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Rewriting prehistory: Dinosaurs ate grass [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-11-18 14:13:19 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON – Imagine dinosaur terrain – full of ferns and palms, right? Better add some grass to that picture. A new discovery debunks the theory that grasses didn't emerge until long after the dinosaurs died off. Fossilized dung tells the story: The most prominent plant-eating dinosaurs were digesting different varieties of grass between 65 million and 71 million years ago, researchers report Friday in the journal Science. Advertisement Click Me! The earliest grass fossils ever found were about 55 million years old – from the post-dinosaur era. It's a big surprise for scientists, who had never really looked for evidence of grass in dino diets before. After all, grass ...
EU setting up system of spy satellites
Post Date: 2005-11-18 12:12:45 by NOLAJBS
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BRUSSELS -- The European Union is building its own network of spy satellites, allowing Brussels to ensure nations and private individuals are obeying its policies. The multibillion-dollar system, known as Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, should be up and running by 2010, a commission spokesman said Monday. Announcing the launch of a "pilot stage" for GMES, the commission stressed its "user-friendly" application in guiding relief work after disasters or providing real-time images of forest fires or oil spills. But a commission statement also acknowledged that GMES would play a key role in the "implementation, review and monitoring of EU policies," ...
Abita's water may get chlorine ~ Test finds presence of contamination
Post Date: 2005-11-17 12:02:14 by NOLAJBS
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Abita Springs, a century-old town founded around the soothing and, some say, healing powers of its artesian water, may soon embark on what citizens have long considered near-blasphemy: chlorination. "Yep, we have fought the good fight . . . but it looks like we have lost the battle and we will have to chlorinate our municipal water supply," Mayor Louis Fitzmorris said. "I hate to say it, but this time I don't think we can avoid it." The latest threat to the town's treasured water is coliform bacteria. In October, state-mandated testing of water samples at a site near the town-owned cemetery showed that coliform bacteria exceeded the maximum level permitted by the state ...
Machines and objects to overtake humans on the Internet: ITU
Post Date: 2005-11-17 11:10:30 by A K A Stone
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Machines will take over from humans as the biggest users of the Internet in a brave new world of electronic sensors, smart homes, and tags that track users' movements and habits, the UN's telecommunications agency predicted. In a report entitled "Internet of Things", the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) outlined the expected next stage in the technological revolution where humans, electronic devices, inanimate objects and databases are linked by a radically transformed Internet. "It would seem that science fiction is slowly turning into science fact in an 'Internet of Things' based on ubiquitous network connectivity," the report said Thursday, saying objects ...
Still More on Sony's DRM Rootkit
Post Date: 2005-11-15 20:19:47 by boonie rat
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Schneier on Security A weblog covering security and security technology. November 15, 2005 Still More on Sony's DRM Rootkit This story is just getting weirder and weirder (previous posts here and here). Sony already said that they're stopping production of CDs with the embedded rootkit. Now they're saying that they will pull the infected disks from stores and offer free exchanges to people who inadvertently bought them. Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Monday it will pull some of its most popular CDs from stores in response to backlash over copy-protection software on the discs. Sony also said it will offer exchanges for consumers who purchased the discs, which contain hidden files ...
Backpack Designed to Generate Power from Walking
Post Date: 2005-11-15 11:50:23 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON - A backpack that converts a plodding gait into electricity could soon be charging up mobile phones, navigation devices and even portable disc players, U.S.-based researchers said on Thursday. Their backpack design converts mechanical energy from up-and-down movement of the backpack's cargo to electricity during normal walking. Fueled by a snack, hikers can put the spring in their steps to good use, the researchers write in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The backpack is deliberately designed to shake around a bit. The up-and-down movement of the backpack's cargo compartment against the frame of the pack turns a gear connected to a generator. The simple magnetic coil ...
Fuss and Feathers - Pandemic panic over the avian flu.
