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Monday, June 30
Huge Tunguska Explosion Remains Mysterious 100 Years Later
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:15 PM EDT
A full century after the mysterious Tunguska explosion in Siberia leveled an area nearly the size of Tokyo, debate continues over what caused it. Many questions remain as to what crashed into the Earth from above -- how big it was and what it was made of. Some question whether it even came from space at all, or whether it erupted from the ground instead. More>>>
Uno and only
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 30 Jun 2008 09:04 AM EDT
19-year-old inventor Ben J. Poss Gulak demonstrates the Uno, his battery-powered, gyroscope stabilized "motorcycle." (Photo courtesy Ben Gulak) More>>> Sunday, June 29
Scientists: Nothing to fear from atom-smasher
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 29 Jun 2008 09:20 PM EDT
The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump? More>>> Friday, June 27
Arctic Volcanoes Found Active at Unprecedented Depths; MSM unavailable for comment
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 27 Jun 2008 10:34 PM EDT
Buried under thick ice and frigid water, volcanic explosions are shaking the Arctic Ocean floor at depths previously thought impossible..."The dispersal of the particles does not necessarily indicate that the eruptions were highly energetic, only that the eruption heated the surrounding seawater and the rising plume of heated water carried the lava fragments upwards where currents could disperse them..." More>>> North Pole ice 'may disappear by September' More>>>
Another 'Inventor Of The Internet' Wants To Gag It
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 27 Jun 2008 09:36 AM EDT
ANAGRAN's FR-1000 Lawrence Roberts is just another guy with the title:" Inventor of the Internet" in news articles. According to Wikipedia, he's the father of networking through data packets. And he's turned his attention to everyone's favorite data packet topic: Peer-to-Peer filesharing. He's established a company called Anagran, and says their devices can sort out which file transfers on the tubes are P2P, and -- you guessed it -- can throttle them in favor of other, more "high-priority" traffic. More>>>
World’s Most Expensive Home Entertainment System
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 27 Jun 2008 08:24 AM EDT
Jeremy Kipnis, a music engineer, producer, classical music lover, has paid a whooping US $6 million for this amazing collection. And you have seen nothing yet. Wait until you find out what gadgets make this home theater so top notch. More>>> Thursday, June 26
The Last Thing a Terrorist Hears...
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 26 Jun 2008 04:10 PM EDT
The whirling baldes of the Apache Gunship.
The AH-64 Apache in Action on the East River Range in Bagram, Afghanistan. This video was filmed during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF V). It features the 30mm Canon, 2.75 inch Hydra Rockets, and AGM-114 Hellfire missile. Produced by Blackjack Film LLC.
Chrysler will offer wireless Internet access in 2009 models
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 26 Jun 2008 07:53 AM EDT
Have you ever thought rush hour on the 405 Freeway might be more bearable if you could check your e-mail, shop for a book on Amazon, place some bids on EBay and maybe even, if nobody is looking, download a little porn? Then perhaps you should be driving a Chrysler. Surfing the web? Checking out porn on the highway? I have a great idea- how about driving the car? More>>> Wednesday, June 25
Microsoft Pledges Windows XP Support Through 2014
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Riley Jones
on Wed 25 Jun 2008 11:47 AM EDT
In an unprecedented move, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has committed to providing support services for its soon to be retired Windows XP through 2014 -- a full 13 years after the operating system was originally released. In a letter sent to customers this week, Microsoft senior VP Bill Veghte said the software maker will provide security patches "and other critical updates" for Windows XP until April, 2014. More>>> Monday, June 23
Running on Empty: Democratic energy policies ignore reality
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Riley Jones
on Mon 23 Jun 2008 10:03 PM EDT
Advances in oil technology--which Obama either doesn't know about or chooses to ignore--allow drilling to go far deeper beneath the sea and thus farther from the coast. Some oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico are nearly 200 miles from land. Serious spills from drilling offshore have become practically non-existent. More than 100 rigs in the Gulf were damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita without a single spill. More>>>
'Shake-up' for internet proposed
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Riley Jones
on Mon 23 Jun 2008 11:50 AM EDT
The net could see its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are passed. The net's regulators will vote on Thursday to decide if the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed. If approved, it could allow companies to turn their brands into domain names while individuals could also carve out their own corner of the net. More>>>
Forbes: Hating Your Cellphone Company
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Riley Jones
on Mon 23 Jun 2008 09:20 AM EDT
For good reason, the wireless phone industry is ranked as one of the worst in the U.S. for customer satisfaction. Technical support calls can take hours with endless transfers from one customer rep to another. Then there's the endless pile of service activation and cancellation fees. More>>>
ICECAP: Solstice Sea Ice Update
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 23 Jun 2008 01:08 AM EDT
The Antarctic set a new record (since records began in 1979) for sea ice extent at the end of last winter. It stayed well above the normal through the summer with icemelt 40% below the normal. As a new height of irony and hype, the media made a big deal about a fracture of a small part of the Wilkins ice sheet in late February (160 square miles of the 6 million square mile Antarctic ice sheet (0.0027% of the total). Media headlines blared: Bye-bye, Antarctica? and Massive ice shelf collapsing off Antarctica. More>>> Sunday, June 22
Forbes: Picking A Renewable Energy Path
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Riley Jones
on Sun 22 Jun 2008 08:24 AM EDT
Faced with skyrocketing energy prices, many companies are scrambling to pick alternative energy sources. But few markets are so riddled with complexities and caveats. Solar panels perform best in sunny spots, but a company may need a government subsidy to justify the investments; other alternatives come with footnotes and small print. How does a company decide which renewable source is best? More>>> Friday, June 20
Water Ice!
