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Google aims to track users with wi-fi
Post Date: 2006-04-07 09:44:55 by Zipporah
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Updated: 8:43 p.m. ET April 6, 2006 Google aims to be able to track its users to within 100-200 feet of their location through new wireless networks in order to serve them with relevant advertising from local businesses. The leading internet search company, which depends on advertising for 99 per cent of its revenues, was selected on Wednesday by San Francisco as its preferred bidder to provide a basic free wi-fi internet service covering the entire city. It had partnered in its bid with the internet service provider Earthlink, which intends to charge a fee for a faster internet connection. Google and Earthlink will now enter final contract negotiations with the city. There were five ...
Einstein and his deadly error about E = mc2
Post Date: 2006-04-05 21:46:19 by Zipporah
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03.04.2006 There is a tiny little thing. You can't see it with your eyes only. And then, all of a sudden, there is a "BIG BANG" - and out of the nowhere, out of nothing, comes the whole universe, billions of suns, millions of galaxies, the whole space of about 16 million light-years, apparently representing our eternity of space and time. And all good-hearted scientists of our Earth start their useless struggle for logical reasoning. It is that simple. Out of God's pet has come our World as it is and everybody believes in his stupidity that THIS is reality. In fact, out false reasoning comes from superficial brains, all our philosophers of the last 2000 years, who have put the ...
Guild Structure and Community Organization
Post Date: 2006-04-05 08:18:05 by Tauzero
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Guild Structure and Community Organization Guilds To what extent are species overdispersed in niche/resource space? Do clusters of functionally similar species exist? Root (1967) coined the term "guild" to describe groups of functionally similar species in a community, such as foliage-gleaning insectivorous birds. In competitive communities, guilds would represent arenas with the potential for intense interspecific competition, with strong interactions within guilds but weaker interactions with the remainder of their community. Techniques for objectively defining a guild remain in their infancy, although the "single-linkage" criterion of cluster analysis allows a guild ...
Meeting Doctor Doom
Post Date: 2006-04-04 00:08:32 by Tauzero
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Meeting Doctor Doom Forrest M. Mims III Copyright 2006 by Forrest M. Mims III. There is always something special about science meetings. The 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Lamar University in Beaumont on 3-5 March 2006 was especially exciting for me, because a student and his professor presented the results of a DNA study I suggested to them last year. How fulfilling to see the baldcypress ( Taxodium distichum ) leaves we collected last summer and my tree ring photographs transformed into a first class scientific presentation that's nearly ready to submit to a scientific journal (Brian Iken and Dr. Deanna McCullough, "Bald Cypress of the Texas Hill Country: ...
Top Scientist Advocates Mass Culling 90% Of Human Population
Post Date: 2006-04-03 23:21:28 by robin
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Top Scientist Advocates Mass Culling 90% Of Human PopulationFellow professors and scientists applause and roar approval at elite's twisted and genocidal population control agendaPaul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | April 3 2006A top scientist gave a speech to the Texas Academy of Science last month in which he advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the population through the airborne ebola virus. Dr. Eric R. Pianka's chilling comments, and their enthusiastic reception again underscore the elite's agenda to enact horrifying measures of population control.Pianka's speech was ordered to be kept off the record before it began as cameras were turned away and hundreds of ...
What's eating Microsoft?
Post Date: 2006-03-29 22:20:29 by robin
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What's eating Microsoft? Delays to the release of its Windows Vista and more structural changes hint at a general malaise afflicting the computer giant, report Jack Schofield and Charles Arthur Thursday March 30, 2006 The Guardian Microsoft has delayed the release of Windows Vista by up to eight weeks - and become the Grinch that stole the PC industry's Christmas. Vista, the next version of Windows, will still be delivered to corporate users this year. But, as the company put it in a masterfully spun press release last week, after consulting with PC manufacturers and retailers, "broad consumer availability" will be delayed until January 2007. In other words, too late for PC ...
