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Disposable

Disposable 12/30/2003 01:33 AM
Gizmodo : Disposable digital camera review Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News tests out those new two megapixel disposable digital cameras, and finds them lacking: low picture quality (they use a CMOS rather than a CCD imaging sensor),...

Disposable Phone

Disposable Phone 03/06/2004 01:48 AM
The Disposable Phone. With 60 minutes of calling time and a hands free attachment, it's the thickness of three credit cards and made from recycled paper products. Bizarre.

Disposable Ipods

Disposable Ipods 12/02/2003 12:57 AM
Jason bought an Apple Ipod 18 months ago. His battery died and this is what he did.

"Disposable Cam Stun-Gun"

"Disposable Cam Stun-Gun" 05/03/2004 02:23 AM

Mod a disposable cam into a stun-gun

Mod a disposable cam into a stun-gun 04/29/2004 04:23 PM
TechTV has a HOWTO for modifying a disposable camera into a stun-gun:

These disposable cameras (about $5 dollars a pop) have a capacitor that can store up to 600 volts of stopping power. When the capacitor discharges those volts, it delivers an amperage comparable to stun guns. Perfect for our shocking device.

Link (Thanks, LVX23!)

Disposable Instant Messenger

Disposable Instant Messenger 06/08/2004 09:58 PM
Chatango is an instant message application that allows people to post links on Craigslist, Ebay etc. and have people chat...

Disposable E-mail Addresses

Disposable E-mail Addresses 06/17/2004 04:29 PM
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Disposable Digital Cameras

Disposable Digital Cameras 07/18/2004 06:56 PM
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Disposable Digital Camera

Disposable Digital Camera 08/19/2004 08:17 AM

A disposable digital camera enters the market at $19.99: I couldn't find any information on how many pictures it holds, but $20 is is steep for disposable anything.

Pure Digital makes the world's first truly digital one-time-use camera. It has been on the market for more than a year but is slated to go prime time Monday when CVS, the nation's largest drugstore chain, puts it on its shelves. The Disney World resorts and Longs Drugs will be selling it later this year as well.

Pure Digital is a $19.99 digital camera, with a color preview screen and the ability to delete pictures. After you bring it in for processing, you get a free picture CD along with your prints.

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New Disposable Digital Cameras with LCDs

New Disposable Digital Cameras with LCDs 08/19/2004 12:58 PM

Beautiful Atrocities: Disposable Wisdom

Beautiful Atrocities: Disposable Wisdom 08/29/2004 10:55 AM
Beautiful Atrocities Pocket Guide To The Blogosphere .. blogger likes and dislikes .. mentioned

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Disposable digital camera hacked

Disposable digital camera hacked 11/13/2003 11:16 AM
That $11 disposable digital camera that Ritz Camera sells has been hacked. Someone's figured out how to get the images off of it without having to take it back to Ritz for processing, thus obviating the need to pay an additional $12 to get prints made and your photos saved to a CD-ROM. Read [Via Slashdot]...

PureRead: Get Photos Off Of Dakota
Disposable Digitals

PureRead: Get Photos Off Of Dakota
Disposable Digitals 11/15/2003 12:09 PM

Can a New Disposable Battery Change Your
Life? Parts of It, Maybe

Can a New Disposable Battery Change Your
Life? Parts of It, Maybe 04/06/2005 09:28 PM
Panasonic is introducing inexpensive disposable AA and AAA batteries that it says last up to twice as long as alkalines. How well do they work?

Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked

Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked 11/12/2003 09:04 PM
morgue-ann writes "The $10.99 Dakota reusable digital camera announced in July was usefully hacked on November 6. First attempts to extract picture data took ...

CVS offers first LCD equipped disposable
digital camera

CVS offers first LCD equipped disposable
digital camera 08/19/2004 12:24 PM

A disposable digital camera enters the
market at $19.99 (USATODAY.com)

A disposable digital camera enters the
market at $19.99 (USATODAY.com) 08/19/2004 08:13 AM
USATODAY.com - Jonathan Kaplan thinks digital cameras are too hard to use, so he decided to do something about it.

Crippled "disposable" digital camera
hacked and improved

Crippled "disposable" digital camera
hacked and improved 12/14/2003 09:53 PM
The Walgreens-branded PureDigital camera is a "disposable" digital cam, requiring that you bring the device to a Walgreens to have your pix "developed" (printed and/or exported). A hacker has cracked the device, so that you can add Smartmedia memory and export pictures to your PC at home, reusing the camera.

you will see there is a daughter board on there with the nand flash for picture storage .. if you remove that board you can add a smartmedia socket and using smartmedia card you will be able to get the pics with a smartmedia reader standard jpg's but it will not do more that 25 pics still (think its using fat12)..

