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The Japanese do it best(tm)

Nipponese pr0n mags that for some reason got somewhat translated to English and picked up, ah, a little extra along the way.

Yes, the Land Warrior is here – looks like a battlemech, and it walks around – very impressive. Except top speed (1.5 kmph). But it looks very very cool.

well, this is a thing I discussed over skiiing – and here it is: a device that copies files on USB enabled devices to other USB enabled devices without a computer.
I would have used a midnight / norton commander style interface myself, but this looks like it’ll get the job done… And not expensive either!

Lawmaker Aims To Outlaw Hunting, Killing Animals Online
Shoot To Kill Real Animals Using Your Computer Mouse For $300

POSTED: 8:25 pm CST March 24, 2005
UPDATED: 10:32 am CST March 25, 2005

A lot of people fire fake guns playing video games. But now there’s a way to use your computer to fire an actual gun and kill live animals.

Video

Linda Eggert Reports: Internet Hunting

Live-Shot.com: See The Gun

Should Wisconsin ban real-time hunting Web sites?

So-called “Internet hunting” has prompted a firestorm of controversy and a possible ban in Wisconsin.

No way! You can actually use someone elses remote control machine gun to shoot animals?! Cool!

Embedded linux on the size of an RJ-45 connector!

Tim Radford, science editor
Wednesday March 30, 2005
Guardian

In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material
is distributed
without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in
receiving the
included information for research and educational purposes.

The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by
1,360
scientists from 95 countries – some of them world leaders in
their fields -
today warns that the almost two-thirds of the natural machinery
that
supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure.

The study contains what its authors call “a stark warning” for
the entire
world. The wetlands, forests, savannahs, estuaries, coastal
fisheries and
other habitats that recycle air, water and nutrients for all
living
creatures are being irretrievably damaged. In effect, one
species is now a
hazard to the other 10 million or so on the planet, and to
itself.

“Human activity is putting such a strain on the natural
functions of Earth
that the ability of the planet’s ecosystems to sustain future
generations
can no longer be taken for granted,” it says.

The report, prepared in Washington under the supervision of a
board chaired
by Robert Watson, the British-born chief scientist at the World
Bank and a
former scientific adviser to the White House, will be launched
today at the
Royal Society in London. It warns that:

Because of human demand for food, fresh water, timber, fibre
and fuel, more
land has been claimed for agriculture in the last 60 years than
in the 18th
and 19th centuries combined.
An estimated 24% of the Earth’s land surface is now cultivated.
Water withdrawals from lakes and rivers has doubled in the last
40 years.
Humans now use between 40% and 50% of all available freshwater
running off
the land.
At least a quarter of all fish stocks are overharvested. In
some areas, the
catch is now less than a hundredth of that before industrial
fishing.
Since 1980, about 35% of mangroves have been lost, 20% of the
world’s coral
reefs have been destroyed and another 20% badly degraded.
Deforestation and other changes could increase the risks of
malaria and
cholera, and open the way for new and so far unknown disease to
emerge.
In 1997, a team of biologists and economists tried to put a
value on the
“business services” provided by nature – the free pollination
of crops, the
air conditioning provided by wild plants, the recycling of
nutrients by the
oceans. They came up with an estimate of $33 trillion, almost
twice the
global gross national product for that year. But after what
today’s report,
Millennium cosystem Assessment, calls “an unprecedented period
of spending
Earth’s natural bounty” it was time to check the accounts.

“That is what this assessment has done, and it is a sobering
statement with
much more red than black on the balance sheet,” the scientists
warn. “In
many cases, it is literally a matter of living on borrowed
time. By using up
supplies of fresh groundwater faster than they can be
recharged, for
example, we are depleting assets at the expense of our
children.”

Flow from rivers has been reduced dramatically. For parts of
the year, the
Yellow River in China, the Nile in Africa and the Colorado in
North America
dry up before they reach the ocean. An estimated 90% of the
total weight of
the ocean’s large predators – tuna, swordfish and sharks – has
disappeared
in recent years. An estimated 12% of bird species, 25% of
mammals and more
than 30% of all amphibians are threatened with extinction
within the next
century. Some of them are threatened by invaders.

