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Comment Re:Gives new meaning... (Score 2) 78

by GPool on Thursday March 20, 2014 @02:44AM (#46531507) Attached to: 'Chicken From Hell' Unearthed In American Midwest

I was hoping for a sabre toothed chicken, as seen In the Chicken Museum.

Comment ...except the one that makes the busses (Score 5, Informative) 419

by GPool on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @01:37AM (#29804413) Attached to: Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop

Page 2 of TFA:

Buses in the Shanghai pilot are made by Germantown, TN-based Foton America Bus Co, which uses ultracapacitors manufactured by Shanghai Aowei.

Comment Re:All headphones are hand-made... (Score 1) 353

by GPool on Monday March 23, 2009 @05:17PM (#27303875) Attached to: How $1,500 Headphones Are Made

Easy answer: Go to a good stereo shop and listen through the HD-650.

Comment Re:All headphones are hand-made... (Score 1) 353

by GPool on Monday March 23, 2009 @05:15PM (#27303835) Attached to: How $1,500 Headphones Are Made

My HD-600s had a connection problem a good while after the warrantee ran out. Sennheiser repaired them for free. A minor hack -- heat shrink tubing around the earpiece connectors so they hold in place better. :) (Invisible unless you pull the connector out.)

Comment Re:Don't knock the Amiga (Score 1) 225

by GPool on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @04:24PM (#27055773) Attached to: Amiga Community Collaborates On Restorative Gel To Brighten Your Old Plastic

Too true. :(

Scientists Erase Specific Memories In Mice 320

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 23, 2008 @07:57AM from the where's-the-cheese dept.

Ostracus writes "It sounds like science fiction, but scientists say it might one day be possible to erase undesirable memories from the brain, selectively and safely. After exposing mice to emotionally powerful stimuli, such as a mild shock to their paws, the scientists then observed how well or poorly the animals subsequently recalled the particular trauma as their brain's expression of CaMKII was manipulated up and down. When the brain was made to overproduce CaMKII at the exact moment the mouse was prodded to retrieve the traumatic memory, the memory wasn't just blocked, it appeared to be fully erased."

Submission + - China copies iPhone; makes it even better (popsci.com)

Submitted by

on Friday August 10, 2007 @02:59AM

An anonymous reader writes: China duplicates a lot of well know products; now they are duplicating the iPhone. Yet apparently they are making it better. From the article "The miniOne looked just like Apple's iPhone, down to the slick no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the iPhone wouldn't. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to cost half as much as the iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers." The cloned iPhone uses a Linux-based system. "The cloners hire a team of between 20 and 40 engineers to begin decoding the circuit boards. At the same time, coders start to develop an operating system for the phone with a similar feature set. (The typical cloner either uses off-the-shelf code, writes something entirely new, or modifies a publicly available Linux-based system.) "

Feed The Register: AT&T censors Pearl Jam's anti-Bush sing-along (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Thursday August 09, 2007 @09:32PM

Home of the bland

Analysis AT&T has apologized for the censorship of lyrics that were critical of US President George W. Bush during a webcast of a performance by rock band Pearl Jam at a recent Lollapalooza festival.

Comment Re:This is a bad idea (Score 1) 533

by GPool on Tuesday October 24, 2006 @06:18PM (#16568242) Attached to: Securing a High School Windows XP Computer Lab?

I'll second that. The school board my dad works for has this running on all their machines nightly.

Their main issue is that when new software is purchased, it has to be installed by some admin at the education center... so if they're overworked, you can end up waiting for ages before you can use the software.

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