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A simple way to see if someone is snooping your e-mail
Post Date: 2005-12-25 14:03:38 by valis
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With all of the controversy about the news that the NSA has been monitoring, since 9/11, telephone calls and email messages of Americans, some folks might now be wondering if they are being snooped on. Here's a quick and easy method to see if one's email messages are being read by someone else. The steps are: Set up a Hotmail account. Set up a second email account with a non-U.S. provider. (eg. http://Rediffmail.com)Send messages between the two accounts which might be interesting to the NSA. In each message, include a unique URL to a Web server that you have access to its server logs. This URL should only be known by you and not linked to from any other Web page. The text of the message ...
Scientists resurrecting use of silver as antiseptic
Post Date: 2005-12-22 14:54:08 by Eoghan
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Silver, one of humankind's first weapons against bacteria, is receiving new respect for its antiseptic powers thanks to the growing ability of researchers to tinker with its molecular structure. Doctors prescribed silver to fight infections at least as far back as the days of ancient Greece and Egypt. Their knowledge was absorbed by Rome, where historians like Pliny the Elder reported that silver plasters caused wounds to close rapidly. More recently, in 1884, a German doctor named C.S.F. Crede demonstrated that putting a few drops of silver nitrate into the eyes of babies born to women with venereal disease virtually eliminated the high rates of blindness among such infants. But silver's ...
Passion of the Spaghetti Monster
Post Date: 2005-12-22 09:42:53 by Indrid Cold
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Bobby Henderson is holed up in the boonies -- Corvallis, Oregon -- hard at work on his next entry into the fray over just what students should learn about the origin of species. When the Kansas Board of Education proposed balancing evolution instruction by teaching intelligent design, said to be a scientific theory that supports an "intelligent creator" of all life, the decision outraged many, including 38 Nobel laureates (.pdf). Henderson responded with a satirical letter to the Kansas board demanding equal time for a different, "equally scientific" theory of intelligent design, in which a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti ...
Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around Star (gee, no kidding....who knew??-CALTECH STUDY
Post Date: 2005-12-21 09:34:32 by gengis gandhi
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space is STERILE, and only life can exist on earth, right my well programmed friends? ah, well, there goes THAT cornerstone of your belief system. good thing they're cluing you in slowly...it can get a little painful when you realize your identity is built on an assumed set of lies, never checked. but, then again, you're your own person, and no one can tell you what to do...right? better check with the experts on that one, first, eh? gengis right, again. have a nice solstice, Mooooooooo! http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-26/release.shtml Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around Star For Release: December 20, 2005 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ...
Distinguished University of Minnesota Philosophy Professor Joins 9/11 Fight, Saying the Truth Must Be Uncovered
Post Date: 2005-12-20 22:38:31 by tom007
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Distinguished University of Minnesota Philosophy Professor Joins 9/11 Fight, Saying the Truth Must Be Uncovered James H.Fetzer, PhD., has publicly thrown his hat in the ring to support other professors seriously questioning and casting doubt on the official 9/11 story. 16 Dec 2005 By Greg Szymanski A University of Minnesota philosophy professor, like an unexpected Christmas snowstorm, has dropped a large bundle of holiday cheer on the 9/11 truth movement, as this week he has thrown his hat into the ring with others seeking the truth. “I stand with Steve Jones, professor of physics at BYU and David Ray Griffin, professor emeritus of Theology at Claremont and other students and ...
Who here has a cell phone and is being tracked by Government satillites? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-12-19 16:40:41 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Better yet, who is NOT?
Gene Mutation Behind Light Skin
Post Date: 2005-12-18 11:00:56 by christine
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Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife. The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races. Leaders of the study, at Penn State University, warned against ...
The story of Schroedinger's cat (an epic poem)
Post Date: 2005-12-17 20:37:08 by Indrid Cold
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Dear Cecil: Cecil, you're my final hope Of finding out the true Straight Dope For I have been reading of Schroedinger's cat But none of my cats are at all like that. This unusual animal (so it is said) Is simultaneously live and dead! What I don't understand is just why he Can't be one or other, unquestionably. My future now hangs in between eigenstates. In one I'm enlightened, the other I ain't. If you understand, Cecil, then show me the way And rescue my psyche from quantum decay. But if this queer thing has perplexed even you, Then I will and won't see you in Schroedinger's zoo. --Randy F., Chicago Dear Randy: Schroedinger, Erwin! Professor of physics! Wrote daring ...
Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin
Post Date: 2005-12-17 07:36:21 by robin
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Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White SkinBy Rick WeissWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, December 16, 2005; A01Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, ...