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 20 Jun 2008 05:42 PM EDT
The existence of ice on Mars was confirmed today by NASA scientists, the first time frozen water has been sampled on another planet. Water in liquid form is an essential ingredient for life. More>>>
Why Global Hackers Are Nearly Impossible to Catch
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 20 Jun 2008 11:11 AM EDT
They're in our computers, reading our files. The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret documents stored on Congressional computers. The Chinese deny any involvement, but if they were lying, would we be able to prove it? The answer, according to computer and security experts, is probably not. More>>> Thursday, June 19
Japanese Firm Creates Robot Girlfriend for Lonely Men
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 19 Jun 2008 08:11 AM EDT
She's big-busted, petite, very friendly and she runs on batteries. Sega, best known for its home video game consoles, has introduced a 15-inch tall robotic 'girlfriend' that kisses on command, with a target market of lonely adult men. More>>> Wednesday, June 18
A Misconfigured Laptop, a Wrecked Life
by
Riley Jones
on Wed 18 Jun 2008 11:55 PM EDT
When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal charges that he had downloaded child pornography onto the laptop. Last week, prosecutors dropped their year-old case after a state investigation of his computer determined there was insufficient evidence to prove he had downloaded the files.
An initial state investigation had come to the opposite conclusion, and authorities took a second look at Fiola's case only after he hired a forensic investigator to look at his laptop. What she found was scary, given the gravity of the charges against him: The Microsoft SMS (Systems Management Server) software used to keep his laptop up to date was not functional. Neither was its antivirus protection. And the laptop was crawling with malicious programs that were most likely responsible for the files on his PC. More>>>
No signs of water yet from Mars lander
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 18 Jun 2008 01:30 PM EDT
Scientists think Phoenix's robotic arm just needs to dig a little deeper. 'This could be the tip of the iceberg,' one says. More>>> Tuesday, June 17
Follow Up: B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Crash Video & Technical Report
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 17 Jun 2008 09:54 AM EDT
Excellent detailed analysis concerning the crash of the B2 on Guam back in February. Monday, June 16
Shiavo legacy: Stroke victim's kin split on food tube
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 16 Jun 2008 05:16 PM EDT
Karen Weber's descent into limbo began on Florida's Turnpike in November. She and her husband of 34 years, Raymond, had driven to Orlando International Airport to pick up her mother. On the way home to Okeechobee, happy talk about Gracie, the new baby in the family, ended suddenly when Karen had a seizure. Her husband drove quickly to a hospital. More>>>
Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 16 Jun 2008 04:19 PM EDT
Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young people's music ownership has found. The research also showed that half of 14 to 24-year-olds were happy to share all the music on their hard drive, enabling others to copy hundreds, or thousands, of songs at any one time. More>>>
Death special: The plan for eternal life
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 16 Jun 2008 08:51 AM EDT
The method is being developed (in mice, so far) to better understand the architecture of the brain. But Sandberg, who is based at the University of Oxford, has a rather more ambitious aim in mind. For him, this work is merely the first step towards uploading the contents of human brains - memories, emotions and all - onto a computer. Immortality? More>>>
Harvard Team Creates the World's 1st Synthesized Cells
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 16 Jun 2008 08:38 AM EDT
A single cell is the most awesomely sophisticated molecular machine yet produced. A self-directing, self-replicating micro-factory capable of complex constructions, automated repair and even (like all good sci-fi-sounding devices) self-destruct. The first cells, however, were much less "complex mechanisms" and significantly more "Shake and Bake" - a model that we're now ready to build ourselves. More>>> Sunday, June 15
Blueprints for an Advanced Nuclear Weapon found on computers that belonged to rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist
by
Riley Jones
on Sun 15 Jun 2008 11:20 AM EDT
