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Graduate Student Unveils Sprint's GPS Sharing With Feds
Post Date: 2009-12-02 15:11:10 by mininggold
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Graduate Student Unveils Sprint's GPS Sharing With Feds Eight million 'pings' to user tracking database in 13 months... 09:01AM Wednesday Dec 02 2009 by Karl Bode Blogger Christopher Soghoian is raising eyebrows this week with a recording of a Sprint executive at a conference exploring how Sprint has been using a new portal to give user GPS data to law enforcement agents an astounding 8 million times over a thirteen month span. The disclosure of course immediately raised questions over what kind of legal process is being followed, and who's being tracked. Sprint tells Wired News the 8 million number is the number of times the portal was "pinged" for information ...
All the President's Climategate Deniers [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-02 08:08:53 by Eric Stratton
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All the President's Climategate Deniers Michelle Malkin Wednesday, December 02, 2009 "The science is settled," we've been told for decades by zealous proponents of manmade global warming hysteria. Thanks to an earth-shaking hacking scandal across the pond, we now have mountains of documents from the world's leading global warming advocacy center that show the science is about as settled as a southeast Asian tsunami. You won't be surprised by the Obama administration's response to Climategate. With pursed lips and closed eyes and ears, the White House is clinging to the old eco-mantra: The science is settled. Never mind all the devastating new information ...
Climate-Change Scientist Steps Aside Amid Probe
Post Date: 2009-12-01 18:24:51 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Climate-Change Scientist Steps Aside Amid Probe By KEITH JOHNSON The head of the British climate-research center at the heart of a scandal over the contents of hacked emails has temporarily left his post pending an internal investigation. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, said Tuesday he will "step aside" while the university conducts an internal review into how scientists at the facility conducted research into global warming in recent years. The CRU has been at the center of a controversy over climate science after thousands of emails and other documents were hacked and publicly released earlier this month. The documents showed ...
Psychic computer shows your thoughts on screen
Post Date: 2009-12-01 16:20:05 by Horse
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Scientists have discovered how to “read” minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering. Researchers have been able to convert into crude video footage the brain activity stimulated by what a person is watching or recalling. The breakthrough raises the prospect of significant benefits, such as allowing people who are unable to move or speak to communicate via visualisation of their thoughts; recording people’s dreams; or allowing police to identify criminals by recalling the memories of a witness. However, it could also herald a new Big Brother era, similar to that envisaged in the Hollywood film Minority ...
Doing Electronics on a Budget
Post Date: 2009-11-29 10:31:17 by Horse
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I always enjoy surfing around youtube because sometimes I find channels filled with great information that I won’t find anywhere else. Yesterday I came across such a channel which is run by radioam232 http://www.youtube.com/user/radioam232 , he does electronics on the cheap, literally. His channel has over 150 videos that cover a range of improvised electronic components and devices. In the following video he shows you how to use pins instead of solder to piece together electronic circuits. For the novice who has done electronics you know from experience that creating a circuit from a schematic can often be frustrating if not difficult. But the ideas outlined in the video above show ...
Founder of 'Craigslist"
Post Date: 2009-11-28 03:23:19 by Itistoolate
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Craig Newmark Craig NewmarkBorn: 2-Dec-1952 Birthplace: Morristown, NJ Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Computer Programmer, Business Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: Founder, Craigslist Founded Craigslist in 1995. He is demonized by some in the newspaper industry for singlehandedly destroying their classified advertising revenue model -- Craigslist has no fees for advertising, with the exception of job postings in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. The site is thus not highly monetized, one reason for its popularity. Estimates are that even this meagre way of conducting ...
Gore Flees in Panic from Chicago Book Signing
Post Date: 2009-11-27 12:54:15 by Original_Intent
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Gore Flees in Panic from Chicago Book Signing November 25, 2009 (LPAC)—Not since Henry Kissinger fled a team of LaRouche organizers, in the back of a delivery truck in New York City's Central Park in the early 1980s, has an obese fascist moved so fast to escape an angry crowd, as Al Gore did today in Chicago. Appearing at a bookstore in the downtown Loop, Gore was confronted by a team of demonstrators from a grass roots group called "We Are Change," as he was signing his latest fascist screed on the global warming swindle. Gore bolted from the bookstore, raced down an alley, jumped into a waiting car, and tried to speed off, with protesters chasing after him and ...
Climate change scandal deepens as BBC expert claims he was sent leaked emails six weeks ago
Post Date: 2009-11-26 15:42:34 by Original_Intent
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The controversy surrounding the global warming e-mail scandal has deepened after a BBC correspondent admitted he was sent the leaked messages more than a month before they were made public. Paul Hudson, weather presenter and climate change expert, claims the documents allegedly sent between some of the world's leading scientists are of a direct result of an article he wrote. In his BBC blog three days ago, Hudson said: 'I was forwarded the chain of emails on the 12th October, which are comments from some of the world's leading climate scientists written as a direct result of my article "Whatever Happened To Global Warming".' That essay, written last month, ...
