E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering
July 22, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Ian Lamont writes "The three owners of Internet currency service e-gold have pled guilty to money laundering in the U.S. District Court for D.C.. The service is based in the West Indies, but the directors apparently live in Florida. They haven't been sentenced yet, but potentially face decades in prison and millions in fines. In addition, the principal director posted a blog entry yesterday saying that 'criminal activity will not be tolerated,' and pledging to eliminate the loopholes that allowed money laundering to thrive on the service. He also claims that e-gold has more transaction volume in a single quarter than all of the first-generation Web currency services like Cybercash, Beenz, and Flooz completed over their lifetimes. Ironically, one of the reasons that contributed to Flooz's demise in 2001 was rampant money laundering."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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AVR demo platform rocks the color VGA +audio
July 22, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Linus Akesson and friends have created the "Craft" demo - using an ATmega88 to generate 4 channels of 8-bit sound and 3D graphics.
Timing is crucial: One display line takes 24 ?s, and is followed by a 7.75 ?s break called the horizontal blanking period. After 480 such lines, there's a longer break (1428.75 ?s, equal to 45 full display lines) before it all starts over. Two digital signals are used to synchronize the sender (graphics card, custom demo hardware etc.) and the receiver (monitor).- Craft demo Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this! Tags: make
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Sound is generated during the horizontal blanking periods. That gives a sample rate of 31496 kHz. Of course, only the really timing critical part (waveform generation) is performed during the horizontal blanking. Melody, rhythm, amplitude envelopes, arpeggios etc. are handled by a playroutine which gets called once for every video frame, during vertical blanking.
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OCZ’s Neural Impulse Actuator gets reviewed, mice everywhere safe for now
July 21, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Peripherals
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Artist taking commissions to pay for spider bite treatment
July 21, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
A poisonous spider bit artist Matthew Woodson, and the medical treatment is expensive. He's accepting commissions to offset the costs of the treatment, which is expected to last eight months. (Portfolio here)
On Monday of last week I was bitten by a yet unknown poisonous spider on my right knee. By Tuesday I was running a high fever and unable to walk. On Friday evening I collapsed and was rushed to the ER. After a series of x-rays and a whole lot of examination, I was informed that I had a rather large abscess and cellulitis due to the spider's bite. I was sent home early Saturday morning after having my knee surgically "drained", and in more pain than I have ever been in. After a doctor's appointment this Monday, another abscess was drained and I was informed that I would need to see a doctor weekly until the wound had healed, which could possibly take up to 8 months. Within these 8 months there will remain the very real threat of the infection spreading into the bone of my knee, as well as the possibility of blood poisoning.Kill Spiders, Buy Art (via Drawn)Any possible commission you could have for me; gifts, wedding invitations, cards, wall art, tattoos, anything. I am interested in the job. I will also definitely consider larger personal commissions, considering the work involved. I would prefer to only be working in black and white, but don't be afraid to ask about color. I haven't exactly figured out how pricing will go yet, but obviously pricing will be negotiable and varying, but for small to medium sized drawings I was thinking between $100 - $500 through paypal.
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Wordpress App for the iPhone About Ready
July 21, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Wordpress just announced on their blog, that their iPhone application 
was successfully uploaded to the iTunes store and is currently in the reviewed state.
Since it is in review mode, no one can be certain when we will be able to download it, but it could be as early as tonight based upon other apps that were under review previously.
This new app will be warmly welcomed from thousand of bloggers who use this great site daily worldwide. Personally, I have been watching this app closely as I am consistently on my mobile and often wished I had access to wordpress via my iPhone in a simple format. The Wordpress app will work with all versions that are 2.5.1 or later. TypePad currently has an iPhone app, and were first to market with it. It would seem logical that LiveJournal will also follow suit.
After downloading and using the new WordPress app, I will post another story describing the experience, and the ease of uploading photos to it. Should it work as easy as the regular web based version of WordPress, you can expect to see almost all of my posts coming from my iPhone.
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Make: Austin Weird
July 21, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Dale Dougherty writes:
Mike Weiblen showed up to the Maker Faire Austin Town Hall on Sunday night with his own handmade T-shirt mashup, Make Austin Weird. Mike and about thirty other makers got together to meet with the Maker Faire team and discuss their own plans for the event scheduled for October 18-19 at the Travis County Expo Center and Fairgrounds.Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Maker Faire | Digg this! Tags: make
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Web 2.0 Lessons For Corporate Dev Teams
July 21, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
jcatcw writes "Quick, incremental updates, along with heavy user involvement, are key characteristics of the emerging software development methods championed by a new generation of Web 2.0 start-ups. A survey conducted for Computerworld showed that an overwhelmingly majority of the respondents said that traditional corporate development teams could benefit from Web 2.0 techniques, specifically the incremental feature releases, quick user feedback loops and quality assurance programs that include users. Fifty seven percent of the respondents said that problem-solving and analytical skills will be key requirements for next generation developers. The bottom-line: corporate development teams need to get to know their users."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Panasonic reveals DMC-FZ28 megazoom, DMC-LX3 and DMC-FX37
July 21, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Filed under: Digital Cameras
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Nokia and Qualcomm patent arbitration begins: millions at stake, still boring
July 21, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Filed under: Cellphones
Looks like that agreement between Nokia and Qualcomm to postpone the dozen or so lawsuits they've filed against each other worldwide while an arbitrator tries to help sort out the mess is starting to bear some fruit -- the two cellphone giants are headed to court in Delaware on Wednesday to start the healing. In essence, Qualcomm says that Nokia still owes license fees on a CDMA agreement that expired in 2007 since it's been using the patented tech, and Nokia says that it doesn't owe anything because it's shelled out over $1B since 2001 and giving Qualcomm any more cash would be unfair. Not surprisingly for these two, it's likely that the outcome here will essentially be a draw, with the judge ruling that Qualcomm can charge whatever it wants, but that Nokia didn't extend the agreement. We'll see how things go, though -- this is just the beginning of what could very well be the early start of close to the end. Video summary of the entire dispute after the break.Continue reading Nokia and Qualcomm patent arbitration begins: millions at stake, still boring
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Jinsei Game of Life pedometer makes you exercise to play
July 21, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
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