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http://forums.msiwind.net/osx-guides/guide-glowing-apple-logo-using-lcd-backlight-wiring-t9266.html and from Hackintosh: "..hacking a hole in the lid of his netbook and letting the LED backlight shine through. He even ordered an old iBook lid from Ebay to mount in his hole." http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/hackintosh-with.html

You are correct. See

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/nsa-releases-se.html

for a summary and see

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/tempest.pdf

for the recently declassified document. The discovery of this problem is dated to 1943.

This monkey knew when to ignore Gaussian copula functions.

Netbooks have been selling like hotcakes. Wired is on the beat.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/05/222206 http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/ted-digital-six.html

Look at McCain: he violated multiple copyrights with his ads, claimed that there should be a special exemption to the DMCA laws he voted for just for politicians, and once the campaign was over, everyone completely forgot about it except Jackson Browne, who is still pursuing a lawsuit against McCain, although it's generally considered wildly unlikely that'll go to trial (or that McCain will be fined $3000 for every case of infringement.)

WB: strike one?

SONY: strike one?

FOX: strike one?

VIACOM: strike one?

DISNEY: strike one?

MPAA: strike one?

(let's not forget politicians)

SEN ORIN HATCH: strike one?

They're not using exoskeletons to replace vehicles. They want them for scenarios where you need foot soldiers, and there are many such scenarios.

Right tool for the job and all that. Good luck going 80mph through a forest/jungle or even a dense concrete jungle.

If I were a soldier, I'd rather be in places where the aircraft and tanks can't easily blow me away. And in those places it's typically hard to travel at 80mph.

What would be useful is some sort of augmentation that would allow soldiers to operate in "sprint mode" for extended periods of time without permanent or significant damage or severe discomfort, and without too much excess bulk.

If the cooling glove (and other technologies) mentioned in the following article really work then there might be potential for significant augmentation:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/bemore_pr.html

Of course a cooling glove can get in the way, so perhaps they can figure out some other alternatives.

Imagine if your soldiers could become the equivalent of top human athletes AND sustain that performance for 30-90 minutes.

Even better if the system can be powered by something edible (cooking oil?).

I think you are confusing actual research with ...

Then sit back down and shut up while you think about it. While you're sitting there, ostensibly thinking, here is some material to consider:

• Real-time cone-beam CT image reconstruction using a mercury's dual cell-based system (DCBS) and a Sony's Playstation 3 (PS3) cluster
• Playstation 3 Consoles Tackle Black Hole Vibrations
• PS3 boosts protein research plan
• Building Supercomputer Using Playstation 3
• PlayStation Cell Speeds Docking Programs
• Researchers Use PlayStation Cluster to Forge a Web Skeleton Key
• Playstation cluster creates cheap supercomputer
• and so on..

Garbage products like xbox have gone down in flames (pun intended) and MS has to make smoke (no pun intended) and noise to distract from the situation. Same crowd is going on attack against OpenOffice.org and other key products. The universal office format, OpenDocument Format, is getting specialized attackers. Repeat lies often enough that people believe them seems to be an ongoing theme from MS.

Whether 1-, 8-. 16, or 32-node clusters, PS3s are useful in computationally intensive tasks. I'd like to see an add-on for Blender or other 3D software that allows adding a PS3 as a single node cluster. If it's there and you're working with a desktop, why not also use the processors of the otherwise idle gaming machine

Of course, there are sites like BusinessWeek that get infected by SQL injection attacks, as well as United Nations, UK Government sites and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Then there's also the time Microsoft got hacked to distribute malware.

Unless your definition of a non-legit site is "any site that's connected to and live on the Internet," then you are wrong.

No, cyber insecurity is the NSA's job, that is, getting hold of your secret communications.. Remember when they tapped into the main fibre link in that telco, here also. Another way of getting their hands on your data is to set up fake cyber security research consultancys who will come in and 'secure' your installation :) shoosh ... No Such Agency ...

