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Friday, December 16, 2005

So where is the ban on California, putfile?

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Not too long ago, I wrote about putfile banning Singapore from accessing its videos. The reason was and I quote from putfile's webpage:

"Putfile Says Goodbye To Singapore

At dawn on December 2nd 2005, Singapore hanged a citizen of Australia, despite a plea for clemency from the United Nations. Whilst Putfile is not a human rights campaigning organization, we believe that if a country must have the death penalty, there is no need for it be barbaric. It is enough of a punishment, and a deterrent, to take someone's life in a painless manner, without having to be barbaric about it. Putfile prefers to not continue to provide our free uploading service to a country that executes prisoners by hanging, a method of execution which can take up to six minutes to painfully execute the victim.

For this reason, we are at this time terminating all service to users from Singapore. We shall be happy to restore service following any positive move from the government of Singapore towards abolition of hanging as an execution method.

Goodbye Singapore,

Putfile."

And recently someone was put to death in California by lethal injection despite pleas for clemency I might add. In fact, he has even been nominated for the Nobel Peace prize. So why hasn't putfile banned USA from accessing putfile.com? After all the execution was not without its problems, starting at 12:01, with the staff taking nearly 20 min to find a suitable vein and his death was announced only at 12:34. Is this the more humane, painless method that putfile supports? I don't know about that, but I do know that this seems to be a double standard here, don't you think so too?

 

Neat video of MGS on PS3

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Yup it's Metal Gear Solid on the PS3. Watch the real-time rendering of Snake as the devs change the lighting effects and camera angles live.

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Cool Videos

 

$1000 is yours if you prove Starforce broke your optical drive

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Yup this is classified as funny by me. It seems to be a more of a joke than proving anything if you read the fine print.

I mean you have to somehow ship 2 CPUs under warranty and prolly 1 monitor to Moscow, get yourself there, buy an additional copy of the Windows operating system (assuming you already own one), hope you're the 1st one there and that they are satisfied with your demonstration. Unless you live in Moscow, the costs of the above don't justify the paltry reward and I haven't included any other expenses incurred while living in Moscow. And if you're unlucky enough to fail, you'll be listed as a loser!

So what are the benefits? US$1000, your trip to Moscow paid for and 2 days lodging. I'm sure that's really attractive.

And what are you going there to prove? That your optical drive stopped working after installing a Starforce product. At first you think this sounds reasonable, but think again. It states that "Should the subject Drive fail to read or write CD/DVD discs in the second PC, you will be acknowledged the Winner." So if after installing a Starforce product, the optical drive stops working in the original PC AND the 2nd PC, you win. However, if it works in the 2nd PC, you lose!

What's wrong with that? Nothing, except that if the drive works in the 2nd PC, don't you think the Starforce product could be the problem, since no 3rd party products are installed, as stated in the terms. Also, any other problems as a direct result of the Starforce product installation are also ignored (I heard USB functions could be impaired).

In the end, I can only find this to be an amusing PR stunt like many other have stated, though I hope someone wins it.

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Bank reward in your favor - a calculator

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So a bank decides to reward a person who did them and their customers a big favor with a fantastic new plastic calculator. In the bank's defence, they did actually reward him with something. I mean they could actually just say "thanks dude". Since when could people actually demand to be rewarded for doing something voluntarily? Naturally it would be politically correct for the bank to reward him with something more generous and befitting the nature of his actions, but for him to say that his reward is not enough is also quite ridiculous.

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Wireless USB

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Here's something useful - a wireless USB solution. Plug in your USB device into the wireless USB hub and the wireless USB dongle into your PC and you're set. But what if your USB device draws power from the USB port like so many USB devices out there? Surely you'd need to plug into a power point somehow. The distance stated in the article also doesn't seem that great - more than 30 feet.

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Cool Tech

 

Was Mona Lisa really happy?

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So what do you think? I'm pretty sure she looks happy, but apparently she's only 83% happy. She's also 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry. Huh? You mean a computer program can tell us all that? I wonder what people would give for a program that could tell what others are feeling.

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Screenshots of the new Messenger

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Some screenshots of the new Microsoft Windows Live Messenger.

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Funny Xbox 360 video

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Why is the Xbox 360 the hottest gift this Christmas? Watch this video to find out...

