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Apollo 11 Moon landing: conspiracy theories debunked【telegraph】

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:58:00 +0000

The following reasons have all been offered as proof that the Moon landings which began with Apollo 11's touchdown on July 20 1969 were faked.

1) When the astronauts are putting up the American flag it waves. There is no wind on the Moon.

The flag is held up by a horizontal bar and simply moves when it is unfurled and as the pole is being fixed into position by the astronauts. The flagpole is light, flexible aluminium and continues to vibrate after the astronauts let go, giving the impression of blowing in the wind.

2) No stars are visible in the pictures taken by the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the Moon.

The Apollo landing takes place during lunar mornings, with the Sun shining brightly. The stars are not bright enough in this light to be captured in the photographs.

3) No blast crater is visible in the pictures taken of the lunar landing module.

The landing module touches down on solid rock, covered in a layer of fine lunar dust, so there is no reason why it would create a blast crater. Even if the ground were less solid, the amount of thrust being produced by the engines at the point of landing and take off is very low in comparison to a landing on Earth because of the relative lack of gravitational pull.

4) The landing module weighs 17 tons and yet sits on top of the sand making no impression. Next to it astronauts’ footprints can be seen in the sand.

The layer of lunar dust is fairly thin, so the landing module sits on the solid rock. The dust, whilst blown away by the blast from the descent engines, quickly settles back on the ground and is under the astronauts when they begin their moonwalk.

5) The footprints in the fine lunar dust, with no moisture or atmosphere or strong gravity, are unexpectedly well preserved, as if made in wet sand.

The lack of wind on the moon means the footprints in fine, dry lunar dust aren’t blown away in the way they would be if made in a similar substance on Earth.

6) When the landing module takes off from the Moon’s surface there is no visible flame from the rocket.

The rockets in the landing module are powered by fuel containing a combination of hydrazine and dinitrogen tetroxide, which burn with no visible flame.

7) If you speed up the film of the astronauts walking on the Moon’s surface they look like they were filmed on Earth and slowed down.

The best you can say is: yes, a bit, but not really.

8) The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt.

This claim is largely based on a claim from a Russian cosmonaut. The short time it takes to pass through the belt, combined with the protection from the spacecraft, means any exposure to radiation would be very low.

9) The rocks brought back from the Moon are identical to rocks collected by scientific expeditions to Antarctica.

Some Moon rocks have been found on Earth, but they are all scorched and oxidised from their entry into the Earth’s atmosphere as asteroids. Geologists have confirmed with complete certainty that the Apollo rocks must have been brought from the Moon by man.

10) All six Moon landings happened during the Nixon administration. No other national leader has claimed to have landed astronauts on the Moon, despite 40 years of rapid technological development.

This is a favourite among conspiracy theorists because it needs no evidence but points the finger at the presidency of Richard Nixon. The fact is that after the Apollo landings, the race had been won and the money dried up. The USSR has no interest in coming second, and politicians on both side realised that lower-orbit missions had much greater commercial and military potential.

original post: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/5833633/Apollo-11-Moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debunked.html

Return as an Animal

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:38:00 +0000

Return as an Animal from Bruno Dicolla on Vimeo.

Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosions

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:49:00 +0000

MTV Shows

Funny Videos On Baozi

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:34:00 +0000

Dragon Fist from sun haipeng on Vimeo.

Super Baozi vs Sushi man from sun haipeng on Vimeo.

Windows 7 ISO Verifier

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:06:00 +0000

download here

10 ways to break up with your girlfriend

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:57:00 +0000

Just for fun.

At last, for girls ,there's one way to break up with your boyfriend:

2009匿名网民宣言

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:28:00 +0000

"Ugly Salamander", New Frog Found

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:41:00 +0000

What Is a Browser

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:23:00 +0000

Google asks 50 random pedestrians in New York City what a browser is. No surprise - only 8% actually got the answer right.

