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Comments: 3   The Laptop Steering Wheel Desk on Friday November 20, @12:42PM Comments: 3

Posted by samzenpus on Friday November 20, @12:42PM
from the will-it-increase-my-insurance-rates? dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Take a look at this awesome new product on Amazon. The laptop steering wheel desk is just the thing for the person who can't be sufficiently distracted by newspapers, eating, or cell phones while they drive. The user comments and reviews are great."

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+-   How heavy is the Internet? on Friday November 20, @04:39AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20, @04:39AM
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An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered how much the internet physically weighs? 498,438,559,990kg, according to CNET. To reach this figure, they added together public data on the weight of every computer, server and connecting cable. To this they added the weight of 6.075,000kgs of iPhones, and over 6,800,000kg of Blackberries. Finally they add the weight of 287,524 viruses and 85 billion+ webpages."
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Comments: 2 +-   Laptop Steering Wheel Desk : your new must-have !-> on Thursday November 19, @12:29PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19, @12:29PM
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An anonymous reader writes "Take a look at this from amazon : http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Office-WM-01-Laptop-Steering/dp/B000IZGIA8/
Take the time to carefully look at the describing pictures, from the left to the right... and to the user comments.
Enjoy ! :D
(I don't know how long it will last on the amazon site, but well...)"
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+-   Dating help for nuclear geeks-> on Wednesday November 18, @12:50PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18, @12:50PM
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An anonymous reader writes "NRC is now offering to help find dates for their engineers. From the article: "Jim McDermott, chief human capital officer of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, thinks he’s found a foolproof way to convince young engineers to come to his agency: Find them dates.

“There are incentives, and then there are incentives,” McDermott told a crowd of human resources officials at the HCMF Conference in Arlington, Va., earlier today. ”When we’re hiring, we say, ‘Is there a significant other in the picture?’ If there’s no significant other, I tell them, ‘We can help.’ ”""
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Comments: 3 +-   Tech workers go nude for charity calendar -> on Wednesday November 18, @12:08PM nk497

Submitted by nk497 on Wednesday November 18, @12:08PM
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nk497 writes "London tech workers have stripped off to create their very own naked calendar for charity. Created by TechCrunch Europe contributing editor Milo Yiannopoulous, London Nude Tech 2010 isn't half as frightening as you'd think. It features photos (a few included at the link) of female and male tech entrepreneurs — one with strategically placed Mac — for every month of the year. It's raising funds for Take Heart India, so pick up your copy — it's for charity, right?"
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+-   Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed-> on Wednesday November 18, @11:50AM MikeChino

Submitted by MikeChino on Wednesday November 18, @11:50AM
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MikeChino writes "Working in partnership with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Berry Plastics has rolled out a new breed of bomb-proof wallpaper. Dubbed the X-Flex Blast Protection System, the wallpaper is so effective that a single layer can keep a wrecking ball from smashing through a brick wall, and a double layer can stop blunt objects (i.e. a flying 2×4) from knocking down drywall. According to its designers, covering an entire room takes less than an hour."
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+-   Bruce Schneier Action Figure-> on Tuesday November 17, @06:33AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17, @06:33AM
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An anonymous reader writes "For the geek who has everything, The Register brings news of a Bruce Schneier action man doll. With a choice of options including "Casual Bruce", "Smart Bruce" and "Head only" and with a choice of heads "Bald", "Ponytail" and "Cyborg". Just in time for xmas eh folks

The doll is available from ThatsMyFace.com for $89.99"
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+-   Nathan Myhrvold Becomes Willy Wonka on Monday November 16, @11:10PM circletimessquare

Submitted by circletimessquare on Monday November 16, @11:10PM
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circletimessquare writes "Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft, is self-publishing a cook book with scientific underpinnings. The man who presided over the original iterations of Windows has built a laboratory kitchen, hired 5 chefs, and plays with misplaced lab equipment: using an autoclave as a pressure cooker, using a 100-ton hydraulic press to make beef jerky, and using an ultrasonic welder for... he's not sure yet. Read all about the fun at the New York Times (bonus video: how to how to cryosear and cryorender duck). '“It’s basically like a software project,” Dr. Myhrvold said. “It’s very much like a review we would do at Microsoft.”' Can one BSoD food?"
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+-   Astronaut's Cookbook dishes on cosmic cuisine-> on Monday November 16, @12:01PM coondoggie

