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This is a simple piece of hardware you put under your shower drain, which transfers heat from hot shower waste water to cold incoming water. This cuts water heater use by 25%-40%. It has no moving parts This seems like a very easy and effective way to save money.
The German government has stormed Wikileaks’ owners house for ‘distribution of pornographic material’ after Wikileaks published the censorship lists of Australia and several other countries. Is this a sign of the rising of the Fourth Reich – nip the opposers voices in the buds for complete control of your remaining, potty trained and scared shitless Read more about Deutsche SS Storm Wikileaks owners’ house[…]
This has been proof of concepted to work on any BIOS, not just specific types. Fdisking your HD is now not enough!
If the government isn’t handing out your personal data on USB sticks, laptops or just through their unsecure own networks, they’ll dump computers containing your hospital and patient data unencrypted on the streets for you to take home with you. They can’t give it away fast enough! Now, let’s make a database with all the Read more about The UK will lose your data one way or another[…]
This is quite clever: OnLive has a huge cluster setup lonline which runs the latest games for you, so you can have a low power piece of hardware running the latest games at blistering speeds.
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This online store in Hong Kong only charges $3,- for worldwide shipping and features a dizzying array of USB gadgets. The selection of USB hubs alone is totally astounding, but the amount of other USB stuff they have is completely insane. Happy shopping!
Yup, the Australians have a censorship list of websites that they’re blocking. The actual list is secret, but has now been unearthed! And – surprise surprise – it contains a whole load of sites that aren’t supposed to be on the list, such as legitimate businesses (who must have gotten on the wrong side of Read more about Australia hates freedom too![…]
How to shame your WWII veterans: don’t attend the D-day anniversary, or fund the 500 remaining troops the trip to attend. The UK prime minister, Gordon Brown, won’t be attending and claims sending the vets there will be too expensive. There will be no official recognition from London, even though the US, French and even Read more about UK won’t remember D-Day[…]
The bill, as it stands, would make it a criminal offence to possess (cartoon) pictures of children participating in sexual activities, or present whilst sexual activity took place How silly is that then? You can’t have a drawing of a child in the neighbourhood of sex? Well, that makes the drawer of Bart Simpson with Read more about Cartoons of children and sex to be illegal in the UK[…]
Finally, one that looks like it’ll make it to production!
Quite cleverly, before the release of iphone OS 3.0, it has allready been jailbroken. OS 3 will finally add such basic concepts such as MMS and copy and paste – only around 2 years after the release of the thing – as well as a search feature. Wow. Basic functionalities. About bloody time. Oh. And Read more about Jailbreak iPod Touch 3.0[…]
A Dutch forum – internetoplichting.nl – where you can post if you’ve been scammed or otherwise treated badly by an internet shop, has been held responsible for the posts depicting Trendylaarzen as a crap shop. Even though the court didn’t rule there were any inaccuracies in the posts, they did say that there was malicious Read more about Dutch courts going the way of shut the fuck up[…]
This works with a whole range of ebooks. It has a webserver so you can access it from outside, and converts formats as well as RSS feeds into books. It also works with Kindle and Stanza (for ipod)
It creates an Iso which you can burn to cd or thumbdrive. Boot off that and you’re playing your video!
With the Zypad device, which runs a Linux operating system, one can access a remote host system through integrated wired or wireless interfaces. The unit boasts a special fiberglass-reinforced nylon-magnesium alloy case for maximum durability and minimum weight. Features include “802.11 and Bluetooth/Zigbee interfaces, a GPS receiver, electronic compass, biometric fingerprint sensor, and a tilt- Read more about Zypad wrist computer[…]
Easy to build, this will fry anything with an ethernet port on it.
Translation: To English Bookmarklet Quickly, Easily Translates Any Text with One Click
The Ecole Polytechnique team did its work over the air. Using an oscilloscope and an inexpensive wireless antenna, the team was able to pick up keystrokes from virtually any keyboard, including laptops. “We discovered four different ways to recover the keystroke of a keyboard,” said Matin Vuagnoux, a Ph.D. student at the university. With the Read more about Sniffing keyboard keystrokes[…]
The Dutch version of the RIAA is called BUMA / STEMRA and they hunt down people for their own personal gain in about the same way RIAA does. They’ve sued a company for allowing their workers to listen to their own ipods. In NL companies apparently need to pay BUMA / STEMRA if they allow Read more about Buma / Stemra goes nuts and wins in NL[…]
Thus they can use adsense equipped sites to mainly show you the stuff they think you’re interested in. Privacy? Anonymous web surfing? No thank you! Fortunately they have a page where you can see what categories Google thinks you’re interested in and you can opt out of interests or opt in to new categories. The Read more about Google starts using your search history for contextual advertising[…]
The 2G iPod Touch Has Been Fully Jailbroken! | iSpazio – The iPhone Blog
A group of Chinese hackers has succeeded in cracking Apple%u2019s algorithm for encoding iTunes Store Gift Certificates92, and are creating discounted certificates using a key generator. Outdustry reports that a number of the codes are available on the site Taobao, with $200 cards selling for as little as $2.60. The owner of the Taobao shop Read more about Chinese hackers crack iTunes Store gift codes, sell certificates | iLounge News[…]
As if privacy isn’t enough of a bother for the people of the UK, the government now wants to kill net neutrality: ie the choice to connect wherever you like to on the internet. This bill would allow ISPs to say which sites you can and can’t connect to, a bit like TV stations. One Read more about UK Government Really hates freedom[…]
SS general Jaqui Smith has found that violence against women is unnaccaptable at any time and is shocked to find that 1 in 5 men find it acceptable if there is sufficient cause for it. She is also surprised to find that 40% of British men think that if a woman has been flirting heavily Read more about UK home secretary thinks violence agains men fine[…]