The music industry's educational video about copyright law is full of baloney, according to several trade and public interest groups.
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Friday, September 01, 2006
RIAA copyright education contradictory
ISPs fight against encrypted BitTorrent downloads
BitTorrent clients such as Azureus added a feature that encrypted torrent traffic to try and get around ISP roadblocks. Now, a company called Allot Communications is claiming that their new hardware product, the NetEnforcer, is the first device that will seek out and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic.
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Bartender gets $10,000 tip on $26 tab
Two weeks ago, one of Cindy Kienow's regular customers left her a $100 tip on a tab that wasn't even half that. This week, he added a couple of zeros. Kienow, a bartender at Applebee's, got a $10,000 tip from the man, for a $26 meal on Sunday.
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Did the Earth Flip Over in the Past?
Scientists have found evidence that the Earth might have flipped over in the past, completely shifting the orientation of its poles. The theory has been around for years; that a large mountain range or supervolcano might unbalance the spinning Earth. Over the course of millions of years, the Earth would change the orientation of its axis.
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16GB USB drive that fits in your pocket and weighs 12 grams!
When do we stop... How much space do we really need on a thumb drive?
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5 Ways To Boost Your WiFi Signal
"here's a roundup of some gear that'll turn your hotspot into a data blast zone"
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Cards That Hurt Your Credit Rating
A no-limit credit card can damage you, even if you pay it off in full every month, because the most commonly used method of determining risk is flawed. The problem is something called credit utilization. If the card has no limit, the credit-scoring company can't make the credit-utilization calculation, and that has an effect on credit scores.
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How Much System Memory Is Really Enough?
When it comes to adding memory, we all have to deal with the cost vs. speed equation. So how much memory do you really need? Our tester got some surprising results.
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Wal-Mart and Apple Battle for Turf
The retail behemoth isn't happy about the iPod maker's plans to offer movie downloads through iTunes. Has Wal-Mart met its match?
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An alternative to string theory
One of the subjects we keep coming back to here at Nobel Intent is the unification of gravity and quantum mechanics. One of the main contenders for this has to be string theory, in which all observable properties can be simply described as vibrations on a string or more complex structure.
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Dad kills man who molested his two year old daughter
A lawyer climbed through a neighbor's bedroom window and stabbed him to death after being told by a family member that the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter, authorities say.
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RadioShack lays off 403 via e-mail
Imagine getting your pink slip via email. Radioshack lays off their employees online, that has to suck.
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Thursday, August 31, 2006
Cigarettes pack more nicotine. State study shows an average 10% increase.
Most of the tests are conducted at an independent laboratory in Canada that uses a machine to simulate a typical smoker's puffing. The Massachusetts study analyzed nicotine in 116 cigarette brands, finding that the amount of nicotine that can be inhaled by a typical smoker increased in 92 brands from 1998 to 2004. Only 12 brands had a decrease.
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Hamish McRae: Americans are in for tough times, even if the Fed won't (yet) say it
Even the shortest visits to the US tell you things about the economy that you would not get from the figures. While this university town might seem to be sailing comfortably along, it is only an hour from Detroit, home of the US auto industry.
The American education industry remains in pretty good shape but the car industry most certainly is not. The talk is about globalization and the energy squeeze but the practical impact of both is being felt in jobs and most particularly in property prices.
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Download YouTube videos directly to iTunes
Using TubeSock you can now download Videos from YouTube, and save them directly into iTunes in a iPod video compatible format.
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What's the Most Popular Linux Desktop?
The results of DesktopLinux.com's 2006 Desktop Linux Market survey are in, and the votes are all tallied. This first article of a series offers a perspective on how the various desktop Linux distributions fared, and why.
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Scientists unlocking the secrets of bioavailability.
Experts advise us to eat more fruit and veg; boost protein and fibre intake; make sure we get the optimum levels of vitamins and minerals. But what actually happens to these nutrients once they are inside the body? Eat iron rich veggies with OJ to convert the iron into the form we get the most from, but coffee and tea inhibit iron absorption.
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Corporate profit as share of G.D.P. rising, wage share at new low (Graph)
This New York Times graph illustrates that while corporate profits are at the highest share of the G.D.P. since the 1960s, the take home pay of the typical worker is actually the lowest on record as a share of the same G.D.P.
