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.
This one is for the flash on your camera, and uses fibre optics to create the ring directly around the lens. It goes for $5,-
This makes little transparent windows on your desktop to organise your icons in.
Kinetic Energy Recovery System, stores the energy created by regenerative breaking and stores it in a battery. When the driver presses a button, he gets a turbo boost as the energy store is emptied onto the drivetrain. This system gives him up to 6.5s of turbo boost per lap.
Iran is now one of the few countries with a space programme, capable of launching satellites into space. Of course, the US is now worried that they have developed it specifically to rain down EMP weapons on them.
So, they’ve finally done it. It’s not automated, because it’s a tethered jailbreak: ie. every time you reboot, you have to go through this whole process again, but it’s a jailbreak. Dev Team is still working on unlocking the bootrom. When they do that, they’ll automate the process. It is not easy, but it is Read more about Ipod Touch 2G Jailbreak on Windows[…]
So I have this bee in my bonnet about wikipedia being used for anything at all. Why? Because it’s not peer reviewed: it’s user reviewed, with users with the most reviews having the most powers – even if they make nonsense edits on things they know nothing about. Then there’s the political infighting and the Read more about Encyclopedia[…]
This is a huge list of the Army Field Manuals. From how to point a gun, to how to run an infantry brigade.
Three seperate tests which look at whether your ISP is fucking with you in their bandwidth allocation.
This guy says he doesn’t believe in global warning and he should know his stuff. He was the boss of Hansen, the guy who crusades the man made global warming theory. Especially upsetting is that data sets were changed in a non-documented fashion, so we don’t know why or how the data was changed.
Using warrantless wiretaps, this shows you who gets targetted when you allow the police state to run amok.
This is a great example of why centralised databases are lousy: they get used for things they weren’t supposed to – in this case, for the exact opposite of why it was set up!
This is the first time they’ve managed to teleport qubits between ions. Slowly but surely, we’re getting there!
Winamps’ atrocious lack of keyboard support has had me up in arms. Unfortunately the other media players suffer from the same malady. This little proggie adds that much needed support for you to most popular media players.
All those greedy content producers trying to hang on to their old delivery and economic models by their fingernails must be crying about this: Monty Python decided to put all their content onto YouTube for free and in high quality with links to their stuff. This raised their sales by 23000%. So it’s not about Read more about It’s all about content quality![…]
All you have to do is pay your money, send your picture and they’ll send it to you in your choice of material.
TNO is the Netherland’s premier research institution and these guys should know what they’re saying. They make the point that pirates turn out to be the biggest paying consumers too. It’s time for people to change their business model, instead of scapegoating their best customers!
Mounting the ipod on the rifle and then adding the external ballistics calculator app Bullet Flight, allows you to set bullet profiles and enter environment information.
It’s called Clippy and can be found in the ispazio Cydia repo. So… only for jailbroken ipods!