December 2011
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Rocketboom: U.K. Tweeter Goes Postal, Sends Tweets... →
rocketboom:
Giles Turnbull (aka @gilest) is a fun loving Brit who recently decided to take his Twitter account offline (literally), and to conduct his twitter correspondence by old-fashioned mail instead. What was the result of this little experiment? “Getting mail was fun again.” Woo-hoo…
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One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.
– Hagakure (via mnmal)
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Reblog if you're from New Zealand. That is all.
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what a crazy random happenstance!: StarCraft 2 is... →
passionatelyapathetic:
Here’s the mouse movement of a Minecraft player for 4 hours.
Each line represent’s the mouse’s movement, each dot represents the mouse staying in that position. The dot’s size increases the longer the mouse is held there.
Compare that with the mouse movements…
Obviously the Starcraft player is a n00b not using the keyboard shortcuts.
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Lost TV Episodes Return From Deep Space
rocketboom:
TV Signals don’t just reach TV sets, they keep right on going and going, way out into space. As noted in 2009, astronomers in Puerto Rico found actual signals from TV broadcasts sent almost 50 years ago.
Apparently the signals are bouncing off of objects in space and heading back to us. Amazingly, the group intercepting the signals has been able to piece together lost Dr. Who...
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AppleInsider: Serious security flaws discovered in... →
chartier:
From the paper (PDF link) AppleInsider found:
By exploiting these leaked capabilities, an untrusted app on these affected phones can manage to wipe out the user data on the phones, send out SMS messages (e.g., to premium numbers), record user conversation, or obtain user geolocations all without asking for any permission.
In other words: Android OEMs are playing fast and loose...
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We stopped supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will...
– Apple said in a statement as controversy continues to swirl around Carrier IQ, which stores data and sends it to cellphone service providers, Apple has confirmed that it stopped supporting the software in iPhones — and will remove it completely from future iPhone software.
Apple Will Remove...
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