Gun O'Clock lets you give your alarm a violent death (2)
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Looking to put a little excitement into your morning routine? Rather than simply slapping your alarm clock to turn it off, do you want to up the stakes a little bit? Say hello to this crazy new alarm clock from Bandai in Japan. The "Gun O'Clock" comes with an infrared gun. When the alarm goes off, a target will pop up from the top. In order to turn the shrill, beeping alarm off (which is ...
A Device to Grab Data From Cell Phones (13)
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what about writes "Apparently there is a quick, simple, and undetectable way to grab all of your cellphone data. CNet reports on the Cellular Seizure Investigation (CSI) Stick, developed for law enforcement but available to the public, which 'connects to the data/charging port and will seamlessly grab e-mails, instant messages, dialed numbers, phone books and anything else that is stored in memory. It will even retrieve deleted files that have not been overwritten. And there ...
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JayCrossler said:
Interesting as me move more and more of our lives into the cloud and into our palms.
MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson former hacker (16)
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Filed under: news MySpace users are very familiar with the visage of their first "friend" and MySpace cofounder [Tom Anderson], but did you ever wonder what he used to do before he became everyone's friend? TechCrunch's investigative reporting revealed that [Tom] was a hacker in the eighties who hacked into the Chase Manhattan Bank computer system, which attracted the attention of the FBI. Under the handle "Lord Flathead", he became the leader of a black ...
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C.K. said:
Who didn't war dial in the 80s? I mean the fact that he was traced and raided... does that make him a hacker or a n00b?
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Allen said:
also, he's almost 40 (not 32)
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Adam said:
Really its Tom hacking all of those myspace accounts.
Coca-Cola readying 100-flavor soda fountains (62)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Your typical soda fountain in a fast-food joint features eight boring choices, usually offering nothing more exotic than "Orange." It's been that way for decades, but one of the oldest players in the market is finally shattering that paradigm. Coca-Cola is introducing a machine that can pour 100 different flavors. Early prototypes underwent testing earlier this summer and second-gen units are headed for limited markets early next year -- the same ...
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Earl E Morningwood said:
100+ flavors and nothing to drink, Welcome to the end times. ;)
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sirmikester said:
This sounds cool, but I hope they still have larger amounts of regular coke and diet coke, otherwise they'll run out...
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Convoluted said:
This blows my mind
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Jeremy Weiss said:
Oh ya!!!!
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Wayne said:
if they're not too expensive I'd get one for my house, that'd be cool... but my guess is they'll be a few thousand dollars minimum (like $10,000) or more...
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Matt said:
want.
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Caspar said:
om nom nom nom nom
Android Developer Challenge winners announced (19)
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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds Google has wrapped up judging on its very first Android Developer Challenge, and some twenty dev shops (or in some cases, individual developers) are finding themselves considerably richer as a result. Of the fifty apps to make it through to the final round, ten have been awarded $275,000 each and another ten have made off with a cool hundred grand -- good coin for some really good ideas. As you might ...
Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research (17)
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An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Wired: "After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab. Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physics and semiconductor research and will instead be focusing on more immediately marketable areas such as networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, ...
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dani said:
Its mindblowing how greed changes everything.
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ehsan said:
آرمایشگاههای بل بخش تحقیقات فیزیک (مخترع ترانزیستور، لیزر و...) را تعطیل می کند :(
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glongman said:
This is terrible. One less lab to discover the next revolutionary advance.
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N.L. Vivar said:
In my opinion, the gutting of basic research is probably one of the worst things American companies are doing to themselves.
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OhCaptain said:
Sad day, but you had to see this coming.
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Chris said:
:(
Enable Self Destruct Mode on Your Windows Mobile Phone [Windows Mobile Tip] (21)
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Although losing your cellphone is never an enjoyable experience, it's a much worse feeling when your mobile device is carrying more than just contacts. If you're carrying things you don't want anyone else to have access to—whether it's personal information or company secrets—on your Windows Mobile device, it's a worthwhile investment of time to take a moment to set up an extra layer of insurance against data theft. If you're using a Windows Mobile device ...
