An internet troll
who posted obscene messages on Facebook sites set up in memory of dead people has been jailed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Omega’s game of cat and mouse with the present and past continues. The last several sport watches they released seem to have at least one leg (from a design perspective) in the past. This new Speedmaster Broad Arrow Co-Axial watch isn’t that much different. It is like a modern man in a vintage Armani suit that still looks pretty good today. The Broad Arrow Speedmaster watch has been around for a long time. The point of the name? Well compared to your standard Omega Speedmaster Professional watch the Broad Arrow has…. well, it has a broad minute hand and an arrow hour hand. And to think that Broad Arrow just sounded like a cool name for a Speedmaster — via A Blog to Read
The Hamilton Watch Company was founded in 1892, to build only watches of the highest quality
. Their pocket watches became known across America for reliability, but it was the 1917 introduction of a military wristwatch that truly established them. Those early wristwatches used tiny 0-sized 17-jewel movements originally designed for women’s pendent watches.
The company went on to produce the world’s first electric watch in 1957, but they faced increasing competition from Japanese watchmakers. In an attempt to compete, they teamed up with Ricoh to produce electric mechanisms in their Lancaster, Pennsylvania factory which were then sent to Japan for final assembly. The venture failed, and Hamilton acquired Swiss watchmaker Bueren in an attempt to fight the Japanese onslaught with quality. It didn’t work, forcing the American factory to close in 1969 — via Retro Thing
A Google malware researcher gave a rare peek inside the company’s massive anti-malware and anti-phishing efforts at the SecTor conference here, and the data that the company has gathered shows that the attackers who make it their business to infect sites and exploit users are adapting their tactics very quickly and creatively to combat the efforts of Google and others — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Enterprises addicted to Microsoft’s nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser are having a tough time migrating to Windows 7, an analyst said today.
And although Microsoft has made it clear it wants IE6 dead and buried, the company needs to help solve a problem it created when it released the non-standard browser, then pressed businesses to develop IE6-specific applications, said Michael Silver of Gartner.
Microsoft would rather put the non-standard browser technology behind it,
Silver said in a recently published research report.
Easy for Microsoft to say; it doesn’t have to deal with the IE6 fallout — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops’ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks. Dead Drops
is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am injecting
USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and date. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. Dead Drops
is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities. Full documentation, movie, map and How to make your own dead drop
manual coming soon! Stay tuned — via Aram Bartholl’s Blog
The Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has slammed the Federal Government’s proposed data retention law and called for an inquiry to ensure data is not mishandled if the plan goes ahead — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Boing Boing has suffered a serious defacement in a suspected SQL injection attack that left a vile image and YouTube video scrawled across its home page – via redwolf.newsvine.com
Gorgeous, massive silver dry brush Octopus hair clip that doubles as brooch! Made from resin. Light-weight for it’s size and holds strong without pulling at your hair. Also has a brooch pin when you want to add it to your bag, jacket or corset — via Etsy
Quite a few badly written apps like to create folders in specific locations, and expect them to be there and nowhere else. For example, my ~/Documents folder contains items such as ‘Microsoft User Data’, ‘Steam Content’, ‘TomTom’, etc. Some even create folders in your home directory or worse, at the root level of the hard disk!
Sometimes you can set a different location in the preferences of the application, but sometimes there’s just no way. If you move the folder, the application will become hopelessly confused and/or create a new copy where it expects it. You can make these folders invisible, but then you can’t easily access them anymore — via Mac OSX Hints
Steve Thomas has made some pretty amazing Star Wars mash up travel posters. They are very much inspired by some of the vintage travel posters of the early 20th century.
These were done in association with a website in order to have them printed. That website is still working on making that a reality — via Star Wars: The Old Republic
The Greens have thrown their support behind Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey’s push to rein in the banks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Switching Scotland to Central European Time would reduce road casualties, improve health and boost the economy, according to new research — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police in India have arrested a Sri Lankan man with 2,060 diamonds and other precious stones in his stomach — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Thomas Young doesn’t like barking dogs. He hates them so much, in fact, that Stanwood Police say he came home drunk on Wednesday night and killed his roommate’s three mixed-breed puppies. Though Young, 56, is claiming he doesn’t know how the puppies died, the cops say they found him with blood on his hands and shirt and three no-longer-barking-dogs in his living room — via redwolf.newsvine.com
MI6 has declined to pass on information about individuals to foreign countries if it could lead to torture even though terrorist activity
could be the end result, the head of the agency said.
Sir John Sawers, responding to persistent allegations of collusion in torture by the security and intelligence agencies, described the potential to save lives but said the risk of human rights abuse threw up real, constant, operational dilemmas
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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