Okay....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/health/21canc.html
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12202589
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080409130711.htm
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/18/embryonic-stem-cell-therapy-causes-cancer-in-teenage-boy/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4465717.stm

However, new information was released this week. There are scientists who think they've found a way around the cancer problem with stem cells:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/virusfreeips.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13384-stem-cell-breakthrough-may-reduce-cancer-risk.html

what about the one theoretically coming from Disney this year? (Star Guitarist) the video on wired is amazing

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/01/finally-a-guita.html

After seeing this movie, anyone who thinks it's a turkey is either a moron or saw a different movie than I did

I guess lots of people saw a different movie than you.

This movie deserves the videogame it got.

I (almost) hope patents keep the music companies from doing the obvious and releasing their own games.

Konami owns a patent on the play mechanics of Guitar Freaks and Drummania that it licenses to Activision for Guitar Hero. And Konami has sued Viacom, parent company of the developer of Rock Band, for patent infringement.

Of course, they'll probably use a model where you need to pay every time you play the song.

Konami already used this model for Guitar Freaks: it's an arcade game.

We (DANEnet) did several robotics groups in mandatory summer school a couple of years ago. We started kids off with Robosapiens. That is a controller based pre built robot. This was good for 1-2 sessions. Then we moved them onto the great Robodance program (free software to do visual programming on a pc using a USB wireless remote to control the Robosapiens). Another couple of sessions. Finally we went to Lego Robotics based program.

We lost some kids at each step. The step to Lego Robotics was particularly hard for these kids. One of the best groups was a mix of bilingual and solely Spanish speaking kids. Shades of the undocumented high school students that won a national college robotics competition http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/robot.html

Actually, he isn't:
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/does-metallicas.html

Also, can we go here?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jx-KCnvjTuI/SNIvxUZepyI/AAAAAAAAKHk/XQQ8H2ylRK8/s1600-h/hetfieldshopping1.jpg

Actually calls for his firing have already started. When you see that The Win7 hype is just that, and when it comes to enterprise, which is where the big bucks are and where MSFT has always made boatloads of cash, that Win7 doesn't cut it anymore than Vista, I can't say that I blame them.

We have seen that under his watch he has gone from one idea to another like the whole company has ADHD, with Zune(trying to be Apple), trying to shell out WAY too much money for Yahoo(trying to be Google) and finally his very own Spruce Goose Vista, which even MSFT board members couldn't get to work with programs written by MSFT. His tenure has frankly been nothing but one failure after another, and mark my words, when Win7 comes out it will be just as bloated and slow and sell just as badly as Vista.

What the company desperately needs is a new leader that will focus on their core strengths instead of trying to be Apple. Their big money comes from corporations NOT home users who frankly as long as it doesn't crash and runs their games are happy little campers anyway. Yet instead of releasing a low resource backwards compatible enterprise OS it looks like with Win7 they are AGAIN releasing this giant bloated pig of a multimedia OS with more bling per square inch than something off of "pimp my ride". There is a REASON why you find lots of articles including on MSDN giving step by step instructions on turning Win2K8 into a workstation OS. Because WinVista is too damned bloated to be a good enterprise OS and frankly Win7 will most likely be more of the same.

They had better change their direction, starting with a good firing for Ballmer and the bringing in of someone from Office or Win2K8 that knows business. Because I have never seen this kind of mass abandonment of a MSFT OS ever, even when WinME came out. My customers happily pay me chunks of money to make Vista go away, and more and more SOHOs and SMBs are asking me "what do you know about this Linux thing?" and yet Ballmer still tries to force everyone into this multimedia nightmare of an OS instead of keeping business/home separated like it was for WinNT/Win9x. But he ain't Steve Jobs and Win7 ain't no OSX. If they don't change their direction, which I seriously doubt will happen under Ballmer, then their stock price and sales are going nowhere but down. I mean have you EVER seen companies BRAG about giving you the previous MSFT OS THREE YEARS after the new version came out? Nope, me neither.

There's an old question - is the red that I see the same as the red that you see? - something that is probably unknowable.

I imagine we'd still see the same range of colours, except they'd be assigned to a much greater range of frequencies - i.e. what appears to be red, is actually far infra-red with pretty much all of the traditional "visual" spectrum appearing blue/violet.

Or it might all be random..., in any case I'd expect the brain to adapt to the new inputs well enough:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html

They've tried something like this in the past, but never heard anything more about it. This new version is considerably less intrusive - in the old article from 2002, they had to implant electrodes in the guy's head through a port. And the old way actually bypassed the eye, whereas this new one actually uses what is still useful in the eye.

