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Found by a close, personal friend of Apple, Brother Uncle Don
- YouTube mobile takes off.
- NSA to be monitoring the power grid.
- New iPOD Touch revealed.
- Facebook lawsuit woes.
- MSFT Kin to disappear. I predict it will be gone from the timeline.
- 3D Camera coming.
- Twitter to become the next Google? How?
- ATT limits iPhone fun.
- Are women addicted to Facebook? Answer: yes.
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Paul the psychic octopus is one of the unlikely stars of World Cup 2010 but his ability to correctly forecast the outcome of Germany’s matches threatens to land him in hot water.
Having accurately predicted that Germany would beat Argentina in the quarter-finals, Paul faced the wrath of angry Argentinian supporters who have blamed the octopus for their World Cup exit and expressed a desire to eat him in an act of vengeance.
But Paul’s keeper Oliver Walenciak remains confident that the octopus will continue performing his remarkable act for years to come from the safety of his tank in Oberhausen as opposed to the dinner table.
He said: “There are always people who want to eat our octopus but he is not shy and we are here to protect him as well. He will survive.”
Paul is able to make his predictions courtesy of Walenciak and his staff who place two containers filled with mussels and a flag to represent each football nation into his tank.
The container selected by the hungry octopus is assumed to be the predicted winner and so far Paul has a 100 per cent success rate for all five of Germany’s fixtures during World Cup 2010, including their 1-0 defeat to Serbia.
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“We know that all octopus have nine brains so we know he has exceptional powers.”
Too bad we can’t find politicians with nine brains. For some of them, one would be a nice change.
Here is the latest conversation I had with money manager Andrew Horowitz…. new insights for anyone who invests in anything. This week the market skyrockets on Wednesday. No gas in the Tesla (TSLA) motors tank?
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- Microsoft getting a lot of bad PR. Apparently cutting jobs again. Kin’s death at issue too.
- Xbox meanwhile looking good with $1B sales or so.
- Chipmakers running with the bulls.
- Samsung looking good.
- New Charm phone getting attention.
- Mozilla 4.0 has a new GUI.
- Best Buy getting into the wireless broadband service act.
- Germany going after Facebook.
- The EU is going after Google. For what?
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Welcome to a new, occasional post where I will posit a question that’s bugging me either because I can’t find enough info on it, don’t know if I can trust what I’ve read, or am just too damn lazy to research myself, allowing you, my readers, to do the work for me. So, let’s get to the first question.
Several times on No Agenda I’ve heard Adam and John mention abiotic oil in passing. Having never heard of it before, I decided to look it up and found this rather wordy article from a couple of years ago. If true, it means the price of oil is far more inflated than we are led to believe because it is anything but a scarce resource. In fact, we will effectively never run out. I’ve always wondered how there could have been that many dinosaurs and plants to create that much oil that has been found, despite the time involved.
Is this theory real or crap? A scam or a diversion? What do you think?
Stalin’s team of scientists and engineers found that oil is not a ‘fossil fuel’ but is a natural product of planet earth – the high-temperature, high-pressure continuous reaction between calcium carbonate and iron oxide – two of the most abundant compounds making up the earth’s crust. This continuous reaction occurs at a depth of approximately 100 km at a pressure of approximately 50,000 atmospheres (5 GPa) and a temperature of approximately 1500°C, and will continue more or less until the ‘death’ of planet earth in millions of years’ time. The high pressure, as well as centrifugal acceleration from the earth’s rotation, causes oil to continuously seep up along fissures in the earth’s crust into subterranean caverns, which we call oil fields. Oil is still being produced in great abundance, and is a sustainable resource – by the same definition that makes geothermal energy a sustainable resource. All we have to do is develop better geotechnical science to predict where it is and learn how to drill down deep enough to get to it. So far, the Russians have drilled to more than 13 km and found oil. In contrast, the deepest any Western oil company has drilled is around 4.5 km.
A team consisting of Russian scientists and Dr J. F. Kenney, of Gas Resources Corporation, Houston, USA, have actually built a reactor vessel and proven that oil is produced from calcium carbonate and iron oxide, as detailed on the Gas Resources website.
