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Crispin Glover writes:
This is second hand to me, but apparently a dive shop in the Maldives sold a bad scuba tank mixture to some divers. These divers died after using the bad mixture and an investigation turned up that the store was at fault. The owners closed shop and then reopened under a new name. A Florida diving culture internet forum found out about this and some of their members posted messages to this fact. Now the dive shop is trying to sue the internet forum (and the first 100 posters in the thread) for assault, libel, and slander. The thread in question is here: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accidents-incidents/235144-air-testing-maldives-bad-air-diver-death-thread-split-thread.html
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ookabooka writes:
"Lamps the diameter of a human hair, made with foil and tiny plasma arrays, are being developed for use in residential and commercial lighting and some biomedical applications.
'Built of aluminum foil, sapphire and small amounts of gas, the panels are less than 1 millimeter thick, and can hang on a wall like picture frames,' said Gary Eden, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, and corresponding author of a paper describing the microcavity plasma lamps."
Article goes on to explain that the efficiency is higher than incandescents (10-17 lpW) at 15 lpw, and are expected to reach about 30 lpw. Conventional fluorescent lighting ranges from 50-100 lpW. Still the dimensions ("the diameter of a human hair") allow the device to replace cold cathodes in LCDs or any number of interesting applications.
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alphadogg writes:
Neil Schubert is only partly kidding when he calls Marriott International's move toward a converged network a "horror story." "I'm here to tell you a terrifying tale of network design, support and administration," he said at an IT conference in Boston, referring to a major bandwidth crunch caused by guests wielding Slingboxes and other network devices that overran the hotel chain's outdated network.
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Light Licker writes:
Israeli researchers have created artificial memories for the first time — in a tangle of neurons growing in the lab. Using a specific chemical they could add to the pattern of impulses in a network of the nerve cells. The new pattern lasted two days — good enough for biological RAM?