If the facts are against you, bang on the law. If the law is against you, bang on the facts. If both are against you, bang on the table.

Making an anti-copyright statement in court would be the equivalent of banging on the table, which Pirate Bay don't appear to need to do.

A harmful piece of glass in the food the media's been serving us has been the propagation of the falsehood that it is always illegal to freely distribute copyrighted material and that only illegal material is available via P2P. Both are wrong. It's perfectly legal to distribute copyrighted material, if it is done in according to the copyright holder's requirements. See GPL, AGPL, LGPL, BSD, ISC, CC, MPL, Aritistic and other licenses.

There is lots of material, from programs to songs, where the copyright holder has granted permission for re-distribution. Sometimes there are constraints, other times with a do-what-thou-will carte blanche. One need look no further than the Creative Commons and the various Free and Open Source Software packages to find examples. A lot of musicians realize the marketing value of free downloads.

Anyway, it has to be said again, loudly, that it is up to the copyright holder to decide who can and can't re-distribute, not the RIAA, MPAA or any other branch of MS. There are an awful lot of people who should know better, who have recently started parroting the falsehoods.

Orrin Hatch, the "pirates should have their computers destroyed" Senator, had pirated software on his website in 2003.

There are way to many questions that need to be known before a competent technical architect can help design the "just right" solution for you.

Most of the people here are experts on some small part of the solution and will spout "all you need is X" - and that's fine for free. I've worked on telecom - can never go down - systems for over 10 tens as a technical architect leading project teams from 1 to over 300 software developers and 20 others on the hardware side.
On the surface, FTP and web pages don't sound like the best solution to the problem as stated. Did yo just learn HTML and want to use it?

Now, here's my $0.02 on your problem:
* 1,000 visitors a day can be run from my cell phone. That's "nothing" traffic for a network or an old desktop.
* Avoid clustering at the OS or application level unless you really, really need it. You probably don't. Almost nobody needs clustering.
* Use network load balancing. There are many, many solutions for this. The easiest is from F5 (buy through Dell), but free versions work fine too - I've been using `pound` for years myself. /. may still use pound for load balancing, so you know it scales.
* Backups are key. RAID is not backups. Verify that you can actually **recover** from bare metal using your backups. Don't pull a Ma.gnolia http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/magnolia-suffer.html
* Disaster Recovery is important. Often, you can solve both backup and recovery and DR at the same time.

If you are a non-profit doing something I believe in, I'll do network, systems, B&R, and DR deigns and consult with you for free, an enterprise class solution. My company looks at FOSS solutions first, before recommending commercial, costly solutions. All our internal systems are FOSS, though we do have a lab with Microsoft servers since that's what many customers demand/need.

Think of a good TA just like a CPA or Lawyer. You pay us to prevent all the problems that could happen later that cost your huge amounts of money. After my CPA does my taxes, I sleep better at night.

Wasn't there one story where the family of an executive officer of the RIAA was accused of this and he pushed the company to let them off with a warning?

I guess this is the story you're thinking about: "Warner CEO Admits His Kids Stole Music".

The summary:

• "Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman admitted that he was fairly certain that one or more of his children had downloaded music illegally, but despite this direct admission of guilt, no lawsuits are pending. Surprised? Bronfman insists that, after a stern talking-to, his children have suffered the full consequences of their actions. 'I explained to them what I believe is right, that the principle is that stealing music is stealing music. Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important. I can assure you they no longer do that.' I wonder if all of the people currently being sued/extorted can now just claim that they 'no longer do that.'"

1986: A deadly cloud of carbon dioxide sweeps down the slopes of an African volcano, smothering more than 1,700 people.

Volcanoes can kill in many ways, but this one is pretty weird. A volcanic lake in the West African nation of Cameroon degassed violently (you could say it burped, or worse) in the middle of the night. Carbon dioxide is odorless and heavier than air. Most of the victims died in their sleep.

Lake Nyos sits in the crater of a volcano that hadn't erupted in centuries ... and probably didn't actually erupt the night of Aug. 21, 1986.

