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Things That Make Me Go Hmmmmm . . .

I spend a lot of time on the net and every once in a while I see something that is just so cool, I just have to write it down.  I recently combined this with my interest in software at the right price (Free). I set up Really Simple Syndication (RSS) on the ExReps site as a way of keeping track of this stuff, and to share it with the other ExReps.

 

Want to participate ?  When you see something on the net that is just way cool, or that you simply want to share with the others, drop me a note at jayc@exreps.com  include a brief  description and the link to the source on the net.  I will add it to the syndication software so that the rest of the guys and gals who visit here can share in it.


Things that make me go Hmmm . . .

Things that make me go Hmmm . . .
About Things that make me go Hmmmm - Subscribe to this Feed Every once in a while something catches my eye, and just has to be shared
India makes history, launches Tricolour on moon
India marked its presence on Moon tonight to be only the fourth nation to scale this historic milestone after a Moon Impact Probe with the national tri-colour painted successfully landed on the lunar surface after being detached from unmanned spacecraft Chandrayaan-1.
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction
In this century a number of events could extinguish humanity. The probability of these events may be very low, but the expected value of preventing them could be high, as it represents the value of all future human lives. We review the challenges to studying human extinction risks and, by way of example, estimate the cost effectiveness of preventing extinction-level asteroid impacts.
Online Carpooling Service Fined For Unregulated Transportation
TechCrunch points us to the news that the Ontario transportation board has sided with the bus company and fined PickupPal. It's also established a bunch of draconian rules that any user in Ontario must follow if it uses the service -- including no crossing of municipal boundaries -- meaning the service is only good within any particular city's limits.
Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive from NASA’s Spirit Rover
PASADENA, Calif., (NASA) — NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of “She’s talking!” among the rover team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Ancient Rome goes online with Google Earth
Google Earth has added to its software a 3-D simulation that painstakingly reconstructs nearly 7,000 buildings of ancient Rome, including the Colosseum, the Forum and the Circus Maximus, officials said Wednesday.
Net Neutrality Advocates In Charge Of Obama Team Review of FCC
Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual tech conference Supernova, and a Wharton professor, will lead the Obama-Biden transition team's review of the FCC.- Susan Crawford - Kevin Werbach
Ruggedised, weaponised' raygun modules now on sale - FIRESTRIKE™:
US killtech behemoth Northrop Grumman has has said that it is ready to take orders for the "world's first ruggedised, weaponised high energy solid state laser designed for battlefield applications". The raygun module is dubbed FIRESTRIKE™.
Crisis Spreads to Tech Sector as Sun to Cut Work Force
Before the stock market opened Friday, Sun disclosed that it would lay off 5,000 to 6,000 workers, or 15 percent to 18 percent of its work force.
Has new physics been found at the ageing Tevatron?
Last week, physicists announced that the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, has produced particles that they are unable to explain. Could it be a sign of new physics?
Large Hadron Collider out of action until spring
The huge Large Hadron Collider, built to simulate the conditions at the very start of the universe, will not restart until spring 2009,
Violent video games linked to child aggression
About 90 percent of U.S. kids ages 8 to 16 play video games, and they spend about 13 hours a week doing so (more if you're a boy). Now a new study suggests virtual violence in these games may make kids more aggressive in real life.
Wirelessly, Home Security Becomes a D.I.Y. Project

pre-wired home security installations by alarm companies are on the way out. Thanks to wireless window and door sensors and motion detectors, installing and maintaining one's own security system is becoming a do-it-yourself project - InGrid LaserShield-

 

Plasma Engine for Spacecraft
The helicon first stage of the VX-200 VASIMR plasma rocket prototype has achieved its full power rating of 30 kW
Ultramassive: as big as it gets
A black hole can consume anything in its path. These monsters can become huge — but perhaps only so huge.
NASA Solar System Exploration
Check out all the missions
Financial Fiasco
Soon people will learn that it is dangerous to reveal the numbers that are printed in plain sight on every check.
Scientists selected for new eye on the universe
SOFIA is a highly modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that carries a 98-inch (2.5-meter) diameter airborne infrared telescope.
'Digital Dark Age' may doom some data
What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer’s hard drive?
Virtual worlds
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars. These avatars are usually depicted as textual, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional graphical representations,
Misunderstood DMCA is the Law That Saved the Web
Today's internet is largely an outgrowth of the much-reviled Digital Millennium Copyright Act that lawmakers passed in 1998
Cellphone Banking Helping To Fight Poverty In India

Old Coots Alert !! Sometimes we are lucky to see the start of something really new on the face of the planet. In India they are using technology to change the way things work for everyone in a fundimental way;

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Are you living in a "Constitution Free" Zone
Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders.
Bill Gates’ mysterious new company

Just months after his Microsoft farewell, Bill Gates is quietly creating a new company — complete with high-tech office space, a cryptic name and even its own trademark.

