take over your phone entirely: turn on or off the camera, send the contacts list, dial out, etc etc etc. Oddly enough the first people to patch it are the people Apple is intent on stopping from working on software Read more about iPhone virus: Patch![…]
Mp3Extractor is a tool for copying several portions from an MP3 audio file into new (numbered and tagged) MP3 files easily. Mp3Extractor: the show cutter.
That was quick. Damn quick. Windows 7 activation already cracked with Lenovo’s OEM license key.
How to Buy a Mattress: Advice from a Mattress Salesman – Saving Money – Lifehacker. More advice from Nestmaven.com
MegaTux, the Dell Thunderbird with 4480 Intel processors will run 1 million copies of bots in a limited area botnet over Wine in order to create simulations of differnet botnets on a massive scale. Researchers can then stop the simulation at any point and have a look at the state of the different virtual PCs. Read more about 1m virtual PCs on one server[…]
Hours after Apple rejected GV on the appstore, you can now get it for free via Cydia. Fuck you, Apple! GV Mobile Now on Cydia [ ModMyi Repo ].
It turns out that those people who jump jams at the turn offs, change lane or pass on the wrong side are actually increasing the flow of traffic by widening the area through which traffic passes. In computer models, it turns out that the best traffic flow is reached when around 60% of the people Read more about A Cure for Traffic Jams[…]
The aptly-named “WebOS Quick Install” from our very own Jason Robitaille. It’s a simple desktop Java-based app that you can download and install on a Mac, PC or Linux machine. First, install the webOS SDK (Update, version 1.1 has just been released and it uses the Recovery ROM – take a quick look at the Read more about Installing Homebrew Apps op the Pre[…]
Very simply put, this takes the compas, the time and the GPS to determine where on earth you are. It then uses the camera input and shows you the constellations you’re looking at, tells you what they are and you can click on suns and planets for a more detailed view. Pocket Universe 1.7 • Read more about Pocket Universe 1.7[…]
And continuing on with the US military madness, the alternate Rolls Royce power source for the F-35 is to stop receiving funding from. This is a huge slap in the face to the UK. US Senate axes F-35 alternate engine -23/07/2009-Washington DC-Flightglobal.com.
A new ultrasound device, used in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), allows neurosurgeons to precisely burn out small pieces of malfunctioning brain tissue without cutting the skin or opening the skull. A preliminary study from Switzerland involving nine patients with chronic pain shows that the technology can be used safely in humans. The researchers Read more about rain Surgery Using Sound Waves[…]