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Comment I call BS (Score 1) 462

by stinkydog (#37641290) Attached to: Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case

Magnetized steel beams are not the likely culprit. How did it make it this far with such a lousy summary? This reads as a grounding issue. The symptoms fit perfectly. The steel beams are connected to earth at one potential and the grounding rod / waterline bond is at another. Somewhere in the house, connections are bridged so current is flowing from one ground path to the other on a high resistance link. The fix is to bond the building steel to the common earth that the electrical panel is utilizing with a hefty piece of copper wire. Drain the imbalance and modern electrical equipment starts working correctly.

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PC Games (Games)

An Early Look At Civilization V 286

Posted by Soulskill from the new-and-shiny dept.
c0mpliant writes "IGN and Gamespot have each released a preview of the recently announced and eagerly awaited Civilization V. Apart from the obvious new hexagon shape of tiles and improved graphics, the articles go on to outline some of the major changes in the game, such as updated AI, new 'flavors' to world leaders, and a potentially game-changing, one-unit-per-tile system. No more will the stack of doom come to your city's doorsteps. Some features which will not be returning are religion and espionage. The removal of these two have sparked a frenzy of discussion on fan-related forums."
The Almighty Buck

Device Protects Day Traders From Emotional Trading 260

Posted by samzenpus from the never-again dept.
Philips Electronics, a Netherlands-based company, has come up with a device designed to protect day traders from emotionally based trading decisions. The Rationalizer measures your galvanic skin response and lets you know when you are under stress. An online trader can then take a "time-out, wind down and re-consider their actions," according to the company. This may have come too late for us, but at least future generations won't have to live through the horror of angry day trading.
Government

What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Costs $32M? 158

Posted by timothy from the those-investors-should-be-pissed dept.
coondoggie writes "The US Department of Energy said today it will spend $32 million on a project that will deploy a large cloud computing test bed with thousands of Intel Nehalem CPU cores and explore commercial offerings from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Ultimately, the project, known as Magellan, will look at cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient way for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics, the DOE stated. Magellan will explore whether cloud computing can help meet the overwhelming demand for scientific computing. Although computation is an increasingly important tool for scientific discovery, and DOE operates some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, not all research applications require such massive computing power. The number of scientists who would benefit from mid-range computing far exceeds the amount of available resources, the DEO stated."
Networking

Submission + - Oops!? Multiple Undersea Fiber Issues

Submitted by
stinkydog
stinkydog writes: "My overseas users started pitiching a fit this morning and I finally found a good line at Bloomberg.Com on what happened:

Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged. The failures cut the flow of ``data of various kinds'' between Europe and the Middle East, and there's no timeframe for when communications will be restored, said Sanjeev Gaur, director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India. France Telecom SA, which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem, said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31."
Operating Systems

Submission + - what makes a good emergency boot image?

Submitted by
MellowTigger
MellowTigger writes: "Suppose I start with a blank 2GB USB drive that I want to make into an emergency boot disk for a system with multiple drives and multiple operating systems. I want the ability to boot to the USB drive, repartition other drives, reformat partitions for various operating systems, and maybe even download iso files from the web and burn them to cd for later installation. I need programs that can operate successfully on half-Terabyte hard drives and quarter-Terabyte partitions. Essentially, I want an all-purpose emergency "key" for helping to reformat my pc from scratch. What should I put on the USB drive, and where do I find that software?"
Wireless Networking

Submission + - WiFi in your rental car?

Submitted by Jezebel
Jezebel writes: Avis is bundling a 3G-to-WiFi bridge with their rental cars that will turn the vehicles into WiFi hotspots. From the article: "Autonet Mobile CEO Sterling Pratz told the International Herald Tribune that the In-Car Router will function in around 95 percent of the country, including all major US cities. Pratz claims to have minimized the problem of dropped signals with a technology similar to that used by the space shuttles to maintain an Internet connection."

Will we now have to worry about laptop use on the Interstate?

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