Saturday, May 27, 2006
Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer!
It will make you go blind. It will make your palms grow hairy. Such myths about masturbation are largely a thing of the past. But the latest research has even better news for young men.
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How to: Set Up an Offshore Banking Account
Do you want to impress women by shredding a bank statement? For some guys an offshore bank account may sound like something out of a James Bond film or maybe a clever way for an arms dealer to conduct business, but for the most part, banking offshore is about saving on tax dollars.
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The most amazing storm pictures you will ever see
Tech or no tech, THIS MUST BE HEARD
"They didn't know that Lester's wife had turned on a tape recorder in the kitchen. When Lester exercised his constitutional right not to sign a consent to search his house, these officers spent the next two hours torturing him."
MP3 audio is attached. Spread this like wildfire people.
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MP3 audio is attached. Spread this like wildfire people.
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Ubuntu for your grandmother.
They say its for geeks, they say its for nerds, they say its for those whose pinkie finger has the imprint of the enter key tattooed on it. We say its for your grandmother ! An article about how to install and configure UBUNTU linux so our grandmother could use it.
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Apple Loses Bid to Unmask Bloggers' Sources
A California appeals court has smacked down Apple's legal assault on bloggers and their sources, finding that the company's efforts to subpoena e-mail received by the publishers of Apple Insider and PowerPage.org runs contrary to federal law, California's reporter's shield law, and the state Constitution. At least some fundamental laws are still being upheld.
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How to Stay Out of the Government ID Database for the Next 10 Years
Bush gives NSA power to exempt corporations from SEC rules and regulations
Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations
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Friday, May 26, 2006
The health benefits of running backwards.
When you run backwards you use your muscles and senses in ways that you normally wouldn't. The first part of this may make you think it's just about enthusiasts, but about midway a professor and a physical therapist talk about how it can help you recover from injuries, and prevent them in the first place as long as you don't trip over that pothole.
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The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
These products are so bad, they belong in the high-tech hall of shame. Or here at DUMBvorak Uncenssored.
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Book banning a little reminiscent of Nazi-ism?
Dist 214 in Chicago had a meeting last night to discuss the banning of such books as "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and "Freakonomics". The woman who put these books up for banning claimed that they preached the devil and wants to put more christianity into the public school system. We're living in scary times here folks.
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Nintendo Goes On Wii Domain Name Shopping Spree
Just when we'd got used to the idea of calling its new console 'Wii', Nintendo has gone on a domain name spending spree and bought some rather interesting dot coms monikers, much to our collective amusement. WiiPower.com, WiiCreator.com, WiiLove.com, WiiCooking.com, ShallWii.com, WiiGirls.com and WiiBoys.com, and WiiKaraoke.com
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Video: Nothingâ??s too hot for NASA
Scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center are testing high-tech materials they hope will hold up to temperatures three times hotter than the surface of the sun.
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Atari's notebooks
Did you know that Atari had a few great notebook concepts back in 1983? TamsPalm did a bit of digging and now unveils you the secret plans of Atari!
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Fire Screen (Video)
TorrentSpy sues MPAA
According to the complaint, the MPAA paid a former associate of Valence $15,000 to hack into TorentSpy computers and email accounts. The suit identifies MPAA vice president of Legal Affairs and Worldwide Anti-Piracy Dean Garfield as the individual who ordered the break-in.
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HACKER HOLE in Symantec's Antivirus Software
Symantec's Antivirus software suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers said Thursday.
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Invisibility Cloak 'Five Years Away'
Scientists have taken the first steps towards creating a Harry Potter-style cloak of invisibility. Professor John Pendry, from Imperial College London, said that it may not take long to develop an invisible fabric - assuming there is sufficient research into the technology.
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Protesters Face Off With Verizon, AT&T
Protesters lined streets on both coasts Wednesday to bring public awareness to the telecommunications policy debates currently going on in Washington, D.C., and to show opposition to the phone companies reportedly providing customer records without a court order to the National Security Agency.
