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> So eliminating it from the New World can't do that much damage given that the ecosystem got along fine before it arrived. I wonder what kind of South American bug pollinates Cher…

Don't forget the possibility of data being repeated by your electric meter even if you don't provide WiFi. They're generally dual band, operating at WiFi frequencies for local inte…

But what of value was actually produced by that "computational effort"? What is the current total worth of the results for all of that computational effort? If effort produces noth…

"Giving someone coins is similar to Bitcoin." It is quite a stretch to compare bitcoin to gold or other useful metals. Gold has significant inherent value, bitcoin is inherently wo…

"The above equation is also why lights in your house dim when you turn on a motor (= inductor). There is a significant current change, and the voltage changes even more, so the lig…

"But the problem is living spaces being separate from working spaces." Some companies have closely integrated living and working. Foxconn is one such company. (some have suggested …

I think people are missing the point. Apple is actually moving in the direction of less lock-in as far as the consumer goes. They've basically said that in the latest generation ma…

Foxconn has had some problems, but didn't rank that poorly. It seems to be more a case of what life is like in China. "In a survey published in 2010 by Oxfam Hong Kong, Foxconn ran…

MobileMe accounts are being extended to a year from now for free, before the service is shut off. If the phone no longer meets her needs at that time, she can sell it to help fund …

' "Search" is not a vertical market.' Search alone isn't vertical, search alone isn't even a market if people don't pay for it. You misunderstand the (Google) business and who the …

Yes. It is also worth mentioning that GNUnet is designed to be a secure framework, making it more than just the core of another P2P program. For instance it potentially might be us…

Ballmer pretty much acknowledged the state of things "the world's going html5" back in late 2010. (Ballmer interview) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI47b3a9cEI http://www.osnews.c…

It must be a parallel project. When 4.0 was released to the public, the next update provided 40 b13 nightly users was a 4.2 alpha. (some plug-ins break)

It's too bad there apparently aren't any robots ready to put into service in Fukushima. They might have robotic arms or cranes for doing things like shuffling fuel rods, but what c…

There's quite a bit of misleading info in some news reporting making numeric comparisons between numbers representing different types of data (activity totals versus exposure rates…

It strikes me as a site for scamming people, http://bit.ly/fgGX3a sure doesn't sound like a normal way to access the Red Cross. The retailing links are fishy too.

>Capitalism and free enterprise produced everything good. >National parks were not created either. National Parks consist of isolated bits of something good that was there long bef…

Now to see something like this work with a net-enabled 3D television.

It's okay to be the quiet one. That improves the chances of you being a good listener, someone that really listens instead of being tuned-out while composing your next line. It's i…

That would be an improvement over something some cable tv systems once did in small communities. If a town had one nearby full-power analog tv station, analog signals carried on th…

In some cases those profiting from the earlier higher priced sale of a property, and the commissions, were committing fraud. One of the story links indicates that Toxie was connect…

The original Crystal Quest of the mid to late 80's on monochrome Macs and the early color version on the Mac II were great (but not MultiFinder compatible). Very addictive and fast…

The original Crystal Quest of the mid to late 80's on monochrome Macs and the early color version on the Mac II were great (but not MultiFinder compatible). Very addictive and fast…

Crosby had an important role in the history of the magnetic recording industry. Crosby was an early investor in Ampex corporation, the U.S. company that adapted WWII German wire-re…