Yup, currently my Nissan LEAF is nothing more but a GPS+radio in an air-conditioned metal box on wheels. Auxiliary systems like the radio, Sat Nav & AC work just fine, but the engine won’t start. I’ve done some Googling, and the problem seems a lot like the one reported in a posting in the LEAF […]
Now that governments more and more want to enforce four-letter words like SOPA, PIPA & ACTA on us, you may just want to be 100% anonymous/untrackable out there every once in a while. Or perhaps you simply want to appear to be online from a different country, to watch the latest Simpsons episode on Fox
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A more proper title would probably be A program with similar/improved functionality to Siri for Android. Actually naming the Android program Siri would get you a wolf pack of Apple lawyers on your hiney so fast that you won’t even have time to ask your Siri-surrogate to locate you the nearest criminal defense lawyer… What
Beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18, the English-language Wikipedia will be blacked out for 24 hours. The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate — that,
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Or, as it’s called in its native language, Det Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet is now formally recognized as a religious organization in Sweden. The Swedish government agency Kammarkollegiet registered the Missionary Church of Kopimism as a religious organization in late december, just before Christmas, the group said in a statement today. Members of the church applied three
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This is a list of active (as of December 1st, 2011) Gopher servers on the Internet. What is Gopher, you may ask? Gopher was a competitor of the early World Wide Web, differing in its simpler, more structured interface. The flexibility of HTML led to the World Wide Web eclipsing Gopher, and today few people
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