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Absence of People
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
The lead item concerning the ability of the earth to gradually recover from the absence of humans has not only H.G. Wells Time Machine overtones, but calls to mind the fascinating series of photographs of the Chernobyl area published by Elena, of motorcycle fame.
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New Scientist
24, maybe 48 hours – you’d start to see blackouts because of the lack of fuel added to power stations,”
Solar / hydro lack of maintenance
Pollution would cease being created. CO2 taking as long as 20,000 years to be restored to it’s natural levels
Ronald Chesser, an environmental biologist. ‘I was quite surprised. When you enter into the exclusion zone, Chernobyl,it’s a very thriving ecosystem.
little evidence of our existence at 100,000 years
Wired
UC Berkeley’s David Wagner and Princeton’s Ed Felten, and came up with a wish list
poor election procedures and ill-conceived election laws. auditing and verification capabilities.good election practices, as wells as topnotch usability and security features.
WSJ article few days ago – roughly 100 years ago great voting
No literacy
Free drinks
Patronage job
White, male, walk-ins welcome
USB To Go Wireless
Wimedia Certified Wireless USB
480 megabits per second at around 3 meters, with speeds dropping off as the range grows to a limit of about 10 meters. Certified Wireless USB is much faster and uses less power than Wi-Fi,
fast as the wired version of USB 2.0
a pitched battle between the WiMedia Alliance, led by Intel, and the UWB Forum, led by Freescale,
See how Bluetooth has replaced all those cables
Monetization the word at Yahoo
Flickr was mentioned five times on the conference call and their de.lic.io.us property was as well,
Analyst conference call. Verbs on the loose
being largely unmonetized
leveraging these “assets”
targeting
profiling a large growing registered audience base.
tech-savvy male between 14 and 25 years old.
Sites Become Ad Vehicles
Vehicles marketing to music pirates
‘While peer-to-peer users are stealing the intellectual property, they are also the active music audience,’
Rapper Jay-Z’s live concert in June at Radio City Music Hall is popping up on all sorts of illicit music-sharing hotspots.
at the request of Coca-Cola Co., agreed to allow distribution of the eight-minute clip — which included promotions for Coke –
marketing to them may be more desirable in the long run than suing or otherwise harassing them.
only about 1% of the decoy files on peer-to-peer sites include promotions or ads,
UK Guardian notes
128kb/sec cap on speed
5 million internet users,
it more difficult to download foreign music, films and television programmes,
The order follows a purge on illegal satellite dishes
Iran filters more websites than any other country apart from China.
Blog just for YouTube news
Commercial information
History
Dongles Again
DVDs w/ Built in USB Ports for Copy Protection
Alladin proprietary player
optical storage with an embedded electronic smart card chip.
The irregularly-shaped “XCD” is the thickness of a normal optical disc and can still play in any CD or DVD drive. But it also has a smart card, with its own memory and processing components, embedded in the plastic.
Parasitic Cellphone
Patent Granted to Motorola
the most modern phones can use Bluetooth for short range wireless links, which requires far less power than a normal cellphone call.
Battery fades, then disables RF section, BT only – for aux handset to friend list
Fallback to SMS
Insulation paint
micrometre-thick layer of indium tin oxide is deposited on a sacrificial sheet of polythene and then scuffed off to create flakes. These are then strengthened by coating with clear acrylic varnish.
The coated flakes can then be mixed into ordinary paint and should align – like the scales of a fish – when the paint is applied to the walls of a room.
The indium tin oxide is so thin that it is transparent. The flakes, with a diameter of around 40 micrometers each, are just large enough to stop and reflect infrared radiation but small enough to avoid any visible effect in the paint. The treated paint should reflect around 90% of all infrared, limiting heat transfer through the wall. micrometre-thick layer of indium tin oxide is deposited on a sacrificial sheet of polythene and then scuffed off to create flakes. These are then strengthened by coating with clear acrylic varnish.
EU Video bloggers
EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers
Personal websites would have to be licensed as a “television-like service”
set minimum standards on areas such as hate speech and the protection of children
EU Television Without Frontiers directive
Solar Backpack
$695 – Tumi backpack charger for gadgets
Regular -maybe 6×8â€
Charity – Doctors without Borders
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