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In addition to gas, liquid and solid we now also have “quasi-three- dimensional electron crystal”, which is sort of 3D, but not quite. Strange stuff, and the boffins are looking at it to see what they can do with it, but as they discovered it in a resistor, there’s a good chance this will be Read more about New state of matter found[…]
A Chinese lawyer is suing Microsoft for hacking his PC by installing Windows Genuine Advantage on it without his permission. Too bloody right! Well done and hopefully we can make this a class action suit in Europe!
The lenses on these glasses are cut so that the view to the sides of the wearers head is sent to your peripheral vision, where you’re not so good at looking at detail, but good at detecting movement. This should improve safetly substantially whilst doing just about anything!
Parkour is the original French name for the sport, Freerunning is the name it has taken on. These guys get from A to B using the most original way possible. That means jumping railings, from house to house, doing flips, running up walls, etc etc etc. It’s an art as much as a sport and Read more about Parkour / Freerunning[…]
Should you want to install cracked applications and games, appshare is a huge repository of rar files.
This contains a whole load of free whitepapers, case studies and best practices relevant to IT
Not only does the UK seem to have an uncanny way of losing their huge centralised databases unencrypted, they also have a hand in losing the physical cards the data is supposed to go on. Which means that it won’t be a problem to fake ID’s in the UK, no matter what biometrics and clever Read more about ID card staff lose security passes[…]
well, that only took Dark Alex 2 days…
If you want to download youtube videos for later viewing, MxTube can be downloaded from Cydia
This is the new trend in cosmetic surgery: getting your feet done! Apparently your feet are incredibly sensitive, so this is an intense and painful procedure which could result in not being able to walk for months. What do you get in return? – shorter / longer toes – the toe cascade (the curve your Read more about Designer feet![…]
Yet another reason to switch to tea…
The images made by National Geographic are incredible and show baby sharks eating their siblings in the womb as well as cats, dogs, lions, bees, wolves, penguins, etc as they grow in incredible detail
Several companies have commercial, off the shelf technologies for mining your GSM calls. The NSA and other government agencies can tap into this kind of information because companies which run the GSM towers, for example, are exempt from laws protecting the customers of the carriers.
So what do you do when you can eavesdrop without a warrant? In the military you listen to your superiors having phone sex 🙂
The Second Solar spaceship, designed by Different Futures and constructed for the Sensapolis fun park earlier this year, is a three-level, 850 sq m interactive replica of a real shuttle, albeit one better suited to exploration of the cognitive rather than the galactic variety. The interior of the installation, which includes a 3-D cinema, a Read more about Second Solar spaceship[…]
The UK Home Secretary has turned into a full on foaming at the mouth lunatic. After Lords shot down her attempt to be able to keep prisoners in custody for unreal periods of time without any reason or cause, here comes her 2008 data communications act, in which she wants to be able to keep Read more about Jaqui Smith wants all your base[…]
It’s not only Apple who wants to control the content on your phone – it’s Google too! Android contains software that allows Google to delete any app they feel like on your phone. And they’re being up front about it as well.
It turns out that PIN machines usually process your transaction properly, but every so often they send some packets containing PIN transaction detailas to an unknown destination. The random and slow skimming of details makes it very difficult to track down what’s happening.
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Well done America, we’re voting for YOU! 🙂
Unbelievably, after losing data on all current and ex- RAFpersonell plus dependents (and yes, that includes financial and bank account as well as personal data: NB. the numbers range from 5,000 to 50,000 to everyone depending on what you read) from a cupboard in a deserted (and minimally guarded by the army) airbase at Innsworth Read more about UK MoD determined to give away all it’s base[…]
But how they got their hands on the Dock patent is a true mystery, considering the amount of prior art there is, reaching back before 1981!
Terrorism tracking databases are now being used in the US to track people with political leanings that the police, well, just don’t like. Such as opposing the death penalty, for example. 53 nonviolent dissidents have been found to have been inserted deliberately into the terrorist tracking databases. Of course, this is just the tip of Read more about Centralised databases used to track dissidents[…]
arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics. The contents of arXiv conform to Cornell University academic standards. It’s huge and has loads of physics / mathematical / computer science papers in it. arXiv.org e-Print archive
If you have a crappy old router there are open source ways to upgrade them using alternative firmwares: There’s Tomato for Linksys’ WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers. It features a new easy to use GUI, a new bandwidth usage monitor, more advanced QOS and access restrictions, enables new wireless features such as WDS Read more about router firmwares[…]