30
Nov
Racism, hatred… face it! Wherever you go, there’s at least someone who lives
patriotism the false way. In the following video, I was shocked about a young
woman with child complaining about immigrants and black people in London.
Delicate: She complained in a full suburb train with some black people!
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November 30, 2011Netspark
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29
Nov
Many Airlines have been grounded in the past 10 years. About
200 in total! Today the third largest of them has been hit by
insolvency today. The American Airlines are well-known all over
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28
Nov
Seems, Microsoft is trying to bring out a similar feature, called TellMe, as Apple
has with Siri. However the successful recognition rate is far behind Apple’s Siri.
Now you could impute pro-Apple advertisement to me but I don’t need to do
any way of commercial advertisement for apple or the like. A video shows, why!
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27
Nov
I am annoyed with all that password security stuff, OAuth crap and what’s all around with it!
Always some errors with any security-related stuff because they change things here and
there. What’s the game anyways Why change a running system for god’s sake? I am going to
kick out every single plugin subject to any changes that render my blog unusable.
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26
Nov
Black Friday as the american people call the last friday in November. The day
where some people get theyr christmas bonusses. The day where shops will be
the place of non-retaining, yelling, scratching, beating and bickering people
fighting over slightly reducing goods, no matter if they can use them anyways!
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November 26, 2011Netspark
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25
Nov
The iPhone 4S hit’s the negative news again… Long waiting times, short battery
life… and now, annoying ticks and pops during some calls seem to add to the list
of bugs of Apple’s newest coup. It seems as if Apple has to deal with some real
nasty issues concerning design and technics of the iPhone 4S.
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24
Nov
This video shows a ‘brinicle’, sort of a tornado made of ice that grows from the
swimming ice shelfs down to the ground of the sea. And when touching the
ground, it kills all life that tries to pass the freeze border. A spectacular
timelapse film made by a sea scientists team under heavy conditions.
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November 24, 2011Netspark
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23
Nov
When you think of CCTV the first thought is mostly of total control!
In the following video it is the medium to get a rogue taxi driver behind
bars. So what happened? A passenger of a taxi driver stated that he
wants to stop the ride when the taxometer reaches 6 pounds.
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22
Nov
Well, the weather is kinda odd this year. Horror news about increasing climatic temps,
more greenhouse gas effect and the ongoing pollution of the earth are probably the
cause for this year’s winter to start later. Or finally never… who knows. At least the
temperatures are rather mild for November. So hopefully winter will still come.
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21
Nov
The rumors start cooking again. Samsung is said to be shoing the new Galaxy S3 on the
Mobile World Congress in Spring 2012 and Apple seems to be finally working on the
iPhone 5. So what’s up? The Galaxy S3 shall come with a 1.5GHz quadcore processor
while the iPhone 5 is still only a visual concept with no further details.
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20
Nov
Today, Universal has filed lawsuit against Grooveshark, a music streaming service.
Universal claims rights to about 100.000 songs that are available in Grooveshark’s
song library making the lawsuit monetary value up to 100 million US dollars. Crazy stuff!
The reason for Universal trying to sue Grooveshark can’t be followed as Grooveshark
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19
Nov
WebP? PNG? These two acronyms areunfamiliar to you?
Well, this is mostly interesting for Web designers. WebP
promises higher compression rates than PNG. Unfortu-
nately WebP isn’t supported well by now.
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November 19, 2011Netspark
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18
Nov
Not less than 55 days, 12.255 miles, and over 200’000 pictures later,
a so-called time-lapse video showing a roundtrip from New York (NY)
south to Florida (FL) then west to California (CA) north to Washington (WA) and
then east back to New York has been made up. Travel the USA in 5 minutes!
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17
Nov
Today, Apple has got the patent on location-based information services. Using
GPS to locate the user and then providing him/her with the available infor-
mation available to that location seems to be a growing market. No wonder,
Apple wants to protect this kind of intellectual property…
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16
Nov
Today, Intel has shown a first mockup of the new Knights Corner processor.
The processor is not like other processors but rather to see as a co-processor
that shall assist exisiting XEON-Processors in multithreaded computing. With
50 and more cores on one die, each rated at 1 to 1.2 GHz, the co-processor…
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15
Nov
Today, Intel celebrates it’s 40th birthday. Exactly On November 15th, 1971,
the first Microprocessor with integrated circuitry has been publicly released.
With 2’300 transistors clocked at initially 108 kHz, later 0.7 MHz, the
processor was able to do 92’600 instructions per second.
