For Sale: Nuclear Base Would Make Great Starter Home September 29, 2007
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It doesn’t look much from the outside, I grant you, but the charm – if you could call it that – lies a little deeper. Underground actually. But what else can you expect from a former US nuclear missile base.
For sale on eBay now, this is the former Larsen Air Force complex and Titan ICBM facility, situated on 57 acres. What you get is 43,000 square feet of living space, connected by lots of tunnels and with some rooms [former missile silos] sporting ceiling heights of 160-feet.
Check out some of the highlights:
Located Central Washington between Moses Lake and Ritzville
10 minutes to Interstate 90
57 acres more or less
16 underground buildings including
3 – 160-feet tall missile silos
3 - (4-storey) Equipment Terminal Bldgs
2 - Antenna Silos
100-feet Diameter Control Dome Bldg.
125-feet Diameter Power Dome Bldg.
All you need is around £750,000 and the ultimate in concrete living can be yours. Jump now for a layout of the underground.
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iPhone Patch Turns Some iPhones Into iBricks September 29, 2007
READ MORE Apple , Gizmodo UK , Mobile Devices , Mobile phones , Smartphones , iPhone
As we highlighted a few days ago, the latest Apple patch could, and would, screw up some of those iPhones that have been unlocked.
iPhone V1.1.1 addressed 10 known bugs on the iPhone: seven for the Safari browser, one flaw in Bluetooth and two related to the phone’s mail service. In addition, Apple tweaked some of the software to make certain unlocked iPhones unusable. Reports on the Web from the unlucky ones refer to ‘incorrect SIM’ lockdown messages. The Apple warning runs like this – check out those CAPS:
“WARNING: Apple has discovered that some of the unauthorised unlocking programs available on the Internet may cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software. IF YOU HAVE MODIFIED YOUR IPHONE'S SOFTWARE, APPLYING THIS SOFTWARE UPDATE MAY RESULT IN YOUR IPHONE BECOMING PERMANENTLY INOPERABLE. Making unauthorised modifications to the software on your iPhone violates the iPhone software license agreement, and the inability to use your iPhone to unauthorised software modifications is not covered under your iPhone's warranty.”
So, do the unlockers deserve their fate or is Apple’s approach a step too far?-Martin Lynch
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