FIREWORK NUTSHOT FAIL

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noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:31:00 +0000

重要提示：

　　位于闽清县医院对面的县文化馆里的“丽歌”KTV，系闽清县公安局副局长兼梅城刑警队队长林宗颖与治安科科长卢贤丁和县检察院涂检察官伙同一个多次犯案且多次逃脱打击的黑社会头目聂志雄合伙开办的。这家娱乐场所以贩卖K粉、介绍卖淫、胁迫卖淫、收取提成等为手段牟取暴利。在“丽歌”KTV不远处的广播电视中心右边的地下室，是这家娱乐场所的“配套设施”，具体地说，是一些丧尽天良的不法之徒尽情渲泄兽欲的极乐世界。不知是巧合，还是必然，自从这家KTV创办以来，这个县城就时常出现无名女尸……

    今年49岁的访民林秀英，家住福建省闽清县梅城镇梅溪东路563号，讲述自己唯一的年仅25岁女儿严晓玲惨遭警匪轮奸之死的悲惨经历，流泪不止，痛苦难当。以下就是笔者根据林秀英的讲述和相关材料，真实的记录这段惨绝人寰而又诉告无门的经历——

    一、案发前挣扎的母女

    案发前的2007年农历腊月28日晚，严晓玲被聂志雄等10多个同伙带到一个名叫“台山”的别墅“过年”。回家之后就像变了个人似的，整日坐卧不安，还不时的向母亲林秀英蹦这样一些话来：“为了两个弟弟的命，我不能离开他们。”“如果我不去，他们就会追到我们家。”等等等等，这使没有文化丈夫又早死的村妇林秀英听得毛骨悚然，束手无策，唯一能够做的就是阻止女儿外出。

    2008年2月10日下午2点左右，聂志雄再次打电话叫严晓玲去，这个早已没有父亲的女孩顿时表现出惊恐万状的神情，母亲林秀英更是惊恐不安，说什么也不让女儿出门，但这个时候的严晓玲早已被有执法权利背景的聂志雄等所控制。对“报警”两个字想都不敢想，一心只想到家人的安危。

    当晚10点多钟，聂志雄又一次打电话来催促，这一次，严晓玲趁母亲稍不留神便溜了出去，当林秀英反应过来时，立刻连续拨打女儿手机20多次，但均处于关机状态，林秀英整夜未眠。

    二、严晓玲之死

    第二天，即2008年2月11日晚10点多钟，聂志雄一伙连同两名警察突然出现在昼夜不安的林秀英面前，并将林秀英从家中拉进一辆黑色轿车，直奔县医院。下车后，林秀英又看见另外两名警察，见此情形，林秀英恐惧到了极点！就在这时，两名护士指着一具女尸冲她说：“这是不是你女儿？”

    听到这句话，林秀英顿时手脚瘫软，伏下一看：一具仅穿睡衣、头发散乱、面目狰狞、牙关紧咬的女尸直挺挺的横那里，两只手腕上几道黑色抓痕十分醒目。看到这，林秀英顿时晕了过去……

    当林秀英醒来时陆续听到医护人员的议论：“这个女孩死的太惨太惨！”“连短裤、胸罩都没穿。”“阴道口张开很大，无法收缩。”“阴道内还有精液。”“至少五六个以上轮奸，甚至死后还奸尸。”

    这无疑是一起极其特大的惨绝人寰的轮奸案！然而，公安部门却不这么认为。

    三、公安说，抓人要有法医鉴定，而法医鉴定要交5千块钱，甚至要交五六万

    案发第二天，即2008年2月12日，林秀英一大清早就赶到公安局请求将聂志雄等缉拿归案，请求将能够证明聂志雄等胁迫女儿卖淫的手机、通讯簿等要回。然而，令林秀英怎么也想不到的是，如此重大恶性案件，公安却说：“做法医鉴定才能抓捕他们。”紧接着又说：“要交5千块钱才能做法医鉴定。”随后甚至叫她“拿五六万来作法医鉴定。”

    四、公安将严晓玲子宫等割下后告知其家人：死于宫外孕

    2008年2月13日下午，林秀英请求经办人魏梦轩将其亲眼所见女儿会阴部撕裂状以及手腕上的抓痕写进笔录，但魏梦轩却以“这是检查拳打伤和刀砍伤的，不是检查阴道口和手指纹的”为由拒绝记录。随后，魏梦轩强行抓起林秀英的手在其编造的笔录上一阵乱按。林秀英知道魏梦轩的这种做法对查清女儿死亡真相极为不利，当场哭的死去活来。

    2008年2月14日，林秀英与亲戚再次请求公安记录其女儿会阴部撕裂状以及手腕抓痕。公安人员写了一份申请，叫林秀英亲属抄写。

    2008年2月16日，林秀英小儿子到公安再次要求法医鉴定未果，只好到县医院看望其姐姐尸体，一进太平间就惊讶的发现：其姐的子宫等下体被人割下，丢弃在一个红色塑料桶里。随后被告知：严晓玲死于宫外孕。