That got us in this mess. Using math for social problems might not always be the best way to do things. It's just bookmaking, that's all.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=3

There is even a web page in english, where people can report what they give. Near the bottom of the page is a list of articles from around the world about this. There has even been written a tribute song to him after his testimony, which Wired covered here.

And this court case has really helped the Pirate Party of Sweden. During the last week they have gotten over 1000 new members, which makes them the second-largest opposition party (in member count) in Sweden. Their youth organisation has also grown to become the second-largest political youth organization in Sewden.

I've not yet had a chance to check one of these out. As I understand it, the look and feel of reading the eink display is just like reading bright white paper fresh from the laser printer. I've never had problems reading text on computer screens for long stretches but many people say it causes eye strain for them.

I'm curious as to how this technology scales. It boggles the mind to think it took that much time and money to develop but now that they have it, how cheap can they make it? Could they get the readers down to a more reasonable cost?

It's really more similar to newsprint than to a bright white paper fresh from the laser print. Black on grey versus black on white. Which is fine from a readability standpoint, but could be prettier.

In terms of cost, I'm sure it can get even cheaper, but there are already cheaper alternatives to the Kindle, which comes bundled with lifetime wireless cell data service already paid for. For example, this is similar but more than a $100 cheaper:
ESlick

Just as another example of Iranian research: ridiculously strong concrete. High strength concrete generally has a compressive strength of 3,000 PSI or so. The person who wrote in about the situation had created concrete for the competition that was 16,000 PSI. 10,000 PSI is considered hard rock, and granite is 30,000 PSI. The Iranian concrete was *50,000-60,000* PSI. When it shattered, it damaged the testing equipment. They pulled it off using what appeared to be a quartz aggregate (160,000 PSI) and steel fibers. And this was at 28 days; concrete gets stronger over time.

Naturally, Wired spins it into the context of bunkers and nuclear weapons, like we do with everything that comes out of Iran. How long until this thin-film motor gets portrayed as something nefarious?

"Next on Fox: An Iranian art student paints a prize-winning portrait of a sunflower. Is it really a secret code for transferring nuclear secrets? Find out after the break."

Iran is trying their damndest not to be seen as an intellectual backwater. And while they're not up to western standards, nor are western stereotypes of Iranian academic achievement generally justified. There are now six times as many university students in Iran today as there were in 1979 when the Shah was overthrown -- largely because tuition, room, and board are paid for by the government, which is trying to improve their education standards. Here's a fair summary of the situation today. They're no shining star when it comes to education, but they're not backwoods yokels either.

Another way to put it: Iran has two of the top 500 universities in the world, as ranked by QS. That puts them tied for 42nd in terms of top-500 universities, with . 140 countries don't have any top-ranking universities at all. There's not a single country in the Carribean with a top-500 university, only two countries in all of Africa (Egypt=1, South Africa=4), and so on. The lion's share are in the US -- 123, followed by the UK (50), Germany (42), France (38), and Japan (36). Iran ranks better than Lithuania, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, Egypt, Slovenia, Colombia, Peru, UAE, Romania, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh (1 each), but below Mexico (3) and Poland, Portugal, Pakistan, Denmark, Israel, Norway, South Africa, Chile, Phillipines, Czech Republic, and Argentina (4 each).

The Slate guy wrote a book called True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. For someone who could write about 1996's online activities and not mention IRC, Usenet, or the biggest story of 1996, fucking PointCast, I think he's following his own advice.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/peter-on-family.html

Thank you Adult Stem Cell Research! You're using your own cells, so you don't run those nasty tumor risks like that other stem cell technology...

At what point does this end though? You can't own a fact.

You can sue over them though, as the Big sports associations have:

This one covers "Hot scores".

Back in 1996 this was apparently a controversial thing. Info here about owning facts here and on the same site here.

And there are still attempts to sue fantasy sports like this one, but I've never heard of this kind of suit being won by the plaintiffs.

Stranger things have been upheld in court.

Wow, Violet Blue gave a talk-- oh, THAT Violet Blue, the one who stole the porn chick's name [1] [2] [3] (note, having a name doesn't mean you own it if someone else gets famous with that name before you, but of course you can outspend them in court anyway!), and later was erased from BoingBoing (eliminating any sense of credibility BB had, and showing they have no problem with revisionist journalism) because she broke up with Xeni [4] [5].

