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Comment Phorm (Score 3, Informative) 238

by Fluoxetine Freak on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @08:02AM (#22473704) Attached to: UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads

From Phorm's website:

"With OIX and Webwise, consumers are in control: they can switch relevance 'off' or 'on' at any time at Webwise.com. There's no small print and no catches: it's completely up to the consumer."

In the comments on the Techdirt article somebody is saying that Phorm are the latest incarnation of 121media which made the contextplus rootkit. A quick search later and indeed they are the same company.

Anybody got any more dirt on them?

Journal Journal: Argonne Hydrogen Catalyst Tools For Desalination

Journal by cakilmer on Friday March 09, 2007 @02:51PM

Argonne Labratories has just announced some advances in catalysts for fuel cells. They have developed some cool tools for catalytic research in doing so -- which I think might be applicable to desalination research as well. The idea would be to have a catalyst settle Na & Cl out of solution and skim off the fresh water. This would be an extremely cheap process. So cheap it would make it

Wind, Solar & Biofuels to Power Remote Cell Towers 119

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 09, 2007 @02:48PM from the go-juice dept.

tcd004 writes "How do you set up a cell network when there's no power grid? Namibia, India and Nigeria are building towers using localized power sources to provide critical cell phone access to the most remote parts of their countries. Wind/solar hybrids, and biofuel power plants will power the radio towers, peripheral communications, and even the protective fencing around the installations."

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