By Mark Wilson, Gizmodo – May 17, 2010 at 02:03PM
For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I asked you to shoot whatever you wanted. As the 116 photos that follow prove, this was a great decision. More »
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By Erica Ho, Lifehacker – May 17, 2010 at 02:00PM
Most people take precautions to wipe data off their computers’ hard drives before getting rid of them, but take note: Most copy machines store a digital image of every document scanned or copied.
As explained by a CBS investigation (see video above) and highlighted by tech blog Digital Inspiration, the built-in hard drive of most photocopiers contains and stores this information to improve overall performance. The catch is that it allows anyone access to anything ever scanned if they know how to, which turns into a huge security risk if you decide to get rid of the machine without wiping out the hard drive:
If a fraudster manages to pull out the disk from the photocopier, it can be a real “goldmine,” as he’ll probably find everything there from employee credit card numbers to resumes to faxes and much more.
Fortunately, most manufacturers provide exact instructions on how to clear this data, so check your machine’s manual before you get rid of it.
By Sebastian Anthony, Download Squad – May 17, 2010 at 01:00PM
Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
Before continuing, bear in mind that this game sucked me in for at least 30 minutes — so if you like bombs, or you simply don’t have the time to waste, you should probably stop reading now.
Building Blaster does exactly what it says on the tin and is as fun as you’d expect. The ‘buildings’ are simple towers made of different materials with differing properties. Your job is to blow them up using a variety of explosives: you start with dynamite, but you quickly get flasks of nitroglycerin to help move things along. The game itself is easy, but to get a higher score you need to use as few explosives as possible — and avoid the civilians! Blow up the evil-looking dude and you get bonus points.
There are some expensive ‘unconventional’ weapons available in the shop too. The UFO — and antimatter — are sure to make your little time-wasting session slightly more… illuminating.
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By Kevin Purdy, Lifehacker – May 17, 2010 at 07:00AM
Facebook’s privacy settings are notoriously complex, and the results of changes hard to see instantly. ReclaimPrivacy.org has a handy bookmarklet that shows which potentially insecure and privacy-invading settings are enabled on your Facebook account when you click it.
ReclaimPrivacy’s bookmarklet focuses on just a few key areas where Facebook can share information with the public—having your contacts, connections, and tagged photos exposed to the public, as well as allowing your friends to accidentally expose that information themselves. It also looks at your relationship with Facebook’s personalization, applications, and other aspects to see what Facebook and independent developers can find out about you, then rates your exposure level in simple Good, Caution, or Insecure levels, along with offering links to change those settings.
We’ve previously shown you how to see what Facebook publicly publishes about you, as well as fine-tune your settings manually to “quit” Facebook without actually quitting. For a quicker, explanatory glance at what’s going on with your account, though, this bookmarklet is a great tool. Thanks for the link, Rufo!
By Ben Blanquera, Techlife – May 16, 2010 at 08:51PM
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By kdawson, Slashdot – May 15, 2010 at 09:13PM
theodp writes “Provoked by an iPad ad promising a ‘revolution,’ Valleywag’s Ryan Tate fired off a late-night missive to Steve Jobs. Jobs responded, and the two engaged in an after-midnight e-mail debate over lockdown, Cocoa vs. Flash, battery life, and whether ‘freedom from porn’ is a bug or a feature. ‘The times they are a changin’,’ quipped Jobs, ‘and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is.’ Tate was unswayed by the Apple CEO’s reality distortion field, but did come away impressed by Jobs’ willingness to spar one-on-one over his beliefs. At 2:00 in the morning on a weekend.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
By Rich Whittle, Business Opportunities Weblog – May 15, 2010 at 06:15PM
When Trevis Kurz looked around at his surroundings last March, he knew he was representing Ohio State to people from all over the world. The commotion was incredible, the excitement was infectious and the competition seemed insurmountable.
“There were 50,000 people,” Kurz said. “It was total chaos, I didn’t know what was going on that first day.”
Kurz is not a five-star recruit on the men’s basketball team. He is a third-year in industrial design who placed first at the 2010 International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago, reports The Lantern.
Kurz’s winning entry in Chicago was what he called the Sanas Smoke Alarm. Kurz had been assigned to the baby boomer generation and discovered that many people he talked to had problems changing the batteries on their alarms.
“I found out that a lot of people couldn’t even access their smoke alarms without a ladder, and so the whole premise for me was to design a smoke alarm that you could access without getting off the ground,” Kurz said.
So he designed a model that works with an everyday broom handle, using a quick-release spring to drop the alarm down the broom handle to eye level for battery changing and a face that acts as an “off button” that can be hit if the alarm sounds and there isn’t a fire.
Photo by osu.edu.
From Business Opportunities Weblog.
By Ben Blanquera, Techlife – June 03, 2010 at 06:25AM
OSU revamps commercialization office – Business First of Columbus
Ohio State University will leverage the expertise of its business school and expansive research faculty, while still seeking outside market experts, in a reorganization of its lagging efforts to turn discoveries into dollars.
The university announced Wednesday it is creating a new commercialization center to be housed at the Fisher College of Business that will cooperate heavily with other schools such as law, medicine, engineering and agriculture. A national search is under way for a commercialization officer to lead the effort.
While among the top 10 schools for research spending, at $719 million this year, Ohio State is at the bottom of the Big Ten and trails many smaller Ohio public and private schools for its licensing income from patents, at $1.9 million in 2009. The school has attributed that to both state law restrictions and a long-standing culture that had discouraged entrepreneurial efforts before the 2000s, so it has been playing catch-up during the several years it takes to develop income from a patent.
While the school has seen steady growth in patents and startups, the new organization will represent a leap, said Caroline Whitacre, vice president for research, who led the reorganization with Chris Poon, Fisher’s dean.
The new center will employ Fisher’s Center for Entrepreneurship, which has sponsored business plan competitions and created startup companies but until now hasn’t always applied that acumen to drugs or inventions from elsewhere in the university. Poon and Whitacre also are seeking a financial commitment from the university for a Proof of Concept Center, which will help the most promising discoveries with prototypes, business plans and market research to make them more attractive to potential licensees.
The university had probably tried to help too many researchers seek patents for projects that might not make it, Poon and Whitacre said. Now, panels of deans, faculty and outside market experts will judge which proposals have the best potential to sell, Poon and Whitacre said.
“For the most part the deans and the colleges were not really actively involved in looking at the array of technologies and prioritizing ones that we should be putting resources against,” Poon said. “It’s very, very difficult to serve the needs of all the faculty members out there. … The tech transfer office is not and never will be experts on all these fields of science.”
Jean Schelhorn, associate vice president for technology transfer and commercialization, will have her position eliminated in July. She will continue to work on licensing projects within the Office of Research and can be a candidate for the new post, Whitacre said.
By nipper, The Invent Blog – June 02, 2010 at 04:29PM
Via this press release, the USPTO and Google have teamed up to distribute bulk USPTO data via a Google page: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto.html.
The good news: easier access to USPTO data.
The bad news: it is BULK data. Don’t expect it to be sexy, or easy to access/use.
Let’s hope that Google (or someone else) starts doing some cool things with the BULK data…
Thoughts? The comments are open.
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By Drea, Business Pundit – June 02, 2010 at 01:01PM
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