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This memory chip is kinda interesting... built-in wireless, shared electromagnetic fields, etc...

Bird flu vaccine developed

IM-based tech support service started

Hope you don't like karaoke, closed captioning, discussing the meaning behind the music, or cover bands... because the RIAA is now going after copying lyrics, not just the music

The inflatable space station was a success

OMFG! OMFG! Kiefer Sutherland is going to play Raistlin Majere in the new Dragonlance movie that Margaret and Tracy are going to be involved in!And wait there's more! Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon, Michael Rosenbaum as Tanis Half-Elven, and Michelle Trachtenberg as Tika Waylan

M$ tries to tell Google that searching is THEIR business... maybe they don't realize that they have NEVER been the search leaders.

This might make me start watching sports

M$ has yet another Zero-day vulnerability, this time with PowerPoint

In general, I am not too fond of bacteria... but... If I can hire them to mine gold for me, why not?

It appears that they have come up with a new atomic clock that is 5 times more precise -- using a single mercury atom

A protein (aP2) seems to allow for obesity, diabetes, asthma, etc... Interesting

Linux gets full NTFS support

Roll-your-own News on DVD? Unless you are archiving specific stories because of a personal interest in the subject, don't see the benefit

New efforts to measure the distance to the moon with millimeter accuracy

Dell blames the exploding laptop on the lithium-ion battery

McAffee quietly fixes a security flaw that allowed attackers to gain control of the users computer

"Junk" DNA being re-evaluated

The Skype protocol has been hacked

The next wave of identity theft should be just around the corner, since passports are going RFID

Congress passes laws telling IT managers how to manage their servers

There's a new class action lawsuit against DRAM manufacturers for price fixing

and from local news... a plane at the air show in Hillsboro crashed into a house

Weather Google Map

Kinda slow, but nice site

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An Oklahoma woman wins against the RIAA

Suspended Animation successful for a couple hours with pigs

This is going to completely spawn controversy... The 698 of the 700 original high-quality tapes of the Apollo 11 mission have gone missing, just a few months before the last place able to read them closes.

You laundry hits high-tech, smart-home style

Intel is laying off 1000 managers.

Google may very well loose out on lots of money.  In order to deal with click-fraud, they are changing it to cost-per action... am I the only one who remembers that everyone else made this transaction in the early 90s -- and found that people RARELY every click them?

The title may be more interesting that it actually is... Geographic Mapping of Emotions

You ready to Jack-In? Well, a paralysed man has... he can control a computer and robot arm using electrodes implanted in his brain.  Might not quite be browsing the internet, but that's not far off.  Especially with DARPA's cortically coupled computer vision system.

Vista already has a rootkit that appears to be able to hide itself from all popular anti-rootkit tools

WILL POWER!	Strange that the moon landing tapes disappeared.  I wonder why?  Oh, yeah, BECAUSE IT NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED! And we wonder why our government is so comfortable lying to us?  I guess they're just used to doing it. Posted by WILL POWER! on Fri Jul 14 18:24:00 PDT 2006

Hacks from the Net

Robot to solve padlock combinations
http://neil.fraser.name/hardware/locraker/

Build your own 3D mill
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000707073789/

How to get a wrt54g router for $5
http://www.twindx.com/node/109?PHPSESSID=120a96b46ed189d7c51e037b47420c93

making a VGA extension cable using CAT5
http://www.myhometheater.homestead.com/vgacable.html

here's some liquid magnet stuff
http://www.sci-spot.com/Chemistry/liqimag.htm

how about a robot capable of diving 400 feet?
http://www.rit.edu/~sjg2490/ROV/index.html

oooh! hacking your bios
http://os-fun.blogspot.com/2006/05/modifying-laptop-bios-for-fun-and.html

how about dualboot dvd firmware for the xbox 360?
http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEuZluEEuAbeqimDJg.php

wanna make your deadbolt rfid'able?
http://rfidtoys.net/bonus.asp

magentic card data -> excel?
http://camelspit.org/handyswipe/

sonic grenades
http://imakeprojects.com/projects/sonic-grenades/

$100 rebreather?
http://www.atlimp.com/pend2.htm

robotic sea serpents
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/acm-r5-amphibious-snake-like-robot

and last but not least.... I've mentioned it before, but found another link to it...
how about a self-replicating replicator?
http://reprap.org/

SparrowHawk	Wouldn't a self-replicating replicator be redundant? Just my 2 cents. :o) Posted by SparrowHawk on Thu Jul 13 07:04:00 PDT 2006
Malachi	that's a good point.... they call it a self-replicating rapid prototyping machine but.... replicator makes it sound more star trekky ;) Posted by Malachi on Thu Jul 13 07:14:00 PDT 2006

Toys from the Net

This article covers more than what its title suggests... some very neat stuff there...

And then of course, you could always buy me equipment to do kirlian photography.

Robot Chicken Halo Mario [though it's really Donkey Kong]

Thanks to Brett for this funny video

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Well, if you have ever seen Minority Report, you will most likely be surprised that this technology is real

Yahoo and M$ join IM networks

Oh! Me me me! Two colleges are including personal robots with the textbooks

Red King Crabs are spreading like wildfire

Microsoft changes Vista license to trick people into buying it. You ask why I say trick? Well, they make it so that you have 4 licenses -- but only one person on one machine

Well, years after Tesla's death, it looks like we might start getting shields after all

Ever wanted to know about CERN's Large Hadron Collider? Then read this

VMWare Server 1.0 released for free

Sony is working on a nice way to alienate all of us... They want to make the games only playable on one console. IE: No used games, no taking them to friends' houses, no replacing your machine if it dies.

