With airline personell being able to dictate what they think is ‘terrorist’ behavior without any training qualifying them to do so, what we get is at least 208 people being prosecuted as terrorists for raising their voice, spanking their children or basically causing the crew any kind of headache whatsoever.
The Buma/Stemra thinks that if you link to a video of an artist from a site which allready runs the video (for free, such as from youtube) you should pay them so they can hoard the money and then presumably not give it to the artist who put their work up in such a way Read more about Dutch RIAA wants money for embedded video[…]
This is some amazing software that will make your psp (custom firmware) run as an extra windows monitor / display. Apparently it’s also possible to tether the playstation to your PC with wifi instead of USB…
Ah yes, invisible cloaks! I keep covering this, in the hope the technology will finally mature at some point. There’s loads of technologies to choose from Now, the metamaterias gang has produced a cloak measuring 10 x 50 cm It bends waveforms in a large range of frequencies and is very low loss. They’ve developed Read more about Invisibility-Cloak Breakthrough[…]
The Royal Navy has only lauchend it’s conversion to Windows for Warships a month ago or so, and allready they’re infected by virusses! Not that it would have been any different if it had been OS X for warships (yes, macheads, you do in fact get virusses too) but still… who didn’t see that coming?!
The Dutch version of the RIAA is called Brein. Tim Kuik has gone and stated in a newspaper that any time anything is downloaded for free, it’s illegal. Of course others are blasting the patent idiocy of that statement, so I don’t have to.
Only $40,000
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Kind of like Keepon but furrier
Yup, they will brand your passport with your fingerprint, thereby putting your prints into a huge central database together with the criminals. Does it make you safer? Nope. It’s easy to forge fingerprints.
Allergan has gone and invented a drug called Latisse that will make your eyelashes and more prominent.
This external HD, in 500 GB, 1TB or 1.5TB, is fireproof for 30 minutes at 1550o F and can stand submerged in 10′ water for 3 days. It comes with a 3 year disaster recovery plan, and is priced fairly reasonably.
It takes around 4 – 8 hours to purify a full one, but it’s less resource intense than boiling the water.
The iphone for enterprise tools are here. They allow you to set passwords of larger than 4 digits (with alphanumerics) and assign profiles to devices. Quite a neat toolkit.
The OV chipcard is something like London’s Oyster cards. They allow people to use busses, trams and trains all over the country. One of the problems though, is that the Dutch public transport system isn’t nationalised, it’s privatised, meaning there are loads of different companies all over the country. Anyway, it turns out that not Read more about OV Chipkaart – following the Dutch[…]
Photography: TiltShiftMaker Turns Your Photos Into Miniature Sets Upload a photo and it’ll alter the picture so that it looks like the front lens is at an angle instead of parallel to the rear lens in the casing.
TrueMotion is a Wii controller by Sixense which is way way better than the actual Wii controller because it has a much more accurate way of determining where the stick is in space. So they’re releasing it for the PC at around $100,- with a game.
This works a bit like guitar hero, but with strings you can put on your own real guitar and plug into the PC / Mac. So you learn how to play a real guitar, one that will work even when you’re not plugged into the PC.
Very usefull if you’re an outdoors type of person who does like his gadgets:
Not being a fan of taking the control panel off your radio every time you leave the car, I used to have a Sony with a blank face, which swivelled when you wanted to use the controls. This JVC is fully touch screen, allowing the same functionality.
The new Palm Pre looks very awesome: smaller than an iphone, slideable keyboard (I love that keyboard, it’s very very good) and an OS which seems slicker than Apple’s. Other than that it seems to have all the prerequisite bits and bobs, such as wifi, gprs, reasonabley poor camera, gps, bluetooth, 480×320 display. Contact management Read more about Has Palm done it?[…]
If you’re struggling with decreased performance on a Windows based machine, it’s a simple fix to check to make sure your IDE drives aren’t operating in a slower, ineffective transfer mode. When fresh from the box—or your workbench— your computer should have had all it’s IDE drives set in Direct Memory Access mode. This is Read more about Windows Tip: Boost Performance by Checking IDE Drive Transfer Mode[…]
This thing is totally awesome: a UPMP the size of a phone with a touchscreen, sliding qwerty keyboard with 3G in it. At $1500 the price isn’t too bad either.
This Firefox extension adds numbers to every link on a site. Pressing ctrl + the number opens that link.
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics […] R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides Read more about The R Project for Statistical Computing[…]