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Poop power, the old dream revisited

Poop power, the old dream revisitedMother Earth NewsThey could save some research and read that mid-70's favorite of the hippies counter culture - The Mother Earth News.TMEN also published an article about a hydraulic regenerative energy system for a VW beetle that got 107 mpg ... University of Oregon did...

Tags: Mother Earth News, Poop

Discussion threads 2009-04-06

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Treece and truth

Treece, KSYes, Treece is pretty much a toxic wasteland. But instead of ranting about the blowing off of mountaintops, clear-cutting forests, plowing up the prairie, and providing a link to an informationless NYT blurb, why don't you actually *talk* about Treece?Why not tell some of the story of *why*...

Tags: Treece

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Prosecutor: Cybercrime will follow the cloud

Prosecutor: Cybercrime will follow the cloudWrongConsumers dont want the tether to the mother ship.Consumers want a product in their hand in this case optical disk that they can put in a drawer and use if their pc blows up.Logical or not. Tangible product for their $ is what the consumer...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, TVs, TV & Home Theater, cybercrime

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Can we engineer insect-free crops?

Can we engineer insect-free crops?I think that if the past has taught us anythingit is that it is not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Genetic crop engineering is a nice idea, but who knows the long term health consequences.We, after about 50 years of trying, still can't engineer a...

Tags: Food & Beverage, food, patent, Agribusiness

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Global warming will force dictionary re-write

Global warming will force dictionary re-writeLose some gain some?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5301082/Climate-change-The-elements-conspire-against-the-warmists.htmlAnd elsewhere I read that sun spot activity is very very low and the experts don?t know why.Let's all please be cautious about what we understand and what we don't. And what we can predict and what we can't.The hole in the...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Why the hell would anyone actually use AOL???

Why the hell would anyone actually use AOL???Everyone is just so eager these daysto pronounce judgement on others because they make decisions different than you. It's juvenile. Instead of insulting people like your superintendent, why don't you just ask him what he finds appealing about AOL and see if you...

Tags: E-mail, PRODUCTIVITY, America Online Inc., AOL Client

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

Why we need a new energy calculus

Why we need a new energy calculusRE: Why we need a new energy calculusThe new calculus is simple - cheap energy equals prosperity; expensive energy equals depression. We had better start thinking about how we can acquire large amounts of cheap energy or be prepared to enter the third world....

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, energy calculu, new energy calculu, coal, tax

Discussion threads 2008-12-26

One, long unbroken string of weather records--what do they tell us?

One, long unbroken string of weather records--what do they tell us?Still it is insufficient evidenceAt least for the hard line Republicans it is.Over a hundred years of data? Wow, that's like...Standing in your front yard for one minute between 0742 and 0743 while smoking a cigarette and extrapolating the next...

Tags: Climate Change, cigarette, weather record

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

The end of the world?

Probably not. Today (Wednesday, well it is for me anyway), we see the first beam test of the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, in the CERN's labs in Switzerland. The point of this, quite frankly, bloody huge experiment is to try and recreate the Big Bang on...

Tags: Apple iPod, Big Bang, Computer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Productivity, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Coal's outspoken enemy and his uphill battle

Coal's outspoken enemy and his uphill battleMore FB-SMore faith Based Science. Explain exactly how this is a problem when the average temperature hasn't increased in the last decade and the polar icecap was 10% larger in 2007 than in 2006.Coldest summer in Alaska, on Record?James Hansen would prefer us all...

Tags: global warming, coal, outspoken enemy

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

News to Know: Googlenomics; Windows Mobile 7 phones; Broadband hell

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Free Sourcefire tool pinpoints hostile MS Office files Apple security team finds code execution holes in Ruby Google using invalid security certificate Dancho Danchev: Phishers targeting Facebook users, fake logins...

Tags: Security, Google Inc., Phone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Information Technology, Broadband, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Virtualization, Telecom & Utilities, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Amazon enters alternative payment game; invests in Bill Me Later

Amazon enters alternative payment game; invests in Bill Me LaterPLEASE fix this, or do not use Apostrophes!"Amazon: The biggest payment system you've never heard of "Don't know what rock you've been under ...Don't know what rock you've been hiding under... bill me later has been pushing commercials of itself all...

Tags: Operational accounting, Amazon.com Inc., payment

Discussion threads 2007-12-11

News to know: Dell's tablet PC; SAP on VMware; Office Live Workspace; The transistor's birthday

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell launches its first tablet PC; Hopes touch boosts interest. Techmeme. VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier? David Morgenstern: Waiting for Leopard's iSCSI support News.com: Silicon Valley celebrates...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Tablet PC, Transistor, NetSuite Inc., Microsoft Office Live, SAP AG, VMware Inc., Tablet, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2007-12-11

WiMax on the rocks: Sprint-Clearwire pact unravels

WiMax on the rocks: Sprint-Clearwire pact unravelsHow do these companies make money when WiMax < 1ghz is FREE IN USAHere is the thing. The US tax payers already have paid for broadband wireless internet and phone access in the < 1ghz spectrum. This is the spectrum currently dedicated to TV...

Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Transnational Big Business, Google Inc., WiMAX, Clearwire Corp., spectrum, Sprint Communications

Discussion threads 2007-11-09

Male extinction: is this good news for the planet?

Male extinction: is this good news for the planet?PatheticSure, go ahead and kneel for the earth. Worship it and put a dagger in your chest. Get real.We are made to rule the planet. That's different from polluting it. And that's different from worshipping it. And that's different from seeing people...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Male extinction, extinction, wive, pregnancy

Discussion threads 2007-09-22

Male extinction: is this good news for the planet?

Believers in Gaia might say this is the Earth's revenege. I can't quote what my wife said. And my ex-wife, well, fergeddaboutit. Scientists say it's simply biochemistry. Men are becoming rarer, perhaps slipping slowly into extinction. Cryogenic sperm banks could become a huge...

Tags: Life, Baby, Girl Baby, Globalization, Sales Channel, Strategy, Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-22

Scoble's summer movie doesn't kick Google's butt

Robert Scoble livened up the August vacation time, when companies prefer to hold their announcements until after Labor Day (in the U.S. at least), with 35 minutes of video proclaiming that "SEO-resistant technologies like Mahalo, Techmeme, and Facebook are about to upend the search industry," meaning Google's dominant position in...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Movie, HDTV, Scoble, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Chinese boy kills mother over Net cafe money

Chinese boy kills mother over Net cafe money"It seems"?If you're going to claim that as much as 80% of juvenile crime might be perpetrated by 'internet addicts', you'd better back it up with more than just "it seems"...parental murderApparently, China doesn't understand that the epidemic they are now seeing has...

Tags: INTERNET, media, heaven, addiction, devil

Discussion threads 2007-06-14

A new postal service... from space

In September 2007, the European Space Agency ESA will launch its Foton M3 microgravity mission from Baikonur. The spacecraft will carry the Young Engineers Satellites (YES2) payload. The goal of this experiment -- designed by 500 European students -- is to send a 6-kilogram package from space to earth. This...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Space &, Aerospace

Blog posts 2007-05-15

'Critical' megapatch sews up 10 holes in IE

'Critical' megapatch sews up 10 holes in IEHuh?What are you, a dork or something??? Where do you get off claiming that linux patches require "visiting the website, skimming through message boards and news readers, no recompiling and reinstalling."???My patch update is totally convenient. I never have to do...

Tags: Patches, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer, patch management, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2006-04-11