Inflatable private space station launched

You might soon be getting Orange Terror Alerts to your tv, cell phone, web sites, etc

It appears that scientists now side with me... They are finding that the 'constants' aren't so constant. Told you so.

We have a new sharpest object ever

Malachi	So, I was taking a look at the VMWare thing... they also have pages upon pages of "preconfigured appliances" (like Asterisk/Tribox, load balancers, etc) available... very interesting... Posted by Malachi on Thu Jul 13 04:52:00 PDT 2006

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Well, if I had to guess, I would guess that I have neophilia, causing me to have elevated levels of a cellular enzyme (monoamine oxidase) requiring more of a need of stimulation from new things.... Yes, you heard right, they found a genetic basis for the burning desire to have the latest and greatest gadgets

Probably more important that the $357million fine MicroSOft got is probably the new fine of 3million Euro per day

Under certain conditions, common bacteria can for nanowires

US State Department thinks hackers installed backdoors in their computers

MySpace reportedly #1 US Destination

If you remember Bush releases flying droids in the US, you might be interested to know that DARPA is developing Droid Satellites. Watch out Death Star, here we come

Indian Satellite exploded during launch

Bacteria in your DVD allows it to hold up to 50TB of data

Now here's a gaming machine for you :)

Patriot Act makes Facebook's privacy policy completely moot

Scientists have grown mice from artificial sperm

"Malware hunters" are using Google to detect malware remotely

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Hellgate shuts down servers after having their code stolen

You know, instead of preventing credit card companies from paying out to internet gambling sites -- maybe they should consider legalizing gambling.  I mean come on -- at this point it is completely ludicrous to make Texas Hold'em illegal.

You might want to consider waiting to try Firefox 2.0... still a bit buggy

Now that BitTorrent appears to work for the MPAA, I might as well uninstall it, eh?

Citibanks' authentication defeated

The UK equivalent of the RIAA asks ISPs to suspend suspected filesharers

Vermont starts allowing electricity customers to choose manure-power

Adware spreading on MySpace

Wrap virus DNA in tiny gold particles, and inject them with helium gas

Ever wonder how Google manages its own IT?

How about an Artificial Immune System to classify spam?

More letters between Einstein and his wives and kids released.

HotCoffee being informally investigated by the SEC

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So some of you may think that everyone is overreacting to all the data breaches and stolen identities... There aren't that many, right?  Would you like to see a chronology of them since Feb 2005? Here's a little tidbit: TOTAL number of records containing sensitive personal information involved in security breaches -- 88,931,692

What's this? Aether might be real after all?

Mram appears to be faster than flash

I'm not sure how I feel about OpenDNS auto-fixing my misspelled URLs. How do they know that I don't really want to go to whitehouse.net in order to read: We Chinese super hacker!!!!! Hahahahahah!!!!! USA suck!!!! Hahahahahahah!!!! USA pilots gay!!!!! Hahahahahah!!!! We kill all USA!!!! Hahahahah!! You president dope. Hahahahah!!! We Chinese, we play joke, we put pee pee in your Coke. Hahahahah!! We hate you!!!! Hahahahahahahahahah!!!! You dumb. I mean, maybe someone saw that, said it was funny, and I went to look and OpenDNS said "You misspelled that".

Van Gogh's paintings apparently are painted according to natural phenomena

Woot! A judge ruled that ripping out the naughty bits of movies is a copyright violation. Now, you are probably wondering why I said woot about anything to do with copyright violations? Because I want to see the naughty bits, of course.

UNESCOs' Indian Ocean Tsuanami Warning System is up and running

A big woot for Ricoh, who have developed a component capable of writing both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, as well as normal CDs and DVDs

WILL POWER!	I'd like to cast Aether Lance at a cost of 500 mana at the white house.  You know, since it's real now and all. Posted by WILL POWER! on Mon Jul 10 03:40:00 PDT 2006

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I was going to check out this new ornithophter, but it appears that the guys' site has been slashdotted. Will have to check it out later.

The Galileo GPS satellites' encryption has been broken

Dell busted for bad customer service. Since many of you know a bit about their tech support, does it make you wonder

Well, if the FBI gets their new legislation through that enforces that all networking gear give them a backdoor, I think I will have to switch to an open-source router (hardware and/or software). Anyone else want to help me start designing replacements?

Looks like freighter ships might soon have sails again

New cell phone headset eliminates background noise

PayPal phishing moves to phone calls instead of urls

New Transformers Movie?????

For those of you who have not seen Pirates of the Caribbean 2 yet, maybe you would like to see the new Transformers trailer???

WILL POWER!	That trailer was kind of lame. Posted by WILL POWER! on Sat Jul 08 12:56:00 PDT 2006

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OfficeMax does away with mail-in rebates

School administrators searching students cell phone data. Guess if you are a student, you don't deserve any privacy, eh?

WTF? Now this is just awesome.... Buying a house for a red paperclip

How about an artificial solar system in a can?

Well, the government is reporting that the FBI foiled an attack by monitoring a chat room. Personally, I wouldn't put it past them to be making it up. It is an election year after all, and they are trying so hard to take all your rights away.

It appears the assholes at Friendster patented Social Networking.

Not long now, and we can all stop watching tv shows on ABC. Why, you ask? Because if they disable the DVR fast forward button, then I would prefer to watch the other shows I have recorded instead of wasting 1/3rd of my time watching their lame ass commercials

WILL POWER!	Fuck mail in rebates, fuck searching phone data, and fuck the government. Oh, yeah, and fuck commmercials. Posted by WILL POWER! on Sat Jul 08 01:20:00 PDT 2006