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Cellboost disposable battery/charger for
iPod announced

Cellboost disposable battery/charger for
iPod announced 01/06/2005 02:55 PM
Compact Power Systems has expanded its Cellboost line of disposable battery/chargers for cell phones with a new device for the iPod...

Drugstore Offers New Wave of Disposable
Cameras (Reuters)

Drugstore Offers New Wave of Disposable
Cameras (Reuters) 08/19/2004 09:48 AM
Reuters - Pharmacy chain CVS Corp. on Thursday said it would offer the world's first disposable digital camera with a bright color viewing screen that allows consumers to instantly preview pictures.

"this might happen to it"

"this might happen to it" 05/16/2004 09:15 AM

Disposable Camera Sales Grow Despite
Film Decline (Reuters)

Disposable Camera Sales Grow Despite
Film Decline (Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:52 AM
Reuters - Sales of disposable cameras, the lone bright spot in a declining traditional film market, are seen growing by 5 percent this year, albeit a slower rate than previous years as digital camera demand swells.

Banks Finally Pushing Disposable Credit
Card Numbers

Banks Finally Pushing Disposable Credit
Card Numbers 05/10/2004 01:30 PM
It's only taken them a few years, but it appears that banks and credit card companies are finally realizing that maybe (just maybe) it would be smart to promote their disposable credit card number offerings. Many have offered such services for a while, but most people still don't know about them. They let online shoppers generate a "disposable" credit card number that can be used for a single-time purchase (or only in association with a single vendor), without fear that your actual credit card number will be exposed. If someone does get the number, it won't work, since it's already been disposed, or won't be in association with the specific vendor. Still, as the article points out, American Express has gone in the other direction, and has shut down its own disposable credit card number program saying there are plenty of other security safeguards (there are?). Meanwhile, others like Privacy Inc. think that it shouldn 't be the banks that are managing your info anyway.

Ask Jeeves: How Did That Happen?

Ask Jeeves: How Did That Happen? 06/01/2004 05:21 PM
Source: Traffick - Jeeves' market strength has been sustained enough to suggest that where there's smoke, there must be fire. Investors are accumulating the stock, possibly because someone else might be interested in acquiring Ask Jeeves. But why? Here are...

It was bound to happen...

It was bound to happen... 05/24/2004 05:24 PM
Spammers have managed to pollute my bayesian filters. Dammit. And not in a safe way. Just because, I decided to take a look at my spam folder. Normally I don't, I just unconditionally delete the damn thing. Today... well, I figured I'd look. Couldn't hurt, right? Only 10K messages, about 91M of crud, and it's not like there are words I've never seen in it. Unfortunately stuff in there did upset me. Not because it was foul, obscene, tasteless, or lacking in any sort of aesthetic. Nope, it's because there was mail I recognized. For some reason the autolearning that...

How the Semantic Web Will Really Happen

How the Semantic Web Will Really Happen 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Kendall Grant Clark: A Web of Rules "if the Semantic Web is to happen, it will be because of a...

ENT is starting to happen!

ENT is starting to happen! 05/11/2004 01:43 PM
(ENT2.0 mod RSS1.0) = 0.

Time for ENT 2.0?. It's very interesting to read Danny's toughts about ENT and RSS 1.0. Maybe it's time for a new release of the ENT specs, RSS 1.0 compatible. Oh... and what about Atom?
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

I've certainly thought about things which, with the benefit of hindsight, I would have done differently.  I was never comfortable with having the topic name as the text content of the <topic> element and I've no idea why I did it, there are other bugbears in there too.

I'd also like to give more thought as to how ENT feeds can be supported by topic map resources in real applications.  At the moment we don't publish XTM or XFML maps out of K-Collector but we could (I used to publish XFML from liveTopics but those files got big!)

Lastly I would really like to make a push for ENT support in other applications.  It seems a shame to me that, more than a year on, no other applications seem to have picked up on the benefits topic based aggregation offer to users.
[Curiouser and curiouser!]

Right on to Paolo and Matt!

Here we go!

I highly endorse using ENT as a way of us all standardizing on attaching keywords to RSS feeds.  On both sides.

Something You Really Don't Want to
Happen... (Reuters)

Something You Really Don't Want to
Happen... (Reuters) 09/08/2004 07:17 AM
Reuters - A Dutch driver was covered in hundreds of liters of manure when a tank burst on a lorry carrying fertilizer, police said on Tuesday.

Here's Something That Doesn't Happen
Every Day... (Reuters)

Here's Something That Doesn't Happen
Every Day... (Reuters) 06/25/2004 06:56 AM
Reuters - An exploding vending machine turned the coolant freon into phosgene, a poisonous gas used as a chemical weapon in World War One, and forced the evacuation of 10 people from a Texas hospital, officials said on Thursday.

