Imagine two objects traveling in the opposite direction each just over half the speed of sound. You are on one of them, will you ever be able to hear the other?

On the Android version of Skype, Microsoft recently made a change to their privacy policy or app permissions or something. I noticed that my contact list now recommends several people's Skype accounts who I previously only had as phone number contacts in my phone.

Perhaps then he should lead by keeping jobs in the USA instead of having his ties (and possibly/probably other things) made in China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Conjoined satellites with solar panels and two ion engines? I've seen that somewhere before...

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net...

Nah it was most definitely Netgear's official line. Their tech support calls are getting routed to this company. He said that after the 1st call, he found a different Netgear number that wasn't specifically for tech support and called that. That person then directed his call to their tech support, which ended up being these scammers again!

A co-worker of mine told me that he called Netgear tech support for some help setting up a wireless router and his call got routed to these guys, or people almost exactly like them. From the description of the call, it looks/sounds like the exact same script/ploy. They asked him to run some command and said that the results of that command indicated that he had vulnerabilities on his machine. They'd need to remote in to install some stuff. He didn't fall for that last part, thankfully!

It's absolutely insane that a call to a well-known company's tech support line is getting sent to a scam like this. Yay outsourcing!

Not exactly what you described, but TrackMeNot is a browser add-on for Firefox & Chrome randomizes Google searches in non-repeating intervals that average a time length you can set. Poisson distribution in time, I believe. This creates a lot of "noise" for anybody tracking you via your searches: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/

Apparently I'm the only one that noticed this article is about Antarctica and not the Arctic. Different side of the globe. The predictions for what will happen in the Arctic do not apply to Antarctica...

(WHOOOSH!)

Those neutrinos are totally rad dudes!!!

Those neutrinos are some totally radical dudes!!!

Challenge - Hack a bird: create large magnetic field with proper orientation to temporarily blind it!

Woah! Those neutrinos are some COOL DUDES!

I just watched a news report on this kind of device for police officers last night. Here's the link:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/16/police.head.cam/index.html

In theory it's a good idea for police to have these, iff the video is available to the general public. Otherwise, the police could lie about their own actions and only show evidence against others. Then again, right there in that video, they show a female police officer chasing a drunk man on foot and using her taser on him for seemingly no good reason. He didn't seem to be physically resisting arrest (other than the running) and was not a threat to her, yet she tased him and they're showing it on a news report like it's no big deal or standard procedure or whatever. The fact that it's on a news report and there's no backlash against that use of a taser is a bit disturbing to me, personally.

Anyway, yes I think personal cameras are a great idea for several reasons. If more people start wearing these and it becomes more normal and accepted, then maybe, just maybe societal norms will change and less people will get hassled by authorities for taking pictures or recording video in public

I assure you I'm not kidding. I have always built my own PCs using name-brand components and have been reading user reviews for products on Newegg since whenever they started providing them. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about saving power wherever I can. I already use CF lights in most places in my house, program the thermostat to save power during times when nobody is here, etc. This winter, I plan on adding rolls of insulation to the attic and possibly the crawl-space and am also looking into those films I can apply to my windows so they don't conduct so much heat/cold through them.

All of the things I mentioned above are doable with almost no negative side effects. Unfortunately, power cycling my PC has the nasty side effect of occasionally causing some component inside (motherboard, video card, RAM, hard drive... all things off the top of my head that have simply died on me during or shortly after a power cycle over the years) to die and leaving me one less PC for however long it takes to troubleshoot the problem and get a replacement part. Since I've started the practice of leaving my computer on 24/7 a few years ago, I have had no components die on me except the motherboard back in April, and that was within minutes of turning it back on after leaving the computer off during a weekend away from home. If you want to, you can compare the carbon footprint of me leaving it on all the time vs. the carbon footprint of the manufacture and shipping of the replacement parts to my house since I would need them more often... once every year or so on average.