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Submission + - Burning Water key to energy woes? (wkyc.com)

Submitted by jrsumm on Thursday September 13, 2007 @06:57PM

jrsumm writes: According to this story , inventor John Kanzius has developed a device which will set fire to salt water by blasting it with high frequency radio waves. Using a device he originally developed for cancer research, Mr Kanzius may have discovered the next great green fuel source. Reaction is mixed. According to Professor Emeritus Rustum Roy at the Penn State University Materials Lab it "... is the biggest discovery in 100 years of water research." However, University of Akron Professor Emeritus Rudy Scavuzzo says that it "...is nothing more than a new twist on a high school science experiment."

Submission + - Salt water as a fuel. 3

Submitted by

Quantum Logic

on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @07:31PM

Quantum Logic writes: "Cancer researcher John Kanzius while trying to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer has accidentally discovered a way to burn salt water. The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies."

Submission + - 20 YR OLD Captures Abusive Police Officer on Tape (wikinews.org)

Submitted by

teambpsi

on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @06:41PM

teambpsi writes: ""Brett Darrow, 20, had installed a hidden camera inside his car, much like the way some police officers do, and caught the entire incident on tape. Darrow then posted the video on the internet on places like YouTube.com."

Combine this with a GPS and a in-car monitoring system and we could kick off a "Bigger-Sister" project to counter Big Brother :)"

Submission + - Theory of Nothing

Submitted by

HighPerformanceCoder

on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @08:05PM

HighPerformanceCoder writes: ""Theory of Nothing" is a romp through areas of physics, maths, biology, computer science and philosophy to ties together a coherent explanation for why things are as they seem.

I have just posted the book as a free (as in beer) download.

Amazon.com gives the book a Flesch-Kincaid index of 12.9 , ie suitable for a reading age of some studying Grade 13 (First year uni). Sounds like the slashdot crowd to me! Also the topic will be of interest to some readers on this list."

Submission + - Spammers use modified PDF files to avoid detection

Submitted by thefickler on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @07:04PM

thefickler writes: In the continuing effort to get more spam past email filters, professional spammers are not only stepping up their use of PDF attachments to deliver their offers of penile implants and cheap pharmaceuticals, but they are also modifying the PDFs to avoid detection. Worse yet, the chief security analyst at MessageLabs, Mark Sunner, has suggested that PDF attachments might soon be used by spammers to delivery malware.

Submission + - iPhone Unlocked?

Submitted by

fabiolr

on Sunday July 01, 2007 @10:59PM

fabiolr writes: "All the buzz about the iPhone but little is said about if it will be unlocked soon. Most GSM phones get unlocked quickly, and iPhone has even more features to be unlocked, like the iPod. Digg has setup a contest. Also, I found this promising (but unlikely true) website saying they can unlock yours from your IMEI. If you have seen the iPhone dissected, you may wonder: How do you change your SIM card, if you unlock it? I wish I heard more about it, since I live in Brazil and have alerady ordered one at apple.com, but haven't figured out how (and if) I will be able to use it."

Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell 1267

Posted by Zonk on Sunday July 01, 2007 @09:01PM from the here-comes-the-super-copter-here-comes-the-noise-it-makes dept.

xnuandax writes "The army's explanation of weather balloons in the Roswell, New Mexico incident 60 years ago has been dealt a serious public relations blow. Late Army Lt. Walter Haut had signed a sealed affidavit prior to his death last year asserting that he had witnessed the wreckage of an egg-shaped craft and its extraterrestrial crew while working at the Roswell Army Air Field. An article at News.com.au reviews how Haut had worked as public relations officer for the Roswell base and was involved in the original weather balloon explanation of events at the time. This recent evidence would seem to confirm speculation that egg-shaped saucers are notoriously difficult to fly safely at low altitude."

Submission + - idea for wireless darknet published (ubuntuforums.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01, 2007 @08:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: A few weeks ago the idea of a wireless darknet has been put forth, intended to eventually replace the way the internet works today, providing an anonymity not possible with today's centralized ways of routing data. It is essentially similar to freenet.

Submission + - How to unlock a Stuck iPhone Activation (noahgift.com)

Submitted by

noahgift

on Saturday June 30, 2007 @10:08PM

noahgift writes: "Here is the hack on how to INSTANTLY unlock your locked Apple iPhone activation:"

Submission + - CIA offered mob cash to kill Castro (smh.com.au)

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @02:05AM

Stony Stevenson writes: The SMH is reporting that the CIA offered $177,600 to Mafia figures to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, just one of several CIA plots against foreign leaders detailed in 693 pages of classified US documents released today.

