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iPhone: a second ATT-less activation confirmed in the wild
Post Date: 2007-07-04 20:35:38 by Zipporah
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iPhone: a second ATT-less activation confirmed in the wild Developer "gj" and others behind the iPhone Development Project (http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki) claim to have released a "proof of concept activation program for the iPhone" that makes it possible to activate the device without an AT&T account, or re-activate after an AT&T account has been terminated. Project participants explain that their work is intended to discover "additional uses for the iPhone by (legitimately) enabling its potential capabilities," and that the project is "for informational purposes only." Snip from the "goals and milestones" page: ...
Phone root password cracked in three days
Post Date: 2007-07-04 20:29:26 by boonie rat
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Phone root password cracked in three days By Nick Gibson | 2007/07/03 16:56:16 It's been out just three days, but already the Apple iPhone has been taken apart both literally and figuratively. The latest: inquisitive Apple fans have hacked into the firmware and discovered the master root password to the smart phone. The information came from an an official Apple iPhone restore image (rename as a zip file and extract). The archive contains two .dmg disk images: a password encrypted system image and an unencrypted user image. By delving into the unencrypted image inquisitive hackers were able to discover that all iPhones ship with predefined passwords to the accounts 'mobile' ...
Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista Features and Services Harvest User Data for Microsoft
Post Date: 2007-07-04 20:03:17 by boonie rat
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Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista Features and Services Harvest User Data for Microsoft - From your machine! By: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor Enlarge picture Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company. Microsoft makes no secret about the fact that Windows Vista is gathering information. End users have ...
Scientists Enter Stem Cell Patents Fight
Post Date: 2007-07-03 19:00:03 by farmfriend
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Scientists Enter Stem Cell Patents Fight MADISON, Wis. - Some high-profile scientists have jumped into the fight over the University of Wisconsin-Madison's stem cell patents, supporting the effort to have them revoked. The California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and others are challenging patents that cover discoveries by UW researcher Jamie Thomson, who was the first to grow and isolate human embryonic stem cells in 1998. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the university's research arm, holds the patents covering the cells and research techniques used by many American scientists. Critics say its license fees have stifled the young field. The U.S. ...
The Global Warming Myth
Post Date: 2007-07-03 13:22:43 by sourcery
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Am I worried about carbon induced global warming? The answer is no and yes. No because there has been no sign of global warming in New Zealand since 1955, this year snow has fallen in Portugal for the first time in 52 years and 3 US states are united by the fact that they have recorded their lowest temperatures ever. Yes because it has become a political football that has lost its foundations in real science. What especially worries me is that if anyone dares to question the dogma of the global warming doomsters who repeatedly tell us that C not only stands for carbon but for climate catastrophe, we are immediately vilified as heretics or worse as deniers. I am quite happy to be branded a ...
Warming On Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, Neptune's Moon & Earth Linked to Increased Solar Activity, Scientists Say
Post Date: 2007-07-02 15:38:37 by intotheabyss
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT... Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence? Monday, March 12, 2007 Mars's ice caps are melting, and Jupiter is developing a second giant red spot, an enormous hurricane-like storm. The existing Great Red Spot is 300 years old and twice the size of Earth. The new storm -- Red Spot Jr. -- is thought to be the result of a sudden warming on our solar system's largest planet. Dr. Imke de Pater of Berkeley University says some parts of Jupiter are now as much as six degrees Celsius warmer than just a few years ago. Neptune's moon, Triton, studied in 1989 after the unmanned Voyageur probe flew past, seems to have heated up significantly since then. Parts of its ...
MIT Climate Scientist Calls Fears of Global Warming 'Silly' - Equates Concerns to ‘Little Kids’ Attempting to "Scare Each Other"
Post Date: 2007-07-02 15:09:14 by richard9151
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MIT Climate Scientist Calls Fears of Global Warming 'Silly' - Equates Concerns to ‘Little Kids’ Attempting to "Scare Each Other" Posted By Marc Morano - Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov 12:33 PM ET - February 1, 2007 MIT Meteorologist Richard Lindzen’s appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live on January 31, 2007 at 9:00 PM EST Plus: Watch Video of Senator Inhofe & Senator Barbara Boxer on Larry King Last Night. MIT’s Richard Lindzen called fears of manmade global warming ‘silly" and debated PBS’s Bill Nye "The Science Guy" and the controversial Weather Channel host Heidi Cullen on last night’s Larry King Live. Lindzen ...
Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believers in Heated NYC Debate
Post Date: 2007-07-02 14:54:08 by richard9151
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Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believers in Heated NYC Debate March 16, 2007 Posted By Marc Morano – 8:45 AM ET – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.gov Just days before former Vice President Al Gore’s scheduled visit to testify about global warming before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, a high profile climate debate between prominent scientists Wednesday evening ended with global warming skeptics being voted the clear winner by a tough New York City before an audience of hundreds of people. Before the start of the nearly two hour debate the audience polled 57.3% to 29.9% in favor of believing that Global ...