Post Date: 2005-11-14 12:07:05 by boonie rat
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Fuss and Feathers Pandemic panic over the avian flu. by Michael Fumento 11/21/2005, Volume 011, Issue 10 "THE INDICATION IS THAT we will see a return of the 1918 flu virus that is the most virulent form of flu," warns America's top health official. "In 1918, half a million people died. The projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans . . . " A quotation ripped from today's papers about an impending "bird flu" pandemic? No, the year was 1976 and the prediction of a deadly "swine flu" overshot the mark by 999,999 deaths (although dozens did die from the vaccine campaign). That's something to remember amid the current alarms. ...
Meditation associated with increased grey matter in the brain
Post Date: 2005-11-13 09:52:46 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/yu-maw111005.php Public release date: 10-Nov-2005 Contact: Jacqueline Weaver jacqueline.weaver@yale.edu 203-432-8555 Yale University Meditation associated with increased grey matter in the brain New Haven, Conn.-Meditation is known to alter resting brain patterns, suggesting long lasting brain changes, but a new study by researchers from Yale, Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows meditation also is associated with increased cortical thickness. The structural changes were found in areas of the brain that are important for sensory, cognitive and emotional processing, the researchers ...
First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted
Post Date: 2005-11-10 21:43:14 by rack42
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Virus writers have begun taking advantage of Sony-BMG's use of rootkit technology in DRM software bundled with its music CDs. Sony-BMG's rootkit DRM technology masks files whose filenames start with "$sys$". A newly-discovered variant of of the Breplibot Trojan takes advantage of this to drop the file "$sys$drv.exe" in the Windows system directory. u3; "This means, that for systems infected by the Sony DRM rootkit technology, the dropped file is entirely invisible to the user. It will not be found in any process and file listing. Only rootkit scanners, such as the free utility RootkitRevealer, can unmask the culprit," warns Ivan Macalintal, a senior threat ...
Alternative Energy
Post Date: 2005-11-10 10:28:47 by Lod
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We are a family of seven living on a farm in Southwest Missouri. Our children range in age from 2 to 15. One of the major reasons that we moved out to a farm was for the purpose of establishing our ministry - the Commonwealth Missionary Alliance. The goal of the Commonwealth Missionary Alliance is to help people - especially missionaries - learn to do as many practical things in life as they can when they either have no assistance - or when they choose to do it themselves. Among those "things" - and specifically speaking - teaching people how to produce their own power, either through solar power, wind power or with a generator. When we moved to this farm, there was nothing but ...
Einstein Is Wrong, Relatively Speaking
Post Date: 2005-11-09 00:41:37 by Coral Snake
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Einstein Is Wrong, Relatively Speaking By Verity Edwards The Australian 11-8-5 One is possibly the greatest scientist who ever lived, and the other is a maverick physicist from Adelaide. But Reg Cahill says he can prove Albert Einstein and his hundred-year-old theories of relativity are wrong. The problem for Professor Cahill is that many of his contemporaries line up with Einstein. "I've been treated with utter contempt and hostility," he told The Australian. "This is pretty shocking stuff - but it's what you'd expect." In 2002, Professor Cahill started to question what he thought were anomalies in Einstein's theory that time and space are relative. "They ...
Italian Police Asked to Investigate Sony DRM Code
Post Date: 2005-11-08 21:03:19 by rack42
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My synopsis: What's this about? Sony's protected audio CD's requires that a "driver", named a "rootkit" because it is not seen by the Windows operating system as a program or a process, be installed in order to play the CD, and it can only be played with Sony's installed player. I've read that Apple MACs don't have this resriction; I can't confirm this. There is no easy way to remove the "protection" contrary to Sony's claims. Italy has declared this software as spyware under their law. Click for Full Text!
The Ultimate Silver Lining [antibacterial fabric]
Post Date: 2005-11-06 23:50:44 by DeaconBenjamin
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How Bill McNally turned his idea for an antibacterial fabric into a $50 million sensation. Nine years ago, Bill McNally was a senior marketing manager at a Wisconsin hospital when a nasty infection struck a large group of patients. Because of the bacteria’s resistance to standard antibiotics, the medical staff was desperate to find a cure for the outbreak, and the options were limited. “There’s little we can do,” one nurse lamented at an emergency meeting, “short of painting the walls with silver.” Within a few days, the infection abated. But, McNally says, the nurse’s joking reference to silver -- long known for its antibacterial properties -- ...
