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China Blocks More Internet Services 69

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @03:53PM from the how-totally-amazing dept.

Dave writes "China continues to block more and more popular services. This week they blocked iTunes and YouTube, and now it's TringMe, a popular VoIP 2.0 service. From TringMe's Blog: 'We received close to hundred complaints from our China users that TringMe services is not accessible from yesterday. We have found after our investigation that TringMe is blocked by Chinese government. Earlier China blocked Skype and now they are turning their eye to TringMe. TringMe is extremely popular in China and we have a large number of paying customers in China including a Chinese social network with 3 million users using TringMe's API & services.'"

Submission + - The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Friday August 15, 2008 @01:27PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "When American Swimmer Margaret Hoelzer goes for the gold tonight in the 200-meter backstroke, part of her success will be due to a new system developed by Tim Wei, a mechanical and aerospace engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, that uses fluid dynamics to study human movement allowing scientists and coaches to study how fast and hard a swimmer pushes the water as he moves through it. Wei uses a tracking technique called digital particle image velocimetry, commonly used to measure the flow of small particles around an airplane or small fish or crustaceans in water. Wei filtered compressed air in a scuba tank through a porous hose to create bubbles about a tenth of a millimeter in diameter. When an athlete swims through a sheet of bubbles that rises from the pool floor, a camera captures their flow around the swimmer's body and the images show the direction and speed of the bubbles, which Wei then translates into the swimmer's thrust using software that he wrote. "More force equals faster swimming," Wei says. Swim coach Sean Hutchison, says Wei's analysis helped swimmers he works with at King Aquatic Club in suburban Seattle and that the lessons he learned helped Olympian Margaret Hoelzer set a world record in the 200-meter backstroke in July. "Swimming has gotten to a point where you have two choices," Wei said. "You either bring state-of-the-art science into swimming and improve stroke mechanics, make them better, or you do drugs.""

Comment Re:Republican grandstanding (Score 1) 1143

by bjhom on Friday August 01, 2008 @03:18PM (#24438735) Attached to: House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP

One of the reasons I keep hearing for the high price of oil is speculators in futures markets. If investors knew that in the future more oil would be available, todays price would also go down even though the oil isn't yet available.

Submission + - Air Force Goofs, Flying Live Nukes Across America (forbes.com)

Submitted by

kernel panic attack

on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @07:03PM

kernel panic attack writes: "From the paging Dr. Strangelove dept.

Surely the late Stanley Kubrick is somewhere smiling at this one... Forbes.com has a story about a B-52 Bomber that mistakenly flew 6-nuclear tipped cruise missles across several states last week. The 3-hour flight took the plane from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30. The incident was so serious that President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were quickly informed and Gates has asked for daily briefings on the Air Force probe, said Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell. He said, "At no time was the public in danger." One Air Force official has already been SACked, in connection with the incident. Couple this with the recent resumption of long range Russian Bomber flights, and it looks like the good old Cold War days just may have returned."

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