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Wal-Mart Aims To Change How We Light Our Homes
In the next 12 months, starting with a major push this month, Wal-Mart wants to sell every one of its regular customers--100 million in all--one compact fluorescent bulb. In the process, it may change energy consumption in the United States.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Prostitutes in Kenya May Carry Gene That Protects Them From HIV
Some commercial sex workers in Kenya who apparently are immune to HIV might be carrying a gene that protects them from contracting the virus, according to a study presented last week at the XVI International AIDS Conference. Over three years, most of the 850 surveyed women contracted HIV, but at least 130 did not test positive for the virus.
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Why Are We Worse Off?
New wage data indicate what you might have suspected. Average wages are not keeping up with the cost of living. Lew Rockwell explains that the real cuprit here is inflation, which affects different goods in different ways. Goods in large retail shops have fallen due to cost cuts and pressure from international trade, while energy prices are way up.
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What are Dark matter & Dark energy, & How are they Affecting the Universe?
Robert Caldwell, a cosmologist at Dartmouth College, explains this complex question in an easy way for us to understand.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
FBI: Fugitive polygamist arrested near Las Vegas
Warren Steed Jeffs, 50, was taken into custody after he and two other people were pulled over late Monday by a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper on Interstate 15 just north of Las Vegas, FBI spokesman David Staretz said
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Protein 101: How much do you need?
Do you get enough? Or enough of the right kinds? Madelyn Fernstrom of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center offers a basic lesson in proteins.
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Monday, August 28, 2006
BREAKING: John Mark Karr DNA does not match DNA found on JonBenet Ramsey
The DNA sample taken from John Mark Karr does not match DNA found on JonBenet Ramsey's body when she was murdered in 1996, CNN affiliate KUSA is reporting.
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How to recover lost files after you accidentally wipe your hard drive
After the overwhelming feeling of dread passed, I started to look into file recovery options. I demoed a variety of commercial products to see if any of them could find my lost files or partitions. Nothing seemed to work. Finally, I discovered TestDisk and PhotoRec, and was able to use the latter to recover my lost files.
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World's oldest person dies at age 116
QUITO, Ecuador - Maria Esther de Capovilla, believed to be the world's oldest person, has died at 116, her granddaughter said. Born on Sept. 14, 1889, Capovilla was married in 1917 and widowed in 1949. She always ate three meals a day and never smoked or drank hard liquor, her family said.
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How Nicotine Works
What is it about tobacco that makes people so compelled to use it despite all of the admonitions? Smoking or chewing tobacco makes people feel good, even mildly euphoric. While there are thousands of chemicals in the tobacco plant, one, nicotine, produces all the good feelings that draw people back for another cigarette or plug of tobacco.
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Bin Laden Still Not Charged For 9/11
Bin Laden has only been charged with U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa on Aug. 7, 1998. Another more infamous date -- Sept. 11, 2001 -- is nowhere to be found. The curious omission underscores the Justice Department's decision, so far, to not seek formal criminal charges against bin Laden. Strange, isn't it?
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Brain's Filing System Uncovered
While much is known about how the brain processes simple visual features such as colors, angles, and motion-directions, less is known about how the brain learns and recognizes the meaning of stimuli. The process of grouping related visual images into categories allows the brain to organize stimuli according to their meaning.
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Terahertz Transistor: New Transistor Design Aims to Smash Speed Records
Researchers at the University of Rochester believe they know how to make a transistor that, at room temperature, could operate at a blazing three terahertz. The device, dubbed a ballistic deflection transistor, won't be in products anytime soon. But it does embody some interesting design theories.
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Scientists have found a way to trick cancer cells into committing suicide
The novel technique potentially offers an effective method of providing personalized anti-cancer therapy. Most living cells contain a protein called procaspase-3, which, when activated, changes into the executioner enzyme caspase-3 and initiates programmed cell death, called apoptosis...
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New Hope For Malaria Vaccine.
Malaria infects 500 million people a year, killing about 3000 people a day. The early tests for the vaccine are hopeful. The Japanese research team developing it believe it could cut infection rates by up to 80% in Africa.
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Unsuccessful mission: Bush fails to sell war
Even Republicans are increasingly skeptical about U.S. odds of success in Iraq
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Who Destroyed the Constitution? The Biggest Special Interest Group of All
Unlike the neocons who surround Judge Andrew Napolitano during his appearances on the FOX News, he understands that freedom comes "from God and is inherent to our humanity". The government can now break into your house, steal your checkbook, put an electronic bug under your kitchen table, and make it look like it was a house burglary.
