Topic: LOST FOUND - on August 26, 2007 at 6:03:00 PM CEST
INDIA AFTER GANDHI - The History of the World’s Largest Democracy
Late in “A Suitable Boy,” Vikram Seth’s fictional panorama of early 1950s India, the difficult but decent politician Mahesh Kapoor receives advice from an underling: “We should think above divisions, splits, cliques! ... This is India ... the country where faction was invented before the zero. If even the heart is divided into four parts can you expect us Indians to divide ourselves into less than 400?
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Topic: NATURE - on August 26, 2007 at 5:58:00 PM CEST
Brazil reviving endangered Amazon manatee
Brazilian scientists hope that two captivity-raised male Amazon manatees they plan to reintroduce to the wild will spark a bout of reproduction that might save the endangered species from extinction.
In February 2008 scientists at the National Amazon Research Institute (INPA) plan to take the two manatees (Trichechus inungis) and drop them into the Rio Cuieiras, a tributary of the Rio Negro, where researchers hope they will seek out females and begin repopulating the area.
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Topic: Phone - on August 26, 2007 at 5:09:00 PM CEST
iPhone unlock howto posted
Here how the bootrom check works; it reads from 0xA0000030 0xA000A5A0 0xA0015C58 0xA0017370 and all these addresses must read as blank, or 0xFFFFFFFF. When you erase flash, it becoms 0xFFFFFFFF. But you can't erase those locations, because they are in the bootloader. So thats where the testpoint comes in. Pulling A17 high hardware OR's the address bus with 0x00040000(offset one because data bus is 16 bit) So the bootrom instead checks locations 0xA0040030 0xA004A5A0 0xA0045C58 0xA0047370, which are in the main firmware and can be erased.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 26, 2007 at 4:29:00 PM CEST
Innenministerium bestreitet Schäden durch Hackerangriffe
Auf zahlreichen Computern im Kanzleramt und in Bundesministerien haben Sicherheitsexperten Spionageprogramme entdeckt, die nach SPIEGEL-Informationen aus China stammen. Ein Regierungssprecher stritt Schäden ab, bestätigte aber große Probleme mit Trojanern.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 26, 2007 at 4:27:00 PM CEST
Skype's black Tuesday won't be a patch on the next one
Irish Novelist Edna O'Brien once wrote a novel called August is a Wicked Month. Tell that to the folks who run Skype, the internet telephony service that 200 million people worldwide now habitually use for voice calls and instant messaging, and you'll be rewarded with rueful nods.
On Thursday, 16 August, Skype went dead and remained in that state for the best part of two days. Users were unable to log in, instant messages went undelivered and at one stage Skype even blocked people from downloading its software. From the moment the 'outage' began (about 3am Pacific Standard Time) the net was ablaze with rumour. It was, some said, a software problem. Others wondered if it might be the result of a malware attack. There were mutterings about traditional telecoms firms (whose attitude to Skype resembles that of the devil towards garlic). And, of course, some argued Microsoft must be involved.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 26, 2007 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
Crop circle creation on film
Over 1,000 ft long and 520 ft wide, and boasting over 90 separate circles within the formation and 60 without, the mega crop formation, made its appearance in pitch darkness in the early hours of the windy, damp and overcast Saturday morning of 7/7/07.
Dedicated UFO hunter and cameraman Winston Keech takes up the story:
"This is the most spectacular formation to have occurred in Wiltshire for many years. It's flattened area is over 95,000 sq ft or roughly 2,25 acres."
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Topic: FUN - on August 26, 2007 at 11:59:00 AM CEST
Human Brain Cloud
Human Brain Cloud is a simple but addictive mutiplayer word association widget with a nifty Flash interface.
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Topic: Universe - on August 26, 2007 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
Astronomers find a hole in the universe
Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.
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Topic: born rich - on August 26, 2007 at 11:44:00 AM CEST
Austrian Designs Luxury Lederhosen Line
An Austrian designer is taking orders for personalized luxury lederhosen and recently sold a diamond-studded pair for $114,000.
Christian Wohlmuther, who owns a clothing business that sells traditional Austrian attire based in Bad Mitterndorf, Styria, said Friday the cost of his creations varies depending on the decoration.
abcnews.go.com miamiherald.comcanoe.cametro.co.uk wohlmuther.com
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Topic: SEX - on August 26, 2007 at 11:41:00 AM CEST
Crisis looms as 18 million Chinese can't find a wife
China is planning to tighten punishments for sex-selective abortions amid concerns that its widening gender imbalance will lead to wife trafficking, sexual crimes and social frustration.
Shocking new figures released by the state media show that the worst affected city, Lianyungang in Jiangsu province, has a ratio of 165 boys to 100 girls among children aged one to four.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 26, 2007 at 11:33:00 AM CEST
Student cracks Government's $84m porn filter
A MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government's new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes.
Tom Wood, 16, said it took him just over 30 minutes to bypass the Government's filter, released on Tuesday.
Tom, a year 10 student at a southeast Melbourne private school, showed the Herald Sun how to deactivate the filter in a handful of clicks.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 26, 2007 at 11:30:00 AM CEST
Teenage hacker unlocks the iPhone
A New Jersey teenager has unlocked the iPhone, opening the way to Apple's iconic mobile telephone being used by non-US networks.
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