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New Threats to Online Security
Post Date: 2008-12-27 14:27:11 by Ada
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Internet security has deteriorated markedly this year as a new generation of invasive computer attacks, often masterminded by criminal gangs, has reached a heightened level of sophistication, according to the latest studies of online threats. “It’s getting worse year after year,” warned Pat Peterson, chief security researcher at Cisco Systems, who blamed the deterioration on the fact that computer “hacking” is quickly turning into big business. “Capitalism is working against us,” he said. “It’s a step back after things had gotten better,” added John Pescatore, a security analyst at Gartner. In particular, computer security experts warn ...
Chocolate, wine and tea can boost brain power
Post Date: 2008-12-25 09:43:45 by Ada
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Eating chocolate and drinking wine and tea can improve your memory, according to a new study. Researchers discovered that wine has the most pronounced effect in boosting people's memory, followed by chocolate and tea. And those who regularly consume all three in modest amounts were found to perform best when asked to carry out a series of brain tests. However, those hoping to use the findings as justification for gorging on chocolates and enjoying a generous tipple over Christmas will be disappointed. The study also discovered that the positive effects levelled out after just half a glass of wine and only four squares of chocolate. The researchers from Oxford University examined ...
Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science “Mistaken”
Post Date: 2008-12-24 12:22:12 by farmfriend
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Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science “Mistaken” Michael Asher Daily Tech Wednesday, Dec 24, 2008 Scientist fired by Al Gore was told, “science will not intrude on public policy”. Noted energy expert and Princeton physicist Dr. Will Happer has sharply criticized global warming alarmism. Happer, author of over 200 scientific papers and a past director of energy research at the Department of Energy, called fears over global warming “mistaken”. “I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect”, said Happer. “Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on ...
South Africa cannot protect its weapons-grade nuclear material
Post Date: 2008-12-23 22:44:49 by X-15
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There are growing fears among the nuclear powers that South Africa would not be able to safeguard its stored nuclear material. On November 7 2007, Africa's only enriched-uranium storage facility, Pelindaba in Pretoria, was invaded by two armed gangs. Pelindaba, described as a 'fortress', houses hundreds of kilograms of highly enriched uranium -- remnants of the apartheid government's six nuclear bombs, dismantled in the early 1990s. This material is watched over by closed-circuit cameras from inside a supposedly secured control room which is surrounded by triple fencing and a cordon of other high-tech security measures. Yet last year 's unprecedented, boldest assault ...
Amazing New Table-saw Technology
Post Date: 2008-12-23 19:03:16 by Lod
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Blind man navigates maze
Post Date: 2008-12-23 17:17:00 by gengis gandhi
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Blind man navigates maze By Helen Briggs Health reporter, BBC News Advertisement See the man navigating the obstacle course Scientists have discovered that a blind person can navigate through a maze of obstacles unaided using intuition alone. The man, left blind by a stroke, was able to walk around chairs and boxes without bumping into them using hidden pathways in the brain. The study suggests we all use subconscious brain resources and can do things we think we are unable to do. The Harvard Medical School research is published in Current Biology. These are very exciting findings but it will require further research Sonal Rughani, RNIB The patient, known only as TN, was left ...
Our grip on reality is slim, says UCL scientist
Post Date: 2008-12-23 10:39:10 by gengis gandhi
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Our grip on reality is slim, says UCL scientist 24 June 2006 The neurological basis for poor witness statements and hallucinations has been found by scientists at UCL (University College London). In over a fifth of cases, people wrongly remembered whether they actually witnessed an event or just imagined it, according to a paper published in NeuroImage this week. Dr Jon Simons and Dr Paul Burgess led the study at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. Dr Burgess said: “In our tests volunteers either thought they had imagined words which they had actually been shown or said they had seen words which in fact they had just imagined - in over 20 per cent of cases. That is quite a ...
Carbon Nanotubes Will Rewire Your Brain, Make You Smarter
Post Date: 2008-12-23 09:07:13 by gengis gandhi
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Carbon Nanotubes Will Rewire Your Brain, Make You Smarter By Annalee Newitz, 10:53 AM on Mon Dec 22 2008, 2,859 views Carbon nanotubes, or hollow microscopic wires made of carbon (pictured), may one day replace some of the neurons in your brain. They could repair brain damage, or give a turbo boost to healthy brains. A group of researchers in France and Italy have published a paper today in Nature Nanotechnology that carbon nanotubes can act as neural workarounds in the brain, forming tight contacts with the already-existing nerve cells and conducting electricity between them exactly the way neurons do with each other. According to Henry Markram, a lead scientist on the project at ...
