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Comment Lavigne's "Complicated" charted EU huge in 2002... (Score 1) 171

by femto113 on Sunday March 09, 2008 @05:10PM (#22694540) Attached to: Video Games Are Launching Rock-n-Roll Careers

This article is utter nonsense, at least as it applies to Lavigne. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Lavigne

"Complicated" is Avril Lavigne's first single, released in 2002 from her debut album, Let Go. The single reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Lavigne's first top-ten single. The single also reached number three in the United Kingdom and number one in Spain...

How To Tell If It's Really Titanium 280

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 25, 2007 @01:26PM from the hold-your-credit-card-to-a-grinder dept.

With the growing popularity of titanium, some disreputable merchandisers are passing off other materials as the more expensive metal. Popular Science looks at a surefire way to prove what that credit card/crowbar/ring is really made of. "Hold any genuine titanium metal object to a grinding wheel (even a little grindstone on a Dremel tool will do), and it gives off a shower of brilliant white sparks unlike any softer common metal. The sparks are tiny pieces of cut titanium--the friction of the grinder heats them till they burn white-hot. Hold a grindstone to the shackle of a "titanium" padlock from Master Lock, however, and you'll instead see the telltale fine, long, yellow sparks of high-carbon steel."

512GB Solid State Disks on the Way 186

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 28, 2007 @11:34AM from the and-eventually-they'll-be-affordable dept.

Viper95 writes "Samsung has announced that it has developed the world's first 64Gb(8GB) NAND flash memory chip using a 30nm production process, which opens the door for companies to produce memory cards with upto 128GB capacity"

Man Claims iPod Set His Pants Aflame 270

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 08, 2007 @02:22PM from the lighter-and-gasoline-in-his-pocket-had-nothing-to-do-with-it dept.

alphadogg writes to mention that an Atlanta man is claiming an iPod Nano actually caught fire in his pants creating flames that lasted 15 seconds and reached up as far as his chest. Apple hasn't responded to the claims yet other than sending him a packet to return the iPod.

Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator 470

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, 2007 @10:22PM from the in-that-reality-i'm-an-ardent-fan-of-this dept.

Fantastic Lad writes "The US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality. Putting supercomputers to an innovative use, the military is simulating our planet in an effort to predict the outcome of different scenarios. They might run tests to see how long 'you' can go without food or water, or how 'you' will respond to televised propaganda. Billions of nodes are created in the system, intended to reflect every man, woman, and child. 'Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a "synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information", according to a concept paper for the project. Simulex is the company developing these systems, and they list pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and defense contractor Lockheed Martin among their private sector clients. The U.S. military is their biggest customer, apparently now running the most complex version of the system. JFCOM-9 is now capable of running real-time simulations for up to 62 nations, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and China. The simulations gobble up breaking news, census data, economic indicators, and climactic events in the real world, along with proprietary information such as military intelligence."

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