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Comment Re:Dark Matter/Emergy Does Not Exist (Score 1) 106

by steelcobra on Friday November 28, 2008 @06:04PM (#25919075) Attached to: NASA and DoE Team On Dark Energy Research

The key problem with this view is that even if the paper is accurate, based on observation and experimentation, and is reproducable, if it's outside the current dogmatic system it will be rejected.

Look up Halton Arp, Peter Duesberg, and Immanuel Velikovsky. The latter, for using all available evidence to construct a wildly different view of the solar system that matches history, was ignored, criticized without the critic having read his work as unscientific or being biblically based, when in fact all his references to such texts are verified by other sources.

So be careful about the idea that just because it's generally accepted it's right.

Comment Re:Dark Matter/Emergy Does Not Exist (Score 1) 106

by steelcobra on Friday November 28, 2008 @05:45PM (#25918891) Attached to: NASA and DoE Team On Dark Energy Research

You should check out James P. Hogan's Kicking The Sacred Cow. It presents a variety of alternate, observationally/experimentally proven alternatives to the mainstream view that have been ignored or flat out rejected by the dogmatic mainstream science. Such as that an electromagnetically formed plasma universe concept actually explains everything. Or that "Dark Matter" is really just molecular hydrogen (H2), which isn't detected easily, but is far more prevalent than atomic hydrogen. As well as a variety of other subjects.

Submission + - Wireless power on the desktop scale

Submitted by RockDoctor on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @07:18AM

RockDoctor writes: Nature are reporting early versions of a desktop-ready device for wirelessly powering equipment. A plastic sheet a millimeter thick on the desktop contains induction coils, microelectromechanical switches and control circuitry, applied to a conductive polymer base by various forms of printing. When the sheet detects a compatible receiver within range (~2.5cm), the nearest coil is switched on and provides the receiver with up to 40W of power inductively. The devices are not yet ready for mainstream — another 5 years of development is estimated — and there is the issue of persuading manufacturers to incorporate the receiving equipment into their new designs. But a projected price of ~$100 for a square metre of transmitter is credible (SG $ ? or CA or US? not specified in the article; the developers are in Japan). Now, if you could get power receivers that would supply (for example) a conventional mobile-phone charging-cradle, that would be a useful step towards widespread acceptance.

Could this lead to the start of a new VHS-vs-BetaMax or HDDVD-vs-BluRay style compatibility war? If one manufacturer is trying such an obvious idea, likely others are.

Submission + - We7: Why it will "fall flat on its face"

Submitted by madonna on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @07:04AM

madonna writes: CNET extensively reasons why the new We7.com download service — which offers ad-embedded free music downloads without DRM — is doomed to failure and only good for poor countries.

"This service absolutely, categorically will not succeed. You can quote us on that. It's true the best way to combat piracy is to provide a realistic and affordable alternative, and free is certainly affordable. But music downloaders are not going to switch to using a service that costs the same as using BitTorrent or Limewire, but comes with abominable disclaimers or advertisements..."

Journal Journal: Wi-Fi Security Crisis

Journal by milette on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @07:03AM

There's a storm brewing, and although we have only seen the first signs, she's gonna be a whopper! I'm talking about what I call the "Wi-Fi Security Crisis".

Q: Would you let a terrorist walk in off the street and call their buddies in Iran or Afganistan using your phone?

Q: Would you allow a pervert to use your Internet connection to download child pornography?

Feed Yet Another Company Wants To Sell You An Expensive Box To Download Movies (techdirt.com)

From feed by techdirtfeed on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @06:12AM

Over the weekend, the New York Times published a glowing story about Vudu, a new startup that's developing a set-top box for downloading movies. Yes, this is a plan you've heard before, from the spectacularly failed, Disney-backed Moviebeam to more recent efforts by Akimbo, along with the continued minimal impact of PC-based movie download sites. As Peter Rojas points out on Engadget, the Times story is "long on overblown claims and hyperbole and short on realistic analysis of how resistant consumers have been to paying to download movies over the internet". Vudu has signed up most of the major studios to supply content and says it's got technology that will make movies play immediately, without any waits or stutters. That's great and all, but when consumers have shown so little interest in these types of services before, it's hard to see things changing -- particularly when Vudu wants to make them buy a $300 single-purpose box, then pay per-movie charges on top of that -- in spite of the NYT's puff piece.

Submission + - Contest winner: Vista more secure than Mac OS X

Submitted by thisispurefud on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @04:58AM

thisispurefud writes: Contest winner: Vista more secure than Mac OS X From your research on both platforms, is there a winner between Mac OS X 10.4 and Vista on security? I have found the code quality, at least in terms of security, to be much better overall in Vista than Mac OS X 10.4. It is obvious from observing affected components in security patches that Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) has resulted in fewer vulnerabilities in newly-written code. I hope that more software vendors follow their lead in developing proactive software security development methodologies. http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/30/daizovi/in dex.php

Submission + - HP changes business model

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19, 2007 @04:15AM

An anonymous reader writes: HP has launched a new line of business printers but there's a big catch — you won't be able to buy one. For the first time in history, the company will make customers purchase printing services, rather than the product itself. At its biggest printer launch since the LaserJet in 1984, HP's new business-class Edgeline printers will only be available through a managed services contract. Pricing will be per page, depending on the quality of the printout. Edgeline technology is said to be so ink-efficient that if HP were to sell these printers, they would never match the money they make from consumables (cartridges etc) now.

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