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British officials are installing a series of cameras designed to enforce the proper use of high-occupancy lanes by punishing solo drivers. How will they detect these scofflaws? By scanning each car that passes by with a camera that can tell how much blood is present in the car.
The system is a response to people who are using mannequins in passenger seats or—and even I have trouble believing people would actually do this—taping oversized pictures of people to the windshield, all as part of an effort to trick regular enforcement cameras into seeing a second person riding in the car. By scanning for blood (and other bodily fluids) using a special infrared camera system, such tricks won’t work, at least until blood-filled mannequins hit the market.
Naturally, the government is defending the cameras as a necessary means to enforce the law and punish drivers for rampant abuse of the car-sharing lanes. Meanwhile, drivers are peeved over the privacy invasion implications of such a system.

Firefox users can tweak a simple browser setting to ensure any word entered into a text box gets spell checked. The Download Squad highlights a nice Firefox hack that makes this possible.

To change it do the following:

1. Open your Firefox browser, and enter about:config in the address bar. This opens up the browser’s configuration window.
2. Search for layout.spellcheckDefault in the filter box, and change the value from 1 to 2.
3. Close the configuration window.
4. Open a new window, and test the hack by entering misspelled words into a text box. Misspelled words should have a red underline, and if you right-click on the word, you’ll get a list of suggestions. Now just choose the right spelling.

Internet vandals attacked an epilepsy sufferers’ message board and injected a series of flashing animations into it. Flashing images, as many know, can trigger seizures in epileptics, and that’s exactly what happened, with several people reporting that they were affected by the attack and at least one woman saying she suffered her worst attack in a year after being exposed to the flashing image.
Wired is calling the attack a watershed moment, “possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims.”
No one has taken responsibility for the attacks, but early evidence points to Anonymous, the anti-Scientology group, as being responsible, according to Wired’s Kevin Poulsen (see link below for details). UPDATE: Another theory holds that the attacks were generated by a group trying discredit Anonymous. I make no claim either way. Their attack method was hardly a unique one, using JavaScript to cause a post in a message board to resize a browser window to full-screen size and then redirect itself to another website which displayed the flashing pattern. The Epilepsy Foundation quickly took action to close the site and has repaired its security vulnerabilities since that time.
Though no permanent damage appears to have been done (seizures can sometimes end in death), attacks like this need to be investigated thoroughly and taken with utmost seriousness. Here’s hoping those responsible are eventually brought to justice.

This is probably old news for you, (especially if you do heavy searching on the forums) but for those of you who did not know, Google has recently added a new feature to Orkut, enabling users to search the “orkutsphere” for key phrases and words.

To access this feature from your homepage, click on the Search link above…

…which should bring you to the Universal Search page. After that, click on the Topics menu…

…then select your topic (in this case I choose banana).

After that, click the Search button, and Orkut will list every forum within its query (aka results of the search).

True to being a Google search, the cool thing about this is the ability to type in quotations around two words if you are looking for an exact phrase (like “banana rama”).

Good job Google! Now if only we could have something similar for our scrapbooks…

Are you upset abut stolen your laptop? But you dont disappoint, Unistal System Pvt. Ltd. offers laptop tracking system to track stolen laptops using world wide web. Locate stolen laptops using laptop tracking software. When a laptop that has the software disappears, Unistall’s servers pick up its distress signals the instant the thief tries to surf on the stolen laptop. The Internet Protocol address is quickly tracked and just as quickly, the cops can recover the laptop. For some, though, the deterrent in using Unistall’s software would be that it costs Rs 3,000.

Softwares such as Locate PC and Snap Files, both of which are easily available on the Internet offer the same protection without charging a penny. They even work exactly like Unistall. There is catch, however. No matter which of these softwares are used, if once someone formats the hard disk, none of them would be able to track the laptop.