Five spacecraft from two ESA missions unexpectedly found themselves engulfed by waves of electrical and magnetic energy as they travelled through Earth's night-time shadow on 5 August 2004.
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A Michigan high school student faces child pornography charges over an Internet party prank.
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The US military plans to detonate a 700 tonne explosive charge in a test called "Divine Strake" that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said.
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Uncover and learn the truth about E3 Booth Babes straight from one! AMN's newest editor tells her story...
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I just can't believe this. Some idiot took a 12" powerbook, arguably one of the finest laptops ever built, and turned it into this hideous monstruosity. He has even put an analog clock into it!!
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This guy loved his wife so much he decided to make a body cast of her torso and turn it into a mod he calls "The Blair Witch Mod". I guess he wasn't happy with just real-sex and had to go for cyber-sex too. Who says marriage is dead?
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MAKE Flickr photo pool member TommyBear turned a $5 Staples Easy Button into a switch for his garage door. Here's how you do it, easy!
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Translated to English from a German IRC chatroom, watch this guy kill his own computer while trying to hack someone else's computer.
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The US Navy's home away from home will also be home to the highest skyscraper in the world, almost 1 kilometer high! Check out pictures/videos
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William (Bill) Yeager is 66 and still gets peeved when someone trots out the Silicon Valley fable about how the founders of Cisco invented the router. He was the guy at Stanford University that made it happen.
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The shadow of the moon falls on Earth as seen from the International Space Station, 230 miles above the planet, during a total solar eclipse at about 4:50 a.m. EST March 29.
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This website is devoted to the Hummer off-road racing game currently being sold by Radio Shack. Inside, it contains the Commodore 64 DTV chip, designed by Jeri Ellsworth. This chip is, in essence, and entire Commodore 64 reduced down to a single chip.
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Terror-proof jets feature missile-jamming lasers & refuse-to-crash software
Published by Stangrunner.
"Nearly five years after September 11, the airline industry is finally adopting new in-flight technologies to keep planes safe from terrorists. Tests on passenger-carrying flights could begin by the end of the year, says Homeland Security spokesman Brian Doyle. "
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Dan Rather has been one of the few journalists cleared to into North Korea, while he was there he got these incredible, yet creepy images of the North Korean 'war games'... this is a just a very quick clip from the 60 minutes segment, but a link to the full documentary is provided within
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Most of the spam filters use a technique based on Bayesian analysis of the content of the message. As spammers know this they try to modify their messages so they don't get detected as spam.
There are different ways to do this and some of them are explained in this post.
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There are different ways to do this and some of them are explained in this post.
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A visually accessible guide to vi/vim editing, using graphical keyboard maps. It should help a lot in understanding those powerful but cryptic commands.
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The aims of the project were to:
a) Reduce the noise level
b) See if I could do it
I was not looking to lower the temperature to improve the stability. Ive heard reports in forums of the 360 overheating but I have not noticed this myself.
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a) Reduce the noise level
b) See if I could do it
I was not looking to lower the temperature to improve the stability. Ive heard reports in forums of the 360 overheating but I have not noticed this myself.
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This is a great little tutorial for anyone looking to set up a vpn through the linux based IPCop firewall. A must read!
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb, a doctor said.
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Interesting rumor from Engadget says that the next version of OSX may have native support for Windows XP applications, without emulation. It appears Dvorak may have been right, in a sense.
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I must say this is actually pretty awesome. An entry in a German science-photo competition, this image shows a fly sporting a set of "designer" lenses crafted and set in place with a cutting-edge laser technique. The glasses fit snuggly on the fly's 0.08-inch-wide (2-millimeter-wide) head.
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Crewmembers aboard the International Space Station will have a rare opportunity to witness the Moon's shadow racing across the face of the Earth during a total solar eclipse Wednesday.
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Insanely huge storage for a flash drive that size. Yes, it is 6-4, sixty four, gigabytes, of flash memory. This dwarfs many hard disk based portable usb drives as well, and at a fraction of the size. Imagine a 60 gigs flash based iPod..
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An anonymous listener mailed the Podshow contract to Keith and the Girl's PO Box and they read it on the show. Take a listen to see how few rights you would have left if you signed. see also: www.keithandthegirl.com/forums/showthread.php?p=28947
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Looks like Toshiba is trying to be socially responsible and will trade your old Laptop, LCD or pocket PC for a USB flash drive. Toshiba calls the program the TERRE (Toshiba's Environmental Recovery and Recycling Effort).
