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Comment Why worry about a possible backdoor... (Score 2) 410

by bungatron on Monday July 29, 2013 @10:12AM (#44411865) Attached to: Several Western Govts. Ban Lenovo Equipment From Sensitive Networks

when the front door is wide, wide open?

why should any company buy equipment from the US, Europe, or Australia these days? These governments have *repeatedly* proven themselves to snoop on all traffic and impose some significant back doors of their own.

Pot, Kettle.

Comment Re:Sad... (Score 1) 573

by bungatron on Sunday January 30, 2011 @11:46AM (#35049026) Attached to: Spam Text Prematurely Blows Up Suicide Bomber

While I agree with much of what you say, singling out 'Islamic terrorists' does not benefit anybody.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Douglas_Wells

Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It 165

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 06, 2010 @06:30AM from the you-must-become-the-frozen-water dept.

ccktech writes "As reported by NPR and Chemistry world, the journal Science has a paper by David Ehre, Etay Lavert, Meir Lahav, and Igor Lubomirsky [note: abstract online; payment required to read the full paper] of Israel's Weizmann Institute, who have figured out a way to freeze pure water by warming it up. The trick is that pure water has different freezing points depending on the electrical charge of the surface it resides on. They found out that a negatively charged surface causes water to freeze at a lower temperature than a positively charged surface. By putting water on the pyroelectric material Lithium Tantalate, which has a negative charge when cooler but a positive change when warmer; water would remain a liquid down to -17 degrees C., and then freeze when the substrate and water were warmed up and the charge changed to positive, where water freezes at -7 degrees C."

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