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Coisiche writes:
Under extreme pressure, such as might be expected in a gas giant, water does not behave as expected. It forms a "fluid capable of conducting electricity that behaves more like a weak metal".
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Coisiche writes:
A couple of European "typosquatters" have been fined.
The article is short on detail about what their fake sites were called but I'd have to say I'd be a bit suspicious if I thought I was on Wikipedia (which is named as an example) and got invited to try a competition. The only hard fact presented is that someone was conned out of 63 pounds sterling while thinking they were accessing YouTube.
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Coisiche writes:
Some bird flu articles have been subjected to demands for redaction over worries about how some information could be used and the publishers have caved.
I wonder if this means that buying ferrets will get your name flagged to the anti-terror organisations.
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Coisiche writes:
To address the many responses to the original findings, the OPERA team who were perplexed by the results first time round are starting a new and improved version of their experiment launching neutrinos in Switzerland and detecting them in Italy.
My money is on that the improvements will prevent the mis-detection of FTL particles.
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Coisiche writes:
A study indicates that the public supports the principle of geo-engineering to reverse unfavourable changes. Perhaps it really just indicates that they believe in "magic" fixes and don't give any consideration to "what could possibly go wrong".
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Coisiche writes:
A potential new way for powering implants.
Of course there's never been an SF movie with a plot device of how that could end up being used...
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Coisiche writes:
Many of us will remember Shoemaker-Levy 9 hitting Jupiter but it seems that comets hitting gas giants isn't really that uncommon. There is evidence that one would have struck Saturn's rings just a few centuries before telescopes.
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Coisiche writes:
iPad owners in most of Europe can now access a BBC iPlayer (I wonder why Apple have never pulled them over on that name) with an iPad app. It does seem that the headline writer was maybe a bit premature in using the word "global" though.
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Coisiche writes:
A UK man can't be stopped from making and selling replica stormtrooper armour by the Lucasfilm lawyers.
I still don't feel the need to buy one.
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Coisiche writes:
As the UK branch of Murdoch's empire is subjected to increasing comdemnation as new allegations emerge, the BBC has a Q&A page. suitable for those seeking a summary of the story.
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Coisiche writes:
Just when you thought it couldn't be, it just became so.
All I can say is, FFS
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Coisiche writes:
Well causing outrage may be a daily occurrence for the partisan "newspaper" that seems to be frequently mentioned on slashdot and whose infamy seems to extend beyond the UL shores. This time though, implying causality between a tragic death and strike action was just a bit more than many could stomach
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Coisiche writes:
Despite recent events in Japan and the certain public outcry that it will generate, the UK government propses to build new nuclear power stations.
Well, earthquakes and tsunamis are very rare here.
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Coisiche writes:
Virgin Media are not spying on their customers, oh no. But they do know if any are infected with malware and inform them.
And i did like how the headline shows on the BBC site — Virgin alerts infected customers. No double entendre their then.
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Coisiche writes:
It's us. Well not really but there are apparently vague similarities.