Cooling is Warming
Post Date: 2008-12-22 06:30:42 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! My relatives in New England are fighting their way out from under a giant ice storm. Here in Las Vegas it's been snowing all week, several weeks earlier than our usual one-day-a-year photo op of snow and icicles sparkling one of our palm-bedecked golf courses before melting away by afternoon. The National Weather Service calls it "a rare snow event." Why? It's getting colder. 2008 was the coolest year in a decade. The American mainstream press seem to know "team players" don't mention such inconvenient developments, but in the U.K., the esteemed Guardian reports, "This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a ...
The Marxist roots of the global warming scare
Post Date: 2008-12-22 01:41:56 by Disgusted
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The late Natalie Grant Wraga once wrote, "Protection of the environment has become the principal tool for attack against the West and all it stands for. Protection of the environment may be used as a pretext to adopt a series of measures designed to undermine the industrial base of developed nations. It may also serve to introduce malaise by lowering their standard of living and implanting communist values." And who was this person? Natalie Grant Wraga (who died in 2002 at age 101) was an internationally-recognized expert on the art of disinformation. In her Washington Post obituary, Herbert Romerstein — veteran intelligence expert in the legislative and executive branches ...
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Post Date: 2008-12-19 22:28:34 by Old Friend
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End of the Free Internet? Global 'News Control' Starting?
Post Date: 2008-12-19 15:04:16 by OliviaFNewton
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Not to begin your day with a bummer, but I've been expecting this for a long time - and today I'm worried that global/corporate/government news control may have arrived in a subtle way. Before I get to the specifics, first the 'big picture' stuff: You may be aware that our friends with the predictive linguistics project have been seeing out some ways into the future, perhaps mid 2009, we will all slowly lose our ability to communicate freely and openly at the 'global' (hive?) level as corporations and governments begin to lock down the internet. Might be on a phony 'terror' prevention pretext or a 'copyright' red herring, or whatever. If ...
Vermonters & Communication
Post Date: 2008-12-19 12:38:15 by freepatriot32
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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclu sion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago. Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed in California, an archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet. Shortly after, headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: "California archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers." One week later, the Burlington Free Press, a local newspaper in ...
New World Order and the Chemtrails Connection
Post Date: 2008-12-17 21:22:55 by wudidiz
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Doctor Finds Foot in Baby's Brain
Post Date: 2008-12-17 16:37:58 by Rupert_Pupkin
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Colorado Doctor Finds Foot In Newborn's Brain Infant Recovering After Surgery POSTED: 7:23 am MST December 17, 2008 UPDATED: 1:35 pm MST December 17, 2008 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs family is part of one of the strangest cases in medical history. Dr. Paul Grabb, a pediatric brain surgeon, said he discovered a small foot growing inside the brain of 3-day-old Sam Esquibel. The appendage threatened the newborn's life. When Grabb performed the life-saving surgery at Memorial Hospital for Children in Colorado Springs, he was in for another surprise: he also found what appeared to be parts of an intestine in the folds of the infant's tiny brain, in addition to ...
How to make a jam jar pulse jet....
Post Date: 2008-12-16 21:13:34 by X-15
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Google cranks up the Consensus Engine (Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results)
Post Date: 2008-12-14 23:43:51 by Rotara
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Manufacturing isn't dead - it just went to Mountain ViewBy Andrew Orlowski • Get more from this author Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance. Not so very long ago, Google disclaimed responsibility for its search results by explaining that these were chosen by a computer algorithm. The disclaimer lives on at Google News, where we are assured that: The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program. A few years ago, Google's apparently unimpeachable objectivity got some people very ...