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Aftermath: Teen Who Fled Captor Recalls 8-Year Ordeal
Natascha Kampusch is a sad, withdrawn-looking young woman, a lifetime apart from the ruddy-cheeked 10-year-old she was when she disappeared 8 years ago. She weighs less than 100 pounds, and police who interviewed her shortly after she escaped from her kidnapper this week. The story has transfixed Austria, where sordid behavior is rarely on display.
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Stocks jump as oil prices sink
Crude falls and natural gas futures plunge as the threat from Ernesto dissipates. Wal-Mart meets its sales target for August. Ford is reportedly close to selling a stake in its financial unit. The energy sector leads Merger Monday.... The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 58 points, 0.5%, to 11,342 at 11:12 a.m. ET and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 6 points, 0.5%, to 1,300. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 16 points, 0.7%, to 2,156.
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Saturday, August 26, 2006
Found girl hesitent to reunite with parents
VIENNA, Austria - She dashed to freedom the moment she got a chance, but reportedly wept inconsolably when told her “master” had thrown himself in front of a train. She had a tearful reunion with her parents, yet hasn’t asked for them since.
New details — and fresh questions — emerged Saturday about Natascha Kampusch’s welfare after her ordeal at the hands of a man who yanked her off a suburban street when she was 10 and confined her to a squalid, windowless cell for more than eight years.
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Back-to-school shopping getting high marks
With visions of three-ring binders dancing in their heads, retailers are understandably giddy this time of year. Back-to-School may not be much to celebrate for kids or their parents, but retailers consider it the second biggest "holiday" of the year after Christmas.
And this year it could be significantly bigger. The National Retail Federation expects $17.6 billion will be spent, up from 2005’s $13.4 billion.
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Cell phones taking over as timepieces
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Ask graphic designer Parker Weintz the time and he doesn't look to his wrist, he pulls a cell phone out of his pocket -- and he's not alone.
The proliferation of cell phones, with their list of extra features, has had the knock-on effect of eliminating the need to wear a wristwatch unless it is to make a fashion statement.
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A Solar System-Size Headache
Now that astronomers have booted Pluto from the ranks of official planets, what's a planetarium gift shop to do? It's not often that the solar system loses a whole planet, but it did just that on Aug. 24, when the International Astronomical Union (IAU), meeting in Prague, changed the definition of a planet to exclude Pluto, dropping the count of official planets from nine to eight. And while it was the scientific community that had to deal with the impact of the change in their view of the cosmos, some Earth-bound businesses began toting up the dollars-and-cents implications of Pluto's expulsion.
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Drinking Tea Is Better For Health Than Plain Water
If you drink three or more cups of tea a day you might be doing your health more good than drinking plain water, say researchers from King's College, London, UK.. This new study found, among other things, that the urban myth that tea dehydrates could not be further from the truth - tea hydrates as well as water does, say the researchers.
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Why are oil prices are so high?
There are several reasons. Increased demand, investors betting heavily on futures, and here is one of the big ones, incompetent monopolies. Newsweek explains how some of the countries that ousted the corporations are even worse than the dinosaurs they replaced. If they don't fix it some countries may see economic collapse.
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Teens Legally Nude In Vermont
"What began as a lark or an ode to youthful exuberance has now turned into a municipal quandary, because public nudity is permissible in Brattleboro." Rebellious teenagers have taken to disrobing in public parking lots to sunbathe or spontaneously disrobe on a whim. Hopefully this trend will spread through the rest of the US soon.
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32 GB flash drives within a year.
It reads data about 300% faster and writes 150% faster. I long for the day when the only moving part in my computer is a fan.
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Women fall into 'trance' during orgasm
The key to female arousal seems rather to be deep relaxation and a lack of anxiety, with direct sensory input from the genitals playing a less critical role.
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Friday, August 25, 2006
United States versus $124,700 in U.S. Currency
No really, that's the name of the case.
The Eighth Circuit Appeals Court recently ruled that police may seize cash from motorists, citing that "possession of a large sum of cash is "strong evidence" of a connection to drug activity." Gonzales was never charged with any crime, but his cash was stolen by police anyway.
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RIAA Backs Down 1 Day After Being Counter-sued
In Warner v. Stubbs, in Oklahoma, the defendant filed her answer and counterclaim against the RIAA on August 23, 2006. In it she likened the RIAA's tactics to "extortion".