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``I didn't want to start Apple Computers,'' said Wozniak, known in Silicon Valley simply as ``Woz.'' ``My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.''
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Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.
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If you don't listen to music alot on your computer but have an iPod and would like to keep track... well, here you go.
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"Cannot delete file: Access is denied," "The file is in use by another program or user," and "Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use." There are a couple of better and easier ways to bypass these errors, kill the desired program, and go on about your business. And amazingly, they're free.
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A volunteer group, dubbed the Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination squad (PIRT), will take in reports from consumers of suspected phishing Web sites and work to take the sites offline.
On Friday, before its official launch, the group received 100 phishing reports, and 30 of those were shut down in a few hours.
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On Friday, before its official launch, the group received 100 phishing reports, and 30 of those were shut down in a few hours.
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These single-use cameras were able to snap a photo one ten-millionth of a second after detonation from about seven miles away, with an exposure time of as little as ten nanoseconds. At that instant, a typical fireball had already reached about 100 feet in diameter, with temperatures three times hotter than the surface of the sun.
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Rumors have been brewing that Jobs and co. are taking steps toward allowing Windows apps to run on Macs. Now evidence has surfaced that Apple has begun the process toward doing just that!
Is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's juggernaut 95% market share?
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Is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's juggernaut 95% market share?
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Gilles Trehin is an autistic 28-year-old. Since the age of 12, he has been designing an imaginary city called Urville. He has created detailed historical, geographical, cultural, and economic descriptions of the city, as well as an absolutely extraordinary set of drawings. Check out the pics!
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You probably think you'd notice if all the objects around you started moving, but research at Oxford University published today in Current Biology shows that in certain circumstances people do not even notice if a room grows to four times its size.
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Josh was called in to investigate and noticed that one particularly troublesome external IP had gone in and deleted *all* of the content on the system. The IP didn't belong to some overseas hacker bent on destroying helpful government information. It resolved to googlebot.com, Google's very own web crawling spider. Whoops.
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From the "gee, do ya think?" department comes this gem. Ian Brown, senior research manager at Cambridge University in England, says that DRM is fundamentally "an anti-user technology." Sony, Starforce, are you listening?
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Screenshots are a great way for users to get a glimpse of upcoming products. The problem is that screenshots don't really show how the product runs, just how it looks. Luckily, Microsoft has released some new Office 2007 footage so that users don't have to form opinions based on screenshots any longer.
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Built entirely in flash, this application gives you information about your xbox based on your serial number. Where it was made, when it was made, and most importantly for people looking for mod chips, what version your xbox is.
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When a tiny droplet of cold fluid mixes with a high-temperature solid particle, a vapor layer forms between them, and they never actually touch. Researchers have performed the first accurate computer simulation of this small-scale phenomenon
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Podcasting News: "Nude Britney Spears Giving Birth" Sculptor Subject of Podcast
Published Tuesday, March 28, 2006 by Stangrunner.
These are some great designer desktop background sources. Did I mention they're free.
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yep that humming noise you have to hear 8 hours a day can be completely silent, you read that correctly, absolutely no noise.
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The Instant Cool Can (I.C. Can) cools using simple water evaporation, and will lower beverage temperature by a minimum of 30° F (16.7° C) in just three minutes.
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"A California man says the RIAA's so-called Clean Slate program is 'hollow and deceptive'."
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A simple help tool for you to identify any unknown files on your computer. You can enter a filename and see if this file is a dangerous trojan, malware, or simply a standard Windows file.
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Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - The dark side of MySpace
Published by Stangrunner.
"It's like Magellan. You send them off, and maybe they come back, maybe they don't."
Manager of NASA's Office for Human Exploration Science talks about the perils involved and competetion from other countries.
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Manager of NASA's Office for Human Exploration Science talks about the perils involved and competetion from other countries.
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Mini-Microsoft: Nix the Mix06! Back to Accountability and Pondering Attention to Bad News about Microsoft.
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"Things get interesting when you apply Monolith to copyrighted files. For example, munging two copyrighted files will produce a completely new file that, in most cases, contains no information from either file." Sounds like the RIAA and MPAA are going to throw a hissy fit.
