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Comment Re:Cost of UPS vs Colo? (Score 1) 260

by RockWolf (#31149538) Attached to: UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company?

Be careful though, I was out with a group testing for heavy metal contaminations. There were some pretty notable traces of a few in the outlet. Probably safe to swim in, but not exactly safe to drink. So much for the idea of "clean" energy. Clean out of the smoke stacks, dirty out of the warm water outlets. It's kinda hard for the casual observer to test for contamination in the steam outlets, but I'd suspect it exists too. But hey, whatcha going to do?

Not eat the fish. ;)
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Anti Terror Honor System 74

Posted by CmdrTaco from the yeah-that'll-work-out-fine dept.
Fortunately for us, the FAA has imposed the honor system as our next best defense against terrorism. Hopefully this will allow them to increase the volume of non-bladder liquid I'm allowed to take on planes.

Comment Re:Cost of UPS vs Colo? (Score 1) 260

by RockWolf (#31141280) Attached to: UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company?

It was owned by FPL when I was there, but it's now owned by Progress Energy. It's one of those locations that folks don't like to visit from out of town. "Fly into the nearest large airport. Drive 80 miles. Continue 10 miles out of the last resemblance of civilization, and take a left. If you cross an abandon Corps of Engineers project, you've gone too far. Continue down what looks like a road to nowhere, and eventually you'll get to a guard shack. Show your ID, and then hang a left, and follow the road around to the reactor" :) Oh, the memories. It reminds me of why I left there.

Sounds like my kind of place. No, seriously. There's a reason I'm a geologist.

./Rockwolf
Idle

Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos 428

Posted by samzenpus from the two-pound-hammer-and-ten-penny-nail dept.
wisebabo writes "Nathan Myhrvol demonstrated at TED a laser, built from parts scrounged from eBay, capable of shooting down not one but 50 to 100 mosquitos a second. The system is 'so precise that it can specify the species, and even the gender, of the mosquito being targeted.' Currently, for the sake of efficiency, it leaves the males alone because only females are bloodsuckers. Best of all the system could cost as little as $50. Maybe that's too expensive for use in preventing malaria in Africa but I'd buy one in a second!" We ran a story about this last year. It looks like the company has added a bit more polish, and burning mosquito footage to their marketing.
Medicine

Heavy Internet Use Linked To Depression 360

Posted by timothy from the uses-mental-bandwidth dept.
An anonymous reader writes "People who spend a lot of time surfing the internet are more likely to show signs of depression, British scientists said on Wednesday. These 'internet addicts' spent proportionately more time browsing sexually gratifying websites, online gaming sites and online communities, Morrison said. They also had a higher incidence of moderate to severe depression than normal users."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Screed on the Higgs Boson

Journal by mburns

The data from Fermilab will have probed, when finished, anti-protons to the detail of 10 inverse femtobarns. This is 1.e44 particles passing through every square meter of cross section of the targeted anti-protons (using the units program on Linux).
Biotech

Scientists Create Artificial Meat 820

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the mmmmm-soggy-pork dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that scientists have created the first artificial meat by extracting cells from the muscle of a live pig and putting them in a broth of other animal products where the cells then multiplied to create muscle tissue. Described as soggy pork, researchers believe that it can be turned into something like steak if they can find a way to 'exercise' the muscle and while no one has yet tasted the artificial meat, researchers believe the breakthrough could lead to sausages and other processed products being made from laboratory meat in as little as five years' time. '"What we have at the moment is rather like wasted muscle tissue. We need to find ways of improving it by training it and stretching it, but we will get there," says Mark Post, professor of physiology at Eindhoven University. "You could take the meat from one animal and create the volume of meat previously provided by a million animals." Animal rights group Peta has welcomed the laboratory-grown meat, announcing that "as far as we're concerned, if meat is no longer a piece of a dead animal there's no ethical objection while the Vegetarian Society remained skeptical. "The big question is how could you guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had been slaughtered. It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust.""
Security

Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? 1007

Posted by kdawson from the encrypted-plain-text-file-on-a-stick dept.
StonyCreekBare writes "Lately I've been rethinking my personal security practices. Should my laptop be stolen, having Firefox 'fill in' passwords automatically for me when I go to my bank's site seems sub-optimal. Keeping passwords for all the varied sites on the computer in a plain-text file seems unwise as well. Keeping them in my brain is a prescription for disaster, as my brain is increasingly leaky. A paper notepad likewise has its disadvantages. I have looked at a number of password managers, password 'vaults' and so on. The number of tools out there is a bit overwhelming. Magic Password Generator add-in for Firefox seems competent, but it's tied to Firefox, and I have other places and applications where I want passwords. And I might be accessing my sites from other computers that don't have it installed. The ideal tool in my mind should be something that is independent of any application, browser, or computer; something that is easily carried, but which if lost poses no risk of compromise. What does the Slashdot crowd like in password tools?"
Transportation

Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested At the LHC 322

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i-can't-believe-i-used-the-transportation-topic dept.
KentuckyFC writes "In 1924, the influential German mathematician David Hilbert calculated that a stationary mass should repel a particle moving towards or away from it at more than half the speed of light (as seen by a distant inertial observer). Now an American physicist has pointed out that the equal and opposite effect should also hold true: that a relativistic particle should repel a stationary mass. This, he says, could form the basis of a 'hypervelocity propulsion drive' for accelerating spacecraft to a good fraction of the speed of light. The idea is that the repulsion allows the relativistic particle to deliver a specific impulse that is greater than its specific momentum, an effect that is analogous to the elastic collision of a heavy mass with a much lighter, stationary mass, from which the lighter mass rebounds with about twice the speed of the heavy mass. Unlike other exotic hyperdrive proposals, this one can be tested using the world's largest particle accelerator, the LHC, which will generate beams of particles with the required energy (abstract). Placing a test mass next to the beam line and measuring the forces on it as the particles pass by should confirm the theory — or scupper it entirely."
Apple

Apple Takes Action Over Australian Logos 425

Posted by kdawson from the that's-no-w dept.
sams67 writes "Australian supermarket Woolworth is on the receiving end of an action from Apple over Woolworth's new logo. The green, highly stylized 'W' logo could at best be described as 'apple-like.' As outlined in the article, Apple is taking similar action in Australia against music festival promoter, Poison Apple, and pay TV provider Foxtel, over their fruit-related logos."

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