Well, they have them that heat you up and now they have them that use microwaves to install voices in your head. With high enough intensity it will kill you. This one’s called MEDUSA – Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio. This means that covering your ears won’t help against it.
And not in a good way. They want to allow companies to install malware and spyware on your PC. They also want to have an automatic three strikes out rule for downloaders: If you’re caught your ISP cuts you off. Jawohl mein fuhrer, hier ist mein ausweiss. Sieg heil!
OK, so this guy does a silly dance and gets it on the internet and becomes vaguely famous. He then goes and gets sponsored by some gum brand to do his silly dance all over the world. After this is released, he becomes quite a bit more famous. Now people are writing in telling him Read more about Where the hell is Matt?[…]
More and more of these things are coming out! And they work as well!
As a result of yesterdays revelation that AVG is flooding the internet with fake traffic, I had a look around to see what’s the best free antivirus solution out there. I turns out that AV-test.org tests these scanners on a regular basis and has whole loads of white papers out. Anyway, Security.nl has a synopsis Read more about Antivirus programmes tested[…]
No idea what the why of it is, but AVG antivirus is faking Internet Explorer User Agents and is flooding the internet with it. Ah, El Reg reports that it’s because AVG 8 vets websites / search engine results before you click on them, making nuts traffic over all our pipes! Apparently some people are Read more about AVG Floods the Internet[…]
the judge granted a Viacom motion that records of every video watched by YouTube users, including their login names and IP addresses, be turned over to the entertainment giant Holy fuck! YouTube privacy at risk in Google-Viacom ruling | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
That’s one to remember! Eating watermelons has around the same effect as popping the little blue pills does!
By tinkering with a petrol engine he’s managed to increase the efficiency of the engine to 38% (usual is around 9 / 10%) without sacrificing performance. Unusually he doesn’t want to sell his technique, he wants to win an X-prize with it and have it available for the world as an aftermarket product. He’s afraid Read more about Engineer Gets 110 MPG Out Of ’87 Mustang[…]
The EWG tested close to 1000 sunscreens, and it turns out that they can only reccomend 143 of them. 314 they urge caution and 495 (!), which include common, well known brands are basically downright dangerous to assume they’re sunscreen.
A nice little guide on how to rip any dvd using VLC media player, use it as a streaming media server and how to play ripped dvd’s
XBRL is fast becoming the standard for transmitting business and financial data over internet.
It looks like the EU has not learned a thing from the outrage of giving away flight data and swift financial data to the US, and is now agreeing to give all data the US wants as long as it is ‘adequately protected’. What that level of protection is, isn’t defined, so if the US Read more about EU selling out private data to the US[…]
Yet another (but now, Grammy award winning) musician is sticking it to her record company and telling her fans to download, as long as they come around to see her live.
s. Specific domains that were hijacked included “icann.com ” “icann.net ” “iana.” By changing the DNS entries! How cheeky can you get?! Well done netdevilz
Most fysiologists and psychologists know that movements are initiated by the brain some time before the conscious mind thinks about them and ‘decides’ to initiate them. This article rounds up a little on desicion making in general, showing that the time could be up to 30 seconds before determination when making mistakes and 10 seconds Read more about Is free will governed by thought?[…]
Yes, from our nannying UK – in order to be in touch with any children you don’t own, you need a government CRB check, declaring you ‘safe’ to be in contact with children. Most of the comments in the article register outrage, a few tiny small minority come out with the inane ‘if you’re not Read more about People banned from Contact with Children[…]
So, if you were upset that ESA was hiring astronauts because you’re not a European and couldn’t make it, no problem! The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is seeking an astronaut to support the ISS program./a> Surprisingly the job requirements are way less stringent than for the ESA. You can make do with a batchelor Read more about Become an Astronaut part 2[…]
Now anyone with his dog can get one! Gief mine! NB About time – using the dot god infrastructure was a no go, Open Root Server cost too much and Namespace was too obscure (see here)
The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards. The manipulation is only Read more about Image Fulgurator[…]
FINALLY! Wine is not an emulator will run windows programs, and has finally made it to v1.0: stable! Congratulations, I’m very curious how well this is going to work!
‘Skin-tenna’ wireless signals creep over human skin allowing you to connect medical equipment or gadgets. These remind me of the Human Area Networks and Redtacton skin networks
After Warner Music asked Kid Rock to denounce file sharing, he turned around and pissed all over Warner instead, by announcing that they stole from the musicians, and he wanted as many people as possible to download his music so they could hear him and then come watch him perform live. Well done that man!
SATA/CF/IDE to USB 2.0 Bridge Adapter implements a bridge between USB port and IDE, SATA or CF hard drive port. It turns any standard IDE or SATA drive into a convenient external drive. Easily transfer files from PC, notebook, backup files or store large file archives on hard drives. USB Geek, Your USB Solution!!
quikmaps.com allows you to draw easily on google maps and then share that on your site, via KML to Google Earth or GPX to your GPS.