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Google's Chrome OS hits BitTorrent
Post Date: 2009-11-22 07:36:03 by wudidiz
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VeriChip TV Ad Confirms Critics' Fears: They Want Everyone Implanted
Post Date: 2009-11-22 07:16:34 by Itistoolate
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VeriChip TV Ad Confirms Critics' Fears: They Want Everyone Implanted VeriChip’s TV ad for its Health Link implantable microchip that connects to your online medical records has spawned a backlash on YouTube. Observers regard it as either part of President Obama’s secret Nazi plan( www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV6-nsLS8qw ) to enslave us all or a sign of the coming antichrist( www.youtube.com/watch?v=36PQ3C3fGQY ). The ad itself comes on like all drug advertising does — healthy, smiling middle-aged people describing the things about life they are thankful for. But, to give VeriChip’s critics some credit, the ad clearly positions the VeriChip as something for everyone, ...
Fat college students to take fitness class
Post Date: 2009-11-21 19:22:46 by Jethro Tull
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OXFORD, Pa., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- About 25 seniors at a Pennsylvania university have failed to meet a requirement that all obese students pass a class called "Fitness for Life." Lincoln University, a historically black school in the Philadelphia suburbs, adopted the requirement four years ago, Inside Higher Ed reports. That means the current senior class is the first to be subjected to the challenge. Incoming students at Lincoln are weighed and measured. All those who had a body mass index of more than 30 when they were freshmen must either take the class if they have not already or prove they have lost weight and have an acceptable BMI. Almost one-fifth of the class of 2010, or 92 ...
The Death Blow to Climate Science
Post Date: 2009-11-21 13:06:49 by farmfriend
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The Death Blow to Climate Science By Dr. Tim Ball Saturday, November 21, 2009 Global Warming is often called a hoax. I disagree because a hoax has a humorous intent to puncture pomposity. In science, such as with the Piltdown Man hoax, it was done to expose those with fervent but blind belief. The argument that global warming is due to humans, known as the anthropogenic global warming theory (AGW) is a deliberate fraud. I can now make that statement without fear of contradiction because of a remarkable hacking of files that provided not just a smoking gun, but an entire battery of machine guns. Someone hacked in to the files of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) based at the University of ...
WHEN’S THE NEXT QUANTUM SOCIAL LEAP?
Post Date: 2009-11-20 17:48:08 by earthchild
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In spite of the gloom and doom that experts on global warming and political comment are feeding us, an empirical look around informs us that civilisation is evolving into greater and better things. Remember the cave man, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the days when people’s average life expectancy was 35-40. Are we better off or worse off now? Don’t think too hard. The answer is pretty obvious. Recently we saw technology .. the computer age .. make a quantum leap in communication for the benefit of us all. Where did that come from? Who could have expected it to be so far-reaching? The impact of that breakthrough is only now rippling through society. It’s making everyone, ...
Peter Foster: A load of Hoggan-wash (climate change)
Post Date: 2009-11-20 17:30:41 by farmfriend
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Peter Foster: A load of Hoggan-wash The CBC has joined James Hoggan's smear campaign against climate skeptics By Peter Foster The full weight of the radical environmental movement and its media arm, the CBC, is being brought down upon a small Calgary-based organization called Friends of Science, which has suggested that climate change should be the subject of debate. So it must be a front for “Big Oil.” Friends has dared to produce a couple of radio ads that note that there has been no warming for 10 years, suggesting that the main cause of climate change is the sun, and recommending that it’s “time to get the facts and start thinking.” Leading the charge ...
Climate Change Pushes Women To Prostitution
Post Date: 2009-11-20 10:38:10 by christine
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The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said. Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country. “Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection," Mukherjee said during the Wednesday launch of the UNFPA annual State of World Population Report in Pasay City. In the Philippines, small ...
Internet geeks here! Who can determine how many web spiders/crawlers are on 4um?? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-11-20 03:04:08 by X-15
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"Web spiders/crawlers: programs that search websites looking for specific words or patterns to compile into a database." A popular gun website I visit had 20 running, if 4um has less then I assume it has a lower profile in the eyes of FedGov.
Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out
Post Date: 2009-11-19 21:40:34 by rack42
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Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents. At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average. Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks ...
Lightning Strike in Africa Helps Take Pulse of Sun
Post Date: 2009-11-19 15:49:43 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Lightning Strike in Africa Helps Take Pulse of Sun ScienceDaily (Nov. 14, 2009) — Sunspots, which rotate around the Sun's surface, tell us a great deal about our own planet. Scientists rely on them, for instance, to measure the Sun's rotation or to prepare long-range forecasts of Earth's health. But there are some years, like this one, where it's not possible to see Sunspots clearly. When we're at this "solar minimum," very few, if any, Sunspots are visible from Earth. That poses a problem for scientists in a new scientific field called "Space Weather," which studies the interaction between the Sun and Earth's environment. Thanks to a ...
