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The SIDN – the Dutch .nl zonefile owners – have decided they want only large registrars and have decided to give owners of > 100.000 domain names up to 8% discount. Becoming a registrant is subject to an annual fee, which is the same for all registrars, so the smaller registrars, that have to make Read more about NL Zonefile wants to kill small registrars[…]
This has just been put into law, without any debate whatsoever, in response to a high court judge’s ruling that MP’s adresses should be published. This from the house that pushes the wide eyed innocent “but if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear” argument all over the place. Are they afraid, Read more about In the UK only the MPs have privacy[…]
Introducing SPOT %u2013 The World%u2019s First Satellite Messenger Whether you%u2019re just checking in, allowing others to track your progress, or calling for help %u2013 SPOT gives you a vital line of communication with friends and family when you want it, and emergency assistance when and where you need it. And since it utilizes 100% satellite Read more about SPOT Europe, The World’s First Satellite Messenger[…]
“Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill, currently being debated by the UK Parliament, would allow any Minister by order to take from anywhere any information gathered for one purpose, and use it for any other purpose64. Personal information arbitrarily used without consent or even knowledge: the very opposite of ‘Data Protection.’ An ‘Information Read more about UK Government Wants To Kill Data Protection Act[…]
It turns out that people who doodle – a light cognitive load – can recall information better than people who don’t. Presumably because they daydream, which is a heavy cognitive load.
The Toradex Robin Modules for Intel Atom are tiny and cheap: around $129,- and up.
Some of these takes are long… really really long. No editing crap, just one, pure, heavy take.
Of course these guys, The Fertility Clinics, are under fire from all kinds of people who don’t think we aught mess with things we know not wot of, but in any case this is clever: Choose your babies gender, eye and hair colour, as well as checking for diseases, all through the wonders of modern Read more about Design your own baby![…]
By hooking up an MRI and looking at the visual cortex whilst the subject looks at an object creates a pattern. When the subject recalls that object in short term memory, you can recognise that pattern and tell what object the subject is thinking of. This has 2 implications: 1) We can read a specific Read more about Mind reading with MRI[…]
Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are limited by a lack of user privacy. By design, services like BitTorrent and Gnutella share data with anyone that asks for it, allowing a third-party to systematically monitor8 user behavior. As a result, P2P networks can only be safely used by those comfortable with wholly public Read more about OneSwarm: Privacy preserving P2P[…]
It’s been known for some time that eyewitnesses to an unpredictable and violent event have differing and even conflicting memories and testimonials of the event. Interestingly they also suffer from a deep need to conform: eyewitnesses put before a line-up will point out a person if they’ve been told that one of the line-up has Read more about Eyewitness identification severly unreliable[…]
This is a huge huge list of video sharing websites you can use as a YouTube alternative.
How to turn a motion detector into a USB device that will lauch a multimedia presentation.
Moxie Marlinspike has thought up a new method of doing man in the middle, he’s calling SSLstrip.
Astrometry.net will give you back the celestial coordinates of an image of the sky you upload to them.
DANIEL LOVES OBJECTS! – Lion City, Singapore – AT YOUR COMMAND
This is so simple, it’s absolutely brilliant! If you don’t want to agree with something you’re not going to read, you can use the fravia method to hack the software to switch the buttons, so you press the ‘disagree’ button. But this takes time and effort. Alternatively, you could use a bit of cardboard and Read more about Get your car to agree to the EULA[…]
And why not put an accellerometer on the SIM card?
I’m pretty sure they won’t be too happy with you if you use it in a casino!
You could be thought of as performing reconnaisance for terrorist (hey! that word again – what does it mean, nowadays?) acts. Especially don’t take any pictures of the police. No, not even if they’re committing atrocities. You’ll get busted with a 10 year incarceration or unspecified fines.
The procedure is still to dangerous to be used routinely – around 1/3rd of people die during the op, but this guy, who was transplanted with a mutated form of stem cells (with crippled CCR5 receptors, without which most forms of HIV can’t latch on to the cells, lending a natural immunity) made it and Read more about Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant[…]
Here’s hoping that Haiku can keep it up where BeOS didn’t make it. That was an awesome OS.
This guy has built a proof-of-concept machine for around $250,- which allows you to remotely read RFID chips in passports and then clone them. There’s a video of the machine in action as well.
It seems the only ones with their heads screwed on straight in the UK are the Lords – a non-elected body of oversight on government that are appointed by the queen or by right of birth. It ain’t such a bad thing, having other people checking up on the elected twits. The House of Lords Read more about Lords say surveillance society erodes foundations of UK %u2022 The Register[…]
Very usefull, huge collection of manuals about just about everything.