It shouldn't be about getting an ad campaign that is effective. The effectiveness is all up to the person running the campaign not the provider or media outlet. The only way I can see what your describing as being problematic is if Google charged disproportionately higher then similar services or refused to provide service or service at similar costs as your competitors.

The feeling or insinuation that someone needs to use a specific service or product to be effective isn't/shouldn't be in itself enough to show damage. Otherwise adobe and Microsoft should have been held accountable long ago for the government's reliance on PDFs and word DOCs. And yes, there are alternatives now, but that wasn't always the case. But this idea hasn't come to passing because ultimately, it's the users independent choice that put those formats into the positions they are/where in and as long as neither stopped competition when they did become the default standard, it shouldn't matter much.

As for the government going after Google, it won't happen. It's pure lip service and here is why. Google's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt actively supported Obama's election and actually pounded the campaign trail for him. Many other Google execs and employees have done the same. In fact, it has led people to speculate that Google will have a wide variety of payback options and for some reason, I don't think President Obama is going to let anyone take them out. I mean Obama has already given Google via it's YouTube site a no bid contract and control over public property with the government videos being hosted there and being locked by YouTube's terms of service instead of common law and the idea that government produced works are owned by the people and free to the people (let's hope that "lobbying" will get some of the public's rights back).

Yes, I don't expect anything to happen to Google at all. Lip service will be played but not much more then that. There won't be a trial (mainly because I don't believe there has been any harm) or anything of the sort because the administration owes Google too much. The change we can believe in is more or less not throwing their supporters under the bus like many other politicians do when it get's ugly surrounding them.

Wired Magazine has a story titled "The Plot to Kill Google". It is very much worth reading. The story basically details how Microsoft and AT&T have been lobbying the Federal government that Google is a monopoly and needs to taken down.

From the article:
Microsoft's arguments weren't just winning over advertisers. Back in July, the company penned one of a series of confidential memos titled "Google + Yahoo Competition" and sent it to its allies and the Justice Department. The memo claimed that the Google-Yahoo deal was illegal on its face, mentioning as precedent the 68-year-old case United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc., which Microsoft also cited in congressional testimony that same month. When Yahoo lawyer Dan Wall heard the argument, he didn't see how a 1940s case against conspiring oil companies bore much relevance to a deal in which prices are set by electronic auctions. But then a Justice official brought up Socony during one of their regular phone calls. "I thought, 'Good grief, they're buying the Microsoft BS,'" Wall says. "I don't have any doubt that Microsoft put that in DOJ's mind." ...

Other companies joined in, including AT&T. Many observers believe that the telecom company hopes to compete directly with Google someday by going into the business of serving online ads to its users, and it was happy for the opportunity to beat up on its future rival. On September 24, 10 members of Congress sent a letter to the DOJ opposing the deal. All of them have received donations from AT&T over their careers (average total contribution since 1996: $29,000), and most counted the telecom giant as one of their largest contributors. ...

Google barely had time to recover from the failed Yahoo deal before its staff learned of a 94-page document titled "Google Data Collection and Retention," that had been circulating around Washington. The treatise listed all the ways that Google hoards user information. Google Checkout remembers credit card numbers. Gmail reads private email. Blogger saves draft posts. As one annotation on the document helpfully notes, Google's privacy policy "gives Google the right to retain personal information over the wishes of a user." Overall, Google is painted as a Big Brother with an insatiable desire for private data.

The document, written by a consulting firm, was commissioned by AT&T, which says it was intended only for internal use. Protection from snooping, says AT&T public policy chief James Cicconi, is one of his firm's top priorities. "We sell our customers access to the Internet," he says, "and we want them to have a good experience." Privacy is a newfound concern for the company, which in 2005 was one of the telecoms that allowed the National Security Agency to listen in on millions of phone calls. AT&T was accused of "warrantless wiretapping" before successfully lobbying Congress to grant it immunity against suits by its customers. But now AT&T is trumpeting the cause of consumer privacy, unveiling an elaborate policy stating that it will not sell its customers' browsing histories to advertisers without explicit permission.