Chinese people discovering fortune cookies (59)
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Here's a funny short video of Chinese people being exposed to fortune cookies (an American invention) for the first time: Americans find high emotional attachment to the slips inside their cookies, looking to them for winning lottery numbers and becoming upset when the fortunes inside are unfortunate. The Chinese, on the other hand, would often tell me after trying the curved vanilla-flavored wafers, “Americans are so strange, why are they putting pieces of paper in ...
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Sam said:
Hilarious! I think we all know that fortune cookies were invented here, but we never really thought about this sort of interaction.
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Eebs said:
Sorry, not trying to share everything on BoingBoing... just loved this video.
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Adam said:
What is this??
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mcescobar1 said:
Thats awesome
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Vi said:
For Matt: What did I tell you?
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Rui said:
"There's a paper inside!"
Preventing Brute Force Attacks With Fail2ban On Fedora 9 (1)
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Preventing Brute Force Attacks With Fail2ban On Fedora 9 In this article I will show how to install and configure fail2ban on a Fedora 9 system. Fail2ban is a tool that observes login attempts to various services, e.g. SSH, FTP, SMTP, Apache, etc., and if it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address or host, fail2ban stops further login attempts from that IP address/host by blocking it with an iptables ...
Is Lastpass as good as they make it sound? (15)
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Filed under: Internet, Security, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Browsers You've no doubt learned to take the various claims software developers make about their products with a grain of salt, but the gang at Lastpass may be right on with theirs. Lastpass may just be the last password you'll ever have to remember.Other DS bloggers have looked at plenty of other options, like Passpack and good ol' Keepass. Lastpass has put together an extremely worthy ...
Cutting pizza with a laser (10)
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Filed under: misc hacks, news, tool-hacksIn an act of delicious over kill, these guys threw a pizza into an industrial laser cutter. The result? Exactly what you would expect. Smoke, giggles and perfectly cut pizza. It looks like the cheese stuck together a bit after the laser cut, but that happens with normal pizza cutters too.[via DVICE]Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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andronin said:
now that is a way to cut your pizza :D
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Ryan Cahoon said:
I guess this kind of thing happens when you have nothing else to do with your laser cutter
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Ken Kennedy said:
Sweet!! What CAN'T lasers do?
What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too (2)
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The Fedora Project has sent out an update describing its "infrastructure issues" in some detail. Yes, it was a security breach. "One of the compromised Fedora servers was a system used for signing Fedora packages. However, based on our efforts, we have high confidence that the intruder was not able to capture the passphrase used to secure the Fedora package signing key. Based on our review to date, the passphrase was not used during the ...
DNS Poisoning Hits One of China's Biggest ISPs (4)
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Support Code writes "ZDNet's Zero Day blog is reporting that a DNS server of one of China's largest ISPs has been poisoned to redirect typos to a malicious site rigged with drive-by exploits. The DNS poisoning attacks are affecting customers of China Netcom (CNC) and are using a malicious iFrame to launch exploits for known vulnerabilities in RealNetworks' RealPlayer, Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Snapshot Viewer. In this interview with CNet, Dan Kaminsky confirms that ...
Red Bull Simply Cola (13)
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From the makers of one of the original energy drinks comes Red Bull Cola, a new cola with a twist. It's the first major brand extension for the company and they're setting it apart from other similar soft drinks and from Red Bull itself by taking pride in being "strong and natural." We were pleasantly surprised by just how different from its cousin it is. Without taurine or any other secret formula, Red Bull Cola ...
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vanlandw said:
"no high fructose corn syrup" good
One in three new Vista machines downgraded to XP (14)
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Filed under: Business, OS Updates, News, MicrosoftYou probably knew that a lot of dissatisfied WIndows Vista users had downgraded -- some might say "upgraded" -- to Windows XP. It was never clear exactly how many people took that step, but it was enough that Microsoft extended the shelf life for XP for a while. Now we have a number, thanks to a survey by Devil Mountain Software: nearly 35% of new Vista machines are being ...
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JDevL said:
I've been very tempted after this most recent crash.
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Keith said:
The other 2 are upgraded to Linux. :-P
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AdamB said:
And I downgraded 6 so far... with 2 more on the way... vista sucks!
Unusual medical conditions (17)
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Ten people who have unusual medical conditions, including the woman who can't stop orgasming, the woman who is allergic to cell phones and microwaves, and the boy who can't sleep. (link)
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