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Submission + - Automatic Beer Launching Fridge

Submitted by

gondarlinux

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @01:14PM

gondarlinux writes: "From this site:
Have you ever gotten up off the couch to get a beer for the umpteenth time and thought, "What if instead of ME going to get the BEER, the BEER came to ME???" Well, that was how I first conceived of the beer launching fridge. About 3 months and several hundred dollars later I have a fully automated, remote controlled, catapulting, man-pit approved, beer launching mini-fridge. It holds 10 beers in its magazine with 14 more in reserve to store a full case. It is controlled by a keyless entry system. Pressing unlock will start the catapult rotating and when it is aiming at your target, pressing unlock again will stop it. Then the lock button can be pressed to launch a beer in the selected direction." Here's the video:"

Submission + - Digital music store comparison website

Submitted by thebluecat on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @12:49PM

thebluecat writes: TuneTuzer aims to clarify digital music soup — A UK man has set up a website that compares digital music stores, after realising that if he changes his portable music player then his digital music collection would become 'unusable' http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/106658/tunetuzer-aims- to-clarify-digital-music-soup.html

Submission + - The Internet is full, will all teens disembark

Submitted by on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @12:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/editorial-blogs/davey -winder/15067/the-internet-is-full-will-all-teenag ers-please-leave.thtml Internet capacity is hitting tipping point, bandwidth is decreasing in real terms, there is only one solution: kick all the teens off the Internet bus.

Submission + - Barack Obama's New Site Exploited

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 11, 2007 @01:27AM

An anonymous reader writes: MyBarackObama.com, Barack Obama's social networking site allowing supporters to write blogs and organize events, is vulnerable to a cross site scripting attack. The hole would allow an attacker to gain access to a user's account if they visit a site containing malicious code. A description of the exploit is given along with sample code.

Submission + - Is Apple making bank on undelivered iTunes songs?

Submitted by

kingpetey

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @02:51PM

kingpetey writes: "Ever give an iTunes song as a gift? The folks at this blog did an experiment where they sent 20 songs (K-Fed, which is hilarious in itself) to different contacts and tracked how many made it successfully. A few failed, but Apple didn't notify them of the failure. If it happened to me, I'd be — how you say — royally pissed. They describe the experiment here:

So what happened to the 20 songs we gifted? iTunes had a twenty-five percent failure rate: fifteen of the gifted songs arrived while five never made it. However, Apple took the full price each of the 20 songs without alerting us about the failed deliveries: no refund, no second try, nothing.
...
This little experiment begs the question, how much money is Apple making on undelivered music? Let's say that only two percent of the one billion songs downloaded last year were "gifted" songs, that would add up to two million songs. Now, that's hardly a drop in Apple's bucket of revenue, but if a twenty-five percent failure rate is the norm, then 500,000 songs go undelivered while Apple makes around $495,000 for failing to deliver songs.
The full article is at http://www.simpletechnology.net/is-apple-making-ba nk-on-undelivered-itunes-songs"

Submission + - Getting Started with ASP.NET AJAX

Submitted by

Coug1ar

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @02:43PM

Coug1ar writes: "Here are the simple steps to create your first ASP.NET AJAX Application from scratch. This article tells you everything about creating a sample ASP.NET AJAX web application if you have .NET 2.0 Framework and Visual Studio 2005. If you do not have them, you can download the .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer Express 2005 free.

To read the full article, please go to http://www.jotnow.info/full-Story.aspx?i=28&Story= Getting-Started-with-ASP.NET-AJAX"

Submission + - Flytech Dragonfly ships, Radio Shack has it

Submitted by

robotsrule

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @02:24PM

robotsrule writes: "WowWee's wing flapping flying insect robot is now available on Radio Shack's web site for online ordering. The $49 Flytech Dragonfly is currently exclusive to them although reports indicate that in a month shipping may open up to other retailers. Except for a tiny propeller on its tail that is used primarily for trim, the Flytech Dragonfly gets its power from flapping its wings. It is based on a design made by Sean Frawley, who at the time was a high school student and was making and selling rubber-band powered Ornithopters with a friend through their own fledgling business. Sean recently graduated Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. and is now a project manager for WowWee."

Submission + - University professor chastised for using Tor

Submitted by

Irongeek_ADC

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @02:15PM

Irongeek_ADC writes: "As reported in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, University IT "professionals" came knocking on Professor Censarini's door asking about why he was using the Tor network. While there they also asked that he not teach his students about it, and said it was likely against university policy. An interesting read that goes to show even Universities are turning big brother."

Submission + - Build Dynamic Rich Web Apps With ThinWire

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 08, 2007 @01:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: Learn how ThinWire, an open-source development framework can build Web applications that look and feel like desktop applications. These tutorials are designed to teach you how to develop rich Web applications using ThinWire and Java programming.

Part 1 — Learn Dynamic layout management

Part 2 — Using the SplitLayout class

Part 3 — Creat dynamic configurable style

Submission + - U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb 'em

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @01:22PM

coondoggie writes: "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation's critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source. All the military services are preparing for military cyber-response. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-rsa-c yber-attacks.html"

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