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Crutchfield makes connecting your iPod to your car stereo easy as pie
Published Sunday, March 26, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Extremely useful application Crutchfield has created for the iPod owners out there. Tell it what kind of iPod you have and what kind of car you have and it will show you all the different ways you can connect your iPod to your car stereo.
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If your windows installation has issues, or for some other unmentionable reason is unable to get updates from the windows server, this is what you need to do.
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While analysts and Apple rumor sites have been speculating, Benq confirms that an iPhone is in the works. Their suppliers who work with Apple have been requested to supply parts for the iPhone. Benq also states that the Apple iPhone is common knowledge in Taiwan. The iPhone is expected to be released in the 4th quarter of this year.
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What's the difference between Mac OS X and Vista? Microsoft employees are excited about Mac OS X. - great quotes from Microsoft employees about Vista......
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I've never seen Windows move so fast! Could this be real? If so I want some now. (link goes direct to google video of it windows machine running I-Mesh RAM)
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Adult Swim 24/7 on-line shows finally go live this Friday!
Published Wednesday, March 22, 2006 by Stangrunner.
With premieres of Robot Chickens new season and being able to watch shows 24/7 like Futurama this should push the IPTV movement even more.
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This is a tutorial on how to use iTunes to back up your music to CD or DVD, and automatically keep track of new music that has not been previously archived... making future backups almost effortless.
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Finally, someone has hacked the venerable PuTTY ssh client to store its settings in the filesystem rather than the registry. That means, settings are easily copied to other machines and especially your USB flash drive.
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This woman doesn't understand how Windows/Firefox profiles work and leaves her fiance of 5 years after finding info about dating sites he visited. Then she then files a bug about it on Bugzilla.
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Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Starforce DRM Another Sony Rootkit?
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What took Radio stations 100 years to do, Podcasting did in just 2 years. Yeah, "Pod People" are taking over!
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interview with Jesus Lopez (Otherwise known as blanka) who was part of the 2 man team that successfully got Windows XP to install and run on an Intel Mac. from ATAU
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Everyone remembers recent stories about Engadget practicing biased reporting when it came to Apple products, well now it seems Peter Rojas is up to no good again by continually ripping stories from DapReview.net and not giving them any credit.
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Bink.nu | Microsoft Distributes Irish Language Versions of Windows and Office to Every School
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Amazingly, 25 years ago somone recorded a dial scan of their radio on the night John Lennon was murdered. A fascinating way to capture history, and something that might become impossible if the Radio Flag legislation goes through.
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Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Messy daughter fights back by humiliating dad
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Bus driver fired for playing Grand Theft Auto on Psp while actually driving
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Steve Allcock was reported by terrified passengers who heard the screams of characters being butchered as he drove between stops.
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Have you ever been driving down the highway and suddenly noticed you have no memory of the last few kilometres?"What we're really not remembering is the driving. Because driving for most of us after you've been doing it for a long time is automatic. Read the article to find out more.
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Microsoft have released a website which enables you to sign up to either: Beta 2 of Windows Vista, Beta 2 of 2007 Microsoft Office System, and Beta 2 of Microsoft Exchange "12". These will be out from April onwards, and exact dates are not confirmed.
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The RIAA licks its wounds after losing a bid for unfettered access to the hard drive of an Oregon mother it's victimizing in a p2p file sharing case.
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Theodore Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research, Inc makers of Mathematica, wrote up an amazing article on making your own light bulb. The project is quick and simple
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Amazing story about a boy pronounced brain dead recovers dramatically thanks in part to video game therapy!
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"Free food . . . digital TV, pool table, video games, DVD player and now FREE internet access!" An invitation to one long holiday? No, this is how Parexel, the company at the heart of a medical disaster, recruits human guinea pigs to test new drugs and brave the frontiers of modern science.
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The network that stitches together radars, missile launch sites and command control centers for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) ground-based defense system has such serious security flaws that the agency and its contractor, Boeing, may not be able to prevent misuse of the system
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Torrentspy, one of the biggest torrent sites out there "lost" their TV and Movie directory. This makes it harder for people to browse through the torrent listing and find the files they want. The categories in question are replaced by a more general "video" directory. And categories like DVD-screener, Telecine and Cam are totally gone.