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Treasury to refund $13 BILLION to consumers
The Treasury Department said Thursday that it will stop collecting the 3% federal excise tax on long-distance calls and refund about $13 billion to consumers. "It's not often you get to kill a tax," said Treasury Secretary John Snow. Individuals will be allowed to claim three years' worth of refunds on their 2006 tax returns, filed in 2007.
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Pub urinals use tech to warn drunk drivers
In their continuing efforts to get the word out that drunk driving won't be tolerated, Nassau Country police have initiated a pilot program featuring talking urinals.
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SCI FI unveils broadband video channel
The cable network's programming hit the Web this month on its new broadband video channel, SCI FI Pulse. The new site will feature complete episodes of select SCI FI original series, full-length uncut SCI FI original movies, behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, and interactive viewer programming.
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The Oblivion Domino Effect
Someone took the time took the time to create a three-minute long book domino set up INSIDE Oblivion using the level editor. It must have taken him literally days. And its actually alot cooler than it sounds.
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Study: Drinking daily can bring health benefits -- for men
I had to put my beer down to post this... drinking reduces the risk of heart disease but the beneficial effects seem to work differently in men and women. They found that for men drinking daily seems to have the biggest positive effect on health while in women the amount of alcohol consumed may have more of an impact.
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SaveTheInternet.com Hailed before the Senate.
Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott testified before the Senate to day on behalf of SavetheInternet.com coalition members Free Press, Consumers Union and Consumer Federation of America.
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Chicken-Egg Question Cracked! Finally, an answer!
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? According to a scientist, a philosopher and a chicken farmer, it was the egg! Since genetic material does not change throughout an animal's life, the first bird that evolved into a chicken must have initially existed as an embryo inside an egg.
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Mona Lisa made from hundreds of computer parts
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Student faces expulsion for Web post
This school is overstepping its bounds. They are disciplining this guy for something he posted outside of school hours. Don't they have better things to do? Maybe they should try educating students instead of prosecuting students.
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PS3 WILL play used or borrowed games.
SCEE PR manger Jennie Kong blasted the rumor as " false speculation." "PlayStation 3 software will not be copy protected to a single machine but will be playable on any PlayStation 3 console," she told the Guardian.
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MPAA accused of hiring a hacker to steal information
The Motion Picture Association of America hired a hacker to steal information from a company that the MPAA has accused of helping copyright violators, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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Wii will cost less than $220
The player won't cost more than 25,000 yen, said Yoshihiro Mori, Nintendo's senior managing director, at a news conference in Osaka. The company expects to ship 6 million Wii consoles this fiscal year, and about 17 million software games for the device.
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Wii Mote May include microphone, VoIP Support
Nintendo has hinted that there are still Wii functions that have yet to be revealed. One of the latest rumors suggests that one of these functions is built-in microphone support. Throwing in VoIP support would be another incentive for the non gamers out there.
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House panel votes for Net neutrality
By a 20-13 vote Thursday that partially followed party lines, the House Judiciary Committee OKed a bill that would require broadband providers to abide by strict Net neutrality principles.
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Big Net Neutrality vote in Congress *TODAY* 5-25 - Call Congress Now
The House Judiciary Committee is going to "mark up" Representatives Sensenbrenner and Conyers' good Net Neutrality bill this morning. Urge them to support the Sensenbrenner-Conyers "Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006" (HR 5417) in the Judiciary Committee today, and to support it without amendment.
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Enron - Skilling and Lay found GUILTY
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Innocent Man Describes Decade of Life on the Run
Mistaken for a rapist and sentenced to 65 years, Orlando Bosquette lay on a bunk in a Florida penitentiary and read \"Papillon,\" the memoir about an inmate\'s escape from Devil\'s Island. It was 1983. Mr. Bosquette was 29 years old. Two years later, he fled, scaling barbed-wire fences, bobbing in soupy canals, hiding in ant-ridden ditches.
