Jetpacks!

Swiss man crossed the English channel in under 10 minutes. 22 miles from calais to dover. 49 years old this guy was! An ex fighter pilot, granted, but even so, 125 mph is rather fast flying in the air.

He did win £1,000 from the Daily Mail, 100 years after they started the competition, although I doubt this was his initial target,as I guessing it cost a lot more than that to put on.

It started with a 8,200 feet climb in a light aircraft (sort of cheating really), and then jumped out and flew using the jet pack with wings. The wing span is 8.2 feet, weighing in at a total of 121 lb. The actual decent took another 3 minuets, making a total of 13 minuets from flight to ground.

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As promised from a while back, this is part 2 of the tutorials: Installing ported apps from the G900.  The G900 is the latest offering (and probably the last) of a smartphone running UIQ3 from Sony Ericsson.  It has the same specs as my P1i except for a 5MP camera and it also has a much improved user interface which sadly aren’t available on the P1.  This is where the mods come in.  At the moment there are only two mods available.  One utilises the camera LEDs and the other is a nifty little app…

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There is nothing that annoys me more than people who demand special attention and special care for the most retarded of reasons.  There are those who cannot read black letters on a white background, yet they can read black characters on a yellow background.  How does that work?  Surely there’s a higher contrast between white and black than there is against black and yellow (I’ve since been informed that its not contrast but forms of colour blindness and side effects of dyslexia that causes this. No offence intended). The one that annoys me most is those who claim to be allergic to wifi or other radiowaves this condition is called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (check out the link to read more about it (mostly biased)).  Now i believe there are many flaws with this, before i go into the flaws i shall first explain what WiFi is.

Wifi is a radio signal, on the Electromagnetic scale it is on the the long wavelength, low frequency, low energy side of the spectrum.  On the other side you get high energy, very short wavelength, high frequency gamma rays which can cause damage to cells and penetrate thick layers of lead.   The visible light part is in the middle of this spectrum. Now i can understand if one “allergic” to gamma rays seeing as it has the potential to kill anything that’s exposed to it.

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There is a pretty high chance that there is intelligent life out there.  Our galaxy the milky way is about 100,000 lightyears in diameter (a lightyear is the distance that light travels in a period of a year, that’s exactly 9,460,730,472,580 kM).  No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space…  Uhh yeah, even if we were being watched I doubt any ET life will be interested in us and our failure as a race.   To add insult to injury, the online social networking site Bebo has decided it will spam the galaxy (even though it fills your inbox with crap)!

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Next time you have a go at someone for not having any Anti virus or Firewall or ANY KIND OF PROTECTION AT ALL on their computers, maybe you should have ago at those at NASA first! YES, even those rocket scientists need us geek’s to secure their computers!

NASA admitted that laptops that were on the ISS in July were infected with a well known virus Gammima.AG, which was detected in 2007! Seriously guys, what’s going on? You can fly above our heads, and yet you run no Anti Virus of any kind?

Hang about, NASA continues to say this isn’t the first time a computer virus has been into space! They have never been anything but a “nuisance” according to NASA.

So what does this virus actually do? Lets find out.

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Yeh, that’s right. Every computer geek likes to think they can hack, but in reality, they can’t, and they know it! MSc Ethical Hacking and Computer Security course at Abertay University!

Apparently, the estimated income of a student after graduation is £55,000 pa. That’s not a bad wage! Most people assume that if they install AVG, all will be well on their computer, and they are protected. What they don’t know is that they are wrong! AVG DOESN’T protect you completely. Needless to say, YOU probably already know this anyway, which is why if you do use AVG, you have some sort of firewall too.

Have you ever heard the expression, “it takes one to know one”? Well Abertay University have taken this one takes this one step further, and state on their course page, “It takes a thief to catch a thief”. So are they admitting to having a thieving course? They say no. They compare it to a police detective know how criminals steal, in order to prevent, or catch them. Quite frankly, it seems like a rather good idea.

It hasn’t yet been accredited by the BSC, however the undergrad course with a similar title, hasn’t either. The uni does state that they based the course with referenced to the accreditation criteria, and it will be put forward when the first lot of students finish, in 2010.

The entry requirements for the undergrad course isn’t that high. CCC for A-levels, and Merit with an Advanced GNVQ or Level 3 IT.  The course content focuses on networking and security, and they are careful to put the word “ethical” before the word “hacking”.

Its a common misconception that hacking is all illegal. Those in the know, understand that there are White Hats and Black Hats. Black hat hackers are bad, and illegal, while white hat hackers are those doing legal hacking, testing systems and authorised to do so.

If you want to know any more about the course, visit the Abertary University website. If you can’t find it on your own, chances are you wont even get to the interview for this course, which is mandatory for all students.

Would you take this course? Any courses in USA that train ethical hackers?

Via [BBC]