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Man Takes Up Internal Farming 136

RockDoctor writes "'A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung.' Just that summary should tell you enough to work out most of the rest of the details, but it does raise a number of questions unaddressed by the article: How did the pea roots deal with the patient's immune system? What would have happened if the situation had continued un-treated? I bet the guy has a career awaiting him in PR for a pea-growing company."
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Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project 687

garg0yle writes "Police in San Diego were called to investigate an 11-year-old's science project, consisting of 'a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics,' after the vice-principal came to the conclusion that it was a bomb. Charges aren't being laid against the youth, but it's being recommended that he and his family 'get counseling.' Apparently, the student violated school policies — I'm assuming these are policies against having any kind of independent thought?"

Comment Keep the wire! (Score 1) 177

Any kind of braodband wire is better than any kind of wireless, 99% of the time. Wireless is RADIO and beyond being affected by network traffic, it is affected by atmospheric conditions, interference, reflections, refractions, etc. Having used a terrestrial wireless (WiFi) ISP myself, and having experience with family members who also use such a service (because it is the only thing available) the wire wins every time.

Comment Re:Hams (Score 1) 461

Peter, Dude, amen! I'm a ham and I couldn't agree more with your sentiments. I friggen hate the way many hams are constantly proselytizing (especially on the Internet) about how ham radio is going to save the world when "the big one" comes. If my services and/or radios are ever needed for the public good, I'll be glad to help out, but I'm not going to proselytize. I'm happy being geeky with my geeky friends.

Comment Weird Letter from TW San Antonio (Score 2, Interesting) 353

I'm a Time Warner San Antonio Roadrunner subscriber and I got a very strange letter from them yesterday.... They want me to trade in my existing modem (which they own anyway) on a new one so I can use "PowerBoost" for free. Apparently, PowerBoost gives you more speed (if it is available) for the first 10MB of a download, then goes back to your normal speed. Of course, nothing is for free, so I suspect they need me to have this new modem in order to switch to the tiered bandwidth system. So, no thanks, I'll keep my existing one for now. Of course, they can make me trade it out if they want to by cutting it off, but why should I take their bait and make it easier for them to screw me? BTW, I understand that Earthlink (piggybacking on TW) won't have bandwidth caps, so I'll switch to them if I have to. Don't have TV cable anymore, so to hell with TW. Unfortunately, the cable is my only option until AT&T activates this fiber they buried in front of my house a YEAR ago!!!

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