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- Community solar: "Why don't they get it in Washington?"
- Community solar: "Why don't they get it in Washington?"What is the maintanance cost, and backup planshould a storm or fire destroy the structure?It's all about feeling goodThere are people who think logically, and people who think emotionally. Logically, solar is still a losing technology when factoring in all costs...
- Tags: taxes, free trade, tax
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Can light drive a motor?
- According to a research team led by professor Tomiki Ikeda at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the answer is yes. But this kind of motor is far too small to power your car -- at least today. In fact, these chemists have developed a plastic motor powered by light. The...
- Tags: belt, motor, ikeda, team management, management, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Wikipedia is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Wikipedia is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyThe proper context for Wikipedia:[b][i]"Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms. The Hitch Hiker's...
- Tags: wiki, lord, hitch hiker, wikipedia, independents day, galaxy
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: pc, linux, desktops, microsoft windows, data centers, operating systems, open source, software, hardware, storage, data management, jason perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 'A Level' app turns iPhone into handyman's best friend
- Sure, it's not a gadget per se, but I just thought it was the most interesting and simple app I've seen thus far for the iPhone. A-Level is a virtual, digital level (or 'spirit level'). It uses the iPhone's motion detectors to determine whether the phone is...
- Tags: apple iphone, a-level, product blurb, telecom & utilities, andrew nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...
- Tags: apple iphone, sony corp., facebook, larry dignan, yahoo! inc., brocade communications systems inc., apple inc., mice, utility computing, 3g, open source, hardware, peripherals, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- LCD TVs recommended over plasma TVs in retail, Samsung and Sony top recommended brands
- At a rate of more than three to one, retail electronics salespersons are recommending liquid crystal display LCD flat screen TVs instead of sets using plasma technology to shoppers who are seeking to purchase big screen televisions (sets with screens measuring 40 inches or larger), according to the J.D.Power and...
- Tags: sony corp., brand, lcd tv, plasma tv, samsung electronics co. ltd., salesperson, lcd, branding, monitors & displays, tvs, tv & home theater, marketing, hardware, components, personal technology, home entertainment, am
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?
- Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?The perception is ...... Apple can't be great without Steve Jobs. I personally don't feel this is necessarily the case even though when Jobs was ousted proved to be a disastrous decision for Apple.Apple is in a strong growth period and...
- Tags: quality, desktops, digital media, steve j, apple inc., steve jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?
- Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?Where's Sarah Connor?Will it change its shape to an LA policeman and chase me in a tractor trailer truck?Mercury?It's the only metal I know of that is liquid at room temperature.RE: Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?Reminds me of liquid-sodium-cooled nuclear...
- Tags: liquid metal-cooled cpu, metal-cooled cpu, water-cooled system, liquid metal-cooled cpu, cpu, galinstan, mercury, pc
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!Good RiddanceGood riddanceZD Can't SpellIt's "riddance" not "riddens". If "riddens" was supposed to be a play on words or a joke or a reference to something having to do with coffee, I don't get it.Otherwise, since you guys write about tech, maybe use that there...
- Tags: starbucks corp., bean, riddens
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?
- UK-based Bios Magazine is reporting that the world's first commercially available liquid-metal based CPU cooler is about to ship -- and that Danish company Danamics says that its LM-10 outperforms standard air-cooled heatsinks and most watercooled systems with a power draw of just 1W: The liquid metal is a...
- Tags: metal, cpu, liquid metal-cooled cpu, liquid metal, bios, processors, hardware, components, semiconductors, andrew nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...
- Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninjaLiberties"Mr. Future President, while you’re at it, could you also do something about all of the civil liberties we’re losing because of the ‘war on terrorism’? That’d be great. Thanks!"that is the point of Cyber Czar - censor what...
- Tags: security, cyber-security measure, comprehensive cyber-security measure, obama, cybersecurity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Your flat screen TV could be killing the planet, read all about it
- There's a research paper being much-touted in the tech and green press: concludes that nitrogen trifluoride is many times worse for the earth's atmosphere than methane or CO2 or the more popular greenhouse gases. That nitrogen trifluoride, also known as NF3, its chemical formula, is used in making...you got...
- Tags: atmosphere, carbon dioxide, tv, harry fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08
- It would seem there's a bigger story to that MS08-037 flaw that came out for Patch Tuesday today. From Dave Lewis over at the Liquid Matrix security blog: Today Dan Kaminsky released a first, as far as I can recall. A coordinated patch was released today...
- Tags: black hat, dns, cert, flaw, mogull, updates, domain names, networking, security, internet, nathan mcfeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Happy 4th of July
- For all of my blasting of the TSA and the US Government for our strange, inappropriate, inadequate, and sometimes unacceptable security practices, I am damn proud to be an American. There's many countries I've visited in this world, and I love many of them, but none like the good...
- Tags: blog, blogging, internet, nathan mcfeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!Airport SecurityI'm fairly sure if anyone was to see me naked... their eyeballs would no longer function anyway. I say go ahead, it's more a punishment for them than me. But I can certainly understand why many people would find...
- Tags: airport security, body scanners!, scanners!, nate
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures
- McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failuresI get slammed for pronouncing the name wrong, but McAfee is the bestMcAfee is the only true voice on security. I have never once seen a computer with their AV software installed that has be overrun with viruses. If this is...
- Tags: security, mcafee inc., hackersafe
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past
- To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...
- Tags: oil, coal, energy, fossil fuel, chris nelder, nelder, iea, u235, corporate communications, telecom & utilities, marketing, harry fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
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