GREAT WESTERN FIREBALL
Post Date: 2009-11-19 15:26:06 by Prefrontal Vortex
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GREAT WESTERN FIREBALL: Yesterday, Nov. 18th, something exploded in the atmosphere above the western United States. Witnesses in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho say the fireball "turned night into day" and issued shock waves that "shook the ground" when it exploded just after midnight Mountain Standard Time. The fireball was so bright it actually turned the night sky noontime blue, as shown in this image from KSL TV in Utah: Although the fireball appeared during the Leonid meteor shower, it was not a Leonid. Infrasound recordings of the blast suggest a small asteroid hitting Earth's atmosphere and exploding with an energy of 0.5 to 1 kiloton of TNT. Experts ...
Suppressed energy breakthroughs: see for yourself and evaluate
Post Date: 2009-11-18 13:54:55 by Horse
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From time-to-time, mainstream news reports on energy-creation breakthroughs. The video links below will remind you and evoke the follow-up thought, “Why haven’t we heard more about these?” For example, last year leading electromagnet expert and MIT professor Markus Zahn verified that the magnetic motor of Thane Hines did indeed create acceleration without any input of energy (and here). That is, once started, the magnetic motor speeds up on its own. In fact, the motor needs to be slowed or its acceleration will continue until the speed is so great that it breaks the motor. Why haven’t we all heard of this? Let's consider possible answers. We know it isn’t ...
How Italy Beat the World to a Smarter Grid
Post Date: 2009-11-17 22:19:13 by DeaconBenjamin
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An aggressive rollout of intelligent electrical meters is saving Italy's Enel 750 million dollars per year -- and cutting customers' bills After several false starts, 2010 finally could be the year when smart meters go global. The technology, which lets energy companies and consumers more closely monitor their electricity consumption, has many champions. The US government has earmarked $4.5 billion from the stimulus package to subsidize the rollout of smart meters nationwide. European Union politicians are pushing hard to connect 80 percent of the region's homes and businesses to smart meters by 2020. Even emerging giants like India and China aim to install the technology in ...
A 25-Year Battery
Post Date: 2009-11-17 18:50:23 by Horse
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Long-lived nuclear batteries powered by hydrogen isotopes are in testing for military applications Batteries that harvest energy from the nuclear decay of isotopes can produce very low levels of current and last for decades without needing to be replaced. A new version of the batteries, called betavoltaics, is being developed by an Ithaca, NY-based company and tested by Lockheed Martin. The batteries could potentially power electrical circuits that protect military planes and missiles from tampering by destroying information stored in the systems, or by sending out a warning signal to a military center. The batteries are expected to last for 25 years. The company, called Widetronix, is ...
The X PRIZE Foundation Announces First Asia-Based Contender for Genome Sequencing Prize
Post Date: 2009-11-17 14:13:09 by Prefrontal Vortex
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The X PRIZE Foundation Announces First Asia-Based Contender for Genome Sequencing Prize Taiwanese Team, cracker, to Compete for the $10 Million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics PLAYA VISTA, CA--(Marketwire - November 17, 2009) - The X PRIZE Foundation announced today that cracker, a group based in Taiwan, is the newest team accepted to compete for the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics. This new competitor makes the quest for rapid and cost-effective whole human genome sequencing a truly global competition with teams representing three continents. To win the largest medical prize in history, teams must successfully sequence 100 human genomes within 10 days for less than $10,000 per ...
Defense Intelligence Agency Has a Positive Report on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions aka Cold Fusion
Post Date: 2009-11-17 12:50:41 by Horse
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US Defense Intelligence Agency Report - Technology Forecast: Worldwide Research on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Increasing and Gaining Acceptance (8 page pdf) here: newenergytimes.com/v2/new...9/2009DIA-08-0911-003.pdf Japan, Italy and Israel have the most advanced programs. Russia, France, China, South Korea and India are spending considerable resources.
Leonoid Meteor Shower
Post Date: 2009-11-16 12:42:40 by war
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During the 2009 Leonid meteor shower, you may see anywhere from 30 to 300 shooting stars an hour, depending on whether you're in the right place to see tonight's showy peak, experts predict. With the highest number of meteors streaking across the skies around 4:45 p.m. ET on November 17, the full Leonids peak will be effectively invisible for viewers in North America and Europe. In those regions, sky-watchers are advised to venture out away from bright city lights between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on the 17th, when they should see 30 to 50 meteors an hour. (Find out how light pollution has changed our views of the night sky.) But in Asia, the peak happens during predawn hours, so ...
Millions of Useless Purchases Explained at Last!
