Virustotal: All-in-one file scanner.

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I’ve been using this online service, for about 5 years now – submitting various files from photos to large video files. Not sure of the detailed internals, of how it works but has yet to Fail-me plus it’s very popular among File-sharers.

From: VirusTotal

“VirusTotal is a service developed by Hispasec Sistemas that analyzes suspicious files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and web analysis toolbars.

VirusTotal’s main characteristics are:
Free, independent service.
Runs multiple antivirus engines.
Runs multiple file characterization tools.
Real time automatic updates of virus signatures.
Detailed results from each antivirus engine.
Runs multiple web site inspection toolbars.
Real time global statistics.
Analysis automation API.
Online malware research community.
Desktop applications (VTUploader, VTzilla) for interacting with the service.”

Head-over to: http://www.virustotal.com/stats.htmlcheck out the daily stats!

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Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun.

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About the Book

GLOCK: The Rise of America’s Gun tells the story of the iconic handgun of modern times. It is a tale of cops and crime, of Hollywood violence and hip-hop bravado, of NRA politicking and the failure of gun control in Washington. In the space of a few short years beginning in the 1980s, Gaston Glock, an obscure Austrian engineer, pushed aside storied American brands such as Smith & Wesson and Colt to become the dominant handgun maker in the United States, a country in love with firearms. GLOCK: The Rise of America’s Gun shows how innovative design, genius marketing, uncanny timing, and dark glamour combined to make the boxy black Glock semiautomatic pistol a legend in its own time.

Book sample: http://www.glockthebook.com/glock-the-book-chapter-one.pdf

Via glockthebook.com

 

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Apple to unveil two versions of next-generation iPad in January, sources claim.

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Apple is set to unveil its next-generation iPad – which will come in two versions – at the iWorld scheduled for January 26, 2012, according to sources at its supply chain partners. The new models will join the existing iPad 2 to demonstrate Apple’s complete iPad series targeting the entry-level, mid-range and high-end market segments, the sources claimed.

The iPad 2 will be competing directly with Amazon’s kindle Fire in the price-sensitive market segment, while the new models will focus on the mid-range and high-end segments respectively, the sources said.

Apple officials declined to comment.

Instead of the previously-rumored 7.85-inch, the upcoming iPad models will still feature 9.7-inch screens but come with QXGA resolution (1,536×2,048 pixels), the sources indicated. Dual-LED light bars are designed for the new iPads to strengthen the brightness of the panels, the sources added.

Sharp will be the major panel supplier for Apple’s next-generation iPad series, while Samsung Electronics and LG Display are also responsible for a part of the orders, the sources said. Minebea, from which Sharp sources backlight units (BLUs), has accordingly entered the supply chain for the new iPads, the sources pointed out.

Apple continues to contract Samsung to manufacture its quad-core A6 processors, which will be used in the next-generation iPads, the sources revealed. The existing iPad 2 is based on the dual-core A5.

Samsung is also among the CMOS image sensor (CIS) suppliers for one of the versions of the new iPad that comes with a 5-megapixel lens, marking the Korea-based vendor’s first time to grab CIS orders from Apple, the sources noted. Sony is the other CIS supplier for the other model with a higher 8-megapixel lens, the sources added.

In addition, Simplo Technology and Dynapack International Technology have both secured orders for batteries with a capacity of as high as 14,000 milliampere-hour (mAh) used in the new iPads, according to the sources.

Yenting Chen and Ingrid Lee, Taipei; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES.

Via digitimes.com

 

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Partner Accuses Amazon of Being Totally Evil.

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Amazon.com/CEO: Jeff Bezos.

After launching an electronic assault on local shops and abusing sick and pregnant warehouse workers, Amazon.com has been sued for ripping off and royally screwing over in every other possible way a partner that made Kindle cases. Maybe the e-tailer’s 2011 New Year’s resolution was “be evil constantly.”

A federal lawsuit filed Thursday by M-Edge Accessories LLC accuses Amazon of all manner of bullying. According to M-Edge, it agreed in Nov. 2009 to pay Amazon a roughly 15 percent commission for the right to sell Kindle cases. That deal was supposed to last three years, but after two months, M-Edge says, Amazon demanded 32 percent and threatened to take M-Edge cases off its website if the company refused. M-Edge refused. About a year and a half later, Amazon demanded it agree to the onerous new terms, this time threatening to bury M-Edge in Amazon search results where “no one will be able to find you.” With Amazon providing 90 percent of the company’s revenue, it agreed, shelling out $6.5 million in additional fees.

Finally, Amazon just went ahead and violated M-Edge’s patent, the company claims, and began making its own Kindle case with a built-in light just like the M-Edge. Then it dropped M-Edge from its list of “Amazon Approved Accessory Vendors,” even though M-Edge had been paying for just such a right, and began to falsely list M-Edge cases as “currently unavailable” on its website. Of course these allegations won’t come as a huge surprise to anyone who follows how Amazon normally treats its customers, workers, and competitors. But it still sounds surprisingly evil. Maybe when Anderson Cooper tried to warn us about Amazon, we should have listened, mmm?

Via Gawker.com/Ryan Tate – Getty Images.

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16 Modern China Engineering Feats & Industrial Achievements

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World’s largest vertical press – Northern Heavy Industries Group Co. 36,000 ton ferrous metal vertical press.

7/6/2009, Norinco Group announced in Beijing that after 3 years of tackling the challenge, and in conjunction with Inner Mongolia Northern Heavy Industries Group Co., Tsinghua University, and other research institutions, they have successfully developed a 36,000 ton ferrous metal vertical press. This is currently the largest ferrous metal vertical press in the world.

 

Vehicle with the most tires in the world.

2008, Suzhou Dafang Special Vehicle Co., Ltd joined together four platform trailer at Yantai DSME SHANDONG CO. to successfully transport a 40 meter wide, 2000 ton segment of a ship, setting at the time the Asian record for transporting the largest tonnage using platform trailers.

Yea, OK…So, how come my table-lamp from Walmart does not have the same Quality-Engineering?

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Via chinasmack.com

Read the Fully: http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/chinas-top-engineering-industrial-feats.html

 

 

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