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Woman with Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome - 250 orgasms a day!
Almost any rhythmic vibration puts her into ecstasy - engine vibration on a bus, driving over speed bumps... \"Men brag that they\'d love a woman who can\'t stop climaxing,\" she laughed. \"But I struggle to find partners who can keep up with me.\"
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.mobi Going fast, domain names filling
The newly created .mobi Internet domain for mobile device sites is shaping up to be a pretty entertaining place, if you\'re 10 years old.
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14 year old kid becomes millionaire through online scamming
Akin is, like many things in cyberspace, an alias. In real life he\'s 14. He wears Adidas sneakers, a Rolex Submariner watch, and a kilo of gold around his neck.
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Automatically sync iTunes to any folder(s)
\"I made a point of calling out iTunes for being bloated and a bit annoying at times. One of my biggest beefs with iTunes has always been its inability/outright refusal to monitor one or more folders for new music and videos.\"
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How To Crack WEP and WPA Wireless Networks
Schools block MySpace access; kids fight back with Hacks
\"This particular student, despite having some glaring writing deficiencies, is correct to point out that students can hack their way around most such blocks \"whit the right research,\" and entire websites have sprung up to help them do just that.\"
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FCC Will NOT Investigate AT&T/NSA Allegations
\"If the FCC initiates an investigation and gets blocked by the White House, then the White House is stonewalling. But if the FCC refuses to even demand answers, then the White House never has to block the enforcement agency from getting to the bottom of this. The American people deserve answers.\"
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
These are the top ten Geek Quotes!
These some of the well known Geek quotes of all time. If you are a Geek you will enjoy these quotes while your non-geek friends stare at you with a blank face. Then you call call them noobs!
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Banshee - the Linux Native iTunes
Want a media player that works like iTunes - including being able to sync with your iPod. And you want it on Linux? No problem. Banshee is here.
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Apple + Nike
Protecting yourself against the BitTorrent bandits!
Anti-P2P organizations are actively polluting P2P networks with fake peers, sending out fake or corrupt data in order to waste bandwidth and slow down file transfers. At its worst, when downloading copyrighted torrents as much as a fourth of the peers can be attributed to various Anti-P2P agencies. There is also a much more serious side to this...
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Index of 500 Full Length Cartoons on YouTube
Thereâ??s no garbage clips to weed through, just 500 full length cartoons organized alphabetically: Futurama, JLU, Thundercats, The Snorks, Super Mario, Transformers, X-Men, and more.
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X-Men: Last Stand Post-Credits Scene?
At the theater this weekend, when the credits roll, when the audiences begins to filter out of the exits... keep your seat. And then, perhaps, share this little secret with a few of your friends: the movie isn\'t over.
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Monday, May 22, 2006
University server in hackers\' hands for a year
An unprecedented string of electronic intrusions has prompted Ohio University to place at least one technician on paid administrative leave and begin a sweeping reorganization of the university\'s computer services department.
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Modifying a Laptop BIOS for Fun and Profit
In today\'s hack, we will analyze and modify a laptop BIOS image for fun and profit. Note that this is stupidly dangerous: a bad flash and we\'ll end up with a doorstop, or we\'ll have to remove the chip and reflash it manually. But in either case, the outcome can be fun.
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South American pyramid is a farming \"alarm clock\"
\"I was staring up at the temple and realised it all aligned with the stars... this alignment meant that at dawn at every winter solstice 4,200 years ago, stars would appear in line with the temple and alert priests that river flooding was due and it was time to start planting crops. It was laid out as a wake-up call to the community.\"
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Crazy AdSense Experiment: Unethical But Legal $10,000/Month
\"Developing Made for AdSense Web Sites for Dummies\" tutorial as an attempt to create a vaccine against Made for AdSense web sites.
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