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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Unexplained Hot Spot Heats Up Ground in SoCal
Post Date: 2005-07-13 00:42:14 by Axenolith
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In Southern California, a unique and still unexplained hot spot the size of two football fields is producing temperatures above 400 degrees at the surface, and has started at least one brush fire. The geologic mystery is 15 miles north of Santa Barbara, in the Dick Smith Wilderness area, deep within the Los Padres National Forest. The hot spot was discovered by fire crews putting out a fire last summer, and the source of the fire was traced to intense heat from the ground itself. USGS hydrologist Dr. Robert Mariner hiked out to the hot spot, and found temperatures of 583 degrees Fahrenheit in fumerals -- or steam vents -- about ten or eleven feet down. That's hot enough to ignite wood, ...
Zen . . . And the Art of Debunkery (Insight into DISINFO-INTERESTING)
Post Date: 2005-07-11 08:34:29 by gengis gandhi
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Zen . . . And the Art of Debunkery excerpts http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/scepticism/drasin.html "Equate the necessary skeptical component of science with *all* of science. Emphasize the narrow, stringent, rigorous and critical elements of science to the exclusion of intuition, inspiration, exploration and integration. If anyone objects, accuse them of viewing science in exclusively fuzzy, subjective or metaphysical terms." " Portray science not as an open-ended process of discovery but as a holy war against unruly hordes of quackery- worshipping infidels. Since in war the ends justify the means, you may fudge, stretch or violate the scientific method, or even omit ...
A next generation Personal Securer 3.0 for personal tracking appears on market
Post Date: 2005-07-10 23:38:00 by toddbrendanfahey
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Will US keep letting Israel arms?
Post Date: 2005-07-10 10:11:07 by Zoroaster
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Will US keep letting Israel sell arms? By Mounzer Sleiman Thursday 07 July 2005, 23:44 Makka Time, 20:44 GMT Despite optimistic reports in the Israeli press about Tel Aviv's bid to end a crisis with the US over arms exports in general and arms sales to China in particular, Israel's "compliance" with Washington's demands is not convincing. Haaretz reported that even Israel's friends in the US Congress and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee have criticised its management of the crisis and urged it to avoid exacerbating the conflict. Sources in Washington familiar with Israeli tactics of deception are sceptical of any new memorandum of understanding that may be ...
Microsoft Offers Download Workaround For IE Bug
Post Date: 2005-07-09 14:47:40 by RickyJ
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Microsoft on Tuesday posted a temporary workaround to a bug in Internet Explorer that could let an attacker grab control of a PC. A patch to actually fix the problem, however, is not yet available. The vulnerability, which first surfaced last week in a security advisory, involves the "Javaprxy.dll" file, which is part of the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine, and handles ActiveX controls. A hacker could exploit the bug to make IE crash or even insert his own code onto the system. The workaround, which users can download from Microsoft's Download Center, disables Javaprxy.dll by modifying the Windows registry. The same can be done manually, but most users are unfamiliar with that ...
Avian Flu Moves
Among Wild Geese
Post Date: 2005-07-09 00:16:40 by Coral Snake
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Avian Flu Moves Among Wild Geese BBC News 7-7-5 An outbreak of avian flu in wild geese in western China has raised fears that the virus responsible could soon spread beyond its Asian stronghold. Researchers say evidence of the H5N1 pathogen in the geese is a big concern because of the migratory animals' ability to fly huge distances. Their reports, in the Science and Nature journals, are the first to show viral transmission between wild birds. Previously, the flu was only seen to move to wild birds from domestic fowl. World health officials are worried avian influenza virus (AVI) could cause a pandemic of human disease if it ever acquires the ability to pass easily from human to ...
Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal
Post Date: 2005-07-07 13:23:49 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal Wed Jul 6, 8:15 PM ET ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice. Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony. Police say Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon, who had noticed Smith sitting in an SUV outside Dinon's house using a laptop computer. The practice is so new that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement doesn't even keep statistics, according to the St. ...
Oregon researchers make breakthrough discovery
Post Date: 2005-07-07 12:13:05 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Oregon researchers make breakthrough discovery EUGENE, Ore. - University of Oregon chemists have discovered how to make active nitrogen at room temperature, a process that has eluded scientists for years. The discovery is a step toward one of the holy grails of chemistry. The process could make an important plant fertilizer easier to produce. The finding by University of Oregon chemistry professor David Tyler and graduate students John Gilbertson and Nate Szymczak will be published later this month in the Journal of the American Chemistry Society. Even though 70 percent of the earth's atmosphere is made of nitrogen, the molecules are bonded so closely together that they are inert. To ...
U.S. Air Force Prepares To Buy Near Space Vehicles
Post Date: 2005-07-06 21:03:13 by tom007
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U.S. Air Force Prepares To Buy Near Space Vehicles By JEREMY SINGER, COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. May 06, 2005 The U.S. Air Force intends to establish by 2008 a program office for buying high-altitude atmospheric vehicles that provide satellite-type services, according to service officials. One such vehicle that could be pressed into the field quickly is a balloon-mounted communications relay that could dramatically expand the range of radios used by ground forces, said Maj. Steven Staats, deputy chief of demonstration initiatives at Air Force Space Command's Space Battlelab at Schriever Air Force Base here. A prototype of that vehicle, dubbed Combat SkySat, was demonstrated March 14-17 near ...
