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Emotiv presentation from Tan Le

I hope this does indeed change the interface of the human – electronics communication.
If it does – bye keyboard, mouse, multi-touch, whatever – control the stuff with your thoughts (well brainwaves actually).

http://www.emotiv.com/

P.S.
F… I would like to live in US to order this gadget and try it out. Just to fell like a jedi you know :)

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Ron Wayne


Meet Ron Wayne, 3rd founder of Apple. Who sold his 10% stock for $800 in 1976 – estimated today’s worth $22 billion.
Full story: http://gizmodo.com/5574809/the-forgotten-apple-founders-unforgettable-mistake

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LMGTFY

The next time anyone asks a question that has an easy-to-find answer in Google, I will use this:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Use+Google+Before+Posting+Questions+In+This+Forum

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Some good news about Latvia

Since recently Latvia has been famous for storming the bottom-line of the country-comparing lists (even bad PR is still PR?), it is a good feeling to occasionally make it to the top of some.
1. Second place worldwide with regard to internet upload/download speed, according to speedtest.net results:
http://www.speedtest.net/global.php#0
2. Latvia has “lowest retail prices for mobile voice services in the EU with just €0.04 average price per minute compared to an EU average of €0.13″ according to an European Commission report released yesterday.

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Prima guide pdf password crack (encryption key crack)

If anyone has trouble with the awful Prima PDF reader (it’s incredibly slow), just locate the PDF file from the program files entry of the guide. It is open-password protected. Fortunately, for now they use 40-bit encryption, which is no problem for
“Advanced PDF Password Recovery v5 0 Pro DOA rar”
Pass key found in ~12 hours of processing on my PC. Enterprise version of the soft could do it in some minutes, ElcomSoft claims.

Btw. – the developers/sellers of the password recovery programs maybe should rethink their selling model. Now they try to sell a program that does crack passwords, for a relatively high price (price range 49eur – 399eur for this particular product). As most users (like myself) need to crack just 1 document, or some documents at most, it would be nice to have an option that cracks a password/key for a given document, for a smaller price (5 euros or so). I mean they can now use cloud computing solutions like Amazon EC2
The only problem with the model is that password protected documents are usually sensitive – which was not the case here.

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Google search screen usage – FAIL

The way Google Search looks on a widescreen, is a FAIL. Don’t know if this is due to the recent redesign or not, but I noticed the annoyance yesterday.

There are of course solutions like http://www.digitalalchemy.tv/2007/05/searching-google-in-widescreen-two.html , but that’s still hacking which should not be necessary.

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Agile skateboarding

“Agile methods break tasks into small increments with minimal planning, and do not directly involve long-term planning.”

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development and failblog.

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