In all the multiple page article paints a very ugly picture of the situation and leaves me amazed that politicians don't realize they are being played, or don't care as long as the donations keep coming in.

(Also seems like the slashdot community could easily match the $29K of AT&T's donations. Apparently being politicians is cheaper than I would have thought.)

Well, maybe not his entire campaign, but they're not all bad.

What the GP is suggesting is a conspiracy theory, that the opponents to file sharing hired some hackers to attack their own sites, under the assumption that everybody will suspect TPB is behind the attack and that it will ruin TPB's credibility.

Now, I don't prescribe to this conspiracy theory, but the opponents to file sharing aren't as adverse to hiring hackers as you seem to think.

Just because daddy's rich, doesn't mean you get a pony.

Hulu has been putting up a good fight to get the content they want. They are indeed trying to teach the studios.

How many business units does your mom's basement have? ;)

And here is a link for you Mr. Coward! Of course if you like I can show you 100 links showing XP stomping a mudhole in Vista for every one that says it doesn't, but I prefer to use logic. So I will try to explain how the concept of DRM works to you, even though you are probably a troll and won't listen. But I do like educating so. Ready?

DRM is a program that keeps YOU the "dirty filthy user you" from accessing the "blessed mother media's" content in any way they don't approve of. With me so far? To do that it has to stand as a gatekeeper between you and the blessed content and like a little prison guard tell you what you are and aren't allowed to do with the "blessed" content. Still with me? Now here is where it gets tricky, Mr. Coward, so pay attention please. The ONLY WAY for the "little prison guard" is able to do his job is to stand there 24/7/365 or you could pay your buddy Frank to dress up as a prison guard and fool the "blessed" content into playing. Understand now? Is the little light bulb lighting up over your head?

You DO realize that NOTHING is free and everything costs, yes? That there is NO perpetual motion machines and you don't get a free lunch. So why is it SO hard for you to grasp that MSFT hasn't invented the perfect cost free DRM? The only way DRM could work without costing your RAM and CPU cycles would be to deny you disk access and run the RAM in a hypervisor. It simply HAS to run 24/7 or it would be even less trivial to bypass than iTunes "content protection" on songs. All you would have to do to make an end run around "protected path" if it DIDN'T run 24/7 is to load up an Alcohol 120% style driver while it was sleeping along with hacked files to make it look legit. It wouldn't be much of a DRM system then, would it?

Look, I know where your hostility at the thought is coming from. You got Vista'd, didn't you? And now you have bought some multicore stuffed to the brim RAM monster trying to not feel suckered for getting the turd, and feel the need to lash out when it is pointed out the emperor has no clothes. But just because you got it to run well on a Core 2 Quad with 8GB doesn't make Vista good. To quote an Air Force friend talking about working with the F4 "Just because you strap a couple of rocket motors to a brick doesn't make the brick into an Eagle. It just makes it a fast, gas sucking brick.". But if it makes you feel better tell yourself Vista is "just as fast" as XP. I know that buyer's remorse can be a bitch. But if you are going to lie to yourself, make it over features or UAC, not the DRM. Because anyone that can think logically is going to see that it is impossible for the DRM in Vista NOT to slow it down. That is just how DRM has to work. Sorry.

The more secretive someone is, the minute anyone takes notice, people will take far more notice. It's like walking down the street with a newspaper that has an envelope hidden inside vs having a package hidden under a jacket when it's clear you're smuggling it. One will get a hell of a lot more attention than the other.

Using someone else's club card has 0 to do with privacy nor is it even an accurate comparison. However, they are tracking your "friend" for using that card. Maybe you should read this article for some understanding. What makes you think that free porn for example, doesn't track you? Do you even read the TOS? what makes you think that if people wanted, they couldn't misconstrue your data to show the opposite of your sexuality, for example? How about publicizing it where it could cost you a job? This stuff is childs play compared to the destructive work someone can do.

Online privacy issues are easy to sniff out, I have been helping my friend write his thesis about it for law school.

Gossip is not the same as being nosey, and this has nothing to do with gossip. There are more people nosey than you can spot, because thats anonymity in general. Trying to stop that would be like thinking you can track all the anonymous cowards on slashdot.

