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"There is a huge privacy flaw in Google's new Twitter/Facebook competitor, Google Buzz. When you first go into Google Buzz, it automatically sets you up with followers and people to follow. A Google spokesperson tells us these people are chosen based on whom the users emails and chats with most using Gmail. That's fine. The problem is that -- by default -- the people you follow and the people that follow you are made public to anyone who looks at your profile. In other words, before you change any settings in Google Buzz, someone could go into your profile and see the people you email and chat with most." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"I delete that account and google can kiss my arse " - what do you mean by that? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"The problem with wind farms is that they’re stuck wherever they’ve been stationed. Granted, they’ve been installed in areas that benefit from high wind activity, but what if you had a portable wind farm that could follow you wherever you needed power? Enter the Mobile Wind Turbine, designed by Pope Design! The Mobile Wind Turbine has the potential to solve energy issues wherever they might arise, as long as there is a strong wind blowing. Consider it – be it a rock concert, a disaster relief mission or even a military operation – power is going to be needed and rather than using finite resources, what better way to offset any unfriendly eco-impact than to use the wind around you to diversify or completely power your energy needs?" - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

toprağa saplanması lazm ya bence uçar yoksa - Joan Miro

"If you want to take advantage of GPGPU at home, GPUradar features a catalog of software that takes advantage of your GPU's parallel processing power. The site notes that GPGPU assists much more than strange scientific modeling programs. Several video converters, codecs, and players benefit from GPUs, as do numerous cryptography and security tools. Even every statistics student's best friend, Mathematica, can use parallel-processing GPUs to crunch numbers as of version 7 of the software." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"The super Wi-Fi frequency will deftly dodge interference through smart broadcasting protocols that ensure there are no competing frequencies in their area. Firmware will allow them to jump between different gaps in the spectrum as necessary." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Media manipulation by professional partisans on both sides has become so predictable that satire has emerged as the last, best way to cut through the spin cycle. Viewers' intelligence is respected even as they are entertained, and between laughs the civic backbone begins to straighten a bit. News doesn't need to taste like medicine, and nonpartisan does not have to mean neutral." - SteVe C from Bookmarklet

"There is a silent majority of Americans who feel politically homeless in today's polarized debates. They are not activists obsessed with politics. But they are no less patriotic than the partisans. They are active citizens with busy lives. They view government as an attempt to solve problems, not a war between special interests or an hate-fueled ideological debate camp. And too often they are ignored." - SteVe C

"Our country is being polarized for political, partisan and personal profit. And it's time for the center to push back." - SteVe C

wow! beautiful! - فوژان

siiiii! ...... ti aspetto! - keiko-san

"Physicists hope the ambitious mission will allow them to prove the existence of gravitational waves – a phenomenon predicted in Einstein's famous theory of general relativity and the last piece of his theory still to be proved correct. The mission, a collaboration between Nasa and the European Space Agency, will use three spacecraft flying in formation while orbiting the sun, with each housing floating cubes of gold platinum. Laser beams fired between the spacecraft will then be used to measure minute changes in the distance between each of the cubes, caused by the weak waves of gravity that ripple out from catastrophic events in deep space. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that when large objects such as black holes collide, ripples in space and time flow outwards. These ripples are called gravitational waves." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Professor Jim Hough, an expert on gravitational waves at Glasgow University and a member of the committee that drew up the plans, said: "Gravitational waves are the last piece of Einstein's theory of general relativity that has still to be proved correct. "They are produced when massive objects like black holes or collapsed stars accelerate through space, perhaps because they being... more... - RAPatton

"A smaller test mission called LISA Pathfinder, which is being built by British engineers at space company Astrium EADS and is due to be launched next year, is to pave the way for the more ambitious mission by demonstrating the technology to be used to detect the waves. Scientists have already begun building the instruments that will be used in LISA itself, but it is not expected to be... more... - RAPatton

This interesting question came up from Akiva during discussions on Josh's post of 'dead' FriendFeed accounts: http://friendfeed.com/joshhal... - Kol Tregaskes

others (twitter, FB, a couple more) but ff is def'lly my main - giuseppe c. | markgreene