JR Raphael, PC World
Alert! Alert! Apple’s walled garden has been breached!
Have you seen the headlines? Someone apparently managed to manipulate Apple’s iPhone App Store over the holiday weekend. As first reported by tech blog The Next Web, a sly lil’ developer filled up the App Store with dozens of his questionable creations. By the time the jig was up, the guy had pushed his bogus-looking wares into 42 of the 50 top seller spots for Apple’s e-books category.
And that’s just the start.
Found by Jay.
Not even officers from Israeli security service Shin Bet can escape the scourge of lost [and stolen] luggage it seems.
A bag belonging to agents travelling with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was mistakenly put on a flight from New York to Los Angeles, not to Washington. Alarmingly the bag contained four 9mm Glock handguns, which are now missing…
The Israeli officers were accompanying Mr Netanyahu to Washington for White House talks with President Barack Obama.
NBC News reported that the handguns had, in accordance with security procedures at New York’s John F Kennedy airport, been placed inside checked luggage. The luggage was then supposed to be put on a connecting flight to Washington however, American Airlines workers at the airport instead sent it right across the country to LAX in Los Angeles.
By the time the luggage was located and recovered, the guns had disappeared, and are presumed to have been stolen.
Life in the fast lane.
A new executive order from San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom makes it illegal to sell Coke, Pepsi and other sodas in vending machines:
Newsom’s directive, issued in April but whose practical impacts are starting to be felt now, bars calorically sweetened beverages from vending machines on city property.
That includes non-diet sodas, sports drinks and artificially sweetened water. Juice must be 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice with no added sweeteners. Diet sodas can be no more than 25 percent of the items offered, the directive says.
San Francisco certainly isn’t the first municipality to set nutritional standards for vending machines on public property. The state and at least four counties have adopted or have recommendations for similar policies. Santa Clara County’s policy, adopted in 2008, is not as restrictive as San Francisco’s, allowing up to half of vending machine content to be standard soda. It’s unclear how strict the other policies are.
Two Census Bureau managers from a Brooklyn field office were fired after their bosses found they faked household surveys to meet deadlines, the Daily News learned.
Instead of pounding the pavement and knocking on doors, the corner-cutting people-counters mined the phone book and Internet to make up answers to questionnaires, regional director Tony Farthing said.
The managers – turned in by whistleblower employees – were caught last week. Now, at least 10,000 surveys need to be done or redone, officials said.
I’m sure these guys had to pay fines for fraud…
Our Lady of Perpetual Carbon
There’s only one solution. Science fiction stories have been written (as well as proposed for real) about having a priesthood who guards atomic waste dumps as they decay over tens of thousands of years. Sounds like we need the same for this. Any volunteers to be a Carbon Priest?
Carbon dioxide sequestration isn’t a great global warming solution unless we develop less leaky equipment or commit to regular re-sequestering, according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience. If the containers used don’t leak less than one percent every thousand years, atmospheric carbon would have to be monitored carefully and resequestered on a regular basis over tens of thousands of years in order to match the effects of reducing carbon emissions. Otherwise, sequestration would only slow the warming, not stop it.
[…Dr. Gary Shaffer] noted that current methods for both types of sequestration have leakages rate that are too high, and would only lead to a delayed warming of the atmosphere. According to his calculations, any method of sequestration would have to leak less than 1 percent of its volume every one thousand years in order to fully prevent global warming.
Dr. Shaffer notes that we could use leakier vessels if we committed to reharvesting the carbon every once in a while. However, this process would have to be kept up for tens of thousands of years in order to let the opportunity for warming to pass. In effect, to rely on carbon sequestration would necessitate tens of thousands of years of work and careful monitoring of a difficult-to-measure global leakage rate.
“…let the opportunity for warming to pass.” Hmmm….
So, if you can’t see the naughty bits, but can see behind the naughty bits, is it naughty? And is it NSFW, unless you’re a doctor, of course? The calendar was done for the Eizo company, so is this the next level in booth babe-dom?
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