That can't compete with a cluster of playstations

On both cost and power consumption, the playstations beat the crap out of intel chips when it comes to numeric analysis.

This is an early test of whether President Obama will make good on his promises (a) not to allow industry insiders to participate in cases affecting the industry they represented (the 2nd and 3rd highest DOJ officials are RIAA lawyers) and (b) to look out for ordinary citizens rather than big corporations.

Are you in denial? Or just slow?

Need something for that cough perhaps?

"Despite a backdrop of meager funding and career-killing derision from mainstream scientists and engineers, cold fusion is anything but a dead field of research. Presenters at the MIT event estimated that 3,000 published studies from scientists around the world have contributed to the growing canon of evidence suggesting that small but promising amounts of energy can be generated using the infamous tabletop apparatus."

"MIT's Peter Hagelstein, on the other hand, said "cold fusion" reactions have yielded surplus energy from as far back as the initial experiments in 1989. Verification of these controversial results is not the problem -- many labs around the world have reproduced parts of the results many times. "

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/cold_fusion?currentPage=all#

Navy Discovers Cold Fusion (again):
http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2292

"Last March, scientists at the annual conference of the august American Physical Society heard presentations on cold fusion. Next month, the Second International Conference on Future Energy will be held in Washington, D.C. The vast majority of physicists remains skeptical, but at the Office of Naval Research, six of the nine experiments performed produced an unexplainable amount of excess heat."

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060808/REPOSITORY/608080316&SearchID=73253345954312

"Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a tabletop accelerator that produces nuclear fusion at room temperature, providing confirmation of an earlier experiment conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), while offering substantial improvements over the original design."

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/ny_team_confirms_ucla_tabletop_fusion_10017.html

Science in Neglect
Nobel Laureate Speaks Out For Cold Fusion:

http://newenergytimes.com/news/2005/2005Lietz-ScienceInNeglectJosephson.htm

"The foreword by Dr. Frank Gordon in a [extern] summary report of February 2002 is so far the strongest statement of the Navy about their research:

We do not know if Cold Fusion will be the answer to future energy needs, but we do know the existence of Cold Fusion phenomenon through repeated observations by scientists throughout the world. It is time that this phenomenon be investigated so that we can reap whatever benefits accrue from additional scientific understanding. It is time for government funding organizations to invest in this research. "

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/18/18580/1.html

"First, a dozen techniques have been found to produce anomalous energy and benign nuclear products in certain solids. These are listed in the table (p. 76). Most of these methods have been duplicated at independent laboratories, and several can be made to work by anyone who would take the time to learn how. "

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ01/cold_fusion/cold_fusion.html

Edmund Storms* discusses the methods used to generate low energy nuclear reactions (LENR).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltZhii3g2HY

* Retired from the Los Alamos National Laboratory after thirty-four years of service. His work there involved basic research i

This is...impressive, but unfortunately, the laser-guided bullet has also been invented. The spotter points a laser beam at the target while all the sniper has to do is fire a bullet. The bullet then changed its direction towards the laser point. Try dodging that =)

Article.
Patent.

The coverage on Wired and CNET suggests at least *some* of this audience is interested: * http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/bookworm-gives.html * http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10161617-1.html And while we're thrilled to get the attention, this is more about supporting an important standards-based open-source project than about generating buzz.

You can have a repeater every 3 inches. Simple

You might not be all wrong.

Right now the idea of using such a technology in a cable in a data center seems like madness (ho ho ho) but technology has a way of making the impossible commonplace, given enough time.

You are a fucktard. You make false statements with absolutely no backing, far worse that jenny mcarthy who actually cites researchers and studies. There is no way for you to know: "The percentage of kids who gets these vaccines and develop autism is the same percentage of kids who get autism just because it happens." There is no proof one way or the other and to say such a thing as fact is irresponsible and moronic.

Yes, there is: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/california-stud.html

Google knows everything, you know nothing. DIAF - kthxbye

That's because Sandia needs all of their computers for serving up child porn and stalking musicians. http://www.abqjournal.com/news/metro/585899metro08-12-07.htm http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/05/ff_linkinpark?currentPage=1

I'm a cell-phone-battery-in-kind-of guy !!!

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/reiser-briefly.html