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Comment I still think it is pretty cool (Score 1) 193

by jwmc80 on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @03:22AM (#19727589) Attached to: Newly Declassified Window Film Keeps Out Snoops

Cool but useless. Even if you block out all the wireless waves coming out of your house you cant block them out of the silly cable router that is easily enough hacked by anyone how knows anything right. I can see people spending 10's of thousands on this crap and then having a belkin wireless router combo with an unsecured network.

Journal Journal: Australian Retailers Report 30% XBox 360 Failure Rate

Journal by ozmanjusri on Thursday June 21, 2007 @10:51PM

Smarthouse news is reporting that more than 30% of Australian XBox360 owners are returning the consoles with the "Red Ring of Death", which occurs when the console suffers a hardware failure http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/13201/Retailers_Claim_360_Failure_Rate_Is_Over_30.html.

It appears that the failures are caused by a fundamental design flaw in the cooling of the GPU.

Lake Disappears into Andes 307

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 21, 2007 @10:16PM from the here-today-gone-tomorrow dept.

steveb3210 writes "It seems that what was once a 5-acre glacial lake in the Andes has mysteriously disappeared. 'In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal,' Juan Jose Romero from Chile's National Forestry Corporation, Conaf, said. 'We went again in May and to our surprise we found that the lake had completely disappeared. All that was left were chunks of ice and an enormous fissure.'" The current theory is that an earthquake opened the ground and allowed the lake to drain. Looks like global warming is off the hook this time around.

Journal Journal: Stem Cells To Repair Damaged Heart Muscle

Journal by stemceller on Thursday June 21, 2007 @08:59PM

Stem cell researchers at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom have announced the start of a clinical trial to treat heart heart attack patients with their own bone marrow stem cells: "In the first trial of its kind in the world, 60 patients who have recently suffered a major heart attack will be injected with selected stem cells from their own bone marrow during routine coronary bypass surgery. The Bristol trial will test whether the stem cells will repair heart muscle cells damaged

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