For a 20% savings, more than 50% cable and satellite subscribers are likely to jump ship to save money. But Telco TV (services like AT&T U-verse ) have a much, much more loyal following. Anecdotally, would you agree
February 9, 2010 - 12:17 am
Tags: been-attributed, black hawk safety net, china, china hacking, hackers, left-image500, official, official-site, online-hacker, posts-tagged, safety, three-operators
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Black Hawk Safety Net , an online hacker training resource with 12,000 paying members and another 170,000 free members, was brought down recently by Chinese authorities. Only three operators of the site were arrested, while the official site itself, 3800hk.com, was put out of commission when the company’s 9 servers were seized.
February 8, 2010 - 11:40 pm
Tags: diy, inconvenience, inconveniences, inside-the-fake, left-image500, once-it-detects, player-starts, rfid record player, the-information, user, vinyl
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I like this idea by Matt Brown: He tags 45rpm vinyl records with RFID stickers to play songs in a turntable that doesn’t turn at all. Inside the fake player he placed an RFID reader, which gets the information from the RFID-tagged record. Once it detects it—and the user moves the tonearm into position—the record player starts reproducing a playlists.
February 8, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Tags: architecture, famous, fill-the-open, frank-lloyd, funniest, guggenheim museum, interventions, left-image500, museum, new york, people, posts-tagged, the-funniest
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JDS Architects thought that this trampoline net spiral—which would allow people to bounce from the top floor to the bottom of the Guggenheim Museum rotunda—could be the funniest thing ever.
Ross Berens’ gorgeous planetary posters feature incredible artwork and real-deal factoids on all eight of our planets, plus our old friend Pluto. Space aficionados, you’ll want to check these out. [ Cargo Collective via Kottke ]
February 8, 2010 - 9:43 pm
Tags: Browser, classic, google-goggles, left-image500, nexus one, package, posts-tagged, smartphones, test-gauntlet, verizon
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Android 2.1 for the Droid is making its way through the Verizon test gauntlet, and apparently inside is multitouch for the browser (like Maps 3.4), Google Goggles, and fancy news and weather widgets. Not coming over from the Nexus One ? Live backgrounds—those swishy animated wallpapers—and that new 3D grid of app icons aren’t part of the package.
Who you gonna call? Steve Jobs, that’s who. [ Nerdist ]
Who you gonna call? Steve Jobs, that’s who. [ Nerdist ]
The point has grown cliche by now, but it’s true. Every week your submissions to Shooting Challenges blow me away
February 8, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Tags: ballard, dslrs, feature, flickr, gizmodo-flickr, isaac-chambers, left-image500, location, nikon, robert-rickner, second-runner, shutter-speed, slrs
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The point has grown cliche by now, but it’s true. Every week your submissions to Shooting Challenges blow me away. And your polar panoramas just upped that ante on every challenge to come