Russian Soyuz Rocket Lifts Off, Carrying U.S.-Russian-Brazilian Crew To Space Station
Post Date: 2006-03-29 22:09:40 by Brian S
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian Soyuz rocket streaked into the skies over the Central Asian steppe on Thursday, launching a U.S.-Russian-Brazilian crew on a mission to the international space station. Russian Pavel Vinogradov and American Jeffrey Williams were to stay on board the station for about six months. Brazil's first man in space, Marcos C. Pontes, will stay at the station for nine days before returning to Earth on April 9 with the station's current crew of Russian Valery Tokarev and American Bill McArthur. Pontes promised today to make his country proud with its first space flight, and pledged to take both a flag and a soccer jersey into orbit in hopes it would bring his ...
Next Big Quake? Maybe East of Bay Area
Post Date: 2006-03-27 12:48:37 by Brian S
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(03-27) 06:56 PST Hayward, Calif. (AP) -- New cracks appear in Elke DeMuynck's ceiling every few weeks, zigzagging across her living room, creeping toward the fireplace, veering down the wall. Month after month, year after year, she patches, paints and waits. "It definitely lets you know your house is constantly shifting," DeMuynck said. So do the gate outside that swings uselessly 2 1/2 inches from its latch, the strange bulges in the street and the geology students who make pilgrimages to her cul-de-sac. DeMuynck could throw her paint brush from her front stoop and hit the Hayward Fault, which geologists consider the most dangerous in the San Francisco Bay Area, if not the ...
Drilling into a hot volcano (Iceland)
Post Date: 2006-03-26 11:03:42 by robin
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Drilling into a hot volcano By Martin Redfern BBC Radio science unit Land of steam: Iceland sits atop the Atlantic's mid-ocean ridge systemGeologists in Iceland are drilling directly into the heart of a hot volcano. Their $20m project hopes to reveal more about the nature of mid-ocean ridges where new ocean floor is created. Such boreholes could ultimately yield 10 times as much geothermal power as any previous project. Twenty years ago, geologist Gudmundur Omar Friedleifsson had a surprise when he lowered a thermometer down a borehole. "We melted the thermometer," he recalls. "It was set for 380C; but it just melted. The temperature could have been 400 or even 50 ...
Skull find could be missing link
Post Date: 2006-03-24 21:22:34 by buckeroo
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A HOMINID skull discovered in Ethiopia could fill the gap in the search for the origins of the human race, a scientist said overnight. The cranium found near the city of Gawis, 500 km south-east of the capital Addis Ababa, is estimated to be 200,000 to 500,000 years old. The skull appeared "to be intermediate between the earlier Homo erectus and the later Homo sapiens", Sileshi Semaw, an Ethiopian research scientist at the Stone Age Institute at Indiana University, said in Addis Ababa. It was discovered two months ago in a small gully at the Gawis river drainage basin in Ethiopia's Afar region, south-east of the capital. Mr Sileshi said significant archaeological collections ...
Teen-repellent shop siren silenced by human rights fears
Post Date: 2006-03-24 19:59:11 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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A high-tech alarm audible only to youngsters which has dramatically cut loutish behaviour outside a British shop must be switched off over fears it infringes human rights, police said. The Mosquito emits an irritating high-pitched pulse that most people aged under 20 can hear but almost nobody over 30 can. The Spar grocery shop on Caerlon Road in Newport, south Wales said anti-social behaviour had plunged by 84 percent outside the premises since it was installed earlier this year. However, human rights concerns have swatted The Mosquito -- and stung the shop's furious managers in the process. "It's absolutely disgusting," a spokesman for the shop said. "These louts can ...
Whatever happened with the WTC HARD-DRIVE recoveries?