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14
Nov
You all know this. It’s around mid of November and the environment
starts to be everyday in grey. Cold temperatures of about 5
degrees, fog, moist and slippery sidewalks make you wanna
sleep all day long. Also it’s the time where the most projects run.
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13
Nov
Well… As you have probably noticed, my video from the lightshow
Rendez-Vous Bundesplatz 2011 in Bern may not be available to all users. The reason:
The Music industry, that wants to have control over everything that deals with music
and motion pictures. Sure… copyrights have to be saved… but this way?
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12
Nov
Seems as if Hacking and theft of sensitivedata is getting more and more an issue these days.
This time Valve got hacked and according to Valve, a possible access to the customers
credit card data also got possible. At current, Access to the steam network is not possible.
However Steam suggests that you check your credit card account balance regularly.
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11
Nov
As I have already posted some videos on lightshows in Dresden and Prague, I was
finally able to witness such an event myself in Bern. The Bundeshaus is the stage.
The 17 minutes presentation shows the history of Switzerland and how the swiss
confederation assembled over the years. Spectacular to see!
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10
Nov
Today, Standard&Poors have discredited France for a while by taking their top rating AAA
and downgrading it to AA. According to Standard&Poors, this was the result of a technical
issue where an automated system did not report proper values for France related to its
actual credit rating. France itself has started investigating in this case also.
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09
Nov
When you’re in the USA you’d better avoid filming cops. They don’t want to be
seen on private videos when on duty. And if you’re ignoring this warning, then
the following might happen to you. Although in this case it was a bit hefty that
the filmer, despite asking if filming is okay, got shot with a rubber projectile.
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08
Nov
This story describes how the webcam got invented. A small idea grown during
the question on how full a coffee machine’s can in a distant office room is.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser picked up the idea to remotely watch the coffee can by
a camera pointing to the coffee machine shooting a picture every 20 seconds.
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November 8, 2011Netspark
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08
Nov
It ain’t a good day for Apple. Today, Charlie Miller has shown another exploit,
that could Apple bring some big problems. The reason: an unobtrusive stock
ticker app. The purpose (besides shoing stock tickers): Getting access to the
inner core applications and files of iDevices. No wonder, Apple striked back!
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November 8, 2011Netspark
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08
Nov
It seems that this young man has spent much time on his NES/SNES.
Why? Because he’s very good at replaying the tunes of the various games on
his violin. The results are on the one hand funny on the other hand also
amazing. There’s not much to say about it. Enjoy the show!
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08
Nov
There it is, the shiny new version of Firefox. Overhauled with new features, an
improved display engine and a faster javscript engine this new version shall
bring a new browser experience. However have not many users digested the
sixth major release, the seventh is still much propagated.
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07
Nov
Or how the IFPI wants us to believe why controlling the internet is good. The argument:
Child pornography. And whenever that term is evolved, some sites get on an index of some
ISP’s that block the access in total. So wht’s the most efficient way to take a site down that
publishes copyrighted material? Right: Accuse that site of broadcasting child pornography!
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November 7, 2011Netspark
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07
Nov
Well… the MTV Europe Music Award 2011 has been done and the stars have
been awarded. While Hayden Pannetiere, known from “Heroes” has announced
the winners, a desperate fan of her had the glorious idea to rush the stage bare
naked. I still wonder why there was no Security to stop him…
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06
Nov
Todays topic deals with the censorship of the Internet. You all know, that especially
China is strictly filtering the internet for any unwanted criticism of the regime that rules
the country. China has installed the Golden Wall (a government-administered firewall)
to “protect” the chinese people from any bad influence that may come from the internet.
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November 6, 2011Netspark
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05
Nov
Todays news hit Apple very hard: Motorola, holder of two patents, Apple is
violationg, has reached that the sale of iPhones is prohibited in Germany. As
the christmas sale is just around the corner, this is by far the worst news,
Apple could get these days. So which patents has Apple violated anyways?
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04
Nov
So there’s Groupon as a new U.S. stock market player. The revenues flooded
700 million dollars into Groupon’s stash. Lots of money to play with and also
lots of investors that now rely on them to do something good with the money.
But why am I so sceptic about Groupon’s latest big deal? Get a load of this…
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04
Nov
Today I spotted a video that made me think about reptiles again. Well, in Spain
it seems, some snakes prefer the money output slot to hold a rest or something
else they’re doing in there. At least a viper is a poisonous snake and you’d
prefer not to be bitten by such one. Especially not when you’re on vacation.
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November 4, 2011Netspark
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