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About time.. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-morally-bankrupt-dictatorship-built-by-slave-labour-1828754.html http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/human-rights-quote-120-modern-slavery-in-dubai/ Dubai is finally financially bankrupt – but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time. there is a dictatorship built by slaves. The people who really built the city can [...]

Ananova – University opens porn course . A university in Taiwan has opened a course to teach students how to appreciate and analyse porn movies.

Internet searches stimulate brain more than books • The Register. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles have found that searching the web triggers centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning in middle-aged and older adults. But while web browsing may spark more neurons than mere book-reading, the study says, this only [...]

New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute – Network World. Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use [...]

Inside Google Books: Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books in the Open EPUB Format. To get started, just find any public domain book on Google Books and click on the Download button in the toolbar.

DailyTech – Microsoft Apologizes for Photoshopping Black Man out of Advertisment.

Japanese Women Demand Rich Husbands | Sankaku Complex. Another survey looked at the ideal annual income Japanese women sought in a man; the most popular answers were “over $90,000” with 22.8%, and “over $70,000” again with 22.8%. 19.3% were seeking over an income of $130,000 or more.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Snail mail gets net speed boost. For 14 euros (£12) a month, letters are redirected to a secret location in Zurich where the envelopes are scanned and an image is e-mailed out to customers. They can then decide whether letters should be opened and scanned by vetted personnel [...]

BBC NEWS | Americas | Legal case against God dismissed. A US judge has thrown out a case against God, ruling that because the defendant has no address, legal papers cannot be served. He sought a permanent injunction to prevent the “death, destruction and terrorisation” caused by God. “Given that this court finds that there [...]

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Antarctic glacier ‘thinning fast’. One of the largest glaciers in Antarctica is thinning four times faster than it was 10 years ago, according to research seen by the BBC. A study of satellite measurements of Pine Island glacier in west Antarctica reveals the surface of the ice is [...]

BBC NEWS | Americas | Praying man let his daughter die. A US jury has found a man guilty of killing his sick 11-year-old daughter by praying for her recovery rather than seeking medical care. The man, Dale Neumann, told a court in the state of Wisconsin he believed God could heal his daughter. She [...]

BBC NEWS | Europe | Catholic bank owned pill shares. A Roman Catholic bank in Germany has apologised after admitting it bought stocks in defence, tobacco and birth control companies. Der Spiegel newspaper discovered the bank had invested 580,000 euros (£495,310, $826,674) in British arms company BAE Systems. It also invested 160,000 euros in American [...]

DailyTech – Apple Unsuccesfully Tries to Silence Owner of Fiery iPod. Ken Stanborough, 47, was among the victims of an exploding iPod and legal ploys by Apple.  Mr. Stansborough bought an iPod Touch for his 11-year-old daughter.  When holding the iPod one warm day last month, it began to overheat.  He states, “It made a [...]

This is a follow-up on my previous article I commented the card was really hot, around 85C on idle and over 100 on load, so decided to open it up and see what was wrong. Here’s the culprit: Bunch of dust blocking the air intake and some horrible paste was the cause. After I cleaned [...]

I had been wanting to buy a new case for quite a long time, and finally got around to doing it. My old Thermarltake Armor LCS just couldn’t do the job anymore after I switched to air cooling for the cpu. Also took the chance to get my first SSD and a new video card. [...]