No, RIAA, you CAN’T prove it was me!

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Well done, Tammie Marson fought the giants and won!
She claims that allthough there were illegal files on her computer that had been downloaded over her internet connection, there was simply no way that they could prove it was her who had downloaded the stuff. Anyone else of the hundreds of cheerleaders that came into her house on a daily basis could have done it. Quite so – settlement out of court.

Extreme Ironing

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Everything has to be extreme nowadays, even ironing. The idea is simple – take your shirt and ironing board to extreme locations and… press your shirt. These people are ironing whilst skydiving, whilst scubadiving, in gondola’s, and any place you can think of. There’s a huge gallery of submitted pictures, proving that there are actually people who do this kind of shit!

Not only do they do this, they’ve been doing it for years, and have popular photo competitions as well…

Earthship

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These structures are built with fully recycled materials and make you almost totally independant from the city in that you don’t need heating, sewage or other facilities. The walls are made of filled tyres creating the brickwork. As each area where the earthship is placed is unique, so is the design and as the materials are recycled and cheap, you have a custom built design to suit your needs at a fraction of the price of a ‘normal’ house. Sounds like an ecologically sound and attractive idea. Am I turning into a tree hugger?

Dimensions

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Dimensions are weird things. There are a whole load more of them than the 3 (length, height and depth) most people are used to, such as dimension number 4 (time) and 0 (the dot infinity).

This page shows in an easy manner how we can understand 10 dimensions. It does however end with the contention that there are only 10 dimensions, but Stephen Hawking says there are 11, so we might not be getting the whole story…

If you want another look at how you could understand more dimensional objects through looking at the shadows they cast as they drop through a world, folding hypercubes are a really good way to look at objects. This page has good jpg movies. (BTW it’s also useful to know that flatlanders are people who live in a 2D world)

Verichip implanted RIFD hacked

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Verichip implants a tiny RFID chip in you which contains a unique ID which will identify you at hospitals, allowing doctors to find you in the database and find your file for you.
At HOPE they demonstrated that the Verichip has no encryption and no question / response mechanism, meaning that using an RFID reader and a laptop you can clone someone’s identity no problem as writing this data to an RFID chip is no problem either.

Tesla Motors

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Tesla Motors has an electric car which looks cool and has the performance to match. It does 0-60 mph in something like 4 seconds and has a range of 250 miles. As it’s electric and has no transmission, accelleration is smooth throughout the speed range. They’re trying to qualify it for road use in the US now and expect it to be sold in the US towards the middle of 2007. Unfortunately they plan on not selling it outside of ConUS. Pricing totally unkown.

PHP speed tests

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These pages have a few benchmark tests for PHP4 perfomance to do the same thing using different methods.:


READ LOOP: foreach() vs. while(list()=each())
MODIFY LOOP: foreach() vs. while(list()=each())
For-loop test
Using the &-ref-operator as so called “alias”
$obj = new SomeClass() vs. $obj =& new SomeClass() using the =&-ref-operator
double (“) vs. single (‘) quotes
sSet() vs. empty() vs. is_array()
switch/case vs. if/elseif

Creating int array[100 000]
Reading int array[100 000]
Reading apache log (16Mb)
Parse vars names [100 000]
Parse and find text from apache log (32Mb)
Split text apache log 200Kb (contain 2000 “-“)
Count array size. $arr = int[100 000]
Create object by Ref (loop 100 000)
Random number generator (loop 100 000)
Calculate hash (loop 100 000)

NB Refresh the pages a few times, the results change as webserver load differs.