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February 22 2012

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TagAge | We Combine NFC and Print

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OS X 10.8 removes Support for critical News Sites

The long awaited update of Mapple‘s OS X to the 10.8. Mountain Lion edition brings solace to distressed web surfers. The new operating system will block any news site on the web that criticises Mapple or any of its products. For example if you want to open the web site of the New York Times [...]

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Jotform.com, the domain name of a business providing hosting for online forms, has been seized by the Secret Service, essentially gutting the company’s business.

The Wednesday seizure of JotForm.com, with the assistance of the domain name’s registrar, GoDaddy, disabled about 2 million JotForm.com forms, said Aytekin Tank, the site’s founder. The embeddable forms are hosted by the company and let sites quickly put up contact and sign-up forms online.

GoDaddy told Wired it took the site down at the request of law enforcement.

Tank has informed its “hundreds of thousands of users” in a blog post to alter their form URLs to jotform.net, which should revive a customer’s hosted forms.

“They have disabled the DNS without any prior notice or request,” Tank said of GoDaddy. “They have told us the domain name was suspended as part of an ongoing law enforcement investigation.”
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The agency did not immediately respond to Wired’s request for comment. ”

— Secret Service Seizes JotForm.com, Nuking Millions of Online Forms (Updated) | Threat Level | Wired.com

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Diese Umfrage zu #Gauck wurde vom MDR (bisher kommentarlos) soeben wieder vom Netz genommen

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Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have tapped onto the visual cortex of the congenitally blind by using sensory substitution devices (SSDs), enabling the blind in effect to “see” and even describe objects.

SSDs are non-invasive sensory aids that provide visual information to the blind via their existing senses. For example, using a visual-to-auditory SSD in a clinical or everyday setting, users wear a miniature video camera connected to a small computer (or smart phone) and stereo headphones.

The images are converted into “soundscapes,” using a predictable algorithm, allowing the user to listen to and then interpret the visual information coming from the camera.

Remarkably, proficient users who have had a dedicated (but relatively brief) training as part of a research protocol in he laboratory of Dr. Amir Amedi, of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada at the Hebrew University, are able to use SSDs to identify complex everyday objects, locate people and their postures, and read letters and words.

http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/dovrut/dovrut_search_eng.pl?mesge132914604305872560

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