Comment Re: coin, sides, same (Score 1) 259
The German version of the article has a few more details. One of the best sources for creating these tools are the Windows error reports. Intercepting those gives you plenty of week spots to gain access.
Comment Re:Wrong questions.. (Score 2) 671
I think you answered it already: ".. than live with the shame". Why should it be a shame and not something perfectly normal?
Comment maybe nokia could buy them (Score 2) 305
and close them down as symbian before handing the keys over to microsoft
Comment Sounds great for WikiLeaks (Score 3, Insightful) 146
Since EasyDNS couldn't handle them anymore. Oh wait, wasn't there a problem with Amazon to start with?
Comment Re:Document Management Software and OCR (Score 3, Informative) 211
For an Open Source DMS that generates searchable PDF Files, try ArchivistaBox: http://sourceforge.net/projects/archivista/
Tesseract (including fracture / black-letter recognition) and the Linux port of Cuneiform (BSD licence) OCR engines are used for text recognition. The hocr2pdf module (see http://www.exactcode.de/ is used to generate the searchable PDF files.
(http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=868471)
Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car 324
Colin Smith writes "Dean Kamen, (inventor of the Segway) has combined a Stirling engine with a battery-powered electric vehicle based on the Ford Think to provide a fully decoupled electric hybrid car which can run on any fuel which can provide enough heat to run the Stirling generator. Think are also producing a purely battery 'Think City' car which is capable of 62mph and with a range of 126miles." Some stats on the Ford Think: Top speed, 55mph; 0-30, 6.5 seconds; Range, 60 miles on battery.
