Topic: STRANGE - on July 7, 2007 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
Moller International Launches Production of Jetsons-Like Ground-Effect Vehicle
Moller International has completed tooling and has begun producing parts for its Jetsons-like M200G volantor, a small airborne two passenger saucer-shaped vehicle that is designed to take-off and land vertically.
The M200G is the size of a small automobile and is powered by eight of the Company's Rotapower® rotary engines. This vehicle is intended for operation continuously in "ground effect" up to approximately 10 feet altitude.
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Topic: LOST - on July 7, 2007 at 2:35:00 PM CEST
Ten amazing facts about the earth
Did you know that gravity is not the same over all the earth? That the moon is moving away from Earth? That the moon pulls at our air like it pulls the seas? Fogonazos has more fascinating facts, with links to further information on each.
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Topic: TV - on July 7, 2007 at 2:29:00 PM CEST
Cube Collection Bitman Video Bulb
Video Bulb - it’s described like a lipstick tube that you plug into your RCA jack on your tv… and along runs this black and white pixel movie of BITMAN! Apparently great for parties, and a fun screensaver for your plasma?
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Topic: SEX - on July 7, 2007 at 2:24:00 PM CEST
Teen has sex with cow
Police are on the lookout for a teenager who was caught having sex with a cow.
The youth was spotted by a shocked passer-by getting amorous with the animal wearing only black briefs.
Cops were called but by the time they arrived he had already fled having been scared off after the passer-by shouted at him.
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Topic: SEX - on July 7, 2007 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
Company advertises for condom testers
A major condom brand said Friday it expected thousands of applicants for a new unpaid job on offer - condom tester.
Durex said 200 adult Australians - men and women - are wanted to test a range of its condoms.
While the successful applicants will not be paid, each will receive a pack of Durex sex products, a chance to win 1,000 Australian dollars ($857 U.S.), plus professional prestige, the company said in a statement.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 7, 2007 at 2:20:00 PM CEST
China Public Restroom Has 1,000 Stalls
They're flush with pride in a southwestern Chinese city where a recently-opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 32,290 square feet.
Officials in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to Guinness World Records to have the free four-story public bathroom listed as the world's largest, the state-run China Central Television reported Friday.
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Topic: Space - on July 7, 2007 at 2:15:00 PM CEST
NASA Installs $19 Million Toilet on the ISS, Won’t Let Russians Use it.
Tension is bound to flare over the $19 million toilet NASA purchased from Russian aerospace firm RCS Energia, as only half of the International Space Station will enjoy the upgrade—the American side. The toilet justifies its steep price by being able to recycle urine as drinkable water, Waterworld-style.
The Russian half of the station is stuck with the old latrine. They’ll have to continue to load up one of their unmanned cargo vessels with boxes of their leftovers and send it to burn up in the atmosphere, which is pretty much the equivalent of flushing right now in space.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 7, 2007 at 2:04:00 PM CEST
Trojan creates bogus webmail accounts to punt drugs
Miscreants have created a strain of malware capable of setting up bogus Hotmail and Yahoo! accounts in order to send spam.
The HotLan-A Trojan uses automatically-generated webmail accounts, suggesting that spammers have found a way to bypass the Captcha system (which typically means accounts can't be created until a user correctly identifies letters depicted in an image).
The Captcha system was set up by online service providers in order to try to ensure that only requests generated by a human, and not automated by a program, are serviced.
These challenge-response systems are often used to stop the automatic creation of webmail accounts by spammers, so their apparent defeat by the HotLan-A Trojan is of particular note.
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Topic: SPY - on July 7, 2007 at 2:02:00 PM CEST
Psst - wanna buy a pirate MPack toolkit?
The adage about no honour among thieves also applies to hackers, it would seem. Pirates are flogging knocked-off copies of the MPack hacker toolkit at a discount of up to 85 per cent, according to anti-virus experts at net security firm Symantec.
MPack is a web browser exploit toolkit, sold online by its original authors to hackers at prices ranging from $500 to $1,000. The application is offered with modular extras, maintenance updates and what amounts to support contracts that in many ways rival or surpass those offered by legitimate software suppliers.
Thousands of websites (mainly in Italy) were recently compromised using the MPack malware kit in order to add iframe tags that pointed surfers towards hacker-controlled websites.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on July 7, 2007 at 1:59:00 PM CEST
MPAA, RIAA Still Up To Dirty Investigative Tricks
The entertainment industry's tried all sorts of things to fight file-sharing online, ranging from flooding P2P networks with fake files (though that didn't really work out) to apparently seedung them with spyware. One of its favorite tricks, though, is to set up honeypots of fake content or torrents, then capturing IP addresses from visitors and using them as the flimsy basis for their infamous lawsuits. The MPAA -- or rather MediaDefender, a company working for it -- has done this again recently, but going a little further by not just trying to trick people into downloading copyrighted movies, but also by offering visitors a custom downloading "client" that's essentially spyware that scans their machines for copyrighted files (via Broadband Reports) they've downloaded. Of course, "dirty tricks" is a phrase that seems to find itself near the letters "RIAA" and "MPAA" fairly often.
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Topic: VIDEO - on July 7, 2007 at 1:56:00 PM CEST
The China Files: High-Tech Espionage Unlimited [video]
Here's a follow-up to my story on Symantec Corp.'s problems in China. It looks at how the U.S. IT industry is handing over sensitive technologies to the oppressive Chinese regime in return for access to the Chinese market. It also looks at China's growing economic espionage program targeting U.S. corporate and military technology secrets.
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Topic: WEB - on July 7, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Ebuyer.com runs on a Commodore 64
For starters, there's a Toshiba HX-10, built in 1983. The HX-10 features 64KB of RAM, a 3.6MHz CPU, and a stunning 256x192, 16-color hi-res mode.
Next, you'll find not one but two Commodore 64s. The Commodore debuted in 1982 with 64KB RAM, a 1.02MHz MOS Technology 6510 processor, and a 16-color, 320x200 resolution monitor. Not to mention a creamy BASIC 2.0 operating system.
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