From the article: "Other targets of CIA targets, long alleged but only now revealed in the intelligence agency's own documents, included Congo independence leader Patrice Lumumba as well as Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo."

Submission + - Another Linux Vendor Signs Patent Pact with MS

Submitted by

RLiegh

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @01:46AM

RLiegh writes: "This article at Yahoo! news talks about the latest in a growing list of patent agreements reached between Microsoft and vendors. In a deal struck between Linspire (nee' "Lindows") and Microsoft, Linspire will be granted license to use True Type Fonts and "various code" that would allow for Linspire users to talk voice on Windows Live Messenger as well as the usual patent protection for Linspires' customers. In return, among other things, Linspire will make Microsoft's search engine the default search on PCs shipped with their OS.

Kevin Carmony, the CEO for Linspire, approached Microsoft a year and a half ago, according to the article."

Submission + - Final Draft of GPL3 Grants Novell a Free Pass

Submitted by

Kadin2048

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @02:18PM

Kadin2048 writes: "According to an article at Ars, posted yesterday, the proposed final draft of the GPL3 will contain an exemption for Novell's pact with Microsoft. The "Novell clause" would allow Novell to continue using GPL3 code, by exempting 'selective-license' agreements entered into before March 28, 2007. Eben Moglen, Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, justified the change, saying "[the license] can do more to protect the community by allowing Novell to use software under GPL version 3 than by forbidding it to do so." The apparent crux of the FSF's position is that by allowing Novell to distribute GPL3 software, the patent agreements between Microsoft and Novell and their direct customers (those who bought 'vouchers'), would percolate down to all Linux users. However, this tactic could backfire, since "the [GPL3 downstream patent-conveyance] provision is only applicable when a patent is licensed to some parties. The actual text of the agreement between Microsoft and Novell — which was largely disclosed in Novell's recent SEC filing — reveals that the patent aspect of the deal consists exclusively of a covenant not to sue and does not actually involve any patent licensing at all." So it would seem that the FSF is gambling: giving Novell/Microsoft to distribute GPL3 software with the special exemption, and hoping that they can use this to their advantage later."

Submission + - Become Invisible to GPS Trackers (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

sussane

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @05:38AM

sussane writes: "Using GPS blockers, GPS positioning systems become ineffective irrespective of where they are installed or hidden. Just switch on your GPS blocker and you disappear instantaneously. By interfering with signals sent to any GPS receiver located within an area of a few meters, the GPS blocker renders position storage or transmission impossible. It is not necessary to know where exactly the positioning system is installed. Using GPS Tracker blocker, GPS positioning systems become ineffective irrespective of where they are installed or hidden. Just switch on your GPS blocker and you disappear instantaneously."

Submission + - Controlling computers with an implant, or head ban (cnn.com)

Submitted by

Killam0n

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @05:36AM

Killam0n writes: "Surfing the Web with nothing but brainwaves

Here is the link to cnn money/business2.0, future boy, where the story is. http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/21/technology/googleb rain0721.biz2/index.htm

SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) — — Two years ago, a quadriplegic man started playing video games using his brain as a controller. That may just sound like fun and games for the unfortunate, but really, it spells the beginning of a radical change in how we interact with computers — and business will never be the same. Someday, keyboards and computer mice will be remembered only as medieval-style torture devices for the wrists. All work — emails, spreadsheets, and Google searches — will be performed by mind control."

Submission + - 30th Anniversary of Apple II going on sale (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by WhatAboutTheAltair on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @05:18AM

WhatAboutTheAltair writes: June 5th 1977 (exactly 30 years ago today) was an important date in the history of computing: the Apple II, the world's first practical personal computer went on sale. $1,298 (equivalent to about $4,000 in 2007 terms) got you a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor blitzing away at 1MHz, 4KB of RAM, Interger BASIC on ROM, an audio cassette interface for storing programs & data, and a 24x40 caps-only video output which you could connect to your TV with an RF modulator. For $2,638 you could get your hands on the top-end machine equipped with a massive 48KB of RAM — and you thought the price of RAM upgrades at the Apple Store was expensive today!

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