Apple (蘋果電腦) 最新推出的 iPhone 才剛在 6 月底起於美國開賣，大批蘋果迷擠爆全美各蘋果門市。紐約第五大道一家蘋果門市附近的交通導致癱瘓。
深受矚目的蘋果 iPhone，是一支多功能智慧手機，號稱有能力強大的觸控式螢幕。
然而，因為新推出的 iPhone 不能更換 SIM 卡，只能訂購美國 AT&T 電訊公司提供的相關電信服務，在美國以外的地區，還沒得用。
不料，一位 17 歲的美國少年，卻用焊槍和電腦，成功破解了 iPhone 的鎖碼限制，使其脫離 AT&T 的掌控，且大方地把 10 道破解程序，通通貼上部落格。8 月 24 日，他更將破解成功的 iPhone 放到 eBay 競賣，排定於 30 日截標。起價 540 美元的一只手機，不到一天就超過 50 人搶標，目前已飆喊到 1 萬美元左右，比原價翻漲了約 20 倍。
這位名叫霍茲的高中畢業生，把到手的 iPhone 當作暑期研究計畫，與其他 4 位少年一共花了 500 個小時進行破解工程。霍茲在部落格裡也提到，在過程中需要複雜的焊接和軟體支援，要是不小心的話，這支原價 499 美元 (約 1 萬 6 千台幣) 的 iPhone，就會報銷。
但霍茲在部落格公佈破解手法與販賣的行為，難道不違法嗎？ 據了解，美國並沒有明確的法令禁止破解行動電話，對於這起事件，AT&T 和蘋果公司也沒有對媒體發表評論。
據霍茲表示，他是在網路上獲得其他網友的協助，才能有效突破 iPhone 的限制。 住在紐澤西州年僅 17 歲的霍茲說：「我拿到手機的第一天，就去到網路上我常上的一些論壇，我說『嗨，有誰在破解 iPhone 嗎？我們組一個討論小組吧！』其實有些人已經開始這樣的小組，所以我就加入他們，開始討論。」
霍茲一夕成名，甚至全球網路龍頭 Google 也注意到他的表現，並表示願意提供他實習的機會。 霍茲希望，下一步他能夠簡化整個破解程序，不用把 iPhone 開膛剖肚，直接利用軟體就能破解它。
值得注意的是，蘋果在 iPhone 的廣告當中，出現了台灣之光王建民的報導。 為了展示消費者使用 iPhone 只要一指就能搞定，蘋果的廣告出現民眾瀏覽紐約時報新聞的畫面，廣告採用的版面，就是大批球迷為王建民加油的報導，在螢幕畫面放大的同時，還可以清楚看到「台灣之光」這四個字，讓台灣的民眾大為驚喜。
iPhone 還沒在亞洲上市，就已經被台灣駭客「吉米丘」破解了。
在台灣用 iPhone 講電話，國際漫遊費不就貴得嚇人? 不會。
吉米丘花了一個月的時間，拿台灣門號和 iPhone 專屬的 AT&T 門號，將裡頭的數據資料解密，再合起來變成一張 SIM 卡，不但可以瞞過 AT&T，順利開通 iPhone 手機，省下昂貴的國際漫遊費，操作首頁還能出現中文介面。
主做品牌設計的他，一支破解版的 iPhone 在網路上飆賣到 台幣 2萬 9999 元，目前吉米丘已經賣出 30 幾支。 Source: ETtoday
Ecological Homeostasis
Are We Short of Water and Food ??
- Meteorite Asteroid Impact On Earth Doomsday 2012
- Nasa Climate Report
- Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chief of UN IPCC on a Win-Win Situation for the Planet: Go Vegetarian!
- 20 Questions About Vegetarianism
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Meat or vegetables? Independent online (SA)
A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
Vegetarian Shoes And Bags
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From All Corners of the Galaxy
Which Stars Are You From?
- Galactic Highway - The Wormhole
- Stream of Time
Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).
Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.
Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.
Source:http://www.universetoday.com/
Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.
Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.
Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.
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