Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.
Like Red Square in Moscow, Champs-Elysées in Paris, Trafalgar Square in London, or Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Times Square has achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and has become a symbol of its home city. Times Square is principally defined by its lighted and animated advertisements. Here is one of such advertisements :) :
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May 07
Windows XP Screensaver on Time Square, NYC
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May 07
The Most Common Place to Have Sex Outside the Bedroom
More than 317,000 people from 41 countries took part in the world’s largest ever survey by Durex on sexual attitudes and behaviour. The research confirmed that Greece is officially the sexiest country with the Greeks having sex 138 times a year – well above the global average of 103. Croatia (134) and Serbia and Montenegro (128) come a close second and third.
Here is a piece of the survey that reveals most frequent places we have sex outside our bedrooms:
- The most common place for adults to have sex outside their bedroom is in the car (50%), followed by toilets (39%), parent’s bedroom (36%) and the park (31%)
- 15% of people have had sex at work, with one in ten saying they’ve had sex at school – and 2% have joined the mile high club
- Just over a third (34%) of 16-20 year olds favour the car compared to 69% of 45-55 year olds
- More than eight in ten Italians (82%) have had sex in the car, while the Australians top the league for having sex in the park (54%)
- The Americans and Canadians lead the way for favouring sex in front of a camera (both 21%) while 22% of Turks have indulged in extra curricular activity at school
All results by country:
Almost half of all adults surveyed said they were happy with their sex lives although men are the least satisfied with how often they have sex. The survey also revealed the global average age for first time sex is 17.3 and the trend is for people to lose their virginity earlier, with 16 to 20 year olds becoming sexually active by 16.3 years.
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May 07
self storming
So many people, so many visions, so many "soul and philosophy experts", who have explanations for everything, even love. But wait, they are experts, because other people say they are. Well, how about right now I say they are NOT? That was easy, now I own a pure and empty field of thoughts and feelings that are not intervened by anybody and anything. Now I can recreate from scratch!
I want to try a different dimension, where there are no unnecessary connections between living beings, only the desired and necessary ones exist. That would be cool! Too ideal? Well yes and no. YES – in comparison to my current dimension, where my imagination and knowledge have thick boundaries, but NO – in another dimension, with different rules and nature of existence. It is always "yes and no", but is always true and never false :)
New connections, that is what I need, I need more new connections! I got it!… And (in 5 seconds) – no what I need is not to loose existing connections, and try to make’em stronger.. And (5 seconds later) I need both! That is it – I just need both.
I know what really bores me, really, really bores me.. And sucks.. Not only it does suck, but it also sucks "me out of me" every day – "I live at work".. This is exactly what Darwinism is leading to, and that is exactly where I am. I am not that traveling musician, that I wanted to be so much.. I am not a free poet, no.. not anymore. I went corporate – what a "giving in", what a boring routine.
How to defeat the System? How do I? Can I? Of course! NOT, or "Yes, I can!" But besides CAN, how?
Confidence! Confidence rules! Sell it! I need to sell this System to that very System! Not bad.. But once it is sold, I’ll need to buy it back.. Catch 22 it is, as Yoda would say…
Something is "terribly missing", something is just not present here, or maybe present but leaking so badly, that its presence approaches its own absence with "unknownly" high speed. Maybe it’s my "self"? Hm..
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May 07
The Unique CF – SATA HDD Adapter
The unique CF – SATA HDD Adapter is designed to enable Compact Flash (CFI/II) media to be used as a direct replacement for a 2.5" SATA hard drive. As a result, any equipment, such as Notebook computer, that uses a 2.5" SATA hard drive can be easily converted to use the low power and shock resistant CF media. Once installed, the CF appears as an ordinary hard drive to any OS and can be configured as a boot device.
Illustration of replacing the hard drive with a CF Adapter in a Notebook:
Locate 2.5" SATA drive door and remove the screws to open the door. Remove 2.5" SATA hard drive from SATA connector. Attach the CF Adapter with CF card inserted onto the SATA connector:
Key Features
- Enable Compact Flash (CF) to be used like ordinary 2.5" SATA hard drive
- Compatible with CFI/II
- SATA interface
- Mounts directly onto notebook 2.5" SATA connector
- CF Card can be the primary bootable device containing the OS and applications.
- Transparent to the operating system and does not require any drivers
- Supports DMA and Ultra DMA modes (only on flash media card with such features).
- Compatible with DOS, Windows 3.1, NT4, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Mac, Linux
source: addonics
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May 07
Wifi WEP is Hacked in “less than 60 seconds”
In less than two minutes hackers can defeat the security measures protecting many home wireless internet connections.
Defeating these measures could let them capture passwords, steal confidential information or download illegal pornographic material using the connection.
Many home internet users rely on an encryption system called Wireless Equivalent Protection (WEP) to stop others using their wi-fi link, even though WEP has long been known to be flawed.
In early April three cryptographic researchers at the Darmstadt Technical University in Germany revealed a method of exploiting the flaws far more effectively.
Before now it took at least 20 minutes of monitoring the airwaves before it was possible to break in to a wireless network protected by WEP.
Now, armed with a program iwritten by the researchers, it is possible to break in to the same network far faster.
"Breaking in to a WEP protected network is now very easy to do," said Erik Tews, one of the researchers.
"Doing it in 60 seconds is realistic, or five minutes in the very worst case. We think now that WEP is really dead and we recommend that no-one should use it."
In its place he recommends an encryption system called Wi-fi Protected Access (WPA), introduced four years ago to replace WEP. "We have had a very close look at WPA and we can’t find anything to exploit," he said.
The only known way to defeat WPA encryption – and WPA2, a newer version – is to use what is known as a brute force dictionary attack.
This involves trying millions of different words or combinations of words from in the hope of stumbling upon the correct password.
by Paul Rubens right from the source