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BEIJING — China’s utilities will be required to buy all the power produced by wind farms and other renewable sources under a new law meant to promote the industry and reduce heavy reliance on coal. Legislators approved the measure Saturday as an …

If you’re on Twitter, that means you registered an account with a password that isn’t terribly easy to guess. As you may know, Twitter prevents people from doing just that by indicating that certain passwords such as ‘password’ (cough cough) and ‘123456′ are too obvious to be picked.

It just so happens that Twitter has hard-coded all banned passwords on the sign-up page. All you need to do to retrieve the full list of unwelcome passwords is take a look at the source code of that page.

Do a simple search for ‘twttr.BANNED_PASSWORDS’ and voilà, there they are, all 370 of them.

This isn’t a security issue, of course, and in fact it’s helpful to distribute the list so you can check if your favorite password that you use for other services might not be as fail-proof as you’d like to think. For the full list, simply download this TXT file, but here are a couple:

– password
– testing
– naked
– stupid
– twitter
– 123456
– secret
– please
– beavis
– butthead
– internet
– hooters

What would be interesting to know is if Twitter got this list from somewhere else, or if they actually analyze which passwords were most commonly chosen by its tens of millions of users in the past, rendering them ‘too obvious’. If the latter, that means this list is probably representative of most Web services.

(Thanks to Dario Manoukian for the tip; a quick search turns up a post on The Wundercounter featuring the list too)

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At the 2010 Detroit Auto Show next month, Toyota will unveil a new dedicated hybrid concept (no name confirmed yet). According to sources familiar with the project, Toyota plans on expanding its hybrid lineup with a new subcompact hybrid-only model, which will be based on the concept seen in Detroit.

The model, which will be smaller and more affordable than the Prius, is scheduled to go into production in Japan in late 2011 and will hit U.S. shores in early 2012. The subcompact hybrid is also expected to get better fuel-economy than the Toyota Prius.

Insiders say that Toyota is counting on the new subcompact hybrid to be a big seller and plans to produce 150,000 units annually.

By the end of 2010, Toyota will increase its hybrid vehicle output as it expands its battery venture with Japan’s Panasonic Corp to produce more than 1 million nickel-metal hydride batteries. The collaboration will also see an increase in the production of lithium-ion batteries for a plug-in Prius hybrid going on sale in late 2012.

As Detroit News points out, adding another high-profile hybrid to its lineup would not only boost sales for Toyota, but also increase profitability of the Japanese automaker’s hybrid car business by reducing the per-vehicle cost of components.

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Smoke belching from a coal powered power plant on the outskirts of Linfen, in China’s Shanxi province. China’s national assembly has signalled the country’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by adopting a law supporting its renewable …

We’ve run TechStars in Boulder for three years.  So far each year at least one of the teams ends up with a runaway success on a bootstrapped business.  In year one it was J-Squared with their Facebook (and now MySpace) apps.  The bootstrapper of year two is Occipital with their awesome RedLaser iPhone app.

RedLaser has been at the top of the iPhone App Store paids apps listing for over three months.  Rather than review the app here, I’ll just point you to a recent TechCrunch article about it reaching over 750k downloads and a recent WSJ article about Price Checking: Finding Deals With a Phone.  Or just download RedLaser – it’s only $1.99 and you’ll love it.

When Jeff Powers and Vikas Reddy, the founders of Occipital, were accepted to TechStars, we chose them not because of their great idea (I thought the original idea was stupid), but because of their incredible technical talent.  As David Cohen and I went through their application and saw the demos they had done, our immediate reaction was “these guys are great – they’ll do something amazing if they land on a good idea.”  So – we accepted them into TechStars.

On day one we told them we hated their idea and encouraged them to think hard about other things before going deep on building something.  They resisted for a few days, but listened as they heard this from a number of other mentors.  They quickly discarded their original idea and started working on something else that leveraged their skills.  During the program, they built some cool demos and started making progress on their new big idea.  They reinforced their position as “super smart software engineers” but as the summer ended they struggled to get investors excited.

Shortly after the summer ended, they found themselves with a very ambitious technical project, some demo code, and no funding.  I worried about them a little because I knew how much talent they had.  True to character, they regrouped and started hacking on the iPhone.  They also – in their words – developed a “huge chip on their shoulder” since they hadn’t been able to raise money.  They decided “we don’t need no stinking investors” and went after bootstrapping the business.

The first product they shipped was an iPhone app called ClearCam.  It was popular and sold enough copies that all of a sudden Occipital had some cash coming in.  A few months later they released their next iPhone app – RedLaser – and had a monster hit on their hands.

Obviously, I’m super proud of Occipital.  And I’m carefully watching the TechStars 2009 class – both in Boulder and Boston – for who is going to be the bootstrapper of year three. 

If you are interested, applications for the TechStars Boston 2010 program (which runs in the spring of 2010) are currently open until January 11th, 2010 at 11:59:59 PM Eastern Time.  There is plenty of room for bootstrappers, as well as folks that want to raise angel or VC financing, in the program.