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Thursday, December 15, 2005

What happens to cars behind a Boeing 747?

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The answer? Don't drive behind the 747 ever. But if you have to, choose the most aerodynamic car which in this case is Ford Mondeo.

via http://googlevideos.blogspot.com/

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Fun, addictive flash game

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Using weapons or your limbs your objective is to kill other players. No registration is required, but by doing so, you get to compete in a league and fight with other skilled players. Of course, I prefer just choosing quick start.

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Spray on concrete

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Spray a bit of this on sugarcane stalks and voila, 20 min later you have a wall that's stronger than normal concrete. Sounds like a handy spray to bring around for camping or survival training. With a couple of these sprays, you could build a decent camp shelter or a BBQ pit.

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Cool

 

Stymie RIAA / MPAA spider bots

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The idea is not really new, but this method seems to be light on server's resources. Essentially, the whole point is to generate a list of flag-raising filenames that seem to indicate copyright infringement. Of course since there's a recent case about some person getting sued with no evidence of infringing files even existing, this may cause you more trouble than it's worth (unless you can countersue them for falsely accusing you).

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A remake of towers of Hanoi

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If you solved the towers of Hanoi before, this shouldn't be too difficult for you. In fact, in my case, my mouse was hindering my solving speed most of time rather than the puzzle itself.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

So Dark The Con Of Man

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The DaVinci Code - witness the biggest coverup in human history.

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Cheating Google

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By running an unpopular ad campaign, this guy managed to earn free impressions using Google adwords. Not really a great cheat as he explains in his article, nevertheless, it shows the limitations of pay per action advertising models, proving sometimes pay per impression is the way to go.

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Cool Funny Tech

 

Say 'NO' to needles

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This is definitely something I'm looking forward to - "needleless" injections. Kudos to those who found this method of administering vaccines and other medicine. Hopefully everything in the future uses this and it wouldn't increase the prices of medicine.

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Ipod underwear

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I'm not sure of the point of these underwear but it amuses me that people would even want to hang on to their ipods to this extent. Maybe it'll make a great Christmas gift but I won't bet on it.

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Apple Funny

 

Command and conquer online

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An easy way to pass time if you're stuck in the office or the school computer lab with no way to install programs. I'm not sure about this, but I think you could most prolly download it and store it on other servers or even locally on your workstation to prevent the rather long (2mb) download. Hopefully if the server software gets released, other servers could be created to relieve the current load on the server.

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Where did these ancient artifacts come from?

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2 page article that challenges some of the assumptions of science that many have now taken to be facts. As it brings more questions to the origins of humankind, I believe it is good to keep an open mind.

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How fast can you react to bullets?

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Today's time waster - a flash game that tests your reaction speed. Quite fun at first, but does get boring after a while.

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Some cool CSS tricks

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A nice list of CSS tricks. Useful to know.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Firefox tweak guide

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This covers much more than just the normal about:config tweaks you see regularly. Some of it are in fact quite advanced, so I wouldn't recommend those tweaks if you're not too tech savvy.

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Cool Tech

 

Credit card sized USB drive

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A USB drive that really fits into your wallet! So don't go sitting on your wallet or you'll lose more than just your credit cards.

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Cool Tech

 

Play SimCity classic online

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Play SimCity classic online and remember the good ol' days.

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Mind boggling puzzle game

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This is a nice yet frustrating game to play while you're free, preferably when you really have nothing to do. Using clues given by the webpage's title, the picture shown and accompanying caption, you have to guess a password which is to be typed in lowercase. There are 99 levels in total, with some secret levels and B levels.

Here are some extra clues as I start to solve some of the levels:

1st level: The caption is a mirror image, it has something to do with time zones. Open up Windows time (double-click on your clock) and check for that time zone. What is the location listed?

2nd level: It is an inverted mirror image.

3rd level: It is made up of two words. Grab an analog clock/watch and use the flight times listed at the rightmost column to form letters that make up the password. The relevant timings are the rows that are lighted up.

4th level: Fairly obvious from the title and red tag. Not too sure about the relevance of the picture though.

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Monday, December 12, 2005

Conan O’Brien iPod Ad Parody

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Mirror

Nice little iPod "ad".

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Sunday, December 11, 2005

Stunning Illusion

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Can a coin pass through glass? How about a salt shaker? Don't be too quick to answer...

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