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Garlic Farmer Wards Off High-Speed Internet 475

Posted by samzenpus from the attack-of-the-killer-garlic dept.
DocVM writes "A Nova Scotia farmer is opposing the construction of a microwave tower for fear it will eventually mutate his organic garlic crop. Lenny Levine, who has been planting and harvesting garlic by hand on his Annapolis Valley land since the 1970s, is afraid his organic crop could be irradiated if EastLink builds a microwave tower for wireless high-speed internet access a few hundred meters from his farm."

Comment Re:TCO (Score 1) 381

by deep_creek (#27032107) Attached to: Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt
My future plan is to avoid the power grid and use solar to power items around the house that don't need the grid. Say an AC window unit that could run during the day on solar to supplement my central AC unit, etc... Stuff like this can be achieved as a DIY project.
Idle

Submission + - Vampire Arrested for Threatening Teen

Submitted by deep_creek
deep_creek writes: Yesterday we had a Klingon robbing 7-11's... Today we have a Vampire in the news. Sign of the Times? From the Article " A self-described "vampyre" and former fringe political candidate faces charges for threatening a teenage girl who tried to break off their relationship by telling him she was actually a vampire hunter."

Comment Re:So much for not sacrificing ideals for safety. (Score 1) 906

by deep_creek (#26581215) Attached to: Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case
By temperament and voter registration, I'm a Republican; however, I voted for (and hope for) an Obama win because the path the government has taken over the last 7-8 years has saddened and disgusted me. I'm glad he won.
Sadly, the only way to reverse the path the government has taken the last 7-8 years is to somehow go back and erase 9/11. The economy artificially ran smoothly after the hit for so long. It had to eventually stumble. Now that we have Obama (D), the economy can crumble until it hits Carter period lows. Give him another year and it will be there.
Security

Submission + - "Remote Viewing" by the Ministry of Defenc

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Ministry of Defense, according to an article on The Scotsman, funded a secret study to ascertain whether people with psychic powers could help protect the nation. The tests used volunteers to discover whether they were able to use psychic powers to "remotely view" hidden objects. From the article: "Surprisingly 28 per cent of those tested managed a close guess at the contents of the envelopes, which included pictures of a knife, Mother Teresa and an "Asian individual". But most subjects, who were holed up in a secret location for the study, were hopelessly off the mark in their guesses. One even fell asleep while he tried to focus on the envelope's content. A former Ministry of Defence employee who received a copy of the report has claimed that the timing of the study suggests security services wanted to "remotely view" hidden weapons caches in Iraq and find Osama bin Laden."
Security

Submission + - What tech to backpack around the world with?

Submitted by ryrw
ryrw writes: I'm planning to spend a year backpacking around the world and the hardest question I have to answer is: What technology do I take with me? Aside from the obvious (digital camera, ipod, et. al.) what technological devices would you you take? Specifically, I wonder if I should bring my nice and shiny MacBook Pro. I can think of lots of uses for it (offloading pix, updating blog, email, etc.), but I'm worried it will be lost or stolen along the way. Does anyone have experience with travel while toting technology?
Windows

Submission + - How bad does Windows need to be for people to stop

Submitted by jellomizer
jellomizer writes: With still no seeming end to Windows Security problems, Current very bad reviews of poor performance on Vista, and all the other problems. Yet people still use it and most feel the effort to switch still isn't worth it. So how how much worse Windows will need to be to say get 40% of the current Windows users to switch to different OSs, Help fund development of their apps to more cross platform development models, Focus more on Web Application using open standards and less on platform particular add ins. It seems to me people will not switch off Windows unless it keeps on getting so much more worse then it is. So how bad does it need to be?
Security

Submission + - Sex and Security

Submitted by
Bitt Faulk
Bitt Faulk writes: "Deborah Palfrey was arrested in October for running a prostitution service. She has since put up a web site asking for legal donations. In it, she says that she is considering selling her phone logs in order to help pay for her legal fees, and has put up an expurgated one-page sample. Ignoring the fact that implying that the phone logs contain something interesting also implies that she is guilty, the log was poorly expurgated. Opening the file in a PDF editor allows anyone to remove the scratch-outs that the log was expurgated with. What does security mean when it's improperly understood?"
United States

Submission + - BBC Reported WTC7 Collapse 20 Min Before It Fell

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An anonymous reader writes: Courtesy an article posted at PrisonPlanet.com

"Early this week an independent researcher, reviewing video archives of the BBC's 9/11 coverage, divulged the discovery of an earth shaking incongruence. BBC reporters announced the collapse of the 47 story Salomon Brothers Building 23 minutes BEFORE the actual sudden collapse. This building, also known as WTC 7, is clearly visible, standing tall, as a reporter gestures to the live view through the window behind her."
Windows

Submission + - Activating other's people Vistas.

Submitted by
derrida
derrida writes: "TheInquirer reports that according to a an active thread at the KezNews forum (activation needed) it just needs a simple brute force attack to crack Vista activation. As TheInquirer points out if this gets widespread, people will start activating legit keys that are owned by other people. It won't take long for boxes bought at retail to be activated before they are bought, and the people who plunk down money for the mal^h^h^hsoftware for real get 'you are a filthy pirate' messages."

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