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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Spy agency jobs to flow into S.A.
Post Date: 2005-04-15 20:54:35 by Zipporah
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The National Security Agency, the nation's cryptology branch, has leased the former Sony chip plant in Northwestern Bexar County and plans to hire at least 1,500 employees, NSA officials said Thursday. Even more jobs could be added as the site develops in several phases, according to the NSA. Nationwide, the NSA is hiring up to 4,500 employees through 2008 and some of those employees will be located here, according to an e-mail message from Ellen Cioccio, an NSA spokeswoman. The NSA already has about 2,000 people at Lackland AFB's Medina Annex. In addition, a group of experienced analysts will transfer from NSA's Fort Meade, Md., headquarters to San Antonio. They will be here to train ...
The Gemetriculator (An on line test for good and evil.)
Post Date: 2005-04-13 21:33:58 by crack monkey
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Here's a useful device that determines if a website (or a block of text) is good or evil. It returns the results on a percentage basis, e.g., 36% Evil and 64& Good. You might want to cut and paste the quotes from your favorite Tos Bots to precisely quantify their evilness. We could then speak more intelligently of them, e.g., Trace, being 12.67% more evil than badeye, is blah, blah, blah, etc. The site allows you to specify a url and then reports how evil the website is, again on a percentage basis. Here is the link: The Germatriculator
Science's Doomsday Team vs. the Asteroids
Post Date: 2005-04-09 07:56:02 by crack monkey
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Science's Doomsday Team vs. the Asteroids By Guy Gugliotta Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 9, 2005; Page A01 Astronomer David Tholen spotted it last year in the early evening of June 19, using the University of Arizona's Bok telescope. It was a new "near-Earth object," a fugitive asteroid wandering through space to pass close to Earth. Tholen's team took three pictures that night and three the next night, but storm clouds and the moon blocked further observations. They reported their fixes to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., and moved on. Six months later, Tholen's object was spotted again in Australia as asteroid "2004 MN4." In the space of ...
The active ingredient of cannabis may protect against heart disease and strokes
Post Date: 2005-04-08 07:56:21 by gengis gandhi
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The active ingredient of cannabis may protect against heart disease and strokes Reuters A joint approach to medical treatment THERE is a certain cognitive dissonance associated with the word “drug”. On the one hand, it can mean “life-saving medicine”. On the other, it can signify “probably illegal and possibly life-threatening recreation”. Some substances fall into both categories. Heroin, for instance, has legitimate medical uses (though it tends to be branded as the more user-friendly “diamorphine” when administered in hospitals). But for those drugs without established medical track records, such as marijuana, there is a lot of resistance to ...
Partial solar eclipse on Friday
Post Date: 2005-04-05 21:40:24 by robin
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The partial eclipse will be visible from the U.S. south of a line extending across the nation from southern California to central New Jersey. LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Sky-watchers from the South Pacific to the Americas will witness the first solar eclipse of 2005 on Friday when the moon blots out part of the sun. It will be a partial eclipse rather than a total one, in which the Earth is cast into darkness. But it will be the last partial solar eclipse visible from the continental United States until May 20, 2012. Solar eclipses occur when the Earth, sun and moon line up in such a way that the moon casts a shadow over Earth. Friday's eclipse will last from a few minutes to ...
In Cloning, Don't Think Big - Don't Clone a T-Rex??
Post Date: 2005-04-04 20:56:04 by crack monkey
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In Cloning, Don't Think Big April 4, 2005 It seems strange to call anything "fresh" after 70 million years, especially in a youth-obsessed society that deems day-old bread worthy of deep discounting. But secreted within the immense thighbone of a prehistoric monster pried from the harsh badlands of remote Montana, scientists say they've found supple soft tissue. By all expectations, that stuff should have been long dried and gone. According to Robert Lee Hotz's riveting Times account, scientists found the surviving biological material accidentally within the goliath remains of an 18-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex that took three years to dig out. When a helicopter proved unable to ...
Zapper Detects, Destroys Unwanted RFID Chips
Post Date: 2005-04-04 07:51:16 by gengis gandhi
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Zapper Detects, Destroys Unwanted RFID Chips Why Not.net 4-4-5 US-based West End Laboratories, the research arm of LDC Security, has developed a special RFID tag zapper designed to kill the RFID chip preventing readers from performing unwanted scanning and tracking of people or goods. According to the company, because information stored on RFID tags can be read by anyone, they may pose privacy threats to customers when deployed in retail environments, and have already triggered a wave of consumer outcry. "In a naive, RFID-enabled world without technical forethought, there is risk that sensitive information could be visible in secret to anyone with an RFID reader," said Le ...
Meet the mind readers
Post Date: 2005-04-03 20:27:37 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Meet the mind readers Ian Sample (The Guardian) >Paralysed people can now control artificial limbs by thought alone. Matt Nagle has a chip that was placed on his brain that translates his thoughts to a computer. He is connected to the computer via a cable that is screwed into his head. > READING SIGNALS There's a hand lying on the blanket on Matt Nagle's desk and he's staring at it intently, thinking "Close, close," as the scientists gathered around him look on. To their delight, the hand twitches and its outstretched fingers close around the open palm, clenching to a fist. In that moment, Nagle made history. Paralysed from the neck down after a vicious knife attack ...
