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Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules
Post Date: 2006-10-19 20:14:14 by DeaconBenjamin
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THE [British] Government is seeking to prevent an EU directive that could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube. The European Commission proposal would require websites and mobile phone services that feature video images to conform to standards laid down in Brussels. Ministers fear that the directive would hit not only successful sites such as YouTube but also amateur “video bloggers” who post material on their own sites. Personal websites would have to be licensed as a “television-like service”. Viviane Reding, the Media Commissioner, argues that the purpose is simply to set minimum standards on areas ...
Paper takes swipe at bedrock law of physics
Post Date: 2006-10-16 13:55:11 by gengis gandhi
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Paper takes swipe at bedrock law of physics Oct. 14, 2006 Special to World Science A new paper by a self-described hobby physicist challenges what may be the bedrock law of nature. And while skeptics are rolling their eyes, the study has appeared in a professional journal with the apparent consent of leading physicists. The principle under dispute, central to physics for at least two centuries, is called the law of conservation of energy. It states that nothing can be created or destroyed: you can’t get something from ...
Major SETI Institute Announcement
Post Date: 2006-10-16 10:40:40 by Mind_Virus
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Major SETI Institute Announcement 10:00 - 11:00 am PDT Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Location: SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA, US Web Site Address: http://www.seti.org
AUDIO: Could We See Two Suns In Five Years?
Post Date: 2006-10-15 18:14:42 by Mind_Virus
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Could We See Two Suns In Five Years? Is it possible we live in a binary solar system with two suns? According to NASA, over 80% of all solar systems have multiple suns and the historical accounts contained in The Kolbrin Bible suggest it could be Sol's unborn twin. A destructive brown dwarf larger than the planet Jupiter, and known to the ancients as the Destroyer. The authors of this 3600 year-old secular anthology tell us it caused Noah's Flood, the Ten Plagues of Exodus, and that it will return soon. In this special audio report, you'll learn what this new cosmic threat could mean to life as we know it, and what our governments are doing about it. Could We See Two Suns in Five Years? - ...
Cyberface: New Technology That Captures the Soul
Post Date: 2006-10-15 11:06:41 by Morgana le Fay
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THERE’S nothing particularly remarkable about the near-empty offices of Image Metrics in downtown Santa Monica, loft-style cubicles with a dartboard at the end of the hallway. A few polite British executives tiptoe about, quietly demonstrating the company’s new technology. What’s up on-screen in the conference room, however, immediately focuses the mind. In one corner of the monitor, an actress is projecting a series of emotions — ecstasy, confusion, relief, boredom, sadness — while in the center of the screen, a computer-drawn woman is mirroring those same emotions. It’s not just that the virtual woman looks happy when the actress looks happy or relieved ...
Everything You Need to Know About Bedbugs but Were Afraid to Ask
Post Date: 2006-10-15 03:01:32 by Morgana le Fay
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TYPICALLY, the problem starts with the bites: itchy, reddish welts that leave their victims wondering if they have a rash or have had an allergic reaction to something. Often, the next step is a visit to the doctor, followed by calls to the landlord, the superintendent and the exterminator. The cause is the bedbug, the nocturnal, blood-sucking insect that is making a comeback in urban housing across North America. Complaints about bedbugs in rental apartments in New York City more than doubled last year and are on target to reach a record this year. Managers and owners of co-op and condominium apartments in the city report similar trends, although the city tracks complaints only in ...
VIDEO: Metal Storm Weapons: Million-Plus Rounds Per Minute
Post Date: 2006-10-11 11:04:58 by Mind_Virus
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Metal Storm Weapons: Million-Plus Rounds Per Minute O’Dwyer constructed a triple-barrel, a nine-barrel, and a 36-barrel firing prototype design that he lovingly named Bertha. “The reason for the 36 barrels was simply to indicate to ourselves and to others the future versatility of this system, in that with the 36 barrels we had 540 rounds on board and, based on the 45,000-round-per-minute rate per barrel, that gave us a maximum firing rate of 1.62 million rounds per minute,” the inventor says
HAS YOUTUBE SOLD IT'S SOUL TO GOOGLE?
Post Date: 2006-10-11 10:50:48 by Mind_Virus
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HAS YOUTUBE SOLD IT'S SOUL TO GOOGLE? Is this the boomtime deal that signals a bust? A Message From Chad and Steve Google has paid $1.65bn for video site YouTube Some think it will come to regret it Young, suitless executives with a start-up company born in pokey offices encrusted with pizza boxes suddenly finding themselves flush with hundreds of millions of dollars. A business with little or no revenues attracts a nosebleed valuation just a few years after launching. Surely these are signs that the technology world, ever keen on a fad, is blowing up another bubble to challenge the dotcom madness of 2000. If the decision of Time Warner, stalwart of the traditional media world, to ...