Post Date: 2006-03-24 03:46:26 by valis
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December 16, 2001PIRMASENS, Germany (Reuters) – German computer experts are working round the clock to unlock the truth behind an unexplained surge in financial transactions made just before two hijacked planes crashed into New York’s World Trade Center on September 11. Were criminals responsible for the sharp rise in credit card transactions that moved through some computer systems at the WTC shortly before the planes hit the twin towers? Or was it coincidence that unusually large sums of money, perhaps more than $100 million, were rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded? A world leader in retrieving data, German-based firm Convar is trying to answer those ...
Bacteria could power tiny robots
Post Date: 2006-03-21 23:11:06 by robin
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A strain of bacteria that releases electrons as a waste product could become the secret ingredient for developing fuel cells for spy drones and other small robots. Researchers at Rice University and the University of Southern California have embarked on a project to harness the power of Shewanella oneidensis, a microorganism that essentially spits lightning. Rather than consume oxygen to turn food into energy, Shewanella consumes metals. The waste product of its metabolic process comes in the form of excess electrons stripped from the metals but not recombined in subsequent chemical reactions. The bacteria lives in soil, water and other environments and can extract its necessary ...
Woman With Perfect Memory Baffles Scientists
Post Date: 2006-03-21 16:35:45 by Phaedrus
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Patient Remembers Every Day and Almost Every Detail of Her Life March 20, 2006 -- James McGaugh is one of the world's leading experts on how the human memory system works. But these days, he admits he's stumped. McGaugh's journey through an intellectual purgatory began six years ago when a woman now known only as AJ wrote him a letter detailing her astonishing ability to remember with remarkable clarity even trivial events that happened decades ago. Give her any date, she said, and she could recall the day of the week, usually what the weather was like on that day, personal details of her life at that time, and major news events that occurred on that date. Like any good scientist, McGaugh ...
Coffin with scenes from Homer's epics found
Post Date: 2006-03-20 23:14:35 by Zipporah
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People work in the ancient tomb in Kouklia village near the coastal town of Paphos, Cyprus, where the white-stone sarcophagus was found. Coffin with scenes from Homer's epics found
2,500-year-old sarcophagus unearthed in CyprusThe Associated PressUpdated: 6:45 p.m. ET March 20, 2006
NICOSIA, Cyprus - A 2,500-year-old stone coffin with well-preserved color illustrations from Homer's epics has been discovered in western Cyprus, archaeologists said Monday.
"It is a very important find," said Pavlos Flourentzos, director of the island's antiquities department. "The style of the decoration is unique, not so much from an artistic point of view, but for the subject and the colors ...
Report of Acetone Effect on Mileage and Performance (25% or Better Increase)
Post Date: 2006-03-20 18:44:25 by BTP Holdings
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Mushroom Clouds: Coming To A Town Near You? : PROJECT STAR GATE
Post Date: 2006-03-20 10:31:44 by Mind_Virus
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Mushroom Clouds: Coming To A Town Near You? Gary S. Bekkum March 19, 2006 Loose nukes and STAR GATE 9/11. Warp drives and wormholes. Vacuum reaction weapons. Skinwalkers and more. Starstream Research examines how the U.S. Government intends to leap beyond science fiction on a quest for the ultimate weapons. Thirty four years and millions of dollars later, CIA documents reveal the amazing success and dismal failures of STAR GATE, the formerly top secret intelligence agency programs used to "remote view" information that couldn't be accessed by any normal means of collection. Starstream Research has uncovered new files strongly suggesting that America's psychic intelligence ...
How To Dump Your Cell Phone Company, Legally!
Post Date: 2006-03-19 23:34:14 by Flintlock
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Get them to drop you! http://roaminghack.blogspot.com/ It's easier than you think.