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Turley is up in arms over this one, calling it horrific-saying it removes the 4th amendment from the Constitution. He also rips Congress for laying down like dogs and not even holding serious hearing on the NSA warrantless searches.
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The notes, in 300, 600 and 1,000 euro denominations have a ring of 12 hearts instead of the usual EU stars and feature hunky men and big-breasted nude women.
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With its Lost, Desperate Housewives and Night Stalker episodes among the most popular downloaded video on Apple's iTunes store, ABC is to test stream its network programming over the internet through its abc.com site, beginning in April.
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Recent changes at tvRSS have made it even easier to find your favorite TV show torrents. You can now search with fields such as show name, season, and episode. And of course, search-based RSS feeds are still available.
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There's a strong element of luck involved in playing Monopoly, but there's also enough strategy so that skilled players will win more often than not. Follow this plan and you'll be smiling all the way to Boardwalk.
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I have put together a Portable Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 so that users don't have to install it (if you do install Firefox 2A1 then there are issues uninstalling it) and it uses a seperate profile. Now you won't screw up another Firefox installation while testing this one! Hope it helps somebody else.
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An interesting column on how the prelingually deaf think since they've never been exposed to spoken language.
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The Worlds First practically INVISIBLE automated guitar tuner,
An automated guitar tuner system, that not only automatically tunes your guitar fully automatically, but can do it almost hands free!
VIDEO HERE:
http://www.sonicstate.com/mirror/asx/wnamm06_tronical_powertune.asx
INFO HERE:
http://www.tronical.com/info01.html
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An automated guitar tuner system, that not only automatically tunes your guitar fully automatically, but can do it almost hands free!
VIDEO HERE:
http://www.sonicstate.com/mirror/asx/wnamm06_tronical_powertune.asx
INFO HERE:
http://www.tronical.com/info01.html
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How does someone in Moscow step up to a cash machine and withdraw money from an account holder half a world away? Even when the debit card is still in the victim's wallet? To show me how easy it was, two executives from MagTek Inc., one of the largest makers of credit card stripe readers, visited MSNBC.com and gave a demonstration.
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A new P2P program for file sharing is being released as an extension to Firefox, which will allow users to create a buddy list for file sharing among many other cool innovative features!
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AP Wire | 03/17/2006 | Web site files complaint against Google
Published Saturday, March 18, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Just stumbled across this site. Seems to have a ton of dual screen wallpapers for free, and well organized. Quite a rare find when you get most sites out there like Digital blasphemy charging for every thing under the sun.
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The 4GB flash drive encrypts all data with 128-bit AES, and then adds an extra layer of security: a self destruct feature...
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Missing Front Row now that you've installed Windows XP on your Intel iMac? AirmanPika from the OSx86 Project forums has cooked up a patch to install Windows Media Center Edition 2005 on his iMac, and shared it with the world. Now even when you've booted to Windows you can enjoy a rich media experience. (Download and Screenshots)
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The University of Calgary have stumbled on a possible cure for type 1 Diabetes. If developed properly there would no longer be a need for daily injections.
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Googles terms of service state even deleted emails may remain in backups indefinately.. now those emails are being asked for by a federal judge.
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Ho wow, very amazing, i never seen something like that built with Lego. Include all the staff !! (With screenshots)
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In a world of too much work and too much multitasking, the best way to beat the competition may be to do less.
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NBC said that it will make 10 web-only episodes of popular comedy "The Office" during the summer, when the show is not on the air.
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Apple tells retailers that 60GB iPod is placed on a 60 day "at risk" list.
Put on list about one month ago!
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Put on list about one month ago!
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Dr. UNIX explains routing to Linux newbies and how you can have two default routes...
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The field is in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico says it could be bigger than its largest oil field, Cantarell. Maybe this will stave off peak oil for another year or so...
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The material, called QuikClot, which is issued routinely to police officers in Hillsborough county, Florida, was developed for the US military to cut down the number of soldiers who bleed to death on the battlefield.
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An excellent step by step illustration of doing this tedious undocumented task correctly.
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These are Russian soldier action figures made entirely out of cabling with an arsenal of 23 weapons. I have no idea what the page says, but they are fun to look at.