Was The North Korean Blast Nuclear? A Tricky Question For Scientists
Post Date: 2006-10-09 14:15:39 by Brian S
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Published: October 9, 2006 PARIS North Korea sets off an earthshaking explosion — and claims it was nuclear. Was it? For scientists, that was not a quick and easy question to answer. Like earthquakes, large explosions send out shockwaves that can be detected on seismographs. Big nuclear bombs make big waves, with clear signatures that make them fairly easy to detect, analyze and confirm that they were caused by splitting atoms. But smaller blasts — as North Korea's appears to have been — are trickier to break down. The natural sound of the Earth, with its constant seismic activity of tectonic plates grinding together, complicates the task of trying to determine whether a ...
Scientists teleport two different objects
Post Date: 2006-10-09 13:09:06 by Neil McIver
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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Beaming people in "Star Trek" fashion is still in the realms of science fiction, but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality. Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split second. But Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both light and matter. "It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different ...
Future of the hard drive 'secure'
Post Date: 2006-10-08 04:29:57 by robin
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Future of the hard drive 'secure' By Chris Long BBC Click reporter With all the developments in memory technology you could be forgiven for thinking that the lowly hard drive is dead. The terabyte hard drive uses perpendicular recording But although the hard drive is 50 this year, we have seen yet more growth in the technologies around it. The one terabyte drive is more or less here, we have perpendicular recording and they are getting smaller all the time. Without Daniel Bernoulli we would not have a name for the effect that we rely on to make the hard disk work. The Bernoulli Effect is what happens when a wing moves through the air - it floats. Just like an aeroplane's wing, ...
The Human Genome Project: A Cosmic Joke that has the Scientists Rolling in the Aisle
Post Date: 2006-10-07 09:37:10 by gengis gandhi
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The Human Genome Project: A Cosmic Joke that has the Scientists Rolling in the Aisle Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. There is a "thing" I refer to as Universe Humor, others may refer to it as a Cosmic Joke. There have been times in all of our lives when we thought we knew exactly how some event or incident was going to turn out. We could be so convinced that we "knew" what was going to happen, that we would have bet the family farm and the kitchen sink on the outcome of the event. It is at moments like this, when the Universe surprises us by taking a left turn instead of a right. While in most cases such a turn of events may evoke anger, disappointment or disillusion, I ...
Giant camel's remains found in Syria
Post Date: 2006-10-07 08:25:45 by Steel
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Swiss researchers have discovered the 100,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria. Professor Jean-Marie Le Tensorer of the University of Basel says the discovery is revolutionary for science. "It was not known that the dromedary was present in the Middle East more than 10,000 years ago," he said. "Can you imagine? The camel's shoulders stood three metres high and it was around four metres tall, as big as a giraffe or an elephant. "Nobody knew that such a species had existed." Professor Tensorer, who has been excavating at the desert site in Kowm since 1999, says the first large bones were found some years ago but were ...
Hubble telescope spots a dark blemish on Uranus
Post Date: 2006-10-07 00:08:25 by Morgana le Fay
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The recently-troubled Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a giant swirling, dark vortex on Uranus. Peering 3.2 billion km into space, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys snapped the photos on August 23. The dark spot indicates a massive storm on the alien planet's surface that is large enough to engulf two-thirds of the United States. University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers report the spot measures 1,700 km by 3,000 km. The image is a composite of three cameras that comprise Hubble's main viewing device. Hubble trouble Since taking the image, Hubble's primary camera has experienced technical difficulties. The three-channel camera shut down after losing power on Sept. 23. Since ...
'Monster' fossil find in Arctic
Post Date: 2006-10-05 23:07:56 by robin
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'Monster' fossil find in Arctic By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News One find has been nicknamed "The Monster"Enlarge ImageNorwegian scientists have discovered a "treasure trove" of fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that roamed the seas at the time of the dinosaurs. The 150 million-year-old fossils were uncovered on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard - about halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole. The finds belong to two groups of extinct marine reptiles - the plesiosaurs and the ichthyosaurs. One skeleton has been nicknamed The Monster because of its enormous size. These animals were the top predators living in what was then ...
K7RA Solar Update
Post Date: 2006-10-05 19:04:56 by Tauzero
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The K7RA Solar Update SEATTLE, WA, Oct 5, 2006 -- This report is appearing one day early this week to accommodate travel schedules. Daily sunspot numbers and solar flux were higher this week. Average daily sunspot numbers rose by nearly 22 points to 34.6. Average daily solar flux was up nearly by 6 points to 76.7. September 30 ended the third quarter of 2006, so now is a good time to review quarterly averages of daily sunspot numbers and solar flux, to examine the current solar cycle's downward trend. From the first quarter of 2004 through the third quarter of 2006, the average daily sunspot number was 72.9, 71.3, 69.3, 61, 46.1, 55.7, 58, 36, 18.1, 39.7 and 23.5. The average daily solar ...
The 2007 hurricane season: a lamb too?
