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As you may or may not know authorities can demand a complete copy of your facebook profile. But what does the police actually recieve? Here is a copy of what facebook usually sends to the police in these cases. Facebook already shares its Law Enforcement Guidelines publicly, but we’ve never actually seen the data Menlo Park sends over to the cops when it gets a formal subpoena for your profile information. Now we know. This appears to be the first time we get to see what a Facebook account...

Estimated Total Annual Building Energy Consumption at the Block and Lot Level for NYC This map represents an estimate of the total annual building energy consumption at the block level and at the tax lot level for New York City, and is expressed in kilowatt hours (kWh) per square meter of land area. A mathematical model based on statistics, not individual building data, was used to estimate the annual energy consumption values for buildings throughout the five boroughs. To see the percentage...

The readers of Time Magazine have spoken. The hacktivist group received the most votes in a Time Magazine poll as the most influential figure among all platforms. The group which is nameless, faceless and leaderless has been causing mischief online all in the name of justice. Should we be surprised?

Think the bullshit with SOPA, PIPA and ACTA is over? Nope. Welcome the new legislation, CISPA to the club of retarded legislations! The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) allows companies to collect information about people and give it to the US government in the name of cyber security. The main problem with the bill is that it is so broad it can even lead to companies and the government monitoring and censoring what people say. Online activists who helped slow down the...

“While Apple generates more than $575 in profit for every iOS device, and according to estimates in 2007 Apple earned more than $800 on every iPhone sold through ATT, Horace Dediu reports that Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011, earning only $1.70 per year, per Android device — explaining how Apple is sucking up two thirds of the profit in the mobile phone business. Dediu’s starting point is a settlement offer Google made to Oracle of...

Almost ten years after Munich’s Linux project started, they are now begining to report positive figures. The mayor reported to the City that the project has meant a saving of almost 40 million €. It was in 2003 that Germany’s third largest city, Munich kicked off a project with the goal to the municipality all PC workstations would use Linux and open source. It was about 14 000 computers that would use a Linux-based operating system and the Microsoft Office would be replaced with OpenOffice....

Ever wonder how a CPU is made? Well thanks to this video from INTEL you can find out how some sand and metal can turn into an I7! Dont feel like watching the video? Here is a version with text and images.

First of i want to say, the government isnt RFID tagging everyone to keep track of people, that is a ridiculus claim. RFID chips cant hold very much data and need to be fairly close to be scanned. (However your phone is a better target for stuff like that…) Anyway, there might be reasons to want to check if things are marked with an RFID tag. Maybe on clothes you bought that set of alarms in stores, or check if a buscard is broken.. Either way here is an open source RFID sniffer, to check if...

France made waves in the P2P industry by implementing a controversial graduated response program in 2010 that was designed to reduce the amount of illegal downloads by establishing progressively-harsher penalties on file sharers. The results were strong, as shown in Hadopi’s report, with file-sharing activities traffic slashed by two-thirds in 2011. However, the goal of increasing revenues in the French music and movie industries did not materialize and revenues fell in both industries. The...

This new service called Worddesk lets you create a portable Windows installation that you can then save on just about any storage anywhere: USB stick, external hard drive, iPod, Blackberry, Android – yes, it is even possible to place Windows in the cloud via Dropbox. Which (if it works well) might give us something similar to Googles Chrome OS but with windows capabilities. So far you can only run Windows setup from a computer running Windows XP or Windows 7. The service is still in beta...

The idea of purchasing a personal computer may be appealing to a lot of people, however they may feel undecided as weather to go for a traditional desktop computer or for a light weight portable notebook. Several aspects should be taken into consideration as for the purposes of such acquisition. If the main purpose of buying a computer is for occasional use, regardless if it is for work or entertainment activities, one may consider buying a traditional desktop computer taking in consideration...

The construction of Facebook’s first data center in Luleå is currently going on. Now, more corporations are attracted to Luleå. The arguments are cold and a power grid that has had no interruptions since 1979. Click to enlarge Construction trucks roll in and out through the gates. Inside the fence is ongoing construction of Facebook’s first data center of the planned three. The building is huge, 317 feet long and 100 meters wide. The cold climate and the availability of cheap, green...

Google uses toilet water to cool its servers! We all know google has secrets behind their doors, alot of them. Slides instead of stairs for the staff, google segways, google bikes, google everything. But there are some secrets not even the staff know about, and thats whats going on inside their server halls! Click to enlarge! First off, to save money and the nature Google has started using sewage water that cirkulates through their servers to cool them. This is quite revolutionary, since it...

Apple market capitalization, as it sits, is just over $514 billion — an astonishing number we’re all still getting used to. Even more amazing, however, is that Apple’s market cap is about to be larger than the entire United States retail sector. With Friday’s iPad launch, we’re guessing that $14 billion in market value won’t be an issue… -Source How does this make you feel?

I’ve been sent this awesome app for ios devices that lets you stream audio from your computer to your IOS device. This is especially great since the headphone output on my laptop is broken, once again enabling me to use headphones. And i’ve got to say it works really well. I did have one problem though, it needs for the microsoft wasabi plugin to be at 41khz 16bit to be a ble to stream, and since my computer couldnt use this option (most likely due to a bug) i couldnt use it at once. But once...