The very next day, on August 24, 2006, the RIAA turned around and asked the Judge for permission to withdraw its case:
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Review: Free Linux Desktops
CRN Test Center set out to locate good examples of free Linux distributions that still have some channel focus and offer robust features, along with upgrades to commercial support. The field was narrowed down to three familiar names in the Linux world, Ubuntu, OpenSuse and the new Freespire, the free version of Linspire.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Your Digital Wallet
With new technology called near-field communications, you could use a cell phone to make purchases, or even download a movie trailer from a poster.
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P2P Services Compared - AllPeers, Pando, Zapr and Exaroom
detailed comparison of four new P2P services: A new crop of services has popped up recently to make it much easier to share files with a private network of friends and other trusted people. Allpeers, Zapr, Pando and Exaroom are all fairly recent entrants.
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Viruses and Spyware Cost Users $7.8 Billion
"Consumers paid as much $7.8 billion over two years to repair or replace computers that got infected with viruses and spyware, a Consumer Reports survey found."
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Where Bush's Arrogance Has Taken Us
An illegal war, a long list of eroded rights, and a country run by and for the benefit of corporate campaign donors -- all courtesy of the imperial presidency. During his gubernatorial days in Texas, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into his political soul: "There ought to be limits to freedom."
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MSN Messenger Adds One-Click Sex Offender Report Button.
Young people using Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger to chat online with friends can now make a report to police with one click if they are concerned their online 'buddy' is a sex offender.
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How Music Gets you High
A neuroscientist explains why women want rock stars to father their children, and how melodies can work like Prozac.
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Banks Launch Surcharge-Free ATM Networks
Millions of Americans do the same thing every day, to the tune of an estimated $4.2 billion in ATM fees this year. But at a time when more banks are charging non-customers more money to use their ATMs, some consumers are getting a break.
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First XBOX Modchip Released
The NME-360 enables your XBox360 to play backups of your highly valuable original games. NME-360 is a universal solution for ALL currently available XBox360 Consoles on the market. Forget crazy dual mods with 30+ wires or even bricking your DVD drive by flashing corrupt/wrong firmware files. Your original firmware stays untouched and intact at any
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The Dark Side of the Universe
Some of the most fascinating places out there are facing the wrong way. Astronomers had long assumed that the farside was just like the near side. Wrong. Pictures of the hidden hemisphere, first taken in 1959 by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3, show a vastly different landscape.
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Evolving Universes
Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin looked at the simple, functional elegance found in the the theory of natural selection, and thought that maybe such a concept could be applied on a universal scale. Thus the theory of Cosmological Natural Selection was born.
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Science Collides With the Big Bang...
"...how to explain the origins of the universe. What Turok had done in his lecture and accompanying papers was to challenge an idea that has held physicists in thrall for more than four decades: that time, space and everything else all appeared out of nothing and began with one Big Bang."
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First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful!
Forty-nine healthy people who received the injection showed no severe adverse reactions after 180 days, proving the vaccine was safe. The recipients appeared immune to the HIV-1 virus 15 days after the injection, indicating the vaccine worked well in stimulating the body's immunity.
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
"Dark matter" is real, scientists say
BOSTON (Reuters) - A team of U.S. scientists has found the first direct evidence of the existence of "dark matter," a little-understood substance with a huge influence on gravity, the team's leader said on Tuesday.
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Monday, August 21, 2006
Universe Has Fuel For Another 70bn Years
IT WILL be 70 billion years before the lights start to go out all over the universe, scientists at a Scottish university revealed yesterday.
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Consumer Reports creates 5,500 new computer viruses
The controversy is that for the test Consumer Reports hired a firm to create 5,500 new variants of existing viruses to see how antivirus software reacted to new threats.
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FBI Experts Trawl Web For Pedophiles
"It's dinner time. Family is at the table. Dad's special phone rings. The man on the other end of the phone wants to talk sex. Sex with a little girl. Dad gets up from the dinner table and walks away, phone pressed to his ear."
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Redheads 'Have More Sex Than Blondes Or Brunettes'
Blondes may have more fun but redheads have more sex, according to new research in Germany.
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Just Say NO To Banner Ads On Your Cellphones!
