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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
US group implants electronic tags in workers
Post Date: 2006-02-12 20:26:31 by A K A Stone
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An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them. ADVERTISEMENT http://CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the police. Embedding slivers of silicon in workers is likely to add to the controversy over RFID technology, widely seen as one of the next big growth industries. RFID chips – inexpensive radio transmitters that give off a unique identifying signal – have been implanted in pets or ...
Sunday Afternoon Web Techtalk and Tips
Post Date: 2006-02-12 17:25:47 by buckeroo
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Often, I am asked how to remove the manual effort of "point & click" within a browser upon websites so as to ensure an automated method of updating the browser screen. Most websites ( it is expensive BW ) don't offer this simple idea to ensure your client browser is updated upon a periodic basis. Many servers don't offer it and you aren't going to get it for free. The internet has exploded upon basic communication's skills. So a timer browser client add-in utility is fairly cool to have.
Poster Comment:You can goto LogicWorks and pick up an installation of an automatic addin. You can adjust the software for the time frame, but beware! Don't make the auto adjust feature too ...
Human Branching: Race is natural
Post Date: 2006-02-12 12:36:44 by Zoroaster
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Human Branching Report; Posted on: 2006-02-11 14:14:07 Race is natural Human Branching is the broad social concept that recognizes the genetic and cultural branching that has occurred within the human species. It recognizes that genetic branching always occurs when a genetic life form branches into two or more isolated colonies. Two human populations separated by one generation have barely begun to branch, separated by 10 generations they have begun to branch a bit more, separated by 100 generations much more, and after a 1000 generations the branching is certainly quite clear. The greater the genetic distance the greater the genetic difference - that is a general rule of thumb for ...
US plans massive data sweep
Post Date: 2006-02-12 06:57:31 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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CONCERN: GOP Rep. Curt Weldon (l.) and Democrat Sen. Russell Feingold want details on federal data-mining. US plans massive data sweep Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far? By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity. The system - parts of which are operational, parts of which are still under development - is already credited with helping to foil some plots. It is the ...
Privacy fears hit Google search [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-02-11 18:19:34 by Zipporah
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Google is increasingly in the spotlight over the issue of privacy A leading US digital rights campaign group has warned against using Google software which lets people organise and find information on their computers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the latest version of Google Desktop posed a risk to privacy. This is because a feature in the software lets Google keep personal data on its servers for up to 30 days. Google says it plans to encrypt all data transferred from users' hard drives and restrict access. Government snooping The new version of its desktop search software comes as Google is battling efforts by the US Department of Justice to force ...
Creationists: can they be scientists? You bet! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-02-11 17:02:42 by A K A Stone
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As an astrophysicist, Dr. Jason Lisle (author of chapters 5, 6, and 10 of War of the Worldviews) knows that a belief in molecules-to-man evolution is not needed to understand how planets orbit the sun or how telescopes operate. While some evolutionists are spreading the false idea that creationists can’t be real scientists, Lisle is busy doing real science. In fact, he (along with hundreds of other scientists) knows that science works perfectly well without any connection to evolution. Dr. David Menton, cell biologist and popular AiG speaker and writer, has often said that although it is widely believed, “evolution contributes nothing to our understanding of empirical science and ...
World's top sweetener is made with GM bacteria
Post Date: 2006-02-10 18:32:20 by Coral Snake
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World's top sweetener is made with GM bacteria Independent on Sunday 20/6/99 The most widely used sweetener in the world, found in fizzy drinks and sweets, is being made using a secret genetic engineering process, which some scientists claim needs further testing for toxic side-effects. The use of genetic engineering to make aspartame has stayed secret until now because there is no modified DNA in the finished product. Monsanto, the pioneering GM food giant, which makes aspartame, insists that it is completely safe. But some scientists fear that not enough is known about the process of making it. One of the two elements that make up the sweetener can be produced by genetically ...
Global warming 'worst in 1200yrs'
Post Date: 2006-02-09 22:07:38 by buckeroo
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WARM temperatures that have spread around the world are greater than those of any other period in the past 1200 years, according to a study published in the US. The study measured changes in tree rings, fossil shells and ice cores from 14 sites in the Northern Hemisphere to assess temperature fluctuation since the year 800, researchers wrote in the latest issue of Science magazine. Reinforcing other evidence of global warming, the research found the 20th century stands out as having unusually warm temperatures, wrote Timothy Osborn and Keith Briffa of the University of East Anglia in Britain. The present warm period that began in the late 20th century is the most widespread and longest ...
NASA Secret Transmission Smoking Gun Video...UFOs?
Post Date: 2006-02-09 09:55:59 by gengis gandhi
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9080369676973948865&q=ufo this is the 'martyn stubbs secret nasa transmissions' tape. what it is is live nasa feeds, that were telecast during early shuttle missions of routine stuff. however, stubbs worked in a canadian tv station, downloading this stuff for fun, and noticed all these anomolous images. you can see them below. very interesting. i love the nasa announcer trying to cover up...as all the stuff goes flying by...she calls them 'shooting stars' thats right,gang, a metor, in space, lit up by friction of a non atmospheric vaccum, in a frictionless environment. who knew? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9080 ...
Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-02-05 12:04:03 by robin
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Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail By SAUL HANSELL Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers. America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered. The senders must promise to contact only people who have agreed to receive their messages, or risk being blocked entirely. The Internet companies say that this will help them identify legitimate mail and cut down on junk ...
The peak Oil Crisis
Post Date: 2006-02-05 06:12:38 by buckeroo
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The Peak Oil Crisis Global Warming By Tom Whipple A number of stories appeared in the press last week suggesting a discussion of the relationship between peak oil and global warming is in order. Most scientists believe that burning fossil fuels is the culprit behind global warming and if we don't get carbon emissions down soon, a lot more places will be under water by the end of the century. Some believe peak oil and the resulting drop in liquid fuel consumption will be good for global warming. Others fear in the panic that will ensue from ever-higher oil prices, every environmental regulation on the books will be junked and a massive increase in the uncontrolled burning of coal will ...
LAPD Pursues High-Tech End to High-Speed Chases
Post Date: 2006-02-04 23:00:32 by robin
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LAPD Pursues High-Tech End to High-Speed Chases By Richard Winton Times Staff Writer February 3, 2006 Question: "Chief, you said Los Angeles is the car chase capital of the world. What makes it that way?" Answer: "There are a lot of nuts here." With that street-cop psychology, Chief William J. Bratton unveiled Thursday a new and decidedly strange weapon in the LAPD's effort to halt high-speed pursuits. It is an air-propelled miniature dart equipped with a global positioning device. Once fired from a patrol car, it sticks to a fleeing motorist's vehicle and emits a radio signal to police. Bratton hailed the dart as "the big new idea" and said that if the ...
The Cross and the Plumbline (Celtic mystery history, Navigation, Expolration)
Post Date: 2006-02-04 22:31:56 by tom007
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The Cross and the Plumbline By Crichton Miller I am a Scottish born researcher and Company Director with an interest in prehistory. I have applied for a patent on a derivative of the Celtic cross. This application was published on the 14th of June 2000 under UK patent application GB 2 344 654 A. Despite intensive research by The Patent Office prior to publication, no instrument with its complete attributes has been discovered and its application was not found to be obvious. !cmiller.jpgThe Celtic cross, which is an ancient and sacred symbol, with which most people are familiar, appears to be a representation of an ancient instrument that was used by our ancestors as far back as Neolithic ...
Glacier break up hastened
Post Date: 2006-02-04 00:17:28 by buckeroo
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TWO major glaciers in Greenland have recently begun to flow and break up more quickly under the onslaught of global warming, according to a new study which has raised the spectre of millions drowning from rising sea levels. The report by the University of Swansea's School of the Environment and Society said the Kangerdlugssuaq and Helheim glaciers had doubled their rate of flow to the ocean over the past two years after steady movement during the 1990s. This spurt meant that current environmental models of the rate of retreat of Greenland's giant ice sheet – which could add seven metres to the height of the world's oceans if it disappears – had underestimated the problem. ...
IBM CONTINUES IT'S CONDITIONING OF THE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT RFID
Post Date: 2006-02-03 17:47:15 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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IBM CONTINUES IT'S CONDITIONING OF THE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT RFID Check out this QuickTime video of an IBM commercial, conditioning consumers that RFID is on the horizon. http://www.lonelantern.org/microchip_news.html Ask yourself while watching, how does the young man pay for his goods? How does the store know what he has purchased? Where are the radio transmitters placed on his body? Where are the transmitters placed on the goods? Is the transmitter in his body, in his arm or hand perhaps, or in his wallet? This commercial was broadcast about 5 years ago, and sent to me from one of our supporters. If this was broadcast that long ago, how close are we now, It may look cool, but do you ...
Brain Scans May Be Used As Lie Detectors
Post Date: 2006-01-28 21:45:02 by Zipporah
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Picture this: Your boss is threatening to fire you because he thinks you stole company property. He doesn't believe your denials. Your lawyer suggests you deny it one more time - in a brain scanner that will show you're telling the truth. Wacky? Science fiction? It might happen this summer. Just the other day I lay flat on my back as a scanner probed the tiniest crevices of my brain and a computer screen asked, "Did you take the watch?" The lab I was visiting recently reported catching lies with 90 percent accuracy. And an entrepreneur in Massachusetts is hoping to commercialize the system in the coming months. "I'd use it tomorrow in virtually ...
Saturn in the Hive
Post Date: 2006-01-28 15:07:48 by PnbC
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2006 January 28 Saturn in the Hive Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College) Explanation: If you can find Saturn in tonight's sky, then you can also find M44, popularly known as the Beehive star cluster. In fact, with a pair of binoculars most casual skygazers should find it fairly easy to zero in on this celestial scene. Saturn is at opposition - opposite the Sun in Earth's sky - so, the bright planet rises in the east at sunset and is visible ...
