Hacker: Dumb or Dumber?

Hacker caught not once but twice!

Name: Van T. Dinh

Age: 19 now 25

Location:  Pennsylvania

Crime: first person charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with a fraud involving both computer hacking and identity theft.

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Walking wishbone?

Wishbone by Arthur Ganson

Arthur Ganson inventor, kinetic sculptor, mechanical, engineer, a choreographer, and artist. Rube Goldberg meets Jean-Paul Sartre?

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Machine with Wishbone films by Randall Okita

Virtual Gold Farming in China?

About 130 other workers work for is Wow7gold, an Internet based company that makes more than £1m or $1.2 million a year selling in-game advantages to World of Warcraft players.

Researcher Richard Heeks at Manchester University, estimated 400,000 Asian workers are now employed in gold farming in a trade worth up to £700m or $879 million a year.

Li Hua one of the worker for gold farming in china earns £80-£120 ($80-150) a month.

Another, Eva Yuan, a 26 year-old graduate from a university who also speaks three different languages and earns up to £250 ($300.00) a month with the same conditions as Li Hua.

"virtual sweatshops" ?

"virtual division of labor"?

"power leveling"

"play money"?

World of Warcraft’s subscriptions alone went from 10m to more than 11m during 2008.

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Shinkansen average delay 6 second?

Shinkansen (literally meaning "new main line") everyone called it "Bullet Train"

Travel at speed of 190 miles per hours.

Capable of transporting up to 100,000 passengers each day.

For more than 45-year, nearly 6 billion-passenger and there have been no passenger fatalities due to derailments or collisions.

Future Auto: pay by use model?

In the near future instead of paying by minutes like your cell phone, you can buy miles for your car. Like your cell phone the car can be very cheap or even free if you sign up and buy miles per months. Why? The reason is because you only own the car not the battery! Like AT&T, Verizon, Tmobile, or any provider around the world for cell phone, Better Place will be the provider for auto. Better Place launched late 2007 and now Israel, Denmark, Australia, California, Hawaii and Canada have committed to Better Place for deploying the world’s first electric car networks.



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