THE REAL INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Post Date: 2007-07-02 14:45:30 by richard9151
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March 19, 2007 When the old gray lady says it's over, it's over. The New York Times -- nearly a year late -- is finally recognizing the scientific reality regarding fears of a man-made climate catastrophe. On March 13, a landmark article stated "scientists argue that some of (former Vice President Al) Gore's central points are exaggerated and erroneous." It appears we are all skeptics now. It's about time the Times joined the growing chorus of scientists criticizing the alarmism. Even the United Nations, despite all the media hoopla, halved its estimates for sea level rise since 2001 and reduced man's impact on the climate by 25 percent in a recent report. ...
Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming
Post Date: 2007-07-02 14:36:38 by richard9151
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Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics Growing Number of Scientists Convert to Skeptics After Reviewing New Research Following the U.S. Senate's vote today on a global warming measure (see today's AP article: Senate Defeats Climate Change Measure,) it is an opportune time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking place in climate science. Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President ...
Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
Post Date: 2007-07-02 14:30:59 by richard9151
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Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence Posted by Noel Sheppard on June 24, 2007 - 19:45. If you listen to the global warming alarmists working for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, sea levels across the globe are rising at a rate that will eventually doom us all. According to Swedish paleogeophysicist Nils-Axel Mörner, who’s been studying and writing about sea levels for four decades, the scientists working for the IPCC have falsified data and destroyed evidence to incorrectly prove their point. Mörner was recently interviewed by Gregory Murphy of Executive ...
Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Post Date: 2007-07-02 14:26:37 by richard9151
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Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' Posted by Noel Sheppard on June 18, 2007 - 11:46. Reid Bryson, the 87-year-old considered to be the father of scientific climatology, has once again spoken out strongly against anthropogenic global warming theories being regularly disseminated by alarmists in the media and the scientific community. In an interview published by Wisconsin’s Capital Times Monday, Bryson spoke about the money involved in this "religion," and when asked about soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" marvelously responded (emphasis added throughout): ...
Woman's first partner may become genetic father of all her kids, telegony says
Post Date: 2007-07-01 18:20:21 by Zipporah
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27.06.2007 Recently, the phenomenon of telegony has become really popular as propagation of women’s faithfulness and virginity. It is quite OK to speak about telegony as the philosophy of morals. But for some reason people speak about telegony in connection with genetics. Why so ? The telegony idea gained much popularity among those who supported segregation between blacks and whites, and was said to be particularly popular among the circles connected to the Ku-Klux-Klan. One of the ardent advocates of telegony, candidate of historical sciences Valery Bochkarev says that if a woman has had lots of sexual contacts with various men before her first childbirth she then has her ...
Perception: The Reality beyond Matter
Post Date: 2007-07-01 11:29:08 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqnEGu8VF8Y
Babies not as innocent as they pretend
Post Date: 2007-07-01 01:23:45 by Horse
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Whether lying about raiding the biscuit tin or denying they broke a toy, all children try to mislead their parents at some time. Yet it now appears that babies learn to deceive from a far younger age than anyone previously suspected. Behavioural experts have found that infants begin to lie from as young as six months. Simple fibs help to train them for more complex deceptions in later life. Until now, psychologists had thought the developing brains were not capable of the difficult art of lying until four years old. Following studies of more than 50 children and interviews with parents, Dr Vasudevi Reddy, of the University of Portsmouth's psychology department, says she has ...
the Carver - is it a car? or a bike?
Post Date: 2007-07-01 01:10:14 by kiki
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Saturday's Full Moon Offers Strange Illusion
Post Date: 2007-06-30 19:15:05 by kiki
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This weekend's full moon hangs lower in the sky than any other full moon of 2007, according to NASA, and it's a good time to be fooled. When low on the horizon, the Moon can appear to be larger than when it's higher in the sky. It's all an illusion, scientists say, and it does not involve any enlarging effects of the atmosphere. Rather, it's all in your mind. Here's how it works: Our brains think things on the horizon are farther away than stuff overhead, because we're used to seeing overhead clouds that are close compared to those on the horizon. In the mind's eye, the sky is a flattened dome. With this dome as a reference, we expect something on the ...
IPCC Scientists Challenge Al Gore's View of Global Warming Consensus
Post Date: 2007-06-29 23:20:47 by sourcery
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The chinks in the armor that is a supposed scientific consensus regarding man57;s role in global warming continued to grow this week when it was identified that many of the folks involved in the most recent report from the United Nations57; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were not in agreement with the study57;s findings.
Didn't hear about this? Well, how could you? Nobody reported it!
