Saturday, May 20, 2006
Wii Controller uses a GYROMETER with Infrared - WHAT IS A GYROMETER?
"The Wii controller hides beneath its glossy exterior a number of cutting-edge technologies. The peripheral uses an accelerometer and a gyrometer to measure motion and tilt, and likewise utilizes both infrared and Bluetooth technology to interact with a sensor bar (placed near a television) and ultimately to send information to the Wii console."IGN
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Man proposes marriage via Apple Store Fifth Avenue time-lapse movie
Apple Computer is posting time-lapse movies of the first 24 hours of the exterior of their newly-opened Apple Store Fifth Avenue. At approximately 5:40am this morning, an ingenious man stood before the camera and held simple messages long enough to be easily read in the time-lapse footage.
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Senators Propose Internet Freedom Preservation Act
ISPs would not be "allowed to "block, interfere with, discriminate against, impair or degrade" access to content or to prevent users from attaching devices of their choosing to the network. they would also be barred from making special deals with content providers to ensure speedier delivery or improved quality of service"
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Dell Responds: My Way's Not Spyware, Dipshit
Dell employees respond to the recent article found through Digg claiming that they are charging $49 to remove their own spyware. Although some of the responses are well written, one attacks the writer and calls him a "dipshit".
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A Disposable Camera 'Coil-Gun'
This is awesome, ever want to be McGuyver? Are you trapped in a holding cell, and have access to a disposable camera? Freedom is just around the corner.
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5 Million People Will Buy PS3 "Even If It Didn't Have Games" Says Sony
"The first five million are going to buy it, whatever it is, even it didn't have games" says Sony's Euro CEO David Reeves. That seems a little bit arrogant.
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Top 10 Strangest DIY Gadgets/Projects
Why throw out those old hard drives and spare parts you have laying around? Make your own strange gadgets. Our editors have compiled a list of the strangest (or coolest) DIY gadgets that weâ??ve come across in recent time. Which ones are your favorites?
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Big in Japan
White Tea: The Rolls Royce of the Tea World
White Tea is not only much more expensive than Green; it is also higher in anti-oxidants and healthier for you.
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Congressman wants to send judges to patent school.
Congressman Darrell Issa holds a few patents himself, and while involved in a few cases he noticed that judges don't know or don't care about patent laws. He and the bills cosponsor want to make sure judges have a good grasp of patent law or at least have the option or handing the case to someone who does know.
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Friday, May 19, 2006
Happy Sex Is Healthy Sex
Something about the computer takes away the embarrassment around sexuality and sexual health issues, freeing people to communicate more openly than they would in person.
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Clinton To Cosponsor Internet Neutrality Law
Senator Hillary Clinton plans to co-sponsor the Dorgan and Snowe Internet neutrality law. Clinton announced her intentions in a release issued earlier today.
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Government Seeks Power to Demand Your Encryption Keys
The law actually allows UK police to request the master key for encrypted files. Anyone who refuses to comply with the request can be imprisoned for up to two years. In a terrorism investigation, that penalty can be increased up to five years of jail time.
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NEW Nintendo Wii Game: Wii Hide, you Seek.
Massivly Multiplayer Online Hide and Go Seek!!! SWEET!!! Details inside. Possibly the best game ever to be translated to the virtual world.
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Crumbling Comet May Produce Meteor Shower
Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 will be visible this week and next through telescopes or on the Internet and might produce a meteor shower Monday night.
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Senate Votes to Make English the `National Language' of U.S.
The Senate voted to make English the ``national language'' of the U.S. as part of legislation overhauling immigration policy.
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Pro-Carbon-Dioxide Ad Sponsored by Exxon. [It's real, not a joke]
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute has produced two 60-second television spots focusing on the alleged global warming crisis and the calls by some environmental groups and politicians for reduced energy use. The ads are airing in 14 U.S. cities from May 18 to May 28, 2006."
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Surveillance is Tyranny
The Eternal Value of Privacy: Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny.
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The biggest hacking incident in the web-hosting history
Yesterday the Turkish cracker going by the handle "Iskorpitx", succesfully hacked 21,549 websites in one shot (plus 17,000 as our last update) and defaced (on a secondary page) all of them with a message showing the Turkish flag (with AtaTurk face on it)...
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RIAA: One Month of Torrents is Worth More Than The GDP of France
Sarcastic article which uses figures from the RIAA to show that one month of downloads from ThePirateBay is 5 times greater than the 2005 Gross Domestic Product of France!
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Iran eyes badges for Jews
Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.
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Your Telco owes you $1,000
If your telephone company is one of the companies that decided to take financial compensation from the federal government in exchange for illegally proving your records to them they owe you $1,000. Now IANAL but this seems pretty damn clear cut to me.
