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Comment Gilbert's House (Score 2) 286

by twsobey on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @05:13PM (#49075651) Attached to: 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum

The A.C. Gilbert House and Discovery Center in Salem, Oregon has many of Gilbert's invention, including this toy. I remember seeing it there in the late 90's and again when I visited about 4-5 years ago. If you're in Salem, it's worth a visit.

Comment Tarc - The first free energy thought magnifier (Score 1) 111

by twsobey on Thursday August 15, 2013 @04:44PM (#44577405) Attached to: Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free With New Communication Technique

That must be how the free energy thought magnifier works. ;)

Comment Re:Yes, and? (Score 1) 780

by twsobey on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @05:11PM (#44491061) Attached to: NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website

One of the main points of discussion at this conference was the fragmenting of bullets as they enter animals that people will eat. Along with the rise in companies that process the animals for hunters and often do not remove the bullets before grinding the meat, has caused an increase in the amount of ingested lead of hunters, their families and carrion bird.

Comment Look for the cause (Score 1) 248

by twsobey on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @04:16PM (#36753648) Attached to: Scientists Breeding Super Bees

Since we don't know what's killing them, shouldn't we spend more resources figuring that out before trying to cure the symptom? If it eventually affects people, wouldn't more research on the cause be better than a band-aid fix for this one?

Submission + - U.S. To Send Radiation-Hardened Robots To Japan (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

CWmike

on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @02:33PM

CWmike writes: "The United States is sending specialized robots to Japan to help officials there get control of the Fukushima nuclear power plants damaged in this month's devastating earthquake and tsunami. Dr. Peter Lyons, an acting assistant secretary for nuclear energy with the DoE, said the robots, which could be sent into areas that would be dangerous for humans to enter because of high radiation levels, could begin to give officials readings on the environment inside the nuclear power plants. Lyons told the U.S. Senate on Tuesday: 'We are moving expeditiously to ship not only the robots but also operators who perhaps will be used to train Japanese operators. We don't know yet how close the operators will need to be to the site." Asked about getting information about the state of the damaged reactors, Lyons said the robots could provide some information. 'Certainly not all we need, but some,' he said."

Comment Toss? (Score 1) 150

by twsobey on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @01:38PM (#32434488) Attached to: Microsoft Patents "Fonts With Feelings"

Was anyone else concerned when they first read that "toss" was going to be animated?

Comment Re:How Companies Work (Score 1) 316

by twsobey on Monday February 08, 2010 @04:39PM (#31064558) Attached to: A Reflection On Sun Executive Payouts For Failure

But we are all the "average person" so how do we start to effect that change?

Submission + - GSM Decryption Published 3

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Monday December 28, 2009 @03:11PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "The NY Times reports that German encryption expert Karsten Nohl says that he has deciphered and published the 21-year-old GSM algorithm, the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's digital mobile phone calls, in what he called an attempt to expose weaknesses in the security system used by about 3.5 billion of the 4.3 billion wireless connections across the globe. Others have cracked the A5/1 encryption technology used in GSM before, but their results have remained secret. “This shows that existing GSM security is inadequate,” Nohl told about 600 people attending the Chaos Communication Congress. “We are trying to push operators to adopt better security measures for mobile phone calls.” The GSM Association, the industry group based in London that devised the algorithm and represents wireless operators, called Mr. Nohl’s efforts illegal and said they overstated the security threat to wireless calls. “This is theoretically possible but practically unlikely,” says Claire Cranton, a GSM spokeswoman, noting that no one else had broken the code since its adoption. “What he is doing would be illegal in Britain and the United States. To do this while supposedly being concerned about privacy is beyond me.” Simon Bransfield-Garth, the chief executive of Cellcrypt, says Nohl's efforts could put sophisticated mobile interception technology — limited to governments and intelligence agencies — within the reach of any reasonable well-funded criminal organization. “This will reduce the time to break a GSM call from weeks to hours,” Bransfield-Garth says. “We expect as this further develops it will be reduced to minutes.”"

Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @11:50AM from the even-superer dept.

drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."

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