Xbox 360 reaches out to mobiles
Post Date: 2005-12-16 22:30:15 by robin
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Xbox 360 reaches out to mobiles By Alfred Hermida Technology editor, BBC News website Xbox 360 tracks your performance as a gamer Gamers could soon be able to receive alerts on their mobile phones when their friends are playing on Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console. The software giant is working on a system which would let players on its online gaming service, Xbox Live, send instant messages to a friend's mobile. Microsoft UK mobility business manager Jason Langridge told the BBC the system should be live within six months. It is part of Microsoft's strategy to connect its various online services. 'Very near' In an interview with the BBC News website, Mr Langridge explained ...
Google Adds Music Search
Post Date: 2005-12-16 21:36:46 by robin
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Search giant Google, has added a music search feature to its web search to put users in touch with a wide range of music information including artists, albums, song titles, links to music reviews and places to purchase music. This feature is similar to the links at the top of Google results, that they provided in the past for movies and weather. When analyzing their traffic, Google found that a huge number of users conduct music-related searches. To better meet this need, they developed this feature to put users in touch with the information they're looking for faster, and with a user interface specifically designed for music. When a user enters the name of an artist popular in the US ...
Visto sues Microsoft for patent infringement
Post Date: 2005-12-16 21:29:51 by robin
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Visto sues Microsoft for patent infringement Mobile technology company Visto Corporation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft for alleged misuse of Visto's mobile e-mail technology. The complaint claims that Microsoft has infringed on three patents that Visto holds regarding proprietary technology which enables users to access e-mail and other data from their mobile devices. Visto says that it developed and patented the mobile e-mail access system nearly ten years ago. The company claims that Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 is a blatant infringement on this patented technology. In the lawsuit, Visto seeks a permanent injunction that would prohibit Microsoft from ...
Encroaching Seas Test Ingenuity of Lowlands
Post Date: 2005-12-11 05:58:01 by robin
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Encroaching Seas Test Ingenuity of LowlandsVenetians let the tide wash through their city while the Dutch strong-arm the ocean. Strategies for New Orleans can be seen in these watery battle fronts. By Robert Lee Hotz Times Staff Writer December 11, 2005 VENICE, Italy — The warning siren howls in the dark. As always, the flood arrives on the tide. Water slops over the rim of the city's canals, bubbles up through drains and, as the morning hours progress, surges into the ground-floor vestibules of palaces along the Grand Canal. It leaves stripes on sills, green and brown with a sticky scum of sewage. The wind-driven high water — acqua alta — is a staple of Venetian life, like ...
Earth's Magnetic Pole Drifting Quickly
Post Date: 2005-12-09 21:09:54 by A K A Stone
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SAN FRANCISCO - Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia at such a clip that Alaska might lose its spectacular Northern Lights in the next 50 years, scientists said Thursday. Despite accelerated movement over the past century, the possibility that Earth's modestly fading magnetic field will collapse is remote. But the shift could mean Alaska may no longer see the sky lights known as auroras, which might then be more visible in more southerly areas of Siberia and Europe. The magnetic poles are part of the magnetic field generated by liquid iron in Earth's core and are different from the geographic poles, the surface points marking the axis of the ...
Bill May Renew U.S. Weather Control Efforts
Post Date: 2005-12-09 21:07:54 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — After a brutal year of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts, lawmakers are looking for ways to beat Mother Nature. And while it's still a bit of a long shot, Uncle Sam could be called in to sponsor research to find ways to blast dangerous storms out of the sky or put rain clouds over parched land. "This is a fascinating subject to me, and the idea that we can actually impact weather is exciting, and I guess, frightening in some ways," Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said during a November hearing on a bill that could start up a federal weather modification research program. In a bill introduced this year by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, a new board of ...
Sunken treasure Scientists find evidence of ancient forest buried under the seabed of Nantucket Sound
Post Date: 2005-12-04 14:30:53 by A K A Stone
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Scientists mapping the seabed under a proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound were stunned by their find: evidence of a submerged forest under 6 feet of mud. Article Tools * PRINTER FRIENDLYPrinter friendly * SINGLE PAGESingle page * E-MAILE-mail to a friend * RSS FEEDSMass. RSS feed * RSS FEEDSAvailable RSS feeds * MOST E-MAILEDMost e-mailed * REPRINTS/PERMISSIONSReprints/permissions More: * Globe City/Region stories | * Latest local news | * Globe front page | * http://Boston.com * Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | * Breaking News Alerts It's hardly the lost city of Atlantis, but the piece of birch wood, the yellowish-green grass, soil, and insect parts appear to be part of a ...
A "mysterious" force is baffling scientists and making biological species evolve
Post Date: 2005-12-02 08:42:02 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.giulianaconforto.it/English/articles/Baffling_force.htm Giuliana Conforto "Only one Force, Love, links and makes infinite worlds alive" Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) A "mysterious" force is baffling scientists and making biological species evolve The Pioneer 10 and 11, launched more than 30 years ago, appear to be in the grip of a mysterious force that is holding them back as they sweep out of the solar system http://www.newsforthesoul.com/02feb/2-2-37.htm The strange behaviour of the Pioneers had been tracked using the giant dishes of Nasa's Deep Space Network. By the time the two spaceships had swept beyond Pluto, scientists noted there were persistent ...
Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed
Post Date: 2005-12-02 07:47:34 by Red Jones
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Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed Some Say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 1, 2005; D05 A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service providers should be allowed to strike deals to give certain Web sites or services priority in reaching computer users, a controversial system that would significantly change how the Internet operates. William L. Smith, chief technology officer for Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the ...
Fossil fuel' theory takes hit with NASA finding
Post Date: 2005-12-01 23:36:04 by A K A Stone
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NASA scientists are about to publish conclusive studies showing abundant methane of a non-biologic nature is found on Saturn's giant moon Titan, a finding that validates a new book's contention that oil is not a fossil fuel. "We have determined that Titan's methane is not of biologic origin," reports Hasso Niemann of the Goddard Space Flight Center, a principal NASA investigator responsible for the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer aboard the Cassini-Huygens probe that landed on Titan Jan. 14. Niemann concludes the methane "must be replenished by geologic processes on Titan, perhaps venting from a supply in the interior that could have been trapped there as the moon ...
"You can't go home again"
Post Date: 2005-12-01 17:09:56 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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"You can't go home again" I see pieces of men marching, trying to take heaven by force I can see the unknown rider, I can see the pale white horse - Bob Dylan In 1983 Ingo Swann, a senior colleague of the CIA's remote viewing program at Stanford Research Institute and "Operating Thetan level VII", received a call at his home in New York City from a close friend, a US congressman. The caller asked if he could do a favour for a certain party in need of the services of someone with his skills. The friend was vague about the request, and may not even have known what he was asking, but told Swann the party could be trusted and he would be paid. Jim Schanbel, in Remote ...
Brainteaser: There's an airplane on the runway.. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-12-01 01:10:02 by Jhoffa_
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Imagine a plane is sat on the beginning of a massive conveyor belt/travelator type arrangement, as wide and as long as a runway, and intends to take off. The conveyer belt is designed to exactly match the speed of the wheels at any given time, moving in the opposite direction of rotation. There is no wind. Can the plane take off?
Russian Scientist Suggests Burning Sulfur in Stratosphere to Fight Global Warming (that would called a chemtrail, there, yuri)
Post Date: 2005-11-30 18:19:50 by gengis gandhi
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Russian Scientist Suggests Burning Sulfur in Stratosphere to Fight Global Warming Created: 30.11.2005 16:56 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:56 MSK MosNews Renowned Russian scientist Yuri Israel, the head of the Global Climate and Ecology Institute, has written in a letter to President Putin that global warming requires immediate action and suggests burning thousands of tons of sulfur in the stratosphere as a remedy. The Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily published an interview with Israel on Wednesday in which he described his plan to counter global warming and called upon Russian authorities to consider it. The scientist says his plan is based on the idea of putting aerosols into the atmosphere at an ...
Signs of water found deep within Mars --Mars Express detects subsurface ice and minerals linked to liquid H2O
Post Date: 2005-11-30 16:45:56 by gengis gandhi
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Signs of water found deep within Mars Mars Express detects subsurface ice and minerals linked to liquid H2O By Bjorn Carey Updated: 3:04 p.m. ET Nov. 30, 2005 New observations of Mars' interior have revealed a crater hidden from the surface and new information about ice below the polar cap. The fresh research announced on Wednesday also points to the chemical signatures of past water on Mars, adding to other evidence suggesting a wet past. Scientists have long held that the deep channels and signs of extensive aqueous erosion are evidence that Mars was once a watery world. But these geologic signatures alone are not enough to confirm that liquid water was stable on the planet’s ...
Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year
Post Date: 2005-11-30 08:09:21 by timetobuildaboat
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ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year. The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers. The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships. But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same ...
Study Verifies Power of Positive Thinking
Post Date: 2005-11-29 07:13:55 by gengis gandhi
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Quote of the Day "Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey – don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..... and we, kill those people" ~ Bill Hicks Study Verifies Power of Positive Thinking By Lauran Neergaard Associated Press posted: 28 November 2005 08:05 pm ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Your medicine really could work better if your doctor talks it up before handing over the prescription. Research is showing the power of expectations, that they have physical -- not just ...
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