Post Date: 2009-11-13 13:22:49 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Millions of Useless Purchases Explained at Last! Researchers say people with a certain gene variant are more likely to have credit-card debt. There are some genetics discoveries that make me sit up straight, reread to make sure I understand what the scientists have found, and then think to myself, this cannot end well. I'll cut to the chase: genetic testing as part of your credit-card or mortgage application? (Click here to follow Sharon Begley) The discovery in question is that people who carry a particular variant of a well-studied gene are more likely—significantly more likely—to rack up credit-card debt. In a world where decisions about loans take into account whether ...
Google Poised to Become Your Phone Company
Post Date: 2009-11-12 16:47:31 by tom007
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Google Poised to Become Your Phone Company * By Ryan Singel Email Author * November 11, 2009 | * 6:55 pm | * Categories: Telecommunications * Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process. Seriously. Michael Robertson, the founder of Gizmo5 Michael Robertson, the founder of Gizmo5 Google has reportedly spent $30 million to buy Gizmo5, an online phone company. The service is akin to Skype — but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. Gizmo5’s founder Michael Robertson, a brash serial entrepreneur, would only say that he could not comment on rumors when asked by Wired.com about a story TechCrunch ran Monday ...
State of the Climate National Overview October 2009
Post Date: 2009-11-12 13:26:28 by farmfriend
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State of the Climate National Overview October 2009 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center Temperature Highlights - OctoberThe average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data. For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern that reinforced unseasonably cold air behind a series of cold fronts. Temperatures were below normal in eight of the nation's nine climate regions, and of the nine, five were much below normal. Only the Southeast climate region had near normal temperatures for ...
Strange Days Are Here - Psychic Computers Now Record Your Memories
Post Date: 2009-11-11 11:28:40 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Strange Days Are Here - Psychic Computers Now Record Your Memories What would happen if we really could record what a person sees? Would dealers sell mind's eye memories like Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) does in Strange Days, or would editors make them into movie memorials like in The Final Cut? Thanks to a breakthrough by neurologists at the University of California, Berkeley, we're about to find out. At last month's Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago, researcher Jack Gallant presented the results of an experiment in which a person's brain activity was used to recreate what the person was watching when the activity occurred. Researchers already use brain scans to ...
Antimatter lightning
Post Date: 2009-11-08 23:12:59 by Armadillo
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During two recent lightning storms, Fermi recorded gamma-ray emissions of a particular energy that could have been produced only by the decay of energetic positrons, the antimatter equivalent of electrons. The observations are the first of their kind for lightning storms. Michael Briggs of the University of Alabama in Huntsville announced the puzzling findings November 5 at the 2009 Fermi Symposium. ... During lightning storms previously observed by other spacecraft, energetic electrons moving toward the craft slowed down and produced gamma rays. The unusual positron signature seen by Fermi suggests that the normal orientation for an electric field associated with a lightning storm somehow ...
Deep in the Forest, Bambi Remains The Cold War's Last Prisoner
Post Date: 2009-11-06 16:36:45 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Deep in the Forest, Bambi Remains The Cold War's Last PrisonerDeer Still Shun Iron Curtain Border, 20 Years After the Guards and Barbed Wire Vanished By CECILIE ROHWEDDER GRAFENAU, Germany -- It has been 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell. But deep in the forest here, a red deer called Ahornia still refuses to cross the old Iron Curtain. Ahornia inhabits the thickly wooded mountains along what once was the fortified border between West Germany and Czechoslovakia. At the height of the Cold War, a high electric fence, barbed wire and machine-gun-carrying guards cut off Eastern Europe from the Western world. The barriers severed the herds of deer on the two sides as well. The fence is ...
Ee wah gum! Babies cry with regional accents
Post Date: 2009-11-06 15:56:59 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Ee wah gum! Babies cry with regional accents By David Derbyshire Last updated at 4:49 PM on 06th November 2009 Newborn babies cry with regional 'accents' copied from their mothers, researchers have shown. An astonishing new study found that the screams of a five-day-old French baby have a distinct Gallic twang, while German babies have a Teutonic quality to their yells. The discovery suggests that babies are eavesdropping on their parent's conversations while still in the womb and are picking up their accents. The researchers believe newborns could also be crying in regional accents - and that Geordie infants sound different from Brummies. Past studies have shown that ...
Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory
Post Date: 2009-11-06 11:06:50 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa. Jin Changzhu and colleagues of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, announced to Chinese media last week that they have uncovered a 110,000-year-old putative Homo sapiens jawbone from a cave in southern China's Guangxi province. The mandible has a protruding chin like that of Homo sapiens, but the thickness of the jaw is indicative of more primitive hominins, suggesting that the fossil could derive from interbreeding. If confirmed, the finding would lend ...
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