The Emperor's New Hump
Post Date: 2005-11-05 17:30:02 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The Emperor's New Hump The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election—because it could have changed the election By Dave Lindorff In the weeks leading up to the November 2 election, the New York Times was abuzz with excitement. Besides the election itself, the paper’s reporters were hard at work on two hot investigative projects, each of which could have a major impact on the outcome of the tight presidential race. One week before Election Day, the Times (10/25/04) ran a hard-hitting and controversial exposé of the Al-Qaqaa ammunition dump—identified by U.N. inspectors before the war as containing 400 tons of special high-density explosives ...
'Body of Copernicus' identified
Post Date: 2005-11-04 21:37:42 by robin
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'Body of Copernicus' identified Police experts produced a reconstruction of the man's faceScientists say they have probably solved the mystery of where the father of modern astronomy was buried. Nicolaus Copernicus' 16th century theory that the Earth orbits the Sun was a key scientific development. A skull and partial remains were discovered two months ago in Frombork Cathedral in north-eastern Poland. A computer-generated reconstruction of the man's face bears a strong enough resemblance to portraits of Copernicus to convince the scientists. Piercing eyes The remains were examined by specialists at the central crime laboratory in the Polish capital, Warsaw. They found it was the ...
Cyber crooks break into online accounts with ease
Post Date: 2005-11-03 11:43:15 by boonie rat
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Cyber crooks break into online accounts with ease By Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz, USA TODAY GASTONIA, N.C. — When he logged on to his Ameritrade account earlier this year, George Rodriguez caught a cybercrook in the act of cleaning out his retirement nest egg. He watched, horrified, as the intruder in quick succession dumped $60,000 worth of shares in Disney, American Express, Starbucks and 11 other blue-chip stocks, then directed a deposit into the online account of a stranger in Austin. "My entire portfolio was being sold out right before my eyes," recalls Rodriguez, 41, a commercial real estate broker who alerted Ameritrade in time to stop the trades. Rodriguez had ...
What NASA Isn't Telling You About Mars
Post Date: 2005-10-27 08:56:52 by gengis gandhi
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What NASA Isn't Telling You About Mars Ted Twietmeyer tedtw@frontiernet.net 10-26-5 This book is a brand new look at what Mars really must be like, and reveals numerous important ancient Mars artifacts that NASA knows about and has been hiding all along. We,ve all listened for years since we were children, to the endless stories about what the environment on Mars is and how no life could have ever lived on the planet. So let's get right to the point. This author felt it was past time to look at the overall picture of what we have been told, using the tools of logic and common sense. And use NASA data to start connecting the dots. Let's look at some of the common statements made about ...
One-Fifth of Human Genes Have Been Patented, Study Reveals
Post Date: 2005-10-25 11:31:09 by robin
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Of the nearly 24,000 human genes found in human DNA, more than 4,000 have been patented by private firms and universities, a new study finds.Illustration courtesy National Institutes of Health One-Fifth of Human Genes Have Been Patented, Study RevealsStefan Lovgrenfor National Geographic NewsOctober 13, 2005 A new study shows that 20 percent of human genes have been patented in the United States, primarily by private firms and universities. The study, which is reported this week in the journal Science, is the first time that a detailed map has been created to match patents to specific physical locations on the human genome. Researchers can patent genes because they are potentially ...
New Weather-Control Board to Set up Shop in U.S.
Post Date: 2005-10-22 08:41:57 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Weather Modification a Long-Established, Though Secretive, Reality by Mary-Sue Haliburton Pure Energy Systems News Copyright © 2005 New Weather-Control Board to Set up Shop in U.S. The Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Act was set forward as Bill S-517 on March 3, 2005 and is to take effect on 1 October 2005. This act sets up an eleven-member board of directors to oversee all the research on weather control, and direct funding to projects. There are several gray areas, such as "and for other purposes" and other vague phrases that periodically appear in the text. (Ref.) Some wording raises concern, such as under Section 5, DUTIES, the following ...
