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ATM skimmers: now with SMS notification built right in {Engadget}
Oct 10th 2008 12:03PM Ok, here is the part that I don't get: An anti skimming module (basically a jammer, that emits a high power electric field around the ATM and effectively prevents skimming) costs about $2000. Why is that not built into every ATM yet?
The only answer can be: it is cheaper blaming the customers and the banks don't feel the pain yet.
Vehicle-to-grid will turn suburbs into power plants, won't help undertones of repression {Engadget}
Oct 4th 2008 12:12PM Thank you.
It is good to know that at least some people get the idea (even on engadget). The idea is a really smart one and could help us evening out the different peaks in demand and supply of power.
I personally would love to live in a neighborhood where renewable energy is produced whenever the sun shines and wind blows, party stored in the 2+ cars that the average US houshold has and used whenever and wherever we need the energy. (Yea I know doesn't work yet and will be a challenge to get implemented but what the heck - where is our ambition? Is all we can say really 'drill baby, drill'??)
Judge declares mistrial in RIAA filesharing case, sets aside $222,000 verdict {Engadget}
Sep 25th 2008 1:55PM Well, if the allegation of having 24 songs in a folder share is reason enough for the RIAA to crush a persons existence (and I guess it is fair enough to assume that 220,000.00 USD is big enough a penalty to cursh Jane Average's existence), then I don't want to know what these people would have suggested to do to her if she had actually stolen something....
GM's Chevy Volt finally really unveiled, for real {Engadget}
Sep 16th 2008 7:36PM This is to "show" that GM is not dead yet... In three year, we will have thousands of Teslas, Mindsets (www.mindset.ch), Plug-In Prius, electro Minis and electro Smarts on the road. Who will then listen to GM? Nobody! So they rather do the marketing now - who knows if GM still exists in 3 years from now? :-)
Ruby Cipher HDD kit provides AES 256-bit hardware encryption {Engadget}
Sep 16th 2008 6:14PM @Mega Math: So far Truecrypt has been pretty strong. Do you have a link to a description of a successful attack on Truecrypt?
Klausner says "not so fast," sues Verizon and LG over visual voicemail {Engadget}
Aug 26th 2008 9:42PM WTF is wrong with our society? With all due respect but this copyright/patent stuff is getting silly - what world is it when we are not able to build on each other's work?
I see the value of patents for technical inventions and I see the need for a fair compensation for the 'brain power' behind some products but come on, what is reason for 'protecting' an idea like visual voicemail, the one-click purchase, linking on the web etc.?
Apple's next-gen iPods just around the corner, full of rainbows? {Engadget}
Aug 21st 2008 12:47PM I would need a new Mac Mini. Can't they come up with some rumors on that one?
TSA to introduce less annoying laptop bag rules this Saturday {Engadget}
Aug 15th 2008 2:55PM @Balls: Sorry not true.
Examples: a colleague of mine from Africa gets "randomly" screened every(!) time. Another colleagues of mine has a wife from Bangladesh - same thing. I fly to "not one of the holiday" destinations and get into secondary for that one, too.
Security is only straightforward, if you don't fit their prejudice, go where the average guy goes and/or if you basically don't care about your civil liberties.
TSA to introduce less annoying laptop bag rules this Saturday {Engadget}
Aug 15th 2008 2:46PM Forget it - the logic of security measures is that they are put in place very easily and will almost NEVER be revoked.
(E.g. see the completely baseless and stupid ban on liquids on planes: You would need a laboratory in order to build explosives out of liquids and there are no laboratories in air plains - thus this rule doesn't make sense at all. Yet we are stuck with it and which politician would like to be voluntarily subjected to the "you support terrorism" bashing no matter how unjustified it is?)
Defcon duo: how-to shut off a pacemaker, almost get free rides on the T {Engadget}
Aug 10th 2008 9:48PM To sue somebody in order not to spread the news? Geee - these guys never heard of the Streisand effect?