Submitted by coondoggie on Monday November 16, @12:01PM
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coondoggie writes "A Tang soufflé' perhaps? Yum. A new book out this week will tell you everything you wanted to know about cooking and eating in space. The Astronaut's Cookbook — Tales, Recipes, and More — penned by NASA veterans Charles Bourland and Gregory Vogt offers up a number of recipes as well a history of space feasting just in time for Thanksgiving, if you are so inclined. The book includes a number of interesting space food facts: -Soviet cosmonaut, Gherman Titov, was the first human to consume food in space

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47981"
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+-   Insurance + cryonics = you are your beneficiary-> on Monday November 16, @05:29AM destinyland

Submitted by destinyland on Monday November 16, @05:29AM
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destinyland writes "A science writer discovers it's possible to finance your cryogenic preservation using life insurance — and then leave a huge death benefit to your future thawed self! "Most in the middle class, if they seriously want it, can afford it now. So by taking the right steps, you can look forward to waking up one bright future morning from cryopreservation the proud owner of a bank account brimming with money!" There's one important caveat: some insist that money "will have no meaning in a future dominated by advanced molecular manufacturing or other engines of mega-abundance." (This article appeared in the fall issue of H+ magazine...)"
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Comments: 2 +-   Motorcycle accident results in bionic bottom.-> on Saturday November 14, @04:11PM Noishe

Submitted by Noishe on Saturday November 14, @04:11PM
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Noishe writes "A man involved in a motorcycle accident in the UK has been given an alternative to the dreaded colostomy bag. He now carries around a remote control to activate his "bionic bottom" made out of muscles taken from above his knee. The muscles were wrapped around his sphincter and then attached to electrodes that are controlled by a remote control he now carries in his pocket."
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+-   Copyright Law Copyrights Law-> on Friday November 13, @01:57PM oatworm

Submitted by oatworm on Friday November 13, @01:57PM
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oatworm writes "From ForeignPolicy.com: "Six years after a civil war that killed 250,000 and displaced hundreds of thousands more, justice is at the top of Liberia's list of needs. But in this small West African country of 3.5 million, the problem isn't a lack of courtrooms or trained lawyers. Liberia is wanting for the actual laws themselves. The country's legal code doesn't exist in print except for a few mismatched volumes here and there, sequestered in incomplete sets in libraries in the capital, Monrovia. And right now, as far as legal advocates can tell, even Liberia's national parliament doesn't have a full copy of the law. Why not? Because the few volumes that do exist have been quietly copyrighted — and subsequently held ransom — by the man in charge of Liberia's legal reform. Across the country, lawyers, courtrooms, and even the government are operating blindly; it's impossible to be certain if they are following a legal code they don't have.""
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+-   Internet slower than rat, horse, rabbit, and dog.-> on Friday November 13, @04:11AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13, @04:11AM
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An anonymous reader writes "CNET demonstrates that the internet is "actually slower than every major animal. It's even slower than the apocryphal tortoise over a mile." In order to prove this they "pitted the world's top animals against the Web over a one-mile course, transferring 32GB of data.". The results of the experiment showed the Internet to be the worst way to transfer data over short distances. "If you put 32GB of data on a bite-proof USB key and strapped it to a cheetah, for example, it would be available to read at the destination 11 times faster than the Internet. The cheetah takes 30.9 minutes, the Internet over 6 hours!" Pigeon, horse and dog also perform very well at transferring 32GB of data, and even the lowly rat is over 8 times faster than the internet. CNET suggests the internet "should hang its head in shame over its ranking in the one-mile speed test.""
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+-   Bug Wears Armor Made of Poo-> on Thursday November 12, @10:31AM richardkelleher

Submitted by richardkelleher on Thursday November 12, @10:31AM
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richardkelleher writes "It seems it is not always rolling downhill, sometimes it is armor!