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You'll want to hear newer songs more often than older ones, yet at the same time you'll want to make sure that the old music doesn't get lost. You want to hear your favourite songs slightly more often than everything else, but you don't want to keep listening to the same old tracks over and over again.
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Tom Vandetta found an article that explained how to fool Google's news system by writing fake press releases. He then decided to see what would happen if he submitted a fake Google press release claiming the 15-year old New Jersey student was Google's youngest employee.
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If you haven't seen and experienced Xgl graphics yet, and you have a supported 3D card, you owe yourself the treat of downloading the Karoraa Live CD and giving it a whirl. It beats any platform desktop graphics, bar none.
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Japanese researchers have harvested stem cells from human menstrual blood. They were able to obtain about 30 times more stem cells from menstrual blood than from bone marrow.
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CNN.com - Father, daughter can only dream of sleeping through the night - Mar 14, 2006
Published by Stangrunner.
Read 10 obscure (but true) things about Albert Einstein that you almost surely didn't know.
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I had never bothered with these little players or compressed digital audio since I presumed the sound quality was awful. WRONG! The little things sound great for serious music listening, presuming you click a couple of the right buttons in iTunes' preferences. I'll explain these in this article.
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Think eight dual-core processors, 64gb (yes, GB) of RAM, but whisper quiet sitting under your desk. It's meant for researchers and scientists, but hey, so were all computers originally... (via Gizmodo)
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It's finally happened, people have gotten fed up enough that proper legal action is being taken. The suit covers price fixing...it also alleges that major labels were conspiring to first take down Napster and then build online music services that purposely stunted their service to drive people away from the idea of online music...
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An awesome homemade Star Wars video (5 minutes and 10 seconds) with lightsaber duel fight scene between two teenagers (Ryan Wieber vs. Michael "Dorkman" Scott). These guys should had been in the movies for this fight scene.
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"NVIDIA people followed ATi staff outside the Munchner Halle, and its reported that both camps effectively squared up to each other." AWESOME
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A thread on Apple's discussion forums with 30,000+ views and nearly 500 replies details a serious issue with Apple's new MacBook Pro notebooks.
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A no-symbology, no-pseudo-philosophical explanation / backstory of the Matrix movies from a programmer's perspective.
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St. Louis Business Journal: St. Louis Public Schools to open high-tech school - 2006-03-13
Published by Stangrunner.
msmobiles.com - CeBIT 2006: hands-on with Microsoft Origami (Ultra Mobile PC) - is it worth all that buzz?
Published by Stangrunner.
Ever wonder how Google stays so reliable and quick? Did you know that they use a stripped down version of Red Hat? Did you know they built their own file system? This article explains it all.
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This site offers a great guide to booting a distribution of Damn Small Linux on a Lexar 512mb Jump Drive. It includes complete instructions with screenshots. Definitely worth a look!
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The academic paper about the red rain phenomenon has several pictures of the cells. I have cut-n-pasted the photos from the PDF and put them up for easy viewing. Pretty amazing pictures!
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Confirmed and critical bug:
"The root password from the first user registred by Breezy can be found by any user by reading the file /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat"
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/34606
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"The root password from the first user registred by Breezy can be found by any user by reading the file /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat"
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/34606
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This is the story of my rebate hassles with Circuit City... If you've had problems with rebates, you might find this story interesting!
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15 year old student, Tom Vendetta has been hired by search engine giant Google Inc. The student will receive a lowered salary, which will be placed into a bank account for future education, said Google CEO Larry Page.
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There's a discussion on how to improve the default theme for Firefox. There's two early drafts on how the new OS X theme might look like, check it out!
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(xbox-scene): Microsoft has released a statement with specifications showing that the foil found on Xbox 360 GPU heatsinks is a part of the assembly process, and aids in thermal transfer. This apparently is not the source of any overheating.
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Australian scientists have discovered a new type of ant, believed to be the only species that can live, swim and navigate under water.
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Google, LEXIS-NEXIS, and other online search databases can be used to find information about CIA agents and operations. Pretty amazing that you can find this stuff so easily.
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If you're traveling one of the toughest bus routes on Earth you might want to be in a vehicle tough enough to take everything thrown at it. That bus is called a Rhino Runner and it's a cross between a local metro bus and a tank.
