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Comment Re:KISSmetrics (Score 1) 173

by PacoSF on Saturday July 30, 2011 @07:03PM (#36935808) Attached to: Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged

Thanks. for clarifying this for me.

The Wired article mentioned -- "That tracking trail would remain in place even if a user deleted her cookies, due to code that stores the unique ID in places other than in a traditional cookie"

I wasn't sure if this unique ID was synonymous with MAC address.

Comment KISSmetrics (Score 2) 173

by PacoSF on Saturday July 30, 2011 @02:32PM (#36934186) Attached to: Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged

Question:
Would modifying my MacAddress stop this kind of tracking?

Submission + - MIT Unveils Sun-Free Photovoltaics (mit.edu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28, 2011 @05:31PM

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at MIT just unveiled a new solar power generator that doesn't need sunlight to function. The button-sized power generator can tap energy from heat, the sun’s rays, a hydrocarbon fuel, or a decaying radioisotope, and it can run three times longer than a lithium-ion battery of the same weight. It is hoped that the technology may one day be used to generate power for spacecraft on long-term missions where sunlight may not be available.

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