Boy who nearly crashed the world
Post Date: 2005-07-05 21:10:56 by robin
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A GERMAN teenager is facing a jail term after admitting yesterday to creating and unleashing the "Sasser" computer virus that crashed systems across the world, wreaking havoc in big businesses and homes. Sven Jaschen, 19, confessed to all the charges against him when he appeared before a German court. Katharina Kruetzfeldt, the judge at the court in the western town of Verden, said Jaschan admitted data manipulation, computer sabotage and interfering with public corporations in one of the biggest internet attacks of its kind. After emerging around May last year, versions of the Sasser "worm", named after 1sass, the crucial Windows service it attacks, went on to knock ...
Footprints of 'first Americans'
Post Date: 2005-07-05 00:56:11 by tom007
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Footprints of 'first Americans' Footprint People left traces of their presence in the sediments of a shoreline Human settlers made it to the Americas 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence. British scientists came to this controversial conclusion by dating human footprints preserved by volcanic ash in an abandoned quarry in Mexico. They say the first Americans may have arrived by sea, rather than by foot. The currently accepted theory is that the continent's early inhabitants arrived 12,500 years ago, by crossing a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. Details of the latest findings were unveiled at the UK Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition. ...
Unflattery Can Get You Anywhere
Post Date: 2005-07-01 16:27:46 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Unflattery Can Get You Anywhere By Regina Lynn 02:00 AM Jul. 01, 2005 PT Last week, Fark linked to my column about where my photos might have gone after I lost touch with the cyber lovers I shared them with. If you've ever read a Fark community thread, you know how clever Farkers can be when they decide to comment on a story. What got my attention this time was that someone found a photo of me online that I had not seen before. He posted the link along with the comment, "who would want to see this naked?" I'd have been insulted if I didn't know what I look like in real life, naked or otherwise. And the picture is truly unflattering. This is not the photographer's fault. I ...
Doing It Right
Post Date: 2005-06-29 20:23:43 by historian1944
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On War #123 June 29, 2005 Doing It Right By William S. Lind [The views expressed in this article are those of Mr. Lind, writing in his personal capacity. They do not reflect the opinions or policy positions of the Free Congress Foundation, its officers, board or employees, or those of Kettle Creek Corporation. An article in the June 23rd Christian Science Monitor, “A US patrol gains trust in Baghdad neighborhood,” tells the story of an American unit that gets Fourth Generation war. When the patrol (in Humvees) passes a busy street, Lieutenant Waters . . . tells his men to get out and start walking. As the foot patrol makes its way through the streets, an old Shiite woman in ...
Sweden's biogas train to run in India
Post Date: 2005-06-28 21:40:51 by DeaconBenjamin
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Swedish makers of the world's first biogas train hope to market it in India, where vast stretches of rail tracks use diesel engines in the absence of electricity. Biogas train "Amanda" has been jointly developed by Tekniska Verk, a Swedish biogas company, and Swedish railways subsidiary EuroMaint. "Sweden has something special for India," Lars-Goran Olsson, sales director of EuroMaint, said on Amanda's recent maiden trip in Linkoping. The prototype will go into regular service later this summer between Linkoping and Vastervik, about 160 kilometre. Later, it will extend services to the port city of Kalmar (260 kilometre). Gradually, as more trains are readied, the ...
Superwave Theory Predictions and their Subsequent Verification-(global warming, 2012 shift, ancient lore)
Post Date: 2005-06-28 17:22:43 by gengis gandhi
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this is some really cool stuff. this scientist back in 83 came up with a theory of galactic superwave, and then decipehred a bunch of ancient zodiac, etc which he claims is a time capsule message referring to this occurence. The mayan date of 2012 is explained below. When this massive influx of energy occurs, then what...transformed in the twinkling of an eye? Archeoastronomy - prevailing concept (1979): At the time of this prediction, ancient historians, cultural anthropologists and scholars of esoteric traditions did not suspect that ancient myth makers knew the location of the Galactic center or that they had associated this part of the sky with the cataclysmic cycles described in ...
Boffins create zombie dogs
Post Date: 2005-06-28 15:14:29 by Eoghan
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SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution. The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity. But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock. ...
World: France Chosen To Host Experimental Fusion Reactor Project
Post Date: 2005-06-28 14:52:56 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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World: France Chosen To Host Experimental Fusion Reactor Project By Breffni O'Rourke France has been chosen to host a multibillion-dollar experimental nuclear-fusion reactor. The decision was made today in Moscow by representatives of six parties involved in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project -- Russia, Japan, the United States, the European Union, China, and South Korea. The project is expected to cost up to $13 billion to develop. Nuclear fusion is a process that is being seen as mankind's bright new hope for boundless sources of clean energy. Some environmentalists doubt the true benefits of fusion, however. Prague, 28 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- French President ...
Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time
Post Date: 2005-06-28 09:10:59 by crack monkey
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Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time By DENNIS OVERBYE There was a conference for time travelers at M.I.T. earlier this spring. I'm still hoping to attend, and although the odds are slim, they are apparently not zero despite the efforts and hopes of deterministically minded physicists who would like to eliminate the possibility of your creating a paradox by going back in time and killing your grandfather. "No law of physics that we know of prohibits time travel," said Dr. J. Richard Gott, a Princeton astrophysicist. Dr. Gott, author of the 2001 book "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time," is one of a ...
Space Ring Could Shade Earth and Stop Global Warming
Post Date: 2005-06-27 15:22:21 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Space Ring Could Shade Earth and Stop Global Warming By Robert Roy Britt Senior Writer posted: 27 June 2005 02:14 pm ET A wild idea to combat global warming suggests creating an artificial ring of small particles or spacecrafts around Earth to shade the tropics and moderate climate extremes. There would be side effects, proponents admit. An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon, for example. And the price tag would knock the socks off even a big-budget agency like NASA: $6 trillion to $200 trillion for the particle approach. Deploying tiny spacecraft would come at a relative bargain: a mere $500 billion tops. But the idea, ...
Toxic or magic? Nation needs a fresh look at nuclear power
Post Date: 2005-06-27 13:27:39 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Toxic or magic? Nation needs a fresh look at nuclear power Jun. 27, 2005 12:00 AM The nuclear option is back. The real one. Nuclear power has been on the back burner in U.S. energy policy for years, with no new plants in more than a quarter century. But global climate change and rising demands for energy are compelling reasons to reconsider our nuclear options. Developing countries, with China in the lead, are showing an insatiable appetite for electricity. Meanwhile, the "greenhouse gases" emitted by traditional power generation are big contributors to global warming. Conservation and alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind power, should be leading strategies ...
A little needed from Neil. please? What's a tinyurl?
Post Date: 2005-06-26 13:34:13 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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This is driving me crazy Neil. I hope you have an answer. The following url: http://tinyurl.com/b5gpr takes me here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Standard+Oil+Co%22+%2BHitler a search for "Standard Oil Co" +Hitler how did it do that?
Property control a U.N. dream
Post Date: 2005-06-26 00:03:27 by timetobuildaboat
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Property control a U.N. dream Henry Lamb | June 25 2005 John Prescott, deputy prime minister, told the House of Commons that 10,000 homes would be demolished in a $2 billion program to create "sustainable communities." This massive "Pathfinder" program has been adopted to transform the UK into sustainable communities, a major step toward compliance with goal seven of the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals and further implementation of the U.N.'s Agenda 21. A similar program is under way in the United States, but proponents are careful to deny that the U.N. has any influence or involvement. The facts tell a different story. In 1976, the United Nations Conference on ...
US Tries Desperately
To Dismiss AIDS
Origin Lawsuit
Post Date: 2005-06-22 00:13:30 by Coral Snake
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US Tries Desperately To Dismiss AIDS Origin Lawsuit 6-21-5 SAN DIEGO -- Federal Judge Sabraw has ordered an open court oral argument for Friday, June 24, 2005 at 1:30p.m.to hear arguments by the United States to support a motion to dismiss the AIDS ORIGIN lawsuit of Dr. Boyd Ed Graves. Dr. Graves AIDS ORIGIN research and his nearly eight years of continuous legal action against the United States for the creation, production and proliferation of HIV/AIDS has been receiving critical acclaim from scientists and medical doctors from all over the world. "I am hopeful," said Graves, "that the Federal Court will deny the United States motion to dismiss and allow this issue to ...
Massive Deformation Detected In North American Intraplate, Earthquakes Increasing In New Madrid Fault Zone
Post Date: 2005-06-21 00:45:16 by Dude Lebowski
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Russian scientists are reporting today that Russian space satellites are detecting what appears to be a massive ‘deformation’ in the North American Intraplate due to the continued buildup of stresses on the North American Plate in the New Madrid Fault Zone Region, and as we have previously reported about in our June 15th report titled "North American Intraplate Collapsing Heralding New Madrid Fault Zone Cataclysm as Rare Major ‘Triplet’ Earthquakes Occur in the Americas" and wherein we had stated; “Russian Scientists are reporting today that the rare Earthquake Triplet Events occurring over the last 36 hours in Chile (7.8 Magnitude Event), Alaska (6.9 ...
Brazilians buck rising gas prices with innovative fuel
Post Date: 2005-06-20 19:49:00 by boonie rat
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Brazilians buck rising gas prices with innovative fuel Marla Dickerson Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2005 10:27 AM SAO PAULO, Brazil -- While Americans fume at high gasoline prices, Carolina Rossini is the essence of Brazilian cool at the pump. Like tens of thousands of her countrymen, she is running her zippy red Fiat on pure ethanol extracted from Brazilian sugar cane. On a recent morning in Brazil's largest city, the clear liquid was selling for less than half the price of gasoline, a sweet deal for the 26-year-old lawyer. "You save money and you don't pollute as much," said Rossini, who paid about $18 to fill her nearly empty tank. "And it's a good thing that the product ...
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