"A beetle apparently protects itself by constructing armor made from excrement, researchers now reveal.
Scientists investigated case-bearing leaf beetles, which are found worldwide. Females of these species typically construct bell-shaped receptacles made of feces around an egg immediately after they lay one. ""
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+-   Facebook message frees NYC robbery suspect-> on Thursday November 12, @09:45AM SpuriousLogic

Submitted by SpuriousLogic on Thursday November 12, @09:45AM
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SpuriousLogic writes "NEW YORK — A 19-year-old New York City man arrested on robbery charges has been exonerated thanks to his Facebook page.
Rodney Bradford was held for 12 days on suspicion of robbing two people on Oct. 17 in the Brooklyn public housing complex where he lives.
Bradford and witnesses insisted he was innocent. They said he was at his father's Harlem apartment when the crime occurred.
A playful message was posted on Bradford's Facebook page one minute before the robbery. In it, he asked his girlfriend where his pancakes were.
Prosecutors dropped the charges after Facebook verified the words had been typed from a computer at his father's building."
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+-   Keeping Pacemakers Safe from Hackers on Thursday November 12, @07:49AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12, @07:49AM
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An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control have now developed a scheme for protecting implantable medical devices against wireless attacks. The approach relies on using ultrasound waves to determine the exact distance between a medical device and the wireless reader attempting to communicate with it.

For more infos: http://www.technologyreview.in/computing/23923/"
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+-   eBay for Billionairs -> on Thursday November 12, @05:12AM AC

Submitted by AC on Thursday November 12, @05:12AM
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AC writes "Got USD $2million in assets? Then you can join BillionaireXchange http://billionairexchange.com/ Just the place to find a 2006 Bugatti Veyron with a Start Bid of USD 1,050,000.00. Or perhaps you are looking for a boat like the Disco Volante (from James Bond), for example the 2000 Azimut Motor Yacht, a lovely 85 footer with a Start Bid of USD 2,700,000.00 On the other end of the deal, did your hedge fund leave you in the lurch? This is the place to sell those extravagant toys you thought you could afford...
Original reference from Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5A831G20091109"
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+-   Duct Tape can fix _Anything_-> on Wednesday November 11, @08:15AM IamAHack

Submitted by IamAHack on Wednesday November 11, @08:15AM
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IamAHack writes "I heard this story this morning on public radio' s "Marketplace Morning Report" about an Alaskan bush pilot whose plane was mauled by a grizzly bear. A judicious application of duct tape was all that was needed to make the plane airworthy again. Another life changed forever by duct tape."
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Comments: 1 +-   Shark gives another shark a Caesarian section-> on Tuesday November 10, @03:26PM nut

Submitted by nut on Tuesday November 10, @03:26PM
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nut writes "Visitors to an underwater aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand were stunned to see one shark give another shark an impromptu caesarean section. Staff were initially dubious when visitors came running to tell them there were baby sharks spilling from a wound in a female school shark's stomach — courtesy of a large bite by another shark.
It's not uncommon for sharks to take chunks out of each other, in the wild or in captivity, but in this case the bite probably saved the baby sharks' lives. Staff did not know the mother was pregnant and as sharks are commonly born at night they would most likely have been eaten before they were seen."
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Comments: 1 +-   Origin of Species to be given for free, with FUD-> on Monday November 09, @02:50PM PhrostyMcByte

Submitted by PhrostyMcByte on Monday November 09, @02:50PM
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PhrostyMcByte writes "November 24th will mark the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the pivotal work that helped bring the theory of evolution through natural selection into popularity. Around this same time, Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron is spearheading a plan to pass out 50,000 free copies at universities around the country. The catch? Each copy will be altered to include creationist propaganda and FUD targeting evolution and Darwin himself."
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+-   Maine Wind Farm In Doubt Because Site Is Too Windy-> on Monday November 09, @01:44PM sprinkletown

Submitted by sprinkletown on Monday November 09, @01:44PM
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sprinkletown writes "A Boston-based wind energy company is facing an unusual problem for its proposed wind farm in Maine: the site is too windy for even the burliest of turbines."
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