Boolean algebra used to invalidate the official 9/11 account
Post Date: 2006-03-19 05:42:16 by valis
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The term "official 9/11 account" refers to the account of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, as presented in June 2004 by the Commission of Inquiry appointed by President George W. Bush, and complemented by other official documents issued by US government agencies. This account includes various details, such as identities of the alleged hijackers, identities of aircraft, timelines and other data used to prove that the crime of 9/11 was perpetrated by the named individuals under the orders or the inspiration of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders.It can be demonstrated by two straightforward mathematical techniques that the official acccount on 9/11 is simply not true.The first ...
Prescription For an Obsession? (Drug turns normal woman into crap shooting nympho. )
Post Date: 2006-03-18 23:53:25 by ...
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Gambling, Sex Manias Called Surprise Risks Of Parkinson's Drugs By Wankar Vedantam Staff Writer Sunday, March 19, 2006; A01 When Wayne Kanuch received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in 1993, the last thing he imagined was that the drug prescribed to treat his illness would turn him into a compulsive gambler and put his libido into overdrive. Kanuch's marriage ended in divorce, partly as a result of the sexual pressures he placed on his wife, and he began losing fortunes at the racetrack. He was fired from his job at Chevron for trolling for dates on the Internet while at work, and he quickly went bankrupt. "I contemplated suicide a couple of times," he said in an ...
Bill Gates slams 100-dollar charity laptop
Post Date: 2006-03-16 18:28:10 by mirage
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San Francisco - Bill Gates, the world's richest man, has poured scorn on a revolutionary new 100-dollar laptop designed for the world's poorest children, sparking off a storm of condemnation in cyberspace. Gates' comments came in a speech in Washington on Wednesday in which he touted a much more expensive mobile laptop recently unveiled his own company, Microsoft, reports said Thursday. Gates predicted a bright future for mobile computers and phones but scoffed at the 100-dollar machine being developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) media guru Nick Negroponte for use by children in the developing world. The devices, backed by Microsoft rival Google, were unveiled at a UN ...
Bruce Schneier: Your vanishing privacy
Post Date: 2006-03-15 07:08:14 by purpleman
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Over the past 20 years, there's been a sea change in the battle for personal privacy. The pervasiveness of computers has resulted in the almost constant surveillance of everyone, with profound implications for our society and our freedoms. Corporations and the police are both using this new trove of surveillance data. We as a society need to understand the technological trends and discuss their implications. If we ignore the problem and leave it to the "market," we'll all find that we have almost no privacy left. Most people think of surveillance in terms of police procedure: Follow that car, watch that person, listen in on his phone conversations. This kind of surveillance ...
Space Shuttle's Launch Pushed Back From May To July
Post Date: 2006-03-14 16:54:02 by Brian S
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4:31 pm EST March 14, 2006 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA on Tuesday pushed back the launch of space shuttle Discovery from May until at least July because of a faulty fuel tank sensor. A similar problem briefly delayed last summer's launch of Discovery on the first shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster in 2003. NASA said it needs the time to open up the spacecraft's hydrogen fuel tank and replace the sensor, which gave an electrical current reading that was slightly off. The space agency plans to replace the three other sensors in the tank, too, to be safe. The space agency had been working a tight schedule to meet the May launch date and had little room for any technical problems ...
Judge to Order Google to Give Up Some Data
Post Date: 2006-03-14 14:46:04 by IndieTX
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge said Tuesday he intends to require Google Inc. (GOOG) to turn over some information to the Department of Justice in its quest to revive a law making it harder for children to see online pornography. U.S. District Judge James Ware did not immediately say whether the data will include words that users entered into the Internet's leading search engine. The legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government has pitted the Bush administration against the Mountain View-based company, which resisted a subpoena to turn over any information because of user privacy and trade secret concerns. The Justice Department ...
THE UNIVERSE AS A HOLOGRAM... DOES OBJECTIVE REALITY EXIST
Post Date: 2006-03-13 07:46:24 by gengis gandhi
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THE UNIVERSE AS A HOLOGRAM... DOES OBJECTIVE REALITY EXIST... OR IS THE UNIVERSE A PHANTASM? In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each ...
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