The plans appear to closely resemble a nuclear weapon that was built by Pakistan and first tested exactly a decade ago. But when confronted with the design by officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency last year, Pakistani officials insisted that Dr. Khan, who has been lobbying in recent months to be released from the loose house arrest that he has been under since 2004, did not have access to Pakistan’s weapons designs. More>>> Saturday, June 14
The Dark Knight- IMAX featurette
by
Riley Jones
on Sat 14 Jun 2008 11:11 AM EDT
This movie is going to be Great! Friday, June 13
Women think about shopping not sex
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 13 Jun 2008 12:04 PM EDT
Three out of four young women think about shopping nearly as often as men think about sex, according to a new survey. Women ponder over buying that new dress or snapping up that It bag every 60 seconds, the poll by cosmopolitan.co.uk revealed. Out of the 778 women - aged 19 to 45 - that were interviewed, 74 per cent said they think about shopping every minute. More>>>
Building a calculator/ Difference engine using Legos
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 13 Jun 2008 11:43 AM EDT
Before the day of computers and pocket calculators all mathematics was done by hand. Great effort was expended to compose trigonometric and logarithmic tables for navigation, scientific investigation, and engineering purposes. The larger efforts involved rooms of semi skilled people, called 'computers', capable of doing reliable arithmetic who would be under the direction of a skilled mathematician. More>>>
Al Gore vs. the Founder of the Weather Channel: Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 13 Jun 2008 11:23 AM EDT
You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas. It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth. What an amazing fraud; what a scam. I think John McCain needs to read this... More>>> Thursday, June 12
Three Cool clips of the F-22 Raptor
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 01:24 PM EDT
The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin recently showed off America's latest fighter aircraft, the F-22 Raptor. In this video, ... more »
Retuning Bacteria: Gene-silencing techniques for bacteria could mean more-efficient biofuel production
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 01:05 PM EDT
Researchers at Duke University are hoping to develop methods to reversibly turn off harmful or unwanted genes in bacteria. If they succeed, gene silencing could be used to treat persistent infections by turning off antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria and in environmental and industrial applications, including water filtration. The technique could also make it possible to engineer bacteria to more efficiently make biofuels and other industrial products. More>>>
The End of Oil?
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 11:22 AM EDT
Where mainstream forecasts showed output rising steadily each year in a great upward curve that kept up with global demand, Husseini's calculations showed output leveling off, starting as early as 2004. Just as alarming, this production plateau would last 15 years at best, after which the output of conventional oil would begin "a gradual but irreversible decline." More>>> Wednesday, June 11
Republicans Press Dems to Get Going on 'Real Energy Solutions'
by
Riley Jones
on Wed 11 Jun 2008 01:51 PM EDT
He said it: House Republicans are congratulating a Democrat for saying that the United States needs "more production" of domestic oil. Asked Tuesday about his party's energy agenda, Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, told CNBC, "I think you have to have a blend of both -- obviously more production -- but also start to invest, which has not happened, in (energy) alternatives as well." More>>>
Motorcycles Pollute More Than SUVs?
by
Riley Jones
on Wed 11 Jun 2008 12:04 PM EDT
Motorcycles and scooters are an appealing alternative to shelling out big bucks filling up the family truckster, which is one reason sales are going through the roof. But riding on two wheels may not be any more environmentally responsible than riding on four. Turns out the average motorcycle is 10 times more polluting per mile than a passenger car, light truck or SUV. It seems counter-intuitive, because motorcycles are about twice as fuel-efficient as cars and emit a lot less C02. So what gives? More>>>
EU takes swipe at Microsoft
by
Riley Jones
on Wed 11 Jun 2008 08:19 AM EDT
The European Union competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, took a swipe at Microsoft on Tuesday by recommending that businesses and governments use software based on internationally accepted standards. More>>> |
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