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Music industry demands, nay orders, BitTorrent blackout in Ireland
posted by seti at 2009-02-23 21:34

Eurojust to back member states authorities to monitor Skype conversations
posted by seti at 2009-02-23 16:27

seti: EU's judicial cooperation agency Eurojust will take the lead in finding ways to help police and prosecutors across Europe to wiretap computer-to-computer phone conversations enabled by programs such as Skype.

Best CS geek pun ever
posted by kandinski at 2009-02-23 15:29

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:MIT_Nanotube_Super_Capacitor
posted by cheezn8r at 2009-02-23 13:24

cheezn8r: can be charged as fast as you can pump current through an I-beam
cheezn8r: and can deliver that current as fast as you like
cheezn8r: reader comment hits the mark: We just need to make sure the nanotubes stay inside the battery and don't get out like asbestos and act like a carcinogen.
cheezn8r: but recall that brake pads are asbestos already, so the challenge can't be too hard
nene: Brake pads haven't been made of asbestos in the civilised world for some time
cheezn8r: oops .. that read comment was here
cheezn8r: oh asbestos has been deprecated but was still in use early this century and i don't know that crash sites were ever regarded as risk zones for asbestoses .. i guess fine aprticles released in a crash disperse fast enough that the risk they pose is negligable compared with the harm from the crash itself
cheezn8r: summary: car crash == bad anyway, what harm a few nanoparticles? supercapacitors would be sealