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  1. Re:Here's a solution by antdude · · Score: 1 · on Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US

    Ants in Weird/Odd Places:

    Bugs in the computer: Sun
    Microsystems, Inc. knows why Brazil is known to its native inhabitants as the kingdom of the ants.

    Ants in yer... Pants? NOT!
    (Toshiba notebook/laptop); Ants
    Invade Apple iBook; "Yep, those are ants in that laptop".

    (Tele)phones: Panasonic Cordless Phone and Ants In My Nokia Mobile Phone (A Yahoo! account is required).

    Ants in Omniview switchboxes: An e-mail story of ants invading a network
    switchbox.

    Argentine ants invade a network hub.

    Computerworld on "Ants had taken up residence in a guy's external hard drive. Seen on /.).

    A photograph showing ants nesting in a guy's phone box, affecting his
    digital subscriber line (DSL) connection and phone system.

    A 38 seconds YouTube video showing crazy ants in a computer mouse.

    One minute and 19 seconds Break video, from VideoSift: "Creepy Surprise. -- Wife asked me to try to get the printer to work, since she was having some problems with it. Imagine my surprise when I looked inside..."

    Help,
    A Colony Of Ants Attacked My Enterprise Rental Car And Ruined My
    Vacation!

  2. Old news and other incidents (even photos.). by antdude · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas

    This has been known for many years. Here are more taken from my personal ant Web site:

    Ants in yer... Pants? NOT! (Toshiba notebook/laptop); Ants Invade Apple iBook.

    Ants In
    My Nokia Mobile Phone (A Yahoo! account is required).

    Ants in Omniview switchboxes: An e-mail story of ants invading a network
    switchbox. Thanks nTrFace.

    Argentine ants invade a network hub.

    Ants had taken up residence in a guy's external hard drive: Ontrack
    and Computerworld
    (seen on /.).

    A photograph showing ants nesting in a guy's phone box, affecting his DSL connection and phone system.

  3. Ants rule! by antdude · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories
    Here are more funny stories related to ants and electronics that I collected:

    Bugs in the computer: Sun Microsystems, Inc. knows why Brazil is known to its native inhabitants as the kingdom of the ants.

    Ants in yer... Pants? NOT! (Toshiba notebook/laptop); Ants Invade Apple iBook.

    Ants In My Nokia (A Yahoo! account is required) 5210 Mobile Phone.

    Ants in Omniview switchboxes: An e-mail story of ants invading a network switchbox.

    Argentine ants invade a network hub.

    A photograph showing ants nesting in a guy's phone box, affecting his DSL connection and phone system.

  4. Nature survives radiation, but man may not. by reporter · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Cleaning Uranium Waste with Bacteria
    We should not be surprised over the fact that these bacteria actually thrive on the radioactive uranium instead of being killed by it.

    Look at how wildfire has actually thrived in the radioactive area contaminated by the Chernobyl accident. That radioactive area is called the Chernobyl zone and has been devoid of people for more than 20 years. The absense of people (who are known killers of wildlife) has enabled wildlife to re-populate the Chernobyl zone.

    In the long run, the stupidity (also known as nuclear weapons and global warming) of man may exterminate mankind, but nature will survive. Heed the wisdom of the Native Americans: "The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth."

  5. Quantum Encrypted Network? by Crypto+Gnome · · Score: 2, Informative · on BBN Announces Functional Quantum Encrypted Network

    While technologically do-able, I'm uncertain as to whether this will succeed in the commercial world.

    I think we'll all just have to wait and see.

  6. Ants Invade a Toshiba notebook/laptop by antdude · · Score: 2 · on Ants Invade iBook

    Story.

  7. Ooh! Ooh! by jabber · · Score: 2 · on Mapping the Internet

    I stand corrected then. While trying to get my head around your explanation, I did a little digging and found an excellent primer on HUD.

    Is there a formalism to explain the effect of observation on the observed? After all, it's a serious issue even in such non-technical areas as psychology. I would think that someone would have branded it with a name. I vote we call my (mis)definition the Jabber Uncertainty Principle. :)

    Hmm... Maybe I can mis-quote Newton, and apply action-reaction to sociology, in an effort to explain the partizan alignment dichodomy between the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. government. Or maybe to explain the U.S. and French revolutions as reactions to oppressive and tyrannical rulers.