A ridiculous situation. Excerpt: Greek prison guards are to go on strike to demand a replacement of their antiquated American-made guns. The weapons were used by the US Cavalry in 1911 and safety experts have advised that they should not be fired. Prison staff are now concerned about security as inmates have become wise to [...]
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High Tech Bank Robbery Foiled
March 17th, 2005 · No Comments · News, Security
The BBC reports that the biggest robbery attempt to date has been foiled and someone has been arrested in Israel. Excerpt: Police in London say they have foiled one of the biggest robbery attempts seen in Britain. The plan was to steal £220m (($423m) from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui. Computer [...]
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Pimp My Shoes
March 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Mobiles & Gadgets, News
It seems that Adidas are about to release a wicked set of shoes. These things have chip and electric motor inside of them to adapt the shoe to: The terrain you’re running on Your weight Your running style It seems that the chip reads all of this data 1000 times a second and then adjusts [...]
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Virgin Radio first to offer 3G broadcast
March 8th, 2005 · No Comments · Audio, Cool Geeky Stuff, Mobiles & Gadgets, News
Virgin Radio is about to be the first radio station to offer services over 3G phones: UK broadcaster Virgin Radio says it will become the first station in the world to offer radio via 3G mobiles. The radio station, in partnership with technology firm Sydus, will broadcast on selected 2G and high-speed 3G networks. Later [...]
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Fossett Did It!
March 3rd, 2005 · No Comments · Adventure, News
After some trouble US adventurer Steve Fossett has achieved the first solo, non-stop flight around the globe. Despite a fuel shortage, the 60-year-old pilot landed the Virgin GlobalFlyer plane at Salina airport in Kansas at 1948 GMT. The millionaire had considered aborting the trip and landing in Hawaii, but he decided to press on because [...]
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Control your iPod via your Onkyo Reciever
February 27th, 2005 · No Comments · Audio, Cool Geeky Stuff, Mobiles & Gadgets, News
Own an Onkyo AV amp and an iPod? Prepare the two for some conjugal bliss. The Japanese company is partnering with Apple to develop a docking station and control unit that’ll allow you to control your iPod via Onkyo remote controls. One cable weds docking station to RI port, and two phono cables handle sound [...]
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Firefox 1.0.1 Out
February 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird, News, Security
A new version of firefox has been released. Version 1.0.1 has several security fixes, including a fix for spoofing domain names with unicode. For more information check out the release notes.
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Sigarchi jailed for 14 years
February 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Freedom & Democracy, Internet, News
It looks like Mr. Sigarchi has been jailed for 14 years. This is just a travesty. I can’t believe someone can be put away just for blogging what’s on his mind. This is pitiful, just pitiful. Excerpt: An Iranian weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on charges of spying and aiding foreign counter-revolutionaries. Arash [...]
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Looks like we were all conned by LokiTorrent
February 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Bittorrent, Internet, News
Some guy has posted a story on how lokitorrent was probably NOT shut down by the MPAA and that the owner just took the lawsuit donation money and ran. He makes some good points. For those of you who have been living on the moon these past couple of months, the owner of Lokitorrent asked [...]
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Paris Hilton Hax0red
February 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Humor, News, Privacy, Security
Yup, Paris Hilton’s phone has been hAx0red once again. They managed to dig up dirty camphone shots (right alongside shots of her holding a baby and hanging out with kids—oh, Paris), her notebook, and her address book, which has had such high-brow, mover-and-shaker entries as: Christina Aguilera, Devo Aoki, Fred Durst, Jermaine Dupri, Vicki Gotti, [...]
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