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If you are into tech, like me, you are cursed [or blessed, depending on how you look at it] with wondering how everything works... Well today I plan on answering one of your questions [if you didn't already know] how movies are played in the movie theatre.
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HOW TO BYPASS the NEW Microsoft IE ActiveX "Activation" problem (via MSDN)
Published Saturday, March 11, 2006 by Stangrunner.
If you're a web developer who's site uses interactive Flash or Java Applets, you'll want to read this... Just because Microsoft lost the patent suit, doesn't mean you, or your users need to suffer the consequences... Dynamically creating your OBJECT, APPLET, & EMBED tags via JavaScript will bypass Activation Requirement.
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No more spinning and whirring with magnetic tape. Samsung has put a 32 gig flash hard drive in a laptop.
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XBOX 360 Overheating Caused by Protective Foil on Heatsink?
Published Friday, March 10, 2006 by Stangrunner.
A German modding site posted that 2 independantly bought Xbox 360 consoles had been found with the protective layer on the GPU heatsink's heat transfer pad left on. Could this be the cause of the overheating issue? linked to a english review of the German post.
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - Microsoft bombshell: no EFI support for Vista
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Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : Picture This: A New Look For Office
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This weekend, in Atlanta's airport, I happened across an Ipod vending machine. If you have a credit card, this vending machine will spit out a video ipod, a nano, a shuffle, or any number of accessories to go along with it. There was a crowd of geeks surrounding the machine just gawking in the clever marketing of our dear friends at apple.
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Take one part high-frequency gravitational wave generation, then add in a quantum vacuum field.
Now whip wildly via a gravitomagnetic force in a rotating superconductor while standing by for Alcubierre warp drive in higher dimensional space-time.
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Now whip wildly via a gravitomagnetic force in a rotating superconductor while standing by for Alcubierre warp drive in higher dimensional space-time.
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Guide to setup a Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) on Ubuntu Dapper (optionally within VMWare) to remotely boot a diskless Linux Media PCs running Freevo. Useful for people who plan to manage 2 or more Media PCs in the house. Also works as a regular terminal server with sound and local media (such as USBs & CD/DVD-ROMs)
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Using LEDs and a "persistence of vision" technique, ladyada has created an animated Pac-Man scene on the spokes of his bicycle. (Using the LED sign illusion technology; Pacman going for a ghost is displayed on a bicycle's wheels)
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Andrew Escobar, the author of Front Row Enabler - which allowed you to install Front Row on a Mac that would not otherwise support it - has received an email from Apple instructing him to remove all Front Row related software from his site. He has complied.
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I opened up a DVD today from Netflix and noticed that the disc had a custom tag on it- the Netflix logo is part of the disc label. Are they pressing their own to fight scratches or are the studios doing this for them?
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CNN.com - Music site to let users swap CDs - Mar 8, 2006
Published Wednesday, March 08, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Shaw wants its high-speed net customers to pay a $10 "quality of service enhancement" fee if they use a VoIP phone service. Shaw argues that its fee is necessary to maintain the quality of independent VoIP services.
When the CBC tried to find out WTF!?!
Shaw did not immediately return a telephone call to its head office in Calgary.
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When the CBC tried to find out WTF!?!
Shaw did not immediately return a telephone call to its head office in Calgary.
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McDonalds somehow missed that it's fries contain 1/3 more trans fats than once measured. Consumer groups and the government (US) have been pushing fast food restaurants to size up their true nutritional content and place it on packaging. This means a large fries contains 30 grams (1 full shot glass) of artery blocking goodness.
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This guide tell you how to get wireless working on Kubuntu; step by step through use of ndiswrapper.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Some people like to talk to their plants. Now, students at Singapore Polytechnic say they have created a plant that can communicate with people -- by glowing when it needs water.
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Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 is set to be released by the end of this week (in 3 - 4 days), after being delayed a month due to development issues!
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Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has canceled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform.
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There's some pretty sick software apps on this list- some I've never seen before. If you're a mac user you gotta check 'em out.
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That's right, the keys function exactly like credit cards, allowing the carrier to pay for merchandise at any store or market where customers do their own swiping.
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These japanese people are astonishing :p first they teach us how to fold a t-shirt and now how to peel a potato :p
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Britain, UK news from The Times and The Sunday Times - Times Online - World's fastest internet will send Britannica to Shoreditch in 7 sec
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(Video): The Reactions are funny as hell. Watch as Amazed Japanese whip out their Mobile Camera Phones to capture this strange spectacle...