Accidents Happen

Accidents Happen 05/12/2004 09:43 AM
Two clicks from iTunes' built-in help fixed the problem in no time flat, along as a well-deserved boost of self-confidence that's she's in control of the computer, not the other way around. By Peter Cohen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Why Cloning Didn't Happen in U.S.

Why Cloning Didn't Happen in U.S. 02/13/2004 05:53 AM
Korean researchers leapfrogged American scientists Thursday when they announced they had derived the first embryonic stem cells from a human clone. So why wasn't the U.S. first? Kristen Philipkoski reports from Seattle.

Eventually, it had to happen

Eventually, it had to happen 05/28/2004 12:47 PM

An offshoot photoblog, just about flowers.

Think vulnerabilities only happen in IE?
Think again

Think vulnerabilities only happen in IE?
Think again 04/13/2005 01:43 AM
ZDNet Apr 13 2005 5:36AM GMT

IDC: Consolidation to Windows won't
happen

IDC: Consolidation to Windows won't
happen 04/23/2004 09:20 AM
SINGAPORE - Microsoft Corp.'s domination of the client operating systems market will fade over the next few years, according to Avneesh Saxena, vice-president for Asia-Pacific computing systems research at IDC.

Accident waiting to happen.

Accident waiting to happen. 12/26/2003 12:36 PM
Laptop Steering Wheel Mount - Mount your laptop on your car's steering wheel? - Accident waiting to happen... Sure you are supposed to use it while parked but we all see idiots in traffic doing everything from applying make-up to reading the newspaper. Doesn't anybody just drive their car anymore?

Innovation doesn't just happen in
headlines

Innovation doesn't just happen in
headlines 04/19/2005 11:32 AM
Boy, did MySQL's David Axmark just put his finger on why the general press doesn't often grasp what's going on with open source. Speaking at this morning's opening keynote at the MySQL conference, Axmark said: "Open source has always been...

Straw: EU poll may not happen

Straw: EU poll may not happen 04/22/2004 05:16 AM
Jack Straw says a deal on an EU constitution is not certain, as the Daily Express switches support to the Tories.

The Difference Between What You Want To
Happen And What's Happening

The Difference Between What You Want To
Happen And What's Happening 12/29/2003 01:44 PM
We've writt en about Magnatunes and the Creative Commons a few times before, so yet another article on Magnatunes and the Creative Commons isn't all that interesting. However, this one makes a very good point which is worth repeating. The article asks, if people can get their music for free, why would they bother paying for CDs. The response, which Magnatunes founder basically tells them, is that they're asking the wrong question. People are already downloading music for free, and thus, the recording industry needs to figure out a way to adjust to that reality. The original question (what happens if people can get their music for free?) is like asking "but, what happens to buggy makers when automobiles are around?" The answer seems obvious to everyone, except those involved in the recording industry: they adapt or die. The recording industry is so focused on what they want to happen, that they've missed what's actually happening. The article also suggests that, so far, Magnatunes is doing quite well, and has the potential to be a viable longterm business - based on the idea of giving away music as a promotional good.

Opinion: Don’t let this happen to
you

Opinion: Don’t let this happen to
you 03/30/2005 05:42 PM
Conventional wisdom says you just don’t put images of smoking, battered Macs on the cover of a Mac magazine. To which we say phooey.

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KPhone STUN DoS (Malformed STUN Packets)

KPhone STUN DoS (Malformed STUN Packets) 04/20/2004 03:27 AM
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"technology makes new cars too expensive
to repair, which may lead to disposable
cars"

"technology makes new cars too expensive
to repair, which may lead to disposable
cars" 04/21/2004 10:19 AM

Forensic video-cameras included in
next-gen stun-guns

Forensic video-cameras included in
next-gen stun-guns 12/19/2004 03:34 PM
Cory Doctorow: Two stun-gun manufacturers will add video-recorders to the next generation of their guns, for forensic purposes.

The video cameras will essentially record whenever a person is hit with one of the guns, which immobilize a victim by shooting massive amounts of electricity through them. The electricity does not kill or permanently damage a person hit, according to the companies, but being hit hurts quite a bit.

Link (via Engadget)

Build Your Own Stun Gun

Build Your Own Stun Gun 05/15/2004 09:59 PM

Next Generation Stun Guns?

Next Generation Stun Guns? 06/17/2004 08:40 AM

Greece stun France

Greece stun France 06/25/2004 05:02 PM
Holders France crash out of Euro 2004 to a stunning Angelos Charisteas goal.

Boro stun Man United

Boro stun Man United 02/11/2004 05:42 PM
Joseph-Desire Job grabs a winner for Middlesbrough to inflict a rare home defeat on Man Utd.

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