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Comment you say here but no where else (Score 1) 292

by iggy3 on Friday December 16, 2011 @12:40PM (#38399034) Attached to: The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011

"We all had lawn darts and played with fireworks and yet we all managed to survive just fine!" I feel the same way, as do many others here. However, I notice most people never speak up when they are with their wives and friends and see something like this in public. Your wife or wife's friends say, "Do you see that? Can you believe they are letting that little one do that?" 9 times out of 10 you hear crickets as a response.

Comment break through? -- been on the market for years (Score 1) 363

by iggy3 on Monday June 06, 2011 @01:28PM (#36352622) Attached to: English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell

been doing this since 2005 with the following DoorBell Fon setup: DoorBell Fon Kit Outbound Relay Trigger Controller You can even add an electronic striker to unlock and open the door.

Submission + - Best Places to Work in IT 2010 (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by CWmike on Monday June 21, 2010 @12:28PM

CWmike writes: These top-rated IT workplaces combine choice benefits with hot technologies and on-target training. Computerworld's 17th annual report highlights the employers firing on all cylinders. The Employer Scorecard ranks IT firms based on best benefits, retention, training, diversity, and career development. Also read what IT staffs have to say about job satisfaction, more. How's your workplace, IT folk? Here's your chance to out the worst workplaces. One rant: 'For five years service with the company (more like being "serviced" BY the company) you get a cheap ... paperweight as an 'award''

Submission + - SPAM: Google Wave out of beta

Submitted by googlePLEXS on Monday June 21, 2010 @06:02AM

googlePLEXS writes: Wave open sign-ups: Google Wave is open to all users at wave.google.com, as a Google Labs product — no invitation needed. Google Apps administrators will also have the option to add Wave as a Labs feature for their domains, helping groups of people communicate and work together more productively.
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Submission + - New Air Conditioner Process cuts energy use 50-90% (nrel.gov) 2

Submitted by necro81 on Sunday June 20, 2010 @02:24PM

necro81 writes: The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory has announced that it has developed a new method for air conditioning that reduces energy use by 50-90%. The DEVap system cools air using evaporative cooling, which is not new, but combines the process with a liquid dessicant for pulling the water vapor out of the cooled air stream. The liquid dessicant, a very strong aqueous solution of lithium chloride or sodium chloride, is separated from the air stream by a permeable hydrophobic membrane. Heat is later used to evaporate water vapor back out — heat that can come from a variety of sources such as solar or natural gas. The dessicants are, compared to typical refrigerants like HCFCs, relatively safe for the environment.

Submission + - litl, unmasked (livejournal.com)

Submitted by cananian on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @04:29PM

cananian writes: The webbook company of Gnome's own Havoc Pennington (with a healthy dose of ex-Nokia and ex-OLPC engineers) finally shed its secrecy today, with a new web site and an article in the WSJ. Technical specs on the hardware were found by engadget last week, and now comes a bit more information on the software behind the UI. Most of the client software is written in JavaScript with GTK/Clutter bindings, and the UI has some superficial similarities with Pentagram's designs for OLPC's Sugar.

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