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Team records 'music' from stars
Scientists have recorded the sound of three stars similar to our Sun using France's Corot space telescope. Click and Listen
Google Founders buy Fighter
A company controlled by Google’s top executives, including its billionaire founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, appears to have added a fighter jet to its well-equipped fleet, with in air refueling it can reach Microsoft:
Open Source Hardware
Open source hardware refers to computer and electronic hardware that is designed in the same fashion as free and open-source software.
Labor's web gag 'worse than Iran'
The Federal Government is attempting to silence critics of its controversial plan to censor the interne
SideShow Devices
Linux DeviceInexpensive USB Display with Sideshow support displays stocks, weather and much more.- Windows Site -
Cloud computing may draw government action
Cloud computing will soon become an area of hot debate in Washington, D.C., with policy makers debating issues such as the privacy and security of data in the cloud - What is Cloud Computing
Integrated circuit is 50 years old today
If it wasn’t for the invention of the integrated circuit, then computers today would probably be housed in huge mahogany cabinets with a baffling array of polished, brass valves
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Think about Joining
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense
Jedi Knights course offered by Queen's University Belfast
A university is offering a course to teach students Jedi Knights communication skills and personal development.
Think Geek
Great Geek Toys
China sets dates for space launch
China will launch its third manned space mission in late September
Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life
It's not as Frankensteinian as it sounds. Instead, a lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, is building simple cell models that can almost be called life.
Water Bears', first animal to survive in space
Tiny invertebrates called 'water bears' can survive in the vacuum of space, a European Space Agency experiment has shown.
Monogamy gene found in people
What if you could tell whether a man is husband material just by peering at his genes?
Laboring longer a growing trend for Americans
Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond.
Next Extinction Coming Soon?
Scientists from the Cardiff Center for Astrobiology have developed a model showing that our solar system goes through the plane of the galaxy every 35-40 million years, coinciding with mass life extinctions on Earth.
Hook it to my Veins
Can Videogaming be an Addiction?
Report: ISS Changes Orbit To Avoid Russian Debris
Crewmembers onboard the International Space Station had to take the unusual step this week of firing booster rockets to lower the station's orbit, in order to avoid a chunk of space debris that may have come within a mile of the orbital platform.
Now it's the citizen snoopers: Councils recruit unpaid volunteers to spy on their neighbours
Little Brother is watching you
Fixing a fine data mess
Recently the uber sysop in San Francisco caused problems when he refused to disclose system passwords. A more typical problem occurs when a KeyMan moves on to a better job.
IT staff would steal secrets if laid off
Most IT staff would steal sensitive company information, including CEO's passwords and customer details, if they were laid off, according to a new survey from Cyber-Ark.
Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug
Is it realistic to expect stem-to-stern application platform support from any one vendor?
Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research
Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physics and semiconductor research and will instead be focusing on more immediately marketable areas such as networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, nanotechnology and software.
In Texas School, Teachers Carry Books and Guns
Barely 100 students attend classes at Harrold, a tiny town in north-central Texas. But the school board's decision to allow teachers to carry concealed weapons has drawn national attention.
Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits
The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.
Introducing Ubiquity
Today we’re announcing the launch of Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.
Stealing the Internet
An Internet Scale Man-In-The-Middle Attack
Tiny object points to remote solar system reservoir
Possible comet may hail from inner region of the Oort Cloud, a proposed comet reservoir
The Stuff of Life on Titan
Titan, the sixth and largest moon of the planet Saturn, is thought to be made largely of ice.
A walk through mathematics!
Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed!
Photo Stamps
Stumped for a gift for the grandkids, or someone special, check out order Photo Stamps from the USPS on line
Thinking outside the square finds light in oven
She has developed a simple, cheap way of producing solar cells in a pizza oven that could eventually bring power and light to the 2 billion people in the world who lack electricity.
Home Fusion
Getting bored after retirement ? Now you can build your own fusion plant at home.
Intel Moves to Free Gadgets of Their Recharging Cords
SAN FRANCISCO — Intel has made progress in a technology that could lead to the wireless recharging of gadgets and the end of the power-cord spaghetti behind electronic devices.
Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
In a feat of interplanetary sharpshooting, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.
Ubuntu ready to compete wit Windows for Enterprise Desktop
At the LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, analyst Jay Lyman of the 451 Group spoke about the potential for enterprise adoption of Ubuntu and the impact that community-driven Linux distributions will have on the market.
Do subatomic particles have free will?
If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.
Low Cost Solar Power
Before First Solar's manufacturing innovations, cadmium-telluride photovoltaic cells were the size of postage stamps; now the company makes them as big as window panes

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