    五、聂志雄父亲说：8人轮奸

    案发第二天就有好心人前来偷偷告诉林秀英：严晓玲遭8人轮奸致死，而说出这句话的不是别人，正是聂志雄的父亲。

    六、诉求无门

    命案发生一年多来，林秀英不断向各级部门诉求，从县各有关部门，到市各有关部门，再到省各有关部门，甚至赴京上访。至今无人理睬，其残缺不全的女儿尸体也不得不冷藏至今。

    七、紧急报告，拯救女孩

    福建闽清“丽歌”KTV——这个以贩卖K粉、介绍卖淫，胁迫卖淫、渲泄兽欲、牟取暴利的娱乐场所，不知道残害了多少女孩，也不知是否还有像严晓玲甚至比其更为悲惨的女孩受害。为此，紧急报告国家有关部门，立刻组织专案组进行彻底，立刻拯救那些正于警匪手中残害的女孩，严惩这帮天良丧尽的警匪！

    林秀英电话：15059138927

    闽清县公安局办公室：0591-22372966

    闽清县公安局局长刘伟光：13905019089

    闽清县政法委书记陈继魁：13906903911 0591-22351902

China's Filtering Software Contains Pirated Code [PC Magazine]

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:06:00 +0000

The "Green Dam" filtering software that the Chinese government is reportedly requiring for all PCs sold there contains pirated code, a U.S. software manufacturer claimed Friday.

Solid Oak Software, the developer of CyberSitter, claims that the look and feel of the GUI used by Green Dam mimics the style of CyberSitter. But more damning, chief executive Brian Milburn said, was the fact that the Green Dam code uses DLLs identified with the CyberSitter name, and even makes calls back to Solid Oak's servers for updates.

Green Dam is a piece of filtering software that will reportedly be required for all PCs sold inside China. The software is already available in China, although the restrictions go into place on July 1, according to The New York Times.

According to a study by the University of Michigan, the Green Dam software works to identify images, text, and URLs and compares them to a filter, which blocks the offending work. The researchers took the publicly available software and reverse-engineered it, using standard methods. Inside, the study's author, assistant professor of electrical engineering J. Alex Halderman, found evidence that the software uses blacklists compiled by CyberSitter, dating back to 2006. An encrypted news bulletin, which dates back to 2004, was also accidentally included, Halderman wrote.

"We've been talking with them since the report came out yesterday," Halderman said in an interview.

To Halderman, the Green Dam software presents two fundamental problems: one, that the software contains vulnerabilities that would allow others to spy on the activities of those who use it; and second, that it might contain code stolen from another manufacturer. The Chinese developer of the Green Dam software appears to have accidentally created the vulnerabilities, Halderman said, rather than being a deliberate attempt to allow government agencies to monitor its citizens online.

"If we apply reasoning to this, we would conclude that the government wants a backdoor it could access, and others could not," Halderman said.

Version 3.17 of the Green Dam software appears to contain both the references to the blacklists as well as the allegedly stolen code. But the software is also being frequently updated, and the most recent patch, applied Thursday, appears to eliminate many of the blacklist references to Solid Oak, Halderman said.

"I think the bottom line is that the Chinese government is trying to roll out the software without doing their due diligence," Halderman said. "Clearly, there needs to be more time to evaluate the software both in terms of legality and in terms of security before it is rolled out on a widespread basis."

That was small consolation to Solid Oak's Milburn, who said that he had received an anonymous email sent to a broadcast address at the site Friday morning alerting the company that Green Dam was using Solid Oak code. He dismissed it, thinking it was a hoax. But another employee researched it and found that the allegation was indeed true, and that both URLs and other Solid Oak code, including DLL files, were part of Green Dam. After doing a bit of research he found the U. of Michigan paper and contacted Halderman.

"From the stuff they've posted, I'm 100 percent certain they're using our proprietary code," Milburn said, who said he wasn't certain how much of the code was reverse-engineered or simply stolen.

"We're still trying to do the detective work here," Milburn said.

At press time, Solid Oak had determined that the filtering engine or parts of it on lower level had been decompiled, using certain proprietary methods. Solid Oak doesn't ship a Chinese-language version of CyberSitter. But, Milburn said, "the words a user sees on the screen are almost identical to ours."

According to Milburn, the company spent Friday trying to determine what its options were, and what avenues it could pursue to try and prevent its code from being misused.

According to The New York Times, PC OEMs were blindsided by the Green Dam requirement, and have tried to figure out how they could add the software to their production lines just six weeks before the mandate was scheduled to take place. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and other OEMs would be required to add the software to their PC distributions.

But would they if it contributed to software piracy? "To my mind, [shipping Green Dam] would make the PC manufacturers an accessory after the fact to software piracy," Milburn said. "I would think that the PC manufacturers wouldn't want to do that if I were in their position."