[Grandfather Mtn, NC] Wind Breaks Record, Property
Post Date: 2006-01-26 21:21:29 by scooter
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Wind breaks record, property by From staff reports published January 26, 2006 6:00 am Wednesday’s winds broke records, along with windows, floors and walls at a local tourism spot. The visitor center at Grandfather Mountain took a beating during morning winds too strong for U.S. Weather Service equipment to measure accurately. Winds knocked over a 300-pound boulder cemented to the visitor center parking lot, Grandfather Mountain spokeswoman Catherine Morton said in a news release. The gusts tore tiles off the floor, shattered three reinforced windows and opened a locked door. A reading of 200 mph for some gusts broke Grandfather’s record of 195.5 mph set on April 18, 1997. ...
A Real-Life Jurassic Park
Post Date: 2006-01-22 14:53:11 by Zipporah
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By resurrecting the woolly mammoth and other species, scientists want to restore nature's balance. Newsweek International Jan. 30, 2006 issue - For the first 3.5 million years or so, woolly mammoths had it pretty easy. Standing more than three meters tall and weighing seven tons, they dwarfed the rest of the animal kingdom. That allowed them to graze or gambol or make more woolly mammoths without any predators to worry about. Then their luck began to sour about 20,000 years ago. Humans showed up in the Eurasian plain and, a few millenniums later, in North America, wielding high-tech weapons of carved bone and stone. Soon the regal Elephantidae were on the run from Siberia to ...
Anonymizing Google's Cookie
Post Date: 2006-01-19 10:50:03 by A K A Stone
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If you use Google, and you accept it's cookie, you should give some thought to the implications, both good and potentially bad : this page tries to help you do that, together with an easy way to anonymize it without missing out on its benefits. First the good. It's useful to you. It's how Google saves your preferences (such as language, filtering, number of results per page, etc). If, like me, you want fifty results per page (not just ten), in English only (not in languages I can't read), unfiltered for adult content (I'm not a child), then you need the Google cookie. Now the potentially bad. You use Google a lot, right? If someone was peering over your shoulder, watching every Google ...
Do not offend water: it remembers every word you say
Post Date: 2006-01-18 09:10:08 by A K A Stone
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One day theoretical science will no longer have doubts about water's memory while high tech specialists will be making "water" computers controlled by telepathy WaterThere seemed nothing to be as simple and as well studied in the world of science as water.until recently. The proverbial chemical description, temperature metamorphoses from ice into steam, solvent properties - that is about all. Deeper studies into the Nanoworld are ready to shake faith even in the water's simplicity. Just for one fact that it turns out water has memory and understands human emotions and words. According to physics that we study at school water does not form any long-lived structures (if there is ...
Total Commander v6.54 Beta 1
Post Date: 2006-01-14 21:56:40 by A K A Stone
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Total Commander is a file manager for Windows, a program like Windows Explorer to copy, move or delete files. However, it can do much more than Explorer, e.g. pack and unpack files, access ftp servers, compare files by content, etc. Total Commander has internal unpackers for ZIP, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ,CAB, RAR and ACE formats and also additional packers can be added as plugins. The build-in FTP client supports most public FTP servers and is able to resume aborted downloads, handle archives and can send files directly from one remote server to another. Total Commander has a lot of nice features that will help in file handling tasks as well.
'Four mothers' for Europe's Jews
Post Date: 2006-01-14 15:16:37 by robin
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'Four mothers' for Europe's Jews There are now some 8m people of Ashkenazi origin around the worldAlmost half of Europe's Jews are descended from just four women who lived 1,000 years ago, a study says. Scientists studied the mitochondrial DNA - passed from mother to daughter - of 11,000 women of Ashkenazi Jewish origin living in 67 countries. The Ashkenazis moved from the Mid-East to Italy and then to Eastern Europe, where their population exploded in the 13th Century, the scientists say. One of the authors said the study shows the importance of Jewish mothers. "This I could tell you even without the paper," Dr Doron Behar of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology told ...
Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
Post Date: 2006-01-12 13:49:51 by mehitable
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Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs By Chris Hogg BBC News, Hong Kong Picture of transgenic pigs supplied by Taiwan National University, courtesy Wu Shinn-chih When lit up in the dark, the pigs glow green Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green through and through. The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo. The researchers hope the pigs will boost the island's stem cell research, as well as helping with the study of human disease. The researchers, from National Taiwan ...
Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span?
Post Date: 2006-01-11 20:21:22 by tom007
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Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span? John Blau, IDG News Service Tue Jan 10, 8:00 AM ET Opinions vary on how to preserve data on digital storage media, such as optical CDs and DVDs. Kurt Gerecke, a physicist and storage expert at IBM Deutschland, has his own view: If you want to avoid having to burn new CDs every few years, use magnetic tapes to store all your pictures, videos and songs for a lifetime. ADVERTISEMENT "Unlike pressed original CDs, burned CDs have a relatively short life span of between two to five years, depending on the quality of the CD," Gerecke says. "There are a few things you can do to extend the life of a burned CD, like keeping the disc in a cool, ...
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