Awakening on Boxing Day stricken by an alcohol induced mental fog no less stubborn than the moral one that afflicted the world leaders at COP15 I tried to make sense of what had happened. Confusion reigned at the conference which, after two weeks of filibuster produced little more than a Google doc, a Nation State Christmas list of what leader’s felt like cutting by whenever they felt like it. Through the subsequent blizzard of finger pointing, each country blaming the next one for the turd on the table, one thing remains abundantly clear; our leaders failed us. Strangely the overwhelming sensation I feel now is not fear or anger, but relief. Copenhagen certainly didn’t provide a solution, but it might well have provided a clean slate from which we can start really dealing with the problem of climate change. Our leaders produced nothing to hide behind; it is now our turn to act.

The day after the conference it is easy to picture the various countries waking up with an enormous COP-over and only embarrassing memories to remind them of their efforts. The US’s present was given to us all with ceremonial calls to action, but when unwrapped it became clear that there was nothing inside the box. The EU’s gift was of a reasonable size but it was wrapped with so many strings attached that no one could open it fully. China promised wondrous treasures of great beauty, but kept them under wraps refusing to show a sole. And, of course there was Canada, the grumpy, drunk uncle who busied himself moaning in the corner, occasionally kicking the dog.

What came out of all this was an ‘accord’ that is about as useful as a cracker toy. Looking back at this in the cold light of post-Christmas festivities I find myself strangely glad, for what took place in Copenhagen cannot be dressed up as anything other than an unmitigated failure. Putting a ribbon around a Google doc and calling it an ‘accord’? I hope they’ve kept the receipt.

What the accord provides us all with is honesty. Countries have filled out a document that details what they intend to do and it won’t take Saint Nick to tell us who is naughty and who’s nice. The problems of climate change are as real as your Christmas paunch and Copenhagen has provided us with a perfect New Year resolution. The ‘accord’ is a mandate to for people all around the world to act. The bloated, inefficiencies of the UN process were laid bare in Denmark and no nation will be able to use such a thin agreement as a veil for inaction. It is time for us all to get honest on climate change, own up to those extra pounds we’ve piled on and take action.

In failing so spectacularly our leaders have, whether they like it or not, given us the mandate we need to hold them to account. They can no longer say that they’ve got it under control; we know they haven’t. We must stand and take action on an issue that will define our generation and with a general election on the horizon we find the boot to be firmly on our foot. Take good aim.

Though exception could be there but everybody wants hair on his head. Long hair is the symbol of beauty for ladies, for men significance of hair is same. Only healthy hair can be combed in attractive hair styles. Unfortunately, millions across the world are loosing this opportunity because of hair fall diseases. There are many factors which act behind hair fall. These factors could be hormonal disorder, deficiency of mineral, climatic changes, and salinity of water. Action of soap, shampoo, hair oil or any other hair care product on the scalp also can be a cause of hair fall.

Hormonal disorder and mineral deficiency is the prime cause of baldness. In male, a hormone named as testosterone is secreted in early teen to bring masculine characteristics. This hormone is synthesized into dihydrotestostrone (DHT) to start growth of beard and moustaches. DHT severely affects the scalp and contracts hair follicles which become the prime cause of falling of hair in male. This generally happens in late 20s or early 30s; but there is no age limit for this even people in late teens can also suffer from this disease. The baldness caused by DHT in male is called male pattern baldness or androgenetic alopecia.

Male pattern baldness follows a certain pattern of hair fall but female pattern baldness does not obey any such rule. Female pattern baldness can occur after delivery of child or even after menopause. Hormonal disorder and mineral deficiency are also the prime causes of baldness in female. Baldness is much more embarrassing for female in comparison to male because bald ladies are generally snubbed by men.

Most of the hair loss drugs act either on male pattern baldness or on female pattern baldness, but there is a drug which acts on both; its name is Provillus. Provillus nourishes hair follicles of the scalp with its natural herbs and minerals. It dissolves dead cells of scalp, residues of shop shampoo, scalp oil which generally entrap in hair follicles. This action opens hair follicles as minerals and vitamins of Provillus stimulate the process of hair re-growth in re-opening hair follicles. Provillus contains all mineral and vitamin which are essential for the growth of hair like vitamin B6, Biotin, Magnesium. Its natural herbs extract like Saw Palmetto, Nettle root, Gotu Kola, and Curcurbita Maxima inhibits the working of DHT and stops Male pattern baldness. Eleuthero, Uva-Ursi, Muria Puama supplies fresh source of energy to hair so that they become stronger and thicker.

Being a drug with herbal ingredient Provillus is completely safe for the hair health. It produces no side effects. The success rate of this drug is high, it is around 90%. The drug can be easily bought through online order. Companies also sell trial pack of Provillus. Trial pack of Provillus is a cheaper way to check the efficiency of Provillus.

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A comienzos de este mes, se inició un rumor sobre la posibilidad de que todos los equipos realizaran una presentación conjunta en el circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana a finales del próximo mes de enero. Finalmente, esta opción ha sido descartada.