The Baltic Sea is now home to 100 creatures from other parts of
the world, a
third of them native to the Great Lakes of America. Conversely,
a third of
the 170 alien species in the Great Lakes are originally from
the Baltic.
Invaders can make dramatic changes: the arrival of the American
comb
jellyfish in the Black Sea led to the destruction of 26
commercially
important stocks of fish. Global warming and climate change,
could make it
increasingly difficult for surviving species to adapt.

A growing proportion of the world lives in cities, exploiting
advanced
technology. But nature, the scientists warn, is not something
to be enjoyed
at the weekend. Conservation of natural spaces is not just a
luxury. “These
are dangerous illusions that ignore the vast benefits of nature
to the lives
of 6 billion people on the planet. We may have distanced
ourselves from
nature, but we rely completely on the services it delivers.”

(supplied by Zathur)

Fanfic new episodes for season 9 + 10. W. T. F.

This is so cool. I need one. Puzzle Alarm Clock

Though I’m fairly certain I’d simply smash the damn thing with a hammer on day #2.

It’s wtf time again as someone with waaaay too much time on their hands brings us the Operating System icon guide – with clickable icons taking you to app shots, etc. There are also tabs for splash screens, sounds, interfaces and components.

The woman, with breasts and hips up to 100ft high, will be created 10 miles north of Newcastle from the waste material generated by open-cast mining, with each of her enormous curves concealing millions of tons of mining spoil.

Now this is a good way to use excavated ground!

You can skip the ads..

Pimp my Weapon

The Dutch government is the first in the world to both issue a Root CA (Certification Authority) and present it for inclusion in a major browser. (Firefox, duh!)

Users of Firefox 1.0.2 can use
View -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Certificates -> Manage certificates -> Authorities
and scroll down to Staat der Nederlanden to verify this. Sweet.

It’s safe to assume that this is part of the PKI Overheid initiative.

Simply find a couple of meth addicts and put them to carrying it away. Brick by brick.

Clever – a little java app that installs itself on your phone, and as soon as the simcard is changed emails the new number to you. You can then choose to have a message sent to the phone every 10 minutes with your contactdetails on it. SIMWatcher by Denda

This guy promises to castrate the owner of savetoby.com if he receives 30K US$.

http://www.heavy.com/savetobysucks/?partner=aff07

George Lucas is describing the forthcoming finale to his Star Wars series as “Titanic in space.”

Oh boy..

Obviously, fans would love to see a movie about Darth Vader running around killing people. I’m not telling that story, and I’m not interested in that. That’s not what the movie is.

What an asshat. The one thing everyone was hoping for and he deliberately doesn’t do it. Seriously, after the horrible suckfest of Ep I & II you’d think the man would have the decency to provide us with some action packed Jedi carnage, but noooo Mr Midichlorians has to make a point by giving us 2 hours of rendered steaming dogshit.

I’m still going to see it, though.

http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_5343.php/Tears_and_Darkness_in_Revenge_of_the_Sith

Also, the marketing madness is about to start again.

At engadget – unfortunately they don’t tell you how much these things weigh.

Forget cables and bluetooth – 2MBps using your skin!

Well, they were doing it by looking at how light bends and stuff before, because large mass objects (such as planets) have a gravitational pull (allthough that theory is in doubt considering the flight path of the discovery spacecraft). Anyhow, now they can detect planets and maybe the wind conditions on them by using infrared light glows.

Well, I knew this could be done using electrodes, but Braingate drills into your skull and connects the wire directly to your brain!
Very curious how long you have to train to be able to use this…

They found a Japanese one from WWII – and who said it wasn’t possible to fly bombers from submarines?

I’m not really sure what to say about this.

http://www.mpwh.net/

Then a slide rule watch isn’t a bad idea. But Breiltling Old Nav still looks better with the same functionality. But a waaaay higher price!

Out now

Out of a bunch of CD cases and a laptop