NASA Starts Planning to Retire Space Shuttle
Post Date: 2005-04-03 17:30:57 by crack monkey
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NASA Starts Planning to Retire Space Shuttle By WARREN E. LEARY ASHINGTON, April 1 - Even as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration prepares to resume flights of the space shuttle, the agency has begun forming detailed plans to retire the spacecraft in five years, if not before, a top NASA official said on Friday. The official, Michael Kostelnik, the agency's deputy associate administrator for the shuttle and the International Space Station programs, said he had established a special group within his office to deal with retiring the shuttle. Agency leaders decided to create a separate entity to deal with shuttle retirement issues so there would be no conflict of interest with ...
A Fierce Debate on Atom Bombs From Cold War
Post Date: 2005-04-03 17:27:53 by crack monkey
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A Fierce Debate on Atom Bombs From Cold War By WILLIAM J. BROAD or over two decades, a compact, powerful warhead called the W-76 has been the centerpiece of the nation's nuclear arsenal, carried aboard the fleet of nuclear submarines that prowl the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But in recent months it has become the subject of a fierce debate among experts inside and outside the government over its reliability and its place in the nuclear arsenal. The government is readying a plan to spend more than $2 billion on a routine 10-year overhaul to extend the life of the aging warheads. At the same time, some weapons scientists say the warheads have a fundamental design flaw that could cause ...
Using Oil Platforms for Fish Farms Gets Another Look; Evironmentalists Fear Ocean 'feedlots'
Post Date: 2005-04-03 15:47:34 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Using Oil Platforms for Fish Farms Gets Another Look; Evironmentalists Fear Ocean 'feedlots' By Cain Burdeau Associated Press Writer Published: Apr 3, 2005 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Thousands of oil and natural gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico could be converted into deep-sea fish farms raising red snapper, mahi mahi, yellow fin tuna and flounder, under a plan backed by the Bush administration. For years, marine biologists and oil companies have experimented using the giant platforms as bases for mariculture, but commercial use of the platforms as fish farms never got off the ground because of the federal government's reluctance to open up the oceans to farming. Yet in December, ...
MIT Team Seeks to Seed Developing World With $100 Laptops
Post Date: 2005-04-03 15:37:20 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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MIT Team Seeks to Seed Developing World With $100 Laptops By Mark Jewell The Associated Press Published: Apr 3, 2005 In a rural Cambodian village where the homes lack electricity, the nighttime darkness is pierced by the glow from laptops that children bring from school. The students were equipped with notebook computers by a foundation run by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte and his wife Elaine. "When the kids bring them home and open them up, it's the brightest light source in the home," said Negroponte. "Parents love it." Negroponte and some MIT colleagues are hard at work on a project they hope will brighten the lives and prospects of hundreds of ...
Report yields sex answers
Post Date: 2005-04-03 11:31:43 by 2Trievers
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Why do we have sex? It's a dumb question for most people, perhaps, but a frustratingly difficult one for evolutionary biologists. After all, sex is a time-consuming, exhausting and genetically risky affair. Yet most animals and plants, from dogs to dogwoods, do it. Thanks to the sex lives of yeast cells — or lack thereof — scientists may have a better answer for why sexual reproduction arrived so early in our evolutionary past and pays off so handsomely in the long run. Yeast cells that engage in sexual reproduction, a new study suggests, boost their genetic variation and adapt better to harsh conditions than those consigned to an asexual existence. In an e-mail, study ...
Viewer's Guide to Hybrid Solar Eclipse April 8
Post Date: 2005-04-03 09:58:48 by 2Trievers
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Residents in parts of the United States will have a chance to watch the Moon partially eclipse the Sun on Friday, April 8. Within a very narrow corridor that extends for about 8,800 miles, the disks of the Sun and the Moon will appear to exactly coincide, setting up the most unusual type of eclipse known as a hybrid. Solar eclipses are caused when Earth, the Moon and the Sun line up just right and the Moon casts a shadow on our planet. On rare occasions, the Moon is at such a distance from the Earth that its pointed shadow is just long enough to touch Earth for only a short distance along its projected path. The eclipse is only total where the shadow actually intersects the Earth’s ...
PHOTO-FAKING THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FALL
Post Date: 2005-04-01 22:50:30 by robin
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Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
Post Date: 2005-04-01 15:40:46 by 2Trievers
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2005 US President George W Bush declared today that he had signed a rare presidential decree canceling any further expenditure of Federal funds on the US Space Shuttle program. "We cannot find any justification to continue deficit funding of a program that has no application other that proving that with enough money America can do anything," said Bush. "The whole world knows that already, so why keep spending money on it," he added. The announcement was made during an even rarer press conference with Whitehouse press corps, at which the President started proceedings by handing out Easter Eggs, quipping, "it might be politically ...
Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up'
Post Date: 2005-03-30 14:10:27 by TommyTheMadArtist
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Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' Tim Radford, science editor Wednesday March 30, 2005 The Guardian The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by 1,360 scientists from 95 countries - some of them world leaders in their fields - today warns that the almost two-thirds of the natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure. The study contains what its authors call "a stark warning" for the entire world. The wetlands, forests, savannahs, estuaries, coastal fisheries and other habitats that recycle air, water and nutrients for all living creatures are being irretrievably damaged. In effect, one species is now a hazard to the ...
Toshiba's New Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery Recharges in Only One Minute
Post Date: 2005-03-30 10:42:35 by crack monkey
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Toshiba's New Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery Recharges in Only One Minute 29 March, 2005 New battery offers unsurpassed recharge performance and high energy density TOKYO -- Toshiba Corporation today announced a breakthrough in lithium-ion batteries that makes long recharge times a thing of the past. The company's new battery can recharge 80% of a battery's energy capacity in only one minute, approximately 60 times faster than the typical lithium-ion batteries in wide use today, and combines this fast recharge time with performance-boosting improvements in energy density. The new battery fuses Toshiba's latest advances in nano-material technology for the electric devices sector ...
Large quake strikes off Indonesia, tsunami warning issued
Post Date: 2005-03-28 12:31:43 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Large quake strikes off Indonesia, tsunami warning issued [8.5] Associated Press Mar. 28, 2005 10:28 AM BANGKOK, Thailand - A large earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island late Monday, and the U.S. Geological Survey said it was a major quake measuring a magnitude of 8.2. Officials issued a tsunami warning for residents of southern Thai provinces, three months after a tsunami devastated parts of Indonesia and other countries in the region. The quake occurred at 11:09 p.m. local time at a depth of nearly 19 miles, the USGS in Golden, Colo., said. Japan's Meteorological Agency said the quake registered 8.5. Tremors were felt throughout peninsular Malaysia's ...
Scientists think pesticides led to frog sex changes
Post Date: 2005-03-28 06:18:33 by 2Trievers
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Scientists who compared frogs collected over the past 150 years have discovered a dramatic increase in hermaphrodites during the times when contamination from the pesticide DDT and other organochlorine chemicals was widespread. Frogs with both male and female reproductive organs were rare in the 19th century and early 20th century but abundant during the 1950s, when the largest volumes of the popular chemicals were used. The findings were reported earlier this month in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The ability of chemicals to mimic or block estrogen and testosterone, critical for normal reproduction, is considered one of the most disturbing discoveries in environmental ...
NASA Will Offer Cash Prizes for Technological Innovations
Post Date: 2005-03-27 22:58:19 by robin
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WASHINGTON, March 26 - In an effort to stimulate fresh thinking, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced that it will offer cash prizes for innovative technology that can be applied to space exploration. The competitions, open to large and small companies, colleges, technology groups and individuals, are seen as ways to promote innovation by letting contestants pose any solution that works to solve a problem, an agency official said Friday. The prizes are a new approach for NASA in its effort to find new space technology. "We want to find innovation wherever it exists," said the official, Brant Sponberg, manager of the Centennial Challenges Program at ...
Man Sells Device That Blocks Fox News
Post Date: 2005-03-27 07:50:33 by 2Trievers
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It's not that Sam Kimery objects to the views expressed on Fox News. The creator of the "Fox Blocker" contends the channel is not news at all. Kimery figures he's sold about 100 of the little silver bits of metal that screw into the back of most televisions, allowing people to filter Fox News from their sets, since its August debut. The Tulsa, Okla., resident also has received thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary - as well as a few death threats. "Apparently the making of terroristic threats against those who don't share your views is a high art form among a certain core audience," said Kimery, 45. Formerly a registered Republican, even a precinct ...
Poor Monkey
Post Date: 2005-03-26 19:49:09 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Poor Monkey "Give me the money and three months," she says, "and I'll be able to affect the behavior of eighty percent of the people in this town without their knowing it." Monkey in restraint experiencing electrode stimulation to its brain in experiment by José Delgado, infamous mind control researcher. excerpts from: Mind Control By Harry V. Martin and David Caul Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991 ...In California, it was discovered by Dr. Adey that animal brain waves could be altered directly by ELF fields. It was found that monkey brains would fall in phase with ELF waves. These waves could easily pass through the skull, which normally protected the central ...
Amazing UFO Video ::: WTC (Check This Stuff Out!!!)
Post Date: 2005-03-26 19:23:12 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Are Your PDFs Spying on You?
Post Date: 2005-03-26 14:31:40 by boonie rat
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Are Your PDFs Spying on You? By Don Fluckinger March 21, 2005 Opinion: New metrics-gathering system is smart business for the people who use the technology, but it opens the door to potential dark days for PDF documents. Like many people, I'm sick of giving up my phone number, my e-mail address, and DNA samples, and/or dragging around a "rewards card" just in order to see a lousy extra paragraph of an article on the Web, to get 10 percent off my car's oil change, or—and this one positively kills me—to get the uninflated, normal price for a grocery item at the supermarket. Seems like every company with which we cross paths in our daily lives needs a piece of us, a ...
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