The local oscillator in your standalone GPS creates a signal too :-) (albeit very tiny)

Never, and I repeat, NEVER agree to pay for GPS "service." You already have in your federal taxes. These ***hole cellphone companies that charge you for GPS are full of themselves. I will never use a phone-based GPS if it costs me a penny extra. Vote with your wallet.

Anybody or organization using an SSN as both an identifier and a form of authentication is stupid, irresponsible and should be held accountable 100% for breach of whatever resource they control. The problem is in the "shared secret" type use of a damn 9-digit number, with a few of the digits already known based on state of birth.

Want a list of ssn's for every state? Here's all of them. Have fun.

-Michael

What's so kinky about morse code? http://fists.org/

obviously, bittorrent to distribute the resulting set far and wide.

group-iv tiff + ASCII, key-value metadata descriptor in XML. Keep it generic.

It seems like this is the holy grail for electric vehicles, and we can finally stop burning dinosaur juice in our little bitty engines and realize the economies of scale of burning dinosaur farts in really big and efficient prime movers. This is all well and good, but how plentiful is lithium, and can it be recycled easily (I suspect yes)? -Michael

Open systems are used because evaporation carries away far more heat than a closed-loop system. To illustrate, the 6-cycle engine (standard 4-stroke + steam stroke) needs no cooling system whatsoever, and only carries about as much water as fuel.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=27.605462,-97.306359&spn=0.013139,0.021544&t=h&z=16 Suck in ocean water from one area, blow it out in another. This plant sucks water from the Laguna Madre (the body of water between the Texas coast and Padre Island) then spills the water into the Oso Bay, which is in turn connected to the Corpus Christi bay. This plant is a natural-gas fired plant, but evidently had coal in mind with the docks...cooling water and fuel via the same route.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.768261,-96.047201&spn=0.103977,0.172348&t=h&z=13 I noticed this a few weeks ago while flying over the area. Yes, this is nuke site.

Copyright does not give the property holder the right to tell users what color/brand glasses they are allowed to wear when reading a particular title and this is really no different. Amazon/Kindle should stick to their guns and let the end user decide to turn on the TTS engine or not. Besides, most people can read a lot faster than even the fastest discernible speech.

Not when the yellow period is shortened to increase the ticket yields, which I've not yet seen myself in my location, but have heard about. I'm not one to advocate running red lights, but if going up against intentionally shortened yellow lights, I say countermeasures are appropriate and justified. If a locale wants to play dirt, this'll shield their dirt.

Here's a neat idea. I really want to do the same with my license plate for the stupid redlight cameras in my city, but was thinking a few strong camera strobes with an IR filter set up as a slave flash would work better.

http://www.hacknmod.com/hack/blind-cameras-with-an-infrared-led-hat/

This IR hat hack is cool, but needs to be modified to regulate the current through the LEDs or they'll burn out quickly.