Aren’t these commonly known as bath salts?
Synthetic alcohol: booze without the hangover
What is non-alcoholic and non-toxic but gives you the buzz of abeer? Synthetic alcohol, according to David Nutt of the Brain Sciences Division at Imperial College London.
In case you needed another reason why security by obscurity is no security at all…
Google Indexes 80,000 Printers That You Can Print To From Anywhere
We just received a tip from someone that Google is indexing 80,000 printers that are connected to the Internet. Using a little Google search magic, it becomes apparent that you can really find anything using Google. To top it off, aside from just being indexed by Google, you can easily print something to any one of these 80,000 printers surely giving the owner of the printer quite a scare. Obviously the people who configured these print servers skipped firewall 101 class.
Big Brother
These are live video feeds from 325 unprotected Panasonic Network
Cameras, mostly in Asia, discovered only through search engines. Click an image to open the camera’s control interface in a new window. Scroll or refresh to load more. Works best in Safari, slow in Firefox and Chrome, not at all in IE and Opera (does not support M-JPEG). Requires JavaScript.
MS released a site dedicated to testing old versions of MSIE. In addition to a tester you can use right in the site, they offer up virtual machines for VirtualBox that cover all versions of MSIE, including MSIE 10.
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I think Ford just left the other carmakers in cloud of bytes.
Ford’s open-source kit brings era of smart car apps – tech – 24 January 2013 – New Scientist
MIRROR, signal, manoeuvre – now set your engine to “supercar”. Car maker Ford has just released OpenXC – an open-source hardware and software toolkit that will let the hacker community play around with the computer systems that run modern cars. While the first apps may add nothing more exciting than internet radio, the open nature of the system should eventually lead to custom apps that give drivers far more control over their car’s performance.
Great news! We love our PS3 even if the XBox 360 has been getting a bit more attention since it arrived at XMas. Aside from the games, the PS3 has been a superior way to watch video, whether it’s Netflix, Blueray or streaming from our media center.
WSJ: PlayStation 4 will launch this year
If your heart hadn’t already made up its mind regarding the subject of last night’s PlayStation tease, the Wall Street Journal flat-out said this morning the PlayStation successor is launching this year.