Knowing Microsoft, their iPod-killer will probably be released “too zune”… :P
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…and I couldn’t withhold this User Friendly cartoon: Humour, Zune, iPod
Judge says teen doesn’t have to undergo chemo treatment (for now…)
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In an interesting case in the US, AP reports about a judge concluding that a certain 16 year old kid (wanting alternative treatment) should not be forced to undergo chemo-treatment. It sure as hell would be pretty insane if one cannot decide what’s to happen to ones own body. Isn’t that a persons’ own choice, [...]
Blow-up doll for insecure female drivers
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So some company is marketing a blow-up doll for women who are insecure about driving at night, alone. Apparently, the presence of what appears to other people as a real person, gives them enough security to drive around town. Now, I wonder — do women over-estimate the blow-up dolls’ size, too? However sexist the whole [...]
Verichip RFID clonable (thus totally unsafe), despite the company’s promises
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I just heard from somebody that on HOPE, a presentation was given how easily the Verichip RFID chip implant can be cloned (thus identities stolen, people posing as other people getting easier because nowadays, somehow, everything must be digital or something. Basically, the work is done by this device, called the proxmark3, that; [it] can [...]
Quote Of The Week #19
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Aristotle, in his Ethics, quotes the poet Hesiod; He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things; Good again is he too who can adopt a good suggestion; But whose neither of himself conceiveth nor hearing from another Layeth it to heart — he is a useless man. Quote Of The Week, QOTW