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A Roll-our-own, DIY club for building the perfect Mobile Phone
Tired of being stuck with AOL TXT message? Want to get your gmail *AND* your comcast on the same phone? Want to sync with your Mac at work and your Linux box at home? You are not alone. A new group is trying to do for cell phones what home brew PC groups did for the desktop. Make it user-adaptable.
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XM Satellite Radio responds to the Stupid RIAA lawsuit.
XM Radio basically tells the RIAA to shove it! They won't be bullied around by the RIAA and they'll fight them!
"We will vigorously defend these radios and your right to enjoy them in court and before Congress, and we expect to win."
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"We will vigorously defend these radios and your right to enjoy them in court and before Congress, and we expect to win."
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Cure for cancers 'in five years'
The world's first patient trials will take place later this year. The treatment - gene-modified t-cell therapy - could replace more intrusive treatments like chemotherapy. The cells are fitted with a "tracker" device to kill cancer cells before being injected back into the patient.
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Elephants Dream, the "Open" 3D Animated Movie Released On-line
Elephants Dream is the worldâ??s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
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Skype On Net Neutrality: We'll be so big, they can't stop us!
"What if Internet Service Providers decide to just block Skype altogether? Some companies are working on solutions to block Skype and other VoIP-traffic. Skype's battleplan is simple. If their user base is large enough, companies will think twice about tampering with Skype traffic."
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RIAA: Not funny anymore
The recording industry said XM's Inno device, which stores music and divides it into tracks, infringes copyright. The lawsuit seeks $150,000 in damages for EVERY song copied by XM customers to an Inno gadget.
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Historical Sounds in MP3 Format (Excellent)
Great historical speaks and ounds in MP3 Format (include Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein,Robert Frost, etc)
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Monkeys Use "Sentences," Study Suggests
Putty-nosed monkeys put two different alarm calls together to create urgent warnings, according to observations recently made of the West African primates. These monkey "sentences" appear to be evidence of what is widely considered to be a uniquely human ability: stringing words together to convey a message, or syntax.
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Iwata Talks To Seattle Times About wii Lightsabers
Lots of people have remarked upon the possibilities offered in a Wii Star Wars-based game, merely because of the prospect of actually swinging a Jedi lightsaber. Add Satoru Iwata to that list.
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HOW TO: Remote Control Hack for Your Alarm Clock
"The hack is to assert control over the buttons of an alarm clock using a microcontroller."
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Rebuild your laptop battery and save $$$
After a brief introduction to battery technology, this site gives you a step-by-step guide on how to rebuild a bad Li-Ion battery and replace the individual cells.
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Monday, May 15, 2006
Biggest map of universe reveals colossal structures
Giant structures stretching more than a billion light years across have been revealed by two new maps of the distribution of galaxies in the universe. The updated atlases lend more support to the idea that the universe is dominated by dark matter and dark energy.
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Employers: Get a Grip on Your Job Descriptions
Two days ago, I received an inquiry from a Fortune 500 company looking for a contractor to perform system administration work. I read the email and sat befuddled trying to figure out what this employer wanted an applicant to do. Perhaps you an figure it out. Hereâ??s the job requirements.
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High-definition video could choke Internet
With more people turning to the Internet to get their TV experts are suggesting that the demand could be too much for ISPs to cope with.
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Adult film industry is way ahead of Hollywood on tech curve, again.
It's another first for adult film companies that pioneered the home video market and rushed to the Internet when Hollywood studios still saw it as a threat. Direct download to DVD starting Monday.
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Dusting for Digital Fingerprints
Hidden folders, "deleted"files and internet caches hide clues criminals never knew they left behind. - Popularmechanics
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Dvorak: Consumers Lose in DVD Format War
By the end of this year, we'll see exactly which next-generation optical media will be on our desktop computers. Or will we?
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SkypeOut now FREE for US & Canada!
Yes. It is really very, very free. Thereâ??s no prepayment, no minimum use, no subscription, no monthly fee, no nothing. You just download and install Skype and then you start calling. Both the caller and the number called must be in either the US or Canada. There are no strings attached.
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Microsoft Gets It
"I never thought I'd actually write those three words. However, I'm not talking about operating systems or Windows Media. I'm talking about gamesâ??and not just about the Xbox 360, but let's begin there, anyway."
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Nintendo Wii E3 Round-up
The amount of news reported on the Nintendo Wii is great, but it's everywhere, in small bits on various blogs.
So here's a run-down of the essential news, with links to blogs of interest and some of the video highlights.
Enjoy.
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So here's a run-down of the essential news, with links to blogs of interest and some of the video highlights.
Enjoy.
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