AEP gets stimulus grant for $150 million 'smart-grid' project
Post Date: 2009-11-25 18:24:17 by DeaconBenjamin
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About 110,000 central Ohio customers of American Electric Power soon will have advanced-technology meters, giving them the ability to track when they use the most power and thus reduce their electricity bills. It's all part of a $150 million demonstration project to install "smart-grid" technology for customers across a 150-square-mile swath of AEP's service area, an effort government and company officials say will reduce energy consumption, save money and create jobs. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, joined by several Democratic elected officials for a ceremony at the company's Dolan Technology Center in Groveport, announced yesterday that AEP has been awarded $75 ...
1GB computer memory physical size in 1980 and 2009
Post Date: 2009-11-25 10:36:18 by freepatriot32
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The huge sized 1GB memory is from IBM built for mainframes in late 1970’s. The same 1GB memory comes in a micro-chip nowadays!
"Climate Gate" Development: CEI Files Notice of Intent to Sue NASA
Post Date: 2009-11-24 14:21:33 by farmfriend
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"Climate Gate" Development: CEI Files Notice of Intent to Sue NASA By Chris Horner on 11.24.09 @ 9:46AM Today, on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for those bodies' refusal - for nearly three years - to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The information sought is directly relevant to the exploding "ClimateGate" scandal revealing document destruction, coordinated efforts in the U.S. and UK to avoid complying with both countries' freedom of information laws, and apparent and widespread intent to defraud at ...
Where Does Sarah Palin Stand On HAARP
Post Date: 2009-11-23 21:34:36 by Itistoolate
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1. HAARP Home Page "22 Feb 2009 ... HAARP Home Page. This is the official Web site for the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program." www.haarp.alaska.edu/ 2. Data Index "12 Jul 2009 ... The HAARP Ionospheric Observatory uses numerous scientific instruments to study the earth's geomagnetic environment and to assess radio ..." www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html 3. High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program - Wikipedia, the ... "HAARP's main goal is basic science research of the uppermost portion of the atmosphere, known as the ionosphere. ..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hig..._Auroral_Research_Program 4. HAARP (album) - Wikipedia, the free ...
What’s killing the bats?
Post Date: 2009-11-23 13:11:56 by Prefrontal Vortex
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What’s killing the bats? At least 1 million have died in the past three years from a mysterious disease, posing serious questions for our environment. But one Boston University biologist is leading the hunt for answers. By Stacey Chase November 15, 2009 Thomas Kunz emerges from Aeolus cave in East Dorset, Vermont, with a half-dozen metal ID bands -- smaller than SpaghettiOs -- cupped in the palm of his latex-gloved hand. They’re tiny emblems of death, having once been affixed to the forearms of little brown bats. The renowned bat biologist from Boston University, who bears a passing resemblance to Harrison Ford, minutes earlier had recovered the bands while trudging, like a ...
Study looks at scientific, cultural perspectives on race
Post Date: 2009-11-23 12:53:03 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Study looks at scientific, cultural perspectives on race November 17, 2009 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study compares personal perceptions of race, color and ancestry of Brazilian high school students with the results of genetic ancestry tests, with the aim of investigating the tensions between cultural and scientific conceptions of race. The research, led by Ricardo Ventura Santos of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Oswaldo Cruz foundation, appears in the December issue of Current Anthropology. Modern genetics can provide detailed information about a person’s geographic ancestry. But most scientists agree that human genetic variation doesn’t correspond neatly with ...
Oil's Expanding Frontiers
Post Date: 2009-11-23 08:35:21 by Eric Stratton
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Oil's Expanding Frontiers George Will Sunday, November 22, 2009 WASHINGTON -- What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance? Or perhaps Titusville, Pa. Oil seeping from the ground there was collected for medicinal purposes -- until Edwin Drake drilled and 150 years ago -- Aug. 27, 1859 -- found the basis of our world, 69 feet below the surface of Pennsylvania, which oil historian Daniel Yergin calls "the Saudi Arabia of 19th-century oil." For many years, most oil was used for lighting and ...
Hackers 'expose global warming con': Sceptics claim that leaked emails reveal research centre massaged temperature data
Post Date: 2009-11-22 18:26:09 by Jethro Tull
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Sunday, Nov 22 2009 This Evening 8°C Tomorrow Morning 13°C 5-Day Forecast DM.has("article"); DM.has("lightBox", { id: 'js-article-text' }); Hackers 'expose global warming con': Sceptics claim that leaked emails reveal research centre massaged temperature data By Fiona Macrae Last updated at 6:50 PM on 21st November 2009 Comments (195) Add to My Stories One of the world57;s leading climate change research centres has been accused of manipulating data on global warming after thousands of private emails and documents were leaked. Hackers targeted the University of East Anglia57;s Climatic Research Unit and ...
Google's Chrome OS hits BitTorrent
Post Date: 2009-11-22 07:36:03 by wudidiz
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Poster Comment:I tried the Google Chrome browser. It's fast.
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 ...
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