Who the Heck Raps About Particle Physics? (4)
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Hyundai Going Electric With Hybrids and Plug-Ins (2)
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The Korean automaker's got a slate of gas-electric cars it plans to start rolling out by 2010, and it predicts Korean battery tech will be on par with Japan's within five years.
Ad Targeting Based on ISP Tracking Now in Doubt (16)
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Efforts to sniff out consumers' interests are going by the wayside. One by one, companies are suspending plans to track their subscribers' personal web surfing habits in the hopes of delivering targeted ads.
How to Flick a Beer Cap (6)
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It's a hot late summer day with your buddy on the porch. You just popped a cold one and are fingering the ridges of the bottle cap. That's when your compadre bets he can flick his beer cap farther than yours. Here's how to show him how it's done.
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Dave E. said:
Good reading for the unexperienced..... :)
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Hadyn said:
is there anything the internet doesn't know?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/COMCAST_INTERNET_CAP?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT (11)
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Comcast, the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, says it will set an official limit on the amount of data subscribers can download and upload each month. On Oct. 1, the cable company will update its user agreement to say that users will be allowed 250 gigabytes of traffic per month, the company announced on its Web site.
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Dustin Diaz said:
No. Way.
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Todd said:
FUCK. THAT. SHIT.I may just get an aircard so I don't have to use them. I mean, I'll never use 250 gigs of bandwith. but still. it's the principle.
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Nate said:
This is outrageous!
Employers Finally Giving Bike Commuters Some Love (1)
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How To Download MP3s from Streaming Music Sites (27)
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Your favorite music sites let you listen to songs all day for free, but only as a stream -- if you want to load one of those songs onto your iPod and take it with you, you'll have to go buy it. But your browser stores streamed MP3s temporarily on your hard drive. Learn where to look and save them for later with our guide.
O. J. Simpson and Wired's Photoshop Experiment (3)
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Would society have reacted differently to the O. J. Simpson trial had he been white? That was the question John Plunkett, Wired's founding creative codirector, wanted to raise with the September 1995 cover — a photo altered to make Simpson appear Caucasian. "At the time," Plunkett recalls, "Photoshopped imagery still had the capacity to surprise in a way that's difficult to imagine today." The picture was widely mistaken for a critique of the infamous Time ...
Get started with Fire Eagle >> Webmonkey (4)
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Let's get locational. Yahoo Fire Eagle lets users administer their location to the various apps around the web. This way, a user can update their location to all of their social apps at once. Want in? Use Webmonkey's tutorial and Fire Eagle's API to get and then set a user's location.
Death by Volcano (2)
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: Photo: Austin Post/USGS Volcanoes inspire awe and terror because they can kill in so many ways -- flowing lava, suffocating ash, flood from a released lake, landslides, mudslides, burning gas, shockwaves, earthquakes and tsunamis. A volcano can kill even when it's not erupting, as happened at Lake Nyos in 1986. We start here with three famous eruptions, modern and ancient, and then show the seven deadliest eruptions of the last 500 years, as listed ...
Cloned Puppies: Sure, They're Cute, But at What Cost? (10)
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Why You Should Enable Gmail's SSL Feature Right Now (1)
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A security vulnerability in Google's web-based e-mail service can be easily side-stepped by adjusting your account settings. And you should do it now, because in a matter of weeks, Gmail is about to get a lot less secure.
Great Scott! We Unbox Nike's Hyperdunk 2015 Shoes (1)
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AT&T: Google Privacy Practices Worse Than ISP Snooping (13)
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Online advertising networks -- particularly Google's -- are more dangerous than the fledgling plans and dreams of ISPs to install eavesdropping equipment inside their internet pipes to serve tailored ads to their customers, AT&T says. At least that's what the company told Congress in a letter early this week, responding to four prominent House lawmakers who are bird-dogging ISPs about their online profiling practices. Those lawmakers asked 33 internet companies on August 1 to explain ...
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Logical Extremes said:
AT&T is mostly full of shit. As bad as cross-site ad tracking is, it's nothing compared to the spectre of Deep Packet Inspection.
Lotus Omnivore Runs on Anything Even Southern Comfort (1)
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Lotus Engineering develops a two-stroke engine that runs on just about anything short of puppy smiles and children's dreams and puts it in a car that smokes the Exige S.
Experts Accuse the Bush Administration of Foot-Dragging on DNS Security Hole (17)
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Despite a recent high-profile vulnerability that showed the net could be hacked in minutes, the domain name system -- a key internet infrastructure -- continues to suffer from a serious security weakness, thanks to bureaucratic inertia at the U.S. government agency in charge, security experts say. If the complicated politics of internet governance continue to get in the way of upgrading the security of the net's core technology, the internet could turn into a carnival ...
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CJ said:
The Bush administration screwing up? No way! Also, reason #112 why this should be done by the ITU instead of ICANN or Verisign.
Aging Livers Get Help From Dr. Cuervo (7)
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Researchers have genetically engineered mice to overproduce a protein that helps collect cellular garbage, creating old mice with livers that function as well as mice a quarter of their age.
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Convoluted said:
Pfff...why not drink now?:)
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Bill said:
Ugh...Cuervo...my head still hurts
Animatronic Pizza Parlor Band Catches Fire on YouTube (11)
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The rockin' robotic animals in the Rock-afire Explosion band get an updated repertoire courtesy of an online revival. Next up: A documentary about their creator, who's warehousing hundreds of the musical machines.
Aug. 7, 1944: Harvard, IBM Dedicate Mark I Computer (16)
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1944: Harvard and IBM dedicate the Mark I computer. Also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, or ASCC, the pioneering computer was notable for producing reliable results and its ability to run 24/7. Harvard electrical engineer Howard Aiken first dreamt up a large-scale calculator in 1937. He knew he needed a corporate partner and first courted Monroe Calculator Company, which turned him down. Aiken went back to the drawing board and came up ...
