Normally this is all fun and games, but today i start with a disturbing account of what the US is doing these days. I am not a fan of terror, I do not believe that terror suspects are nice people who have been wrongly accused..... I also believe that holding people without charge, indefinitely, and using torture (or sending them to be tortured) is wrong..... but here it is. This is a very unpleasant story of what happened to one man:
This is the America we have becomeThe Horrors of Extraordinary Rendition
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Intel to Make Cheap Flash Laptop
from the where-have-i-heard-this-before dept.
sien writes
"In a similar vein to the One Laptop Per Child computer Intel have announced that they intend to produce a similar cheap laptop using flash storage.The entry of Intel and the declaration that Microsoft intend to get Windows running on the One Laptop Per Child machine suggests that there may be a general market for a cheap, robust laptop without hard drive or optical storage."
Solar Cell Achieves 40% Efficiency
Posted by kdawson on Wednesday December 06, @02:36AM
from the too-cheap-to-meter dept.
Fysiks Wurks found on the U.S. Department of Energy website news of a breakthrough in solar energy efficiency. From the article:
"...with DOE funding, a concentrator solar cell produced by Boeing-Spectrolab has recently achieved a world-record conversion efficiency of 40.7 percent, establishing a new milestone in sunlight-to-electricity performance."
A page linked from Wikipedia's article on solar energy calculates the land area that would need to be covered by solar collectors at 8% efficiency to meet the world's energy needs (using 2003 figures). At 40% efficiency, it looks like a square 265 miles on a side in the American southwest would do it.
Using taxes to get Britons to go green
Mary Poppins horror movie remix vid - SCARY!
Here's a trailer of Mary Poppins re-cut as a horror film calleed "Scary Mary." Oh. My. God. This is so freaking AMAZING I am about to explode. Who knew that Julie Andrews could be so goddamned scary? I mean, REALLY REALLY SCARY. Like I actually got a little scared just watching it. There are lots of remix trailers floating around out there, but this is my all time favorite. Link
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IEEE votes 100G as the next Ethernet speed, scheduled for 2010
Posted Dec 6th 2006 4:40AM by Darren Murph Filed under: Networking We're confident these off kilter batteries have been keeping the IEEE quite busy in recent months, but they've apparently made time to agree upon the next major Ethernet standard, and have raised the bar way above the rumored "40Gbps" level by dropping the hammer on 100G. If you're hoping to pick up some newfangled NIC and take advantage of these crazy new speeds anytime soon, fuhgetaboutit. The IEEE's High Speed Study Group (HSSG) has quite a bit of work to go, including the actual assembly of a new task force, which will "work to standardize 100G Ethernet over distances as far as six miles over single-mode fiber optic cabling and 328 feet over multimode fiber." John D'Ambrosia, chair of the IEEE HSSG, has admitted that the need for quicker (and larger) pipes is imminent, especially considering the growing trend in downloadable media and Web 2.0 applications, but anticipates the forming of 100G to "not be too great a challenge." While we're most definitely writing anything these folks say in regard to promptness off, we're admittedly glad the gurus behind the scenes feel this next step up should happen rather smoothly, but the IEEE still doesn't think a "finalized standard" will go live "until 2009 or 2010."
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