Some of the biggest wireless service providers announced today that are starting to allow advertising on their cell phones. Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless are already trying out trials of banner ads on their cell phones. We cant let this happen!!
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USA and Japan become the poorest of the richest countries
The USA and Japan hold the leading positions among the world’s most industrially developed countries in terms of relative poverty. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the percentage of US families whose profit is lower than the average income makes up 13.7. The number of such families in Japan reaches 13.5 percent.
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H.E.R.B. - Had Enough Religious Bulls**t
A collection of articles, quotations, and cartoons for those of us who prefer not to live in a theocracy.
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Internet Addiction - When Reset Button Is Not Enough
Some claim it is the worst plague of the 21st century. Some say it does more harm than heavy drinking or smoking. Still others argue there is no problem at all. Whatever the opinions are, Internet addiction has become a serious threat to all of us surfing the net.
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The True Cost Of Smoking, Literally.
A big eye opener for how much it really costs to smoke cigarettes. Talk about burning up dollars! Wow!
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20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
Ow the depth of the Democracy. The Freedom of choice. I whish all countries would be forced to have the same, good quality government as the Big U S of A.
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Girls Don’t Like Boys, Girls Like Cars And Money
Ten things all men should know about women.
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Universe Might Be Bigger And Older Than Expected
The new finding implies that the universe is instead about 15.8 billion years old and about 180 billion light-years wide.
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How To Control People
The difference between true education and vocational training has been cleverly blurred.
Here are a few tips on how smart people can control other people. If any of this rings a bell - Well, then wake up!
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New Method Of Growing Carbon Nanotubes To Revolutionise Electronics
A new method of growing carbon nanotubes is predicted to revolutionise the implementation of nanotechnology and the future of electronics. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have successfully grown nanotubes at a temperature which permits their full integration into present complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology (350 ºC).
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Sunday, August 20, 2006
7,500 Miles On $5 In Gas and Used Vegetable Oil...
He converted his diesel pickup truck to run almost exclusively on used vegetable oil, and for the past three weeks he has been driving across the country with his father and a friend, filling people in on alternative fuel possibilities.
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Play Chess against the computer and see it thinking about the next move
Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer's thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move.
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The Linux Desktop Myth
It's entirely possible that you may not have heard of Linux. Maybe you own a Mac or Windows computer and don't read technology news. You may have a TiVo, but it doesn't have a huge sticker on the box that reads "Powered by Linux" (even though it is).
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Tibetans to Teach Wi-Fi Know-How
DHARAMSHALA, India -- Organizers of a community wireless mesh network in Dharamshala, India -- the hometown-in-exile of the Dalai Lama and thousands of Tibetan refugees -- say they want to "unwire" more Tibetan exile communities and other unconnected spots in the developing world.
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Famster’s hamster wants to network with your mom
Famster is a Flash based social networking site with a long list of features. Created by Whittier California web design company Ivenue, it’s an attempt to take online social networking mainstream for adults. There’s no clear business model yet and I find the site’s branding a little creepy, but the feature set is staggering and the site is so well designed that it’s likely to win over a lot of people in its target audience.
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Mixing, Then Un-mixing Oil And Water 'On Command' Could Solve Oil Recovery And Clean-up Problems
Queen's University researchers have devised a "green chemistry" solution to one of the oil industry's biggest problems -- in a cost-effective way. Their findings will be published in the international journal Science on Friday August 18. The study addresses the recurring problem of separating oil and water mixtures, and targets diverse applications including cleaning up oil spills, and extracting oil deposits from tar sands and reservoirs. Other potential beneficiaries are plastics manufacturers, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, mining companies and makers of cleaning products.
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Physicist Discovers Exotic Superconductivity
A University of Arizona physicist has discovered that powerful magnetic fields change the physical nature of superconductivity. UA Associate Professor of Physics Andrei Lebed has discovered that strong magnetism changes the basic, intrinsic properties of electrons flowing through superconductors, establishing an "exotic" superconductivity. "Understanding the physical nature of the electron pairs that define superconductors is one of the most important problems in condensed matter physics," Lebed said. He published the research earlier this year in Physical Review Letters. He said the work is one of his most important contributions to physics in his 20-year career.
This is a really awesome article on Magnetism, I do recommend reading it if you have the time.
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Mystery Of Quintuplet Stars In Milky Way Solved
For the first time, scientists have identified the cluster of Quintuplet stars in the Milky Way's galactic center, next to the super massive black hole, as massive binary stars nearing the end of their life cycle, solving a mystery that had dogged astronomers for more than 15 years.
