You may not be familiar with the company Tronical but you will know their work because they are responsible for Gibson’s Robot Guitar tuning systems. Well judging by this video it appears that Tronical are about to launch some standalone systems that can be retrofit to pretty much any guitar be it a Les Paul [...]
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Londoners: rally today at Scotland Yard 11AM to preserve the right to photograph!
Londoners: rally today at Scotland Yard 11AM to preserve the right to photograph!: “Just a reminder for you Londoners: the National Union of Journalists and the British Journal of Photographers are having a photo-in today at Scotland Yard, a demonstration against the outrageous new law that can put you in jail for ten years for taking a photo of a police officer ‘a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’
We’ll be gathering at Scotland Yard today at 11AM, cameras in hand, to make the point: Nineteen Eighty-Four was not a manual for statecraft.
Monday 16 February 2009, the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 will come into force, potentially making it a crime to take a picture of members of Her Majesty’s armed forces, including constables.
The Act amends the Terrorism Act 2000 regarding offences relating to information about members of armed forces, a member of the intelligence services, or a police officer. The new set of rules, under section 76 of the 2008 Act and section 58A of the 2000 Act, will target anyone who ‘elicits or attempts to elicit information about (members of armed forces) … which is of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.
The penalty could be of up to 10 years in prison. While BJP does not believe the Act will result in the imprisonment of photographers and photojournalists, we believe the Act could be abused by some police officers who are already loosely using Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 to prevent photographers from taking pictures in public places.
So, we have joined the National Union of Journalists’ call for photographers to make their voices heard at a media event on 16 February in front of New Scotland Yard. The plan is simple, turn up with your camera and exercise your democratic right to take a photograph in a public place.
(Via Boing Boing.)
Number 10 opens its doors online
Visitors can look around the Cabinet Room….Number 10 Downing Street has opened its famous front door to the public after more than 270 years, with a virtual tour for web users.
Visitors can look at rooms, find out historical information and click on objects such as paintings and furniture for extra details.
Tony Blair told the BBC the tour was “an excellent way of showing the tremendous history of this building”.Number 10 has been used as a home by prime ministers since the 1730s. [via BBC News]
Airport Monitor
AirportMonitor is a dynamic, interactive display of air traffic and flight information available on many airport Web sites. AirportMonitor tracks flights from approximately 100 miles from the terminal right down to the runway. View information such as flight origin, destination, aircraft type, altitude, and flight ID. AirportMonitor has a ten minute delay and filtered information for security purposes, but replays with full flight information are available for the previous three months. [AirportMonitor]
What’s that site running?
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England which is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:
- Providing network security services, including fraud detection, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
- Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the Internet.
World Cup Extension For Firefox
Google has developed an extension for Firefox that integrates with the social network Joga and allows you to view the latest scores from the World Cup, videos of the best goals, and talk with other fans about your favorite teams.
You can view the score of the latest match in the status bar. The extension will alert you when a goal is scored.
Web firm tastes success on spam
A small Welsh computer company has won the right to include the word “spam” in a trademark, despite objections from a multi-national food corporation. NetBop Technologies developed a filter it called “bopspam” aimed at combating unwanted e-mails, known as spam.
But US-based Hormel Foods, which makes the meat product of the same name, initially objected to its registration.
Experts believe the Swansea company is the first in Europe to secure such a written trademark using the word spam. [Via BBC Technology]
BBC website shows World Cup games
All of the BBC’s 2006 World Cup matches will also be broadcast exclusively live on the BBC Sport website. The service will be available to UK broadband users and will mirror terrestrial and interactive coverage.
In addition there will be four-minute highlight packages from every single game of the tournament on demand. [Link: BBC World Cup]
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