"Many users perform searches without thinking nowadays: it's an ingrained habit of using the operating system. Like many habits, this one is worth breaking in order to to develop an even better one. Here we take a quick look at a few basic search techniques and a few more advanced ones. Force yourself to use them and you'll soon become a master of Windows Search. A bit of extra time now will save you loads of effort in the long run." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"A new survey of U.S. smartphone users reveals a majority of them want to use mobile devices, including tablets like the upcoming Apple iPad, for work as well as personal activities. Yet the same users also see only limited productivity gains because they can access so little of the personal and business information they need." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

yeah web 2.0 needs to make it's way onto the mobile scene already. - LarchOye

"For those of you who are hearing about this site for the first time, HDME is not a new entrant to the BT scene. It’s almost a year old and is a pretty well established tracker. A great user interface, tons of HD torrent packs and an active community makes HDME one of the more successful specialized high definition torrent trackers in the BitTorrent community." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Since cold fusion's troubled birth, it has been relegated to the fringes of science and the stuff of fiction. But this week, several chemists present evidence that cold fusion may be about to come online. Cold fusion entered the public spotlight in 1989 with a scandal. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons claimed they'd produced a nuclear reaction using a device that produced large amounts of heat using heavy water and palladium electrodes. Unfortunately, the results proved unrepeatable. The two were blacklisted, and the burgeoning study of cold fusion was written off as a pipe dream. Many researchers called cold fusion a fantasy, but a small group of academics and scientists kept working on the technology. Now known as low energy nuclear reaction (LENR), it's returned to the limelight, but this time as a potential success story. This week, a series of lectures on cold fusion will be held at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The results presented at the meeting offer hope that those first experiments weren't as farfetched as we once believed." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Hmmm... I don't remember seeing anything about this in my latest issue of "Journal of Irreproducible Science." (?) - Mark J

Tiny Picards. Tiny Datas. - Dave Friedel

*puts on snuggie, cowers under rarely used dining room table* - Dave Friedel from Android

"The best thermal images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot yet captured have revealed surprising weather and temperature variation within the solar system’s most famous storm. The darkest red part of the spot turns out to be a warm patch inside the otherwise cold storm. The temperature variation is slight: “Warm” in this case translates to -250 degrees Fahrenheit while cold is an even frostier -256 degrees F. But even that difference is enough to create intriguing internal dynamics. “This is our first detailed look inside the biggest storm of the solar system,” said Jet Propulsion Laboratory astronomer Glenn Orton, who led the new study to be published in Icarus. “We once thought the Great Red Spot was a plain old oval without much structure, but these new results show that it is, in fact, extremely complicated.” The Red Spot has persisted since at least the late 17th century, when astronomers first saw it. If you’d seen it back then, though, you might have been “tempted to call it the... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

maybe it gobbled up a moon or large asteroid at some point? - Joe The Sausage

hum, no copy paste? what a killer :| - mohamadreza

9 months is plenty of time for the other platforms to respond properly. HTC sense is already a step in the right direction. I am a Windows Mobile user since 2000 (then Win CE). MS is about to lose me to Android! No HTC HD2 upgrade? Too little, too late, I'm afraid :( - Alexandros Georgiadis

The Orpheum. - stingray spine

Excellento! - Chris Loft

"Although scientists have guessed for some time that HM Cancri was a binary system, the Keck confirmation has pushed this bizarre X-ray source into the record books as the most rapidly orbiting binary system ever observed, completing an orbit every 5.4 minutes." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

ahaha - Osman Aydın

If not,your head better be bulletproof! - Mary from Bookmarklet

delicious children... mmm - LarchOye

"The other day I came across a fake news story on the Internet. It was a send-up of the pharmaceutical industry which featured a bunch of drug industry executives wringing their hands in despair: placebo pills, the fake news story reported, were getting stronger, what was a drug executive to do? This is a real news story about how placebos are getting stronger. Or anyway, it's a story about how our assumptions about placebos — the proverbial sugar pills given to patients during medical trials — are changing." - Jenny R from Bookmarklet

"But some recent studies are turning up something extremely unexpected about the placebo effect: our response to placebos seems to be changing over time. In fact the placebo effect, some researchers say, appears to be getting stronger." - Jenny R

"And why do these placebos — - the sugar pill, the fake operation — sometimes seem to make people better when there's absolutely nothing to them? Arthur Barsky, the director of psychiatric research at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, says one big reason is conditioning. "You've learned over the course of your life that going to the doctor, being examined, having him write out a... more... - Jenny R

We're told Courier will function as a "digital journal," and it's designed to be seriously portable: it's under an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn't much bigger than a 5x7 photo when closed. - JA Castillo from Bookmarklet

Would that be before any kind of announcement from Apple for their iPad? - Kol Tregaskes

god, you could seriously go "the wrong way" with that attitude... In fact, I'm pretty sure history is full of "beliefs" translating into really bad behaviors... - LarchOye

Barbie is inhuman super-white. That'll be fixed. The blonde is coming out too. - Dave Friedel

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