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Research Reveals Inner Workings Of Immune System 'Thermostat
When bacteria, viruses or parasites attack, immune system cells unleash the soldiers. These “hot” protein compounds kill invaders – but also trigger inflammation, which, if unchecked, can destroy tissue, induce shock and kill the host. So immune system cells let loose another protein compound to cool down the immune response.
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Contractors in Iraq make costs balloon
Jerry Zovko's contract with Blackwater USA looked straightforward: He would earn $600 a day guarding convoys that carried food for U.S. troops in Iraq. But that cost -- $180,000 a year -- was just the first installment of what taxpayers were asked to pay for Zovko's work. Blackwater, based in Moyock, N.C., and three other companies would add to the bill, and to their profits.
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What fluids should you drink when it's hot?
The claim is that drinking a cold drink is better as the cold drink comes in contact with the tissues of the mouth, tongue, and throat thus soothing us, and it brings body temperature down since the body must warm up the drink to body temperature.
On the other hand, some say drinking a hot drink is better as the body has to use more energy to reduce the temperature of the drink to body temperature.
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Windows Live Writer makes blogging more accessible
I know Windows Live Writer came out awhile ago, but since I didnt have a story on it already on my blog, I decided to add this one.
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9 Ways To Work Veggies Into Your Diet
Dont like Veggies but want to try and make healthy changes to your diet? Try a few of these suggestions.
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Tech Titans
Top 10 Tech Titans according to Forbes.com -- Not suprisingly 3 out of the top 5 work for Microsoft(Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Balmer). Dell kicks butt. Ebay and Google make the list. If you want to see the rest you'll have to click the link to see the slideshow.
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Linspire Launches Freespire Linux Software Suite
SAN FRANCISCO -- Linspire launched Freespire ahead of schedule Tuesday, hoping to eliminate the complexities of Linux with a simple software suite designed to do the tasks users want. Linspire introduced Freespire 1.0 at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. The company designed the free consumer-aimed Linux operating system to combine open-source and proprietary software.
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Judge Blocks Judge -- DISH PVRs Are Go, For Now
n a sudden twist of events, a Washington D.C. court has allowed the continued use of DISH PVRs, sold by EchoStar Communications. "We are pleased that this morning, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. temporarily blocked an injunction issued by a Texas Court, while it considers a longer-term stay of that injunction," EchoStar said in a statement.
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Federal Court Finds NSA Wiretaps Unconstitutional
A federal judge in Detroit has rejected the Bush administration's argument that the National Security Agency's wiretap program, which has been conducted for nearly five years, is allowed by the U.S. Constitution.
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Karr on flight to Los Angeles
BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- A suspect in the 1996 death of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey has begun his journey back to the United States where he is to be questioned by Boulder, Colorado, investigators. John Mark Karr, 41, said nothing as he walked out of the detention center in Bangkok, surrounded by Thai police officers, at 3 p.m. local time Sunday.
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Upgrading Wi-Fi: What, When, and Why
Wi-Fi (802.11x) networks have been around long enough that many businesses and home users run their own. The first widely deployed standard was 802.11b, while most new hardware uses 802.11g. The latest 802.11n hardware is just around the corner. If you run an existing wireless network, is it time to upgrade?
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Saturday, August 19, 2006
How To Make A Universe...
For many years now physicists have discussed how one might make a universe in the laboratory. The essential idea is that the vacuum is not completely empty but has a set of intrinsic energy levels, which can be excited. It is this energy that drove the early inflation of the universe and continues to accelerate the expansion of the universe today.
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What the Airports Must Do to Sniff Out Liquid Explosives
"What is more difficult is detecting the components of a bomb before it has been assembled, particularly if surrounded by metal objects. In fact, liquid explosives might be easier to spot than solids, Reiss says, as they have to be held in a container."
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Teenagers dont think copying CDs is a crime
The result of a new survey has angered the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America
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UK to get first city with high-speed WiMax coverage
"A British city known for its concrete cows is set to become one of the most technologically advanced in Britain after it said it would to be the first UK town to boast a high-speed WiMax wireless broadband network."
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Friday, August 18, 2006
Why Is Linux Successful?
The success of Linux over the past 15 years boils down to a few key factors, according to a panel of Linux luminaries.
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