Post Date: 2006-10-05 18:55:05 by Tauzero
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The 2007 hurricane season: a lamb too? There have been nine named storms so far during this year's Atlantic hurricane season. Jeff Masters thinks we'll probably only get one more storm between now and when hurricane season ends on Nov. 30. So, at the beginning of the year, do you recall anyone predicting an average hurricane season (9.6 named storms) for the Atlantic? Bill Gray predicted 17 storms. NOAA called for 13 to 16 storms. Joe Bastardi said the United States was going to get hit by three major hurricanes. Even some knucklehead calling himself SciGuy called for 17 named storms using his ultra-unsophisticated "averaging" system. But wait a minute: Houston's Weather ...
Amazon Stonehenge
Post Date: 2006-10-03 19:42:05 by tom007
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Another ‘Stonehenge’ discovered in Amazon Centuries-old granite grouping may have served as observatory Image: Granite blocks Gilmar Nascimento / AP file A grouping of 127 granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of an ancient astronomical observatory, according to archaeologists. • Most viewed on http://MSNBC.com RSS FEEDS ON MSNBC.COM Add these headlines to your news reader • Science • Learn more about RSS By Stan Lehman Updated: 5:06 p.m. CT June 27, 2006 SAO PAULO, Brazil - A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory — a find that archaeologists say ...
Out-of-Body Experience? Your Brain Is to Blame
Post Date: 2006-10-03 02:41:23 by Morgana le Fay
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They are eerie sensations, more common than one might think: A man describes feeling a shadowy figure standing behind him, then turning around to find no one there. A woman feels herself leaving her body and floating in space, looking down on her corporeal self. Such experiences are often attributed by those who have them to paranormal forces. But according to recent work by neuroscientists, they can be induced by delivering mild electric current to specific spots in the brain. In one woman, for example, a zap to a brain region called the angular gyrus resulted in a sensation that she was hanging from the ceiling, looking down at her body. In another woman, electrical current delivered ...
Australian researchers back hobbit claims
Post Date: 2006-10-02 11:57:53 by gengis gandhi
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Australian researchers back hobbit claims Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) are backing claims that the discovery of the so-called hobbit in Indonesia does represent a new species of human. In 2003, Australian scientists unearthed the remains of a hobbit-like species, with adults about the height of a three-year-old child, in a cave on a remote island in Indonesia. In a new paper, ANU researchers reject claims that the skeleton of a hobbit-like species was simply a very short human with a rare brain disease. ANU Professor Colin Groves says after analysing the evidence, he has no doubt the discovery represents a new species of human. "What is particularly ...
Halloween Money Bringing Spell
Post Date: 2006-10-02 03:53:19 by Morgana le Fay
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You might want to try this popular 'spell' for money. It is best done around Halloween. You need a gold coin and a pair of old shoes. Holding up the coin in daylight and say "what I see, may it increase, so I may have financial peace." Place the gold coin in the old left shoe, then put both shoes on. Walk clockwise in a circle three times. Take the shoes off and place them in a T shape where they can't be disturbed. Do the same thing for three two days. On the third day take out the gold coin from the left shoe and tape the coin in the most worn pair of shoes. Do not spend the coin as it will bring you luck!! ONLY DO THIS SPELL IF MONEY IS NEEDED NOT OUT OF GREED! If you are ...
First test of China's new thermonuclear fusion reactor succeeds
Post Date: 2006-09-30 14:26:01 by Steel
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Chinese scientists on Thursday successfully conducted their first test of an experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor, which replicates the energy generating process of the sun. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion reactor, nicknamed "artificial sun", was tested at the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Hefei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province. During the experiment, deuterium and tritium atoms were forced together at a temperature of 100 million Celsius. "At that temperature, the super heated plasma, which is neither a gas, a liquid nor a solid, should begin to give off its own energy," ...
4th Generation Warfare Delusions
Post Date: 2006-09-29 10:51:24 by bluedogtxn
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The Sanctuary Delusion by William S. Lind At America’s behest, Pakistan sent its army into the tribal territories along its northwest frontier. Predictably, its army got beaten. The Pakistani government has now signed a truce with the tribes in North Waziristan, a wise move given that government’s fragility. (On Sunday, when the power went out all over Pakistan, everyone assumed there had been a coup.) Washington and its gentlemanly Afghan puppet, Mr. Karzai, are howling that this will give the Taliban a sanctuary, which is true. Every military force, including those of the Fourth Generation, needs some sort of secure rear area where its fights can relax, its wounded can ...
Injustice, Inequality, and Evolutional Psychology
Post Date: 2006-09-28 08:52:17 by Tauzero
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Injustice, inequality and Evolutionary Psychology Bruce G Charlton MD bruce.charlton@ncl.ac.uk Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry Department of Psychology University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH England Editor-in-Chief, Medical Hypotheses ABSTRACT As biological knowledge of "human nature" continues to grow, political theory and public policy will increasingly need to take account of Evolutionary Psychology in order effectively to pursue its goals. This essay stands as an example. Socio-economic differentials are perceived to be unjust, but the reason for this is not obvious given the ubiquity of stratification. It is suggested that "the injustice of inequality" has ...
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