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- Shock absorbers for woodhouses
- In November 2006, a 73,000-pound, 1,800-square-foot woodhouse will be subjected to the equivalent of a very powerful earthquake... in a lab. This house will be equipped with shock absorbers installed horizontally throughout its walls. The experiment will be recorded with the help of 250 sensors installed throughout the house and...
- Tags: shock absorber, NEESWood Project, This House
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
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- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Tags: Humor, Rickroll, Chuck Norris, Internet, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Green Plug snags heavy hitter for board
- Who says green tech isn't rocket science? Starting Sept. 1, green tech start-up Green Plug, which is pushing for the concept of a universal power converter, has appointed former White House advisor George Keyworth as the chairman of its board of directors. Keyworth was Science Advisor to...
- Tags: Green Technology, White House, Board, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to followHmm, I wonder how long it will take the torrent abusers...... to reach that cap and get kicked? Not talking about the ones who get movies and software and games all illegally but the ones who serve this stuff up?...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Corporate communications, Comcast Corp., broadband cap, broadband, stat
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Guns n Roses leaker faces prison time
- Guns n Roses leaker faces prison timeI think it should be a civil matter, myself......but if Congress made it a felony, then we can't blame the US Attorney if he takes prompt action. No sympathy for the leaker.BTW: I really didn't want or need to see the cover photo....
- Tags: INTERNET, Peer to peer (P2P), leaker, Guns n Roses leaker, Guns n Rose, felony
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Don't leave that fridge by the curb!
- Don't leave that fridge by the curb!Laughing hereI guess it's alright when envirofascists want to regulate our icebox because at least they're staying out of our bedrooms.BTW, my garden resents you preaching that we should remove 60 pounds of food from its photosynthetic leaves.Somebody has to speak for the plants...
- Tags: fridge, Freon
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- ZeeVee ZvBox Zv-100
- These days, there's a wide range of products that will stream on-demand movies from the Internet to your living room (Apple TV, Vudu, Xbox 360, TiVo, PS3, and Roku's Netflix Player). The ability to access YouTube videos, video podcasts, and other online content is built into some of those products...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, ZvBox, video, PC, TV
- Product reviews 2008-08-27
- Don't leave that fridge by the curb!
- I saw a television out on our street a couple of mornings ago when I left for my morning job/walk, waiting for pick-up by the garbage dudes. I resisted the urge to narc on my neighbors, since it's actually illegal to place said TVs curbside in New Jersey, but it...
- Tags: Southern California Edison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The role of media in the Internet age
- The role of media in the Internet ageThe problem is simple and will never be correctedPrint media is dying because they are not much more than democrat-party house organs and people are tired of listening to "America sucks" stories that constitute their constant non-stop drivel.They'll never fix the problem because...
- Tags: Investment, Advertising & Promotion, stock price, stock, problem-I, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Failed government IT: 'The mother of all databases'
- The "IT system used to identify terrorist threats that has been crippled by technical flaws," according to a memo from the House of Representatives. The failed system is part of a central US government repository of data called the mother of all databases. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Program, Information Technology, Data, NCTC, Subcommittee, Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment Database, Railhead, Submission, Government, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Microsoft, eat your own dog food
- Microsoft, eat your own dog foodReally?"Using hidden aspects of Windows to advantage Microsoft's own applications has been disallowed and behavioral remedies including disclosure demanded."I can't find these in the DOJ settlement, please help: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f9400/9495.htmWe can of course look to the EU which did demand documentation of a small subset of...
- Tags: .NET, Middleware, food, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Magna Charta: Welcome Back, Ross Perot
- So, EDS is gone again, subsumed by HP. But, lo and behold, H. Ross Perot is back, just in time for the presidential elections. Now, you can view his slides about the dangers of the federal deficit and debt online, any time you want. Or, hear him posit...
- Tags: Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Patch issued for Ubuntu security flaw
- Patch issued for Ubuntu security flawGood thing[i]A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root, or crash the system, leading to a denial of service.[/i]Good thing I'd stopped letting malicious users into my house and giving them access to my desktop.RE: Patch issued for Ubuntu security flawLOL!!...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, security, Ubuntu security flaw, Ubuntu security, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- X-Box (and Cell Phone) Nation: Election Rests In Digital Hands
- The Democratic convention gets started tonight and in the constant quest for the unconventional technological means of getting out the youth vote, the X-Box is today's "in" device. By itself, this may not be a big deal. There are about 12 million X-Box members around...
- Tags: Presidential Election, Phone, Election, Cell Phone, X-Box, Democratic Convention, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fightIt's going to be a short fightFlash is so technically inferior to Silverlight in virtually every capacity that it is already dead. Real developers have avoided web development effectively ceding it to the html weenies as the web has always been a truly...
- Tags: Channel management, Web browsers, Microsoft Silverlight, developer, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- (Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week)
- (Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week)Fuel economy?The BMW is nice, but at $99,300 I think the fuel economy is a much smaller factor to purchasing a vehicle similar in price to my house with much less square footage and no lawn.RE: (Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week)Ever driven...
- Tags: Top 10 Reviews, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services
- Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll. Poll right talked about Qwest's broadband strategy...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Qwest Communications Inc., Service, West, Cable, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Broadband Internet, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Mandatory email
- Mandatory emailWe need better emailFrankly, email is currently broken - spam and scams and phishing make it a mess to wade through, even with the best spam blocking stuff.Problem is, we decided to use "adaptive filtering" statistical junk rather than solid encryption and digital signatures. What do the spammers do?...
- Tags: e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureDefinitionsI don't know if there is any official definition for "application appliance" out there, but you are using it differently than I would.You are using it to mean "a machine that runs applications whose internal operation is a black box," or something along those...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Tools & Techniques, application appliance, software-as-a-service, server
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Sprint Airave
- Since a cell phone is practically useless without good signal strength, a signal booster is sometimes required to boost it. We've seen plenty signal boosters here at CNET, from the Wi-Ex zBoost YX510-PCS-CEL to the ARC Freedom Antenna. However, Sprint has decided to release device to boost the signal of...
- Tags: Handhelds, Sprint Airave, Sprint Communications, GPS
- Product reviews 2008-08-21
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