Post Modern Liberal Insanity #1 and #2
Post Date: 2008-12-14 10:01:22 by Jethro Tull
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Post Modern Liberal Insanity #2byR.E. PrindleFact not Belief The problem is the Liberals. Most think Liberalism is just a political approach but it isn57;t. Liberalism is a doctrine. As a doctrine it is inherently anti-scientific. As science contradicts Liberal doctrine at all points it is the enemy to be suppressed or destroyed. Thus Liberals are doctrinaires. They do not like to be called doctrinaires as a doctrinaire is a narrow minded bigot.*******See also: Race and intelligence On October 14, 2007, a biographical article written by one of Watson's former assistants[50], Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe, appeared in the Sunday Times ...
Who did Bernie swindle?
Post Date: 2008-12-12 19:15:57 by tom007
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Who did Bernie swindle? Mark Lacter • Bio • Email That would be Bernie Madoff, who has been charged in connection with a decades-long Ponzi scheme that could involve as much as $50 billion. Madoff's asset management business always delivered steady returns, even though many had suspected he was running a rigged shop. Madoff, 70, told employees before his arrest that his firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, was "one big lie." Christopher Miller, CEO of a London hedge fund ratings agency told the WSJ that "there will be a monumental impact for the hedge fund industry, it could be larger than Enron. From John Carney at ClusterStock: He consistently told ...
HP To Market Three-Year Laptop Battery
Post Date: 2008-12-10 20:17:55 by scrapper2
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Beginning in 2009, Hewlett-Packard will offer a notebook battery upgrade that is guaranteed for three years. The announcement was made Wednesday by Boston-Power, a supplier of lithium-ion batteries that will sell its Sonata battery to Hewlett-Packard. Representatives from both HP and Boston-Power declined to divulge many details on the relationship, primarily as B-P is a startup company, ramping production to meet the demands of its first customer. A representative from HP said that the company will make the Sonata battery available on some mainstream consumer notebooks, without specifying which models. HP's commercial notebook division is "looking at it," a spokesman said. ...
Crystals turn roads into power stations
Post Date: 2008-12-10 13:03:24 by gengis gandhi
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Crystals turn roads into power stations * 10 December 2008 * Magazine issue 2685. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. * For similar stories, visit the Energy and Fuels Topic Guide AN ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly road that positively welcomes heavy traffic may sound odd, but by placing piezoelectric crystals under the asphalt that convert vibration into electricity, Israeli engineers hope to harvest energy from passing vehicles. Developer Haim Abramovich at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa says the crystals can produce up to 400 kilowatts from a 1-kilometre stretch of four-lane highway. His spin-out company, Innowattech, also based in Haifa, will begin testing the system on a ...
Cool Earth Is Scaling Up Solar Energy Generation (Utility-scale Solar Balloons)
Post Date: 2008-12-09 15:21:16 by freepatriot32
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Imagine a 1-megawatt solar power plant that has nothing to do with vast swaths of PV panels or mirrored troughs in a barren desert environment that require new transmission lines to population centers. Instead, picture a rolling, grassy field populated with 500 vertical poles that each hold two 8-foot-wide balloons. While cows graze among the poles, the large recyclable plastic balloons, each with a mirrored inside surface, truss and concentrated solar cell, follow the sun's transit thanks to a small electric motor. A utility substation is nearby. While balloons deployed across the land collecting solar energy is indeed a happy image, CEO Rob Lamkin would argue that the true ...
Multiple Kill Vehicle Completes Hover Test
Post Date: 2008-12-08 23:33:17 by bluegrass
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http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/pdf/08fyi0110.pdf 08-FYI-0110 December 3, 2008 Multiple Kill Vehicle Completes Hover Test Missile Defense Agency Director Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly announced that a test of the Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) was conducted Tuesday, Dec. 2 at the National Hover Test Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Preliminary indications are that planned test objectives were achieved. Objectives of the test included having the MKV-L hover under its own power and prove its capability to recognize and track a surrogate target in a flight environment. During the test, the MKV-L's propulsion system demonstrated maneuverability while tracking a target. ...
Journey to the Edge of the Universe
Post Date: 2008-12-08 22:02:12 by Horse
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It's official: Men really are the weaker sex
Post Date: 2008-12-08 11:27:23 by scrapper2
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The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals. The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people. Backed by some of the world's leading scientists, who say that it "waves a red flag" for humanity and shows that evolution itself is being disrupted, the report comes out at a particularly sensitive time for ministers. On Wednesday, Britain will lead opposition to proposed new European controls ...
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