Linking ideas with the world
Sometimes the EU just gets it right. Telling the Telco Carriers they can’t be anti-competitive dicks and filter out applications like Voipbuster or Skype is a great move that lets you think that sometimes – yes – they think about consumers as well.
Irvin doesn’t make them any more, but Aviation Leathercraft is licensed to build them. They also build the Tornado and Harrier aircrew leather jackets.
The main goal of this plugin is to make it harder for an attacker to figure out your downloading habits in BitTorrent. One of the reasons BitTorrent works so well is that it lets you download from large numbers of connections — but these same connections offer multiple of opportunities for eavesdropping. Our recent study Read more about SwarmScreen (Hiding in the Crowd)[…]
Quite a good list of things to do outside of the box with your Wii
Bumptop changes your desktop into a physical type of room, with 3 walls and a desk. You can push things around the desk and create stacks of things very easily. Larger objects have more weight. It’s a neat concept, allthough I’m not sure how practical it is.
For $6,- you connect to the Pirate Bay’s VPN (called Ipredator). They give you a random IP from their own range and they don’t do any logging. This means you can torrent away happily without your IP being linked to the IP in the VPN.
It automates Handbrake. For more DVD Ripping software (such as the DVD encryption breaking) also follow this link.
This is a heartrending story of a stupid woman who thought an all-woman company would be a good idea. In great detail, she shows how badly women get along with each other, ending in the sordid downfall of her company.
For around $450,- these guys have documented how they made their own microsoft surface thing. They used open source tools for the applications, and got it looking very slick. It took them about two weeks to do, so with instructions, you should be able to make it more quickly. Maximum PC’s Multitouch Surface Computer from Read more about Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer[…]
Lee Gainer had a look at what kind of engagement rings two months salary will buy you and came up with some interesting stuff: 1) The two months figure was perpetuated by de Beers in 1947 and has been kept up ever since. 2) To me, it doesn’t seem to matter how much money you Read more about lee gainer: ‘two months salary’[…]
Windows only: Radical Image Optimization Tool makes it easy to see how compression affects the image quality of the pictures you’re optimizing with a handy side-by-side interface. Lifehacker – Radical Image Optimization Tool Provides Side by Side Image Comparison – Image Editing
Well, in the Netherlands they’ve been stored for 5 years since around 2002, so there’s hardly any news there. What is news, however, is that the UK government seems to be giving this information to all and sundry to peruse at their leisure. Whether this is because they know they can’t secure it or because Read more about UK Internet records to be stored for a year[…]
Brein, which is like the Dutch version of RIAA, went and physically visited a server colo host and through intimidation and threats managed to get him to take the sites down. Under Dutch law, running a bittorrent site isn’t illegal. That’s currently being decided by the outcome of the Mininova lawsuit. That these kind of Read more about Brein bullys Dutch Bittorrent sites[…]
So using wifi it’s cheap calling, together with the chat and all other Skype functionalities.
Apparently, in a bid to really lower morale on the International Space Station, Russia and the US are forbidding their astro/cosmonauts to use each other’s facilities, extending to sharing food, using the toilet and gym. Because obviously it’s a politically very very important issue who uses what crapper up there.
A lovely piece of hardware that takes 1280×1024 pictures at customisable intervals for only $159.99
In the 10 days before the actual ovulation, women go nuts – because they need to offset the negative feelings and because they want to look at their best when they’re able to make babies. So, the week before they go – take away their credit cards!
Specifically, they improve contrast sensitivity. The effects last quite some time after having played the games.
Apparently these followers of the paedophile prophet are so worried about people blackmouthing them, they feel that the UN needs to encourage its members to outlaw free speech. Of course if I was a member of a religion mainly implemented in a way to keep the masses stupid and opressed, I wouldn’t want my people Read more about UN votes that ripping the piss out of muslims is illegal[…]
Apple has decreed that any user may buy an application and have it refunded within 90 days – but that Apple will keep the protection money – euhm commission. So who pays the commission? The developer!
For the land of the free, it’s a bit strange that the US has 25% of the global prison population – whilst only having 5% of the total population. Where Stalin had his gulags, the US is doing much much worse with its prisons. It has more of its own population behind bars than any Read more about Jim Webb vs The US Prisons[…]
Quite incredibly it seems that not only did PETA only find homes for 7 out of some 2216 animals given into it’s care over 2008, it killed the rest! Of course, in order to showcase just how inhumane people can be, they went and killed a whole load of animals to make commercials showing how Read more about PETA’s Pet Slaughterhouse[…]
I’ve been writing about mind controllers for years now but we’re finally seeing some movement in the market. Neurosky finally has their unit ready for production, and has launched an SDK for developers. They’re also looking to use their technology in a wide variety of settings such as cars. Find out here!
Who’d have thought it? Pictures of the MiG factory online for all to see!
This is like a taser without wires. It has a maximum range of 27m.