In fact, what you also didn't hear or read due to the media's universal eschewing of this information was that many of the views expressed in the IPCC57;s report go quite contrary to assertions regularly being made by the very press outlets not covering this new revelation and the Global ...
Why Do Cats Hang Around Us?
Post Date: 2007-06-29 17:14:34 by Minerva
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Why Do Cats Hang Around Us? Genetic Research Suggests Felines 'Domesticated Themselves' By David Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 29, 2007; A03 Your hunch is correct. Your cat decided to live with you, not the other way around. The sad truth is, it may not be a final decision. But don't take this feline diffidence personally. It runs in the family. And it goes back a long way -- about 12,000 years, actually. Those are among the inescapable conclusions of a genetic study of the origins of the domestic cat, being published today in the journal Science. The findings, drawn from an analysis of nearly 1,000 cats around the world, suggest that the ancestors of ...
NASA Satellite Captures First View of 'Night-Shining Clouds'
Post Date: 2007-06-29 14:35:23 by Eoghan
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A NASA satellite has captured the first occurrence this summer of mysterious shiny polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth’s surface. The first observations of these "night-shining" clouds by a satellite named "AIM" which means Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, occurred above 70 degrees north latitude on May 25. People on the ground began seeing the clouds on June 6 over Northern Europe. AIM is the first satellite mission dedicated to the study of these unusual clouds. These mystifying clouds are called Polar Mesospheric Clouds, or PMCs, when they are viewed from space and referred to as "night-shining" clouds or Noctilucent Clouds, when viewed by ...
Inflatable Space Station Design Tested
Post Date: 2007-06-28 21:08:59 by farmfriend
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Inflatable Space Station Design Tested By JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES - A new inflatable, unmanned test module for a proposed private space station was launched into orbit Thursday aboard a Russian rocket, the U.S. company developing the technology said. The Dnepr rocket carrying the Genesis II module lifted off shortly after 7 p.m. local time from the ISC Kosmotras Yasny Cosmodrome in Russia's Orenburg region, according to Bigelow Aerospace of Nevada. The 15-foot-long module was designed to expand to a diameter of 8 feet. Contact with the module was established later in the day and data indicated good voltage in the power system and "decent" air ...
Egypt Says Mummy Is Queen Hatshepsut
Post Date: 2007-06-28 20:59:35 by farmfriend
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Egypt Says Mummy Is Queen Hatshepsut By KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer CAIRO, Egypt - A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah _ possibly the most significant find since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, experts said Wednesday. The mummy was identified as Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled for 20 years in the 15th century B.C., dressing like a man and wearing a fake beard. A monumental builder, she wielded more power than two other famous ancient Egyptian women, Cleopatra and Nefertiti, who unlike her never took the title of pharaoh. But when she died, all traces of her ...
Incredibly Amazing Pyrokinesis, Combat Ki & More Video, Taoist Immortal John Djang
Post Date: 2007-06-28 16:41:25 by gengis gandhi
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featured on a pbs show called ring of fire, then a book was written on this man called 'magus of java'. amazing stuff, and it is real. in fact, my shihan practices iron shirt, and takes full blows to the throat from black belts on each side. i will bet anyone ten thousand dollars that with their best punch they will do nothing...and its a sucker bet. here is the stuff on john djang and pyrokinesis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAAB0dbc3Es&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aos0hnwiHt8&mode=related&search= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PERiIq5WM4M&mode=related&search= shaolin chikung and iron vest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmbw8gxft-0 ...
iPhone - Reviews Are In: "Beautiful" "Breakthrough" And "Dead Simple To Operate"
Post Date: 2007-06-28 00:31:52 by robin
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The first reviews are coming in, and iPhone seems a hit, (almost) worth waiting in line for for three days. Today's Wall Street Journal writes: We have been testing the iPhone for two weeks, in multiple usage scenarios, in cities across the country. Our verdict is that, despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. Elsewhere, David Pogue in the New York Times today describes the $600 gadget this way: The phone is so sleek and thin, it makes Treos and BlackBerrys look obese. The glass gets smudgy -- a sleeve wipes it clean -- but it doesn't scratch easily. I've walked around with an iPhone in my pocket for ...
Will science render men unnecessary?
Post Date: 2007-06-27 17:12:27 by farmfriend
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Will science render men unnecessary? The possibility seems real but don't drop your guy just yet By Brian Alexander MSNBC contributor I normally don’t spend a great deal of time thinking about my sperm. But recently a team of scientists announced they had made artificial sperm from human bone marrow, and media reports abounded with the dire news that my goodfellas (and by extension, me) had been rendered unnecessary. If a woman chose to do so, speculated tabloid journalists, she could make sperm from her own bone marrow, fertilize another woman’s egg — and voila! “Men could be completely sidelined,” according to Britain’s Daily Mail. “Women to ...
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