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Well most of you have probably used a key generator or keygen as it is commonly called in internet slang. A keygen is a small program that will generate a key or serial/registration number for a piece of software. Here is a comprehensive guide, strictly for educational purposes, that shows you how a keygen is created
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Every telephone call generated a record: number called, time of call, duration of call, billing category and other details. While the database does not contain such billing data as names, addresses and credit card numbers, those records are in a linked database that can be tapped by authorized users.
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When they're not growing weed, playing hockey, or having gay marriages, Canadians are busy stealing music more than anyone else in the world, and it's hurting the music selling biz in Canada. Oh noes!
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Technically speaking, anyone can mine diamonds. But Apollo can GROW them. By the end of 2007, Apollo aims to be producing flawless 1-inch by 1-inch diamond cubes that could drive research into some very interesting areas!
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iTune your non-iPod player! iTunes Agent enables you to use mass storage MP3 player with iTunes, "just" like an iPod. Any device showing up as a "removable drive" on your computer can be configured to be synchronized with iTunes.
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In response to lives lost transporting troops through IED infested territories, the U.S. government has contracted to build a new transport machine. The Cougar is a rolling fortress for our troops.
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Apparently you can actually die by laughing too hard. The common phrase "I nearly died laughing" may have merit after all!
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After a severe seizure, Daniel Temmet was able to recall mathematical and sequential facts with easy, including the ability to recite, over several hours, number Pi to it's 22,514's digit.
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Here is a complete list of record companies to avoid in order to fully boycott the RIAA.
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Ricky’s Web Review » Blog Archive » Free Tools to Recover lost data
Published Saturday, March 04, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Pope Benedict XVI got an iPod on Friday, thanks to a group of workers at Vatican Radio. According to a Catholic News Service story, the pontiff got a 2GB white Nano, loaded with, among other things, the radio station's programming in English, Italian and Germany, as well as classical tunes from Motzart, Chopin and Stravinsky.
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A woman from San Francisco was hit by a car jogging. She was found in a ditch with nothing but her iPod. The police used iPod's serial # to identify her.
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This article explains why it is in the best interest of ISPs to actually back the TV over P2P and bittorrent revolution.
GREAT READ!!!
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GREAT READ!!!
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak denied some of the comments attributed to him in an article I wrote recently. He suggests that I pushed him to make some of those comments...I find Mr Wozniak's response shocking as it is a serious attack, not only on my credibility, but also on that of the press in general
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Check out the new show... they tried sneaking this on and off the site... here is the link, but so far its been tough getting it going due to bandwidth...
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This video shows a couple guys hacking the FedEx Kinko Smart Cards. It actually works. They paid a buck and hacked the card to give them $50 bucks. They could have easily cashed out that 50 bucks at the cashier.
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What do you buy for the geek that has everything? Well, certainly not a $3,500 gold-plated, diamond-encrusted USB memory stick.
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Archaeologists working on a housing development found a prehistoric milling site estimated to be 8,000 years-old.
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If the parties can't come to an agreement by June 30, 2006, they'll enter into arbitration.
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Network operators would be barred from blocking or degrading Internet connections and favoring those you would offer them sweeter deals.
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Traces of a carcinogenic chemical have been found in soft drinks at eight times the level permitted in drinking water, it was revealed last night. There is a legal limit of one part per billion of benzene in British drinking water. The latest tests revealed levels of up to eight parts per billion in some soft drinks.
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Another example of your lost rights under the guise of homeland security. Homeland Security has to be notified if you try to pay too much on your Credit Card. Sick.
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Whether you're running a single server with a few accounts or a massive ISP infrastructure, managing more than one domain quickly becomes a boring, time-consuming hassle. But thanks to the magic of open source and the guys at ISPConfig, this no longer has to be the case.
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The Examining Room of Dr. Charles: Bridging the Gap - One Doctor’s Approach to Explaining Medicare
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Like another recent poster, the user downloaded more than 600GB of data in one month, which not surprisingly set off alarms at Comcast. Such users aren't getting much sympathy from forum regulars these days. This needs to be noticed! DIGG THIS!
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Clublife: Off to Work
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