Pupils Outsource Tutoring to India
Post Date: 2005-10-19 19:02:30 by Tauzero
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Pupils Outsource Tutoring to India By Nirmala George and Martha Irvine The Associated Press COCHIN, India -- A few stars are still twinkling in the inky pre-dawn sky when Koyampurath Namitha arrives for work in a quiet suburb of this south Indian city. It's barely 4:30 a.m. when she grabs a cup of coffee and joins more than two dozen colleagues, each settling into a cubicle with a computer and earphones. More than 11,000 kilometers away, in Glenview, Illinois, outside Chicago, it's the evening of the previous day and 14-year-old Princeton John sits at his computer, barefoot and ready for his hourlong geometry lesson. The high school freshman puts on a headset with a microphone and clicks ...
Sony VAIO TX Series made of Carbon Fiber
Post Date: 2005-10-19 13:17:02 by mehitable
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Tuesday September 27, 2005 8:27 AM EST - By: Junga Song Click to Zoom Sony Korea announced two new VAIO TX series notebooks, the VGN-TX17LP/B and VGN-TX16LP/W 2 both made of carbon fiber making them the strongest and lightest with the least amount of thickness. The Vaio TX series has been adapted by white LED technique, this carbon fiber technology is usually being used when manufacturing airplanes or racing cars. Comparing with other existing T series notebooks, these VAIOs become twice as strong in endurance and the weight, only in 1.24-1.26kg, 30%lighter than before. The display panel thickness is only 4.5mm. Their design and color is are also very special by using sapphire black and ...
Bin Laden Brothers Tip-Off Two NASA Research Scientists In 1987 About U.S. Government Plans To Cause 9/11
Post Date: 2005-10-18 21:54:34 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Bin Laden Brothers Tip-Off Two NASA Research Scientists In 1987 About U.S. Government Plans To Cause 9/11 Greg Szymanski – Arctic Beacon July 27, 2005 Rene Welch cut “a deal with the devil,” a deal she recently broke when she went public about her two 1987 encounters with Saudi royals, including two of the bin Laden brothers who claimed the U.S. government was actively involved in pre-arranging 9/11. Welch’s incredible story, first made public in May, has already been verified by one other former NASA scientist. But this week another person present at the meeting also came forward to verify Welch’s story. The meetings with the Saudis took place in Sedona and ...
China's Manned Spacecraft Returns Safely
Post Date: 2005-10-16 18:23:57 by Brian S
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October 17, 2005 - 6:14AM China's second manned spacecraft Shenzhou VI touched down successfully in Inner Mongolia on Monday after orbiting the Earth for five days, state media said, as the country gushed with patriotic fanfare. The two astronauts reported they had landed safely and were in good health after the space capsule touched down in the remote steppes of the northern Inner Mongolia region, Xinhua news agency said. They completed 76 orbits of the Earth and travelled millions of miles since Wednesday morning's launch of the mission, which state media has already hailed as a breakthrough demonstrating China's emergence as a technological power. "We're proud of Fei Junlong and ...
Drugs, art and the aliens who lit our way to civilisation
Post Date: 2005-10-15 09:54:05 by gengis gandhi
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Drugs, art and the aliens who lit our way to civilisation ANNA SMYTH GRAHAM HANCOCK is breathless. He's telling me about his first hallucinogenic trip in the Amazon jungle, and he just can't get the words out fast enough. The former journalist and now bestselling science writer spent five weeks living with indigenous Indian shamans in Peru, where he ingested a sacred plant drug known as ayahuasca. We pick up the story just after the shaman began the ritual ceremony by singing the icaros, ancient chants which draw the spirits around the circle. Hancock then took a sip of the drug, which he describes as a "vile-tasting liquid, so strong and bitter-sweet and salty, so dark and ...
Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control Hurricanes
Post Date: 2005-10-14 19:36:54 by Grumble Jones
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Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control Hurricanes Former Vet "Made it Rain" During Vietnam War Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson | 14 Oct 2005 Alex Jones was joined on air yesterday by weather modification expert Ben Livingston. Livingston discussed in detail proven evidence of hurricane control and his research and experiences with cloud seeding and weather weapons used in the Vietnam war. Prisonplanet.tv subscribers click here to listen to the interview in full Related: Ben Livingston: Cloud physicist has eye on hurricane control Many scoff at the possibility of weather control and simply refuse to believe it exists. Attempting to even engage such people in ...
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