Esta posibilidad fué introducida por la FIA y la FOTA en su afán de reducir costes. Un acto multitudinario que por otro lado serviría para que los aficionados tuvieran la posibilidad de seguir en directo un evento de este calibre. Tras este anuncio, el jefe de Lotus F1 Racing, Tony Fernandes, afirmó que para ese posible evento, su escudería sólo podría llevar una maqueta.

Además, no sólo era Lotus F1 Racing sino que otras escuderías como USF1 y Campos Meta tampoco llegaría a tiempo. Aún así, los equipos han visto de buen agrado este tipo de eventos, y se va a estudiar su implantación a partir de la próxima temporada.

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Climate denialists like to argue that they are “well armed” to deny the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. And in some respects they are, because these non-science free market lobbying groups have a long history of setting up fake front organizations and now blogger networks to saturate the public domain with intentional misinformation. They did it to deny that smoking caused cancer, that CFCs affected the ozone hole, that smokestacks in Ohio caused acid rain in New England, and that killer smogs were the result of pollution. In all cases the denialists were wrong, the scientists were right, and policy-makers finally made decisions that helped to fix the problems. In fact, some of the current climate change denialists are the very same people and lobbying groups that denied the earlier science.

Some of the recent articles here on Gather have suggested the following as sources of denialist misinformation. Too bad they aren’t scientific at all…..

Click source to read FULL article from GATHER……..these are strange times, the supporters of AGW are in freefall and this article shows how desperate things have become. It’s a shame that we are unable to leave a comment on this article, maybe they would like to leave a comment on our site to support their views. The FACT is AGW is a FAILED science and those who should know better are staying to the end to produce this kind of rubbish!

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There’s really only two things you need to know about the iToos M6HD PMP, and at the risk of repeating the headline: it can output 1080i via HDMI and its price is pretty hard to argue with. As for the fine print, we’re looking at a 4.3-inch TFT screen with 1360 x 768 resolution, 4GB internal memory upgradeable via memory card, and the usual variety of codecs you’ve come to expect from Asian PMPs, including FLAC audio and H.264 video. According to Akihabara News, it technically retails for only $58.50, but for the moment the best we’ve is online retailer Ownta for pocket change under $87.

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The Fur Seal – victim of possibly the most emotive culling.

A recent post on the culling of rabbits on Robin Island, prompted a quick look at news items on culling over the last month. This revealed a variety of motivations for culling, very different numbers culled and a range in the opposition to the culls. The culling of a quarter of a million dairy cows in an attempt to raise milk prices with almost no protest is the outlier in the group.

40,000 Domestic Goats and Sheep in Netherlands

The Dutch government is culling 40,000 goats and sheep this month in an attempt to limit the spread of Q fever, an animal-borne disease that can cause flu-like symptoms in people. It is believed that Q fever has caused six human deaths in the Netherlands in 2009.

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Odd, isn’t it? Most of our media have now swallowed the man-made global warming cult so completely that the coldest December in recent memory, here and abroad, has generally been covered with hardly any attempt to explain how this fits in with the idea that the polar ice-caps are about to melt away and drown us all.

I know perfectly well that one cold winter doesn’t necessarily mean that the planet isn’t getting warmer, but this month’s hard frosts are not by any means the only indicator that the whole theory may be wrong. That is the reason for the fuss about the leaked emails, suggesting that scientists may not have been scrupulous about the truth.

Supporters of the panic ask why so many people remain convinced of the warmist theory. Haven’t they heard of embarrassment? If you have ordered everyone into the lifeboats because the ship is sinking, and the ship fails to sink, it is very hard to admit you were wrong – especially if you’ve drifted too far away to get back aboard.

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01 Poker Face – Lady GaGa – 9.122.000 points
02 I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas – 9.050.000 points
03 Boom Boom Pow – Black Eyed Peas – 6.815.000 points
04 Right Round – Flo Rida feat. Kesha – 5.846.000 points
05 Just Dance – Lady GaGa feat. Colby O’Donis – 4.902.000 points
06 Halo – Beyonce – 4.722.000 points
07 I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) – Pitbull – 4.482.000 points
08 Sexy B***h – David Guetta feat. Akon – 4.310.000 points
09 Use Somebody – Kings Of Leon – 4.076.000 points
10 Hot n’ Cold – Katy Perry – 4.055.000 points

28 Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – Beyonce – 2.844.000 points
29 Sweet Dreams – Beyonce – 2.830.000 points

01 Susan Boyle – I Dreamed A Dream – 6,2 million copies
02 Lady GaGa – The Fame (Monster) – 5,8 million copies
03 Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. – 4,6 million copies
04 Taylor Swift – Fearless – 4,2 million copies
05 Michael Jackson – Thriller – 4,0 million copies
06 Michael Jackson – Number Ones – 3,6 million copies
07 U2 – No Line On The Horizon – 3,5 million copies
08 Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night – 3,5 million copies
09 Michael Buble – Crazy Love – 3,3 million copies
10 Beyonce – I Am… Sasha Fierce – 3,2 million copies

Last year, Beyonce’s I Am… Sasha Fierce made the year-end chart at number 17 with 2,3 million copies sold.

Biofuels in high demandFarming UKIt is forecast that we will see a 10% increase in biofuel production in 2010, some analysts are even predicting demand will double by 2015; …