This has got to be one of the best stunts to advertise a moderately obscure service I have ever seen. What is a water jet? Remember how when you were a kid (or maybe you still do this) when you were told to water the lawn you inevitable ended up seeing how deep a hold you could make in the ground by blasting it with the finest setting on the nozzle? Ok, that’s called ‘hydraulic mining‘ but the idea is the same. Shoot ultra high pressure water through a super fine hole and you can cut through stuff. Sometimes a bit of grit is added to give the jet some better cutting action. Wood, plastic, metal, cloth… Just about anything can be cut this way. It’s better than a laser in some ways because there is zero heating. You could cut butter this way if you wanted to. Anyway, this is a link to a great FAQ on the process and some stunning photos on how to seriously void the warranty on your game systems.
[via fosfor gadgets]
Water jet pictures
Category: Dumb
Weighing the Web
Quick! You need a factoid fast! Here’s one, what does the Internet weigh?
A statistically rough ( one sigma) estimate might be 75-100 million servers @ ~350-550 watts each.. Call it Forty Billion Watts or ~ 40 GW. Since silicon logic runs at three volts or so, and an Ampere is some ten to the eighteenth electrons a second, if the average chip runs at a Gigaherz , straightforward calculation reveals that some 50 grams of electrons in motion make up the Internet.
Thats the mass of a medium sized chicken egg.
[via eyebeam and collision detection]
See-Through Rims For Your Car
Holy crap! Very cool, two inch thick polycarbonate plastic slabs that take the place of the normal rims on a car. Motorcycles I can see this on, but cars? I’m not sure. Either way it’s a load better than those annoying spinner rims. I wonder if you could have clear rims with a gap in the center. Add fish and you would have the automotive equivalent of aquarium platform shoes. It’s an evil thought but someone had to be first (if you do this get fast fish!).
[via OhGizmo!]
Myspace Worm Using Quicktime HREF Track
Just great. For a long time I have been trying to figure out a way not to let Quicktime spawn web pages. Not only is it annoying but now it can get you phissed:
It begins with a QuickTime file being embedded in a Profile page. If the user “runs” the file (simply visiting the infected page is enough to trigger the attack in most cases), it uses the HREF function to activate some JavaScript.
Allowing JavaScript from a movie file….whoops.
When this happens, the profile page is “infected” and pastes a fake overlay of options onto the profile page – the most serious of which is (of course) the fake login button. If your page has been affected, you will see a strange, blue navigation bar such as this on your page. If this is the case, you will need to clean out your profile and check if any of your friends have also been infected – if they are, you will continue to be reinfected…most likely via the friends list itself. We have seen reports of users complaining that even when they’ve removed the fake navigation bar from their page, it comes right back if one of their friends is infected – so it looks like the friends list is being exploited in much the same way the Orkut worm used a similar feature to spread. Except in this case, the only option to fix the problem is get your friend to remove the infection code from their page, or remove your friend from your list indefinitely.
Going back to the fake login, if you enter your details, you have officially been Phished.
Lik-Sang Out of Business Due to Sony Lawsuits
Oh man, this is a definite sign of the times. Now I’m regretting not buying those maracas controllers for my Dreamcast when I had the chance. If you have ever needed an odd chunk of gaming gear for your PS1, Dreamcast, Nintendo, or just like playing Japanese games on US/European consoles you have probably visited this site. All I can hope is that someone fills in their place soon.
Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due to multiple legal actions brought against it by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Sony claimed that Lik-Sang infringed its trade marks, copyright and registered design rights by selling Sony PSP consoles from Asia to European customers, and have recently obtained a judgment in the High Court of London (England) rendering Lik-Sang’s sales of PSP consoles unlawful.
[via boingboing]
Important Notice: Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to Multiple Sony Lawsuits
Yep, it’s a Nuke
Yeah, I guess it was a nuclear device. North Korea is now the inbred cousin of the Nuclear Family. Lovely…