"We haven't had any opportunity to explore our options," Milburn said. "At the very minimum, I believe we would pursue some sort of injunction."

Theoretically, this could place PC OEMs wishing to do business in China with a nearly impossible choice: face the threat of an injunction or suits within the United States, risk angering the Chinese government by removing the Green Dam software, or halt PC sales into China altogether. Representatives at Hewlett-Packard and Dell were unable to be reached for comment by press time.

This isn't the first time Solid Oak's code has been stolen, Milburn said. In the late 1990s, hackers reverse-engineered CyberSitter, which prevents underage children from accessing pornography or other adult content, to allow users to access such content.

The hackers, as well as other detractors, have previously accused Solid Oak and CyberSitter of censoring the Internet. "That's why we don't want to be associated with it," Milburn said of Green Dam.

Moreover, potentially millions of Chinese PC users could hit Solid Oak's servers for updates, causing them huge fees for the additional bandwidth costs the company would be charged for.

One obvious solution to the problem would be to block access to China, a move that would also cut off a number of American schools in China, including missionary schools, that use the software as a legitimate means of preventing children from accessing the adult content. Some organizations with satellite offices in Singapore, Korea, or other South Asian countries might also be affected.

"They're using it legitimately, and we don't want to turn off the entire continent," Milburn said.

Famous Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:37:00 +0000

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
——Plato

the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Geek's Eyes

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:01:00 +0000

source: http://imgur.com/

Microsoft to Ship Windows 7 in Europe Without IE

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:56:00 +0000

A Microsoft spokesperson said in an e-mail to InternetNews.com:

"We're committed to making Windows 7 available in Europe at the same time it launches in the rest of the world, but we also must comply with European competition law as we launch Windows 7. We have therefore decided that instead of including Internet Explorer in Windows 7 in Europe, we will offer it separately and on an easy-to-install basis to both computer manufacturers and users."

For further information, visit http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009/06/11/working-to-fulfill-our-legal-obligations-in-europe-for-windows-7.aspx

How Social Media Is "unlocking The Awesome Potential Of Behavioral Disorders"

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:38:00 +0000

Welcome to Break Into It

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:40:00 +0000

http://www.strongwebmail.com/secure/email
StrongWebmail.com uses a different mail protection in the market----phone verification system that it claims to be able to stop hackers efficiently. However, is it really that kind of secure?
If you can break into their email system only with the account and password they provided, you'll be awarded a large sum of money~~
Have a try, though it might be very hard.

An Mobilephone Running On Windows XP

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:36:00 +0000

http://www.xpphone.com/ click for details.

"June 4" Street Performance

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:32:00 +0000

http://www.artreview.com.hk/june-4-street-performance
Note: proxy is needed if your location is in China

The Umbrella Men of Tiananmen

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:09:00 +0000

The Umbrella Men of Tiananmen @ Yahoo! Video

Remembering the Tiananmen Protests----New York Times

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:18:00 +0000

Nicholas D. Kristof, an Op-Ed columnist who was Beijing bureau chief for The Times in the spring of 1989, recalls the city's mood during the student protests leading up to June 4, 1989.

Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/04/opinion/20090604_TIANANMEN_FEATURE.html

Windows 7 Available on October 22

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:24:00 +0000

A Microsoft spokesman said to famous IT website InternetNews.com.
Windows 7 has been under testing for about half a year and its latest version: Windows 7 Release Candidate, has been downloaded millions times. This is exactly how people are expecting Windows 7. Due to bad evaluation of Windows Vista, Microsoft is sure to speed up the pace of releasing final version of Windows 7.

Fuck Chinese Communist Party

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:56:00 +0000

Twitter，Flickr，Live，Youtube，these are worldwide famous websites blocked by CCP this year.
I really want to fuck you, CCP.
You are totally a bitch.
I'm gonna send you a clock to your 60 years birthday of China foundation.
Beat it!

Microsoft Launched "It's Better With Windows" Website

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:43:00 +0000

This is really funny to me, cause I thought it was just a joke when I see this news in Techcrunch. However, it seems to be true that this website is built by Microsoft and connected with Asus Eee PC(I have long dreamed of buying a Eee PC, it's really cool). It shows us a family using an Eee PC running on Windows and how they are satisfied with the convenience and flexibility it brought.

So where is Linux?

The website:
http://itsbetterwithwindows.com/

Test

noreply@blogger.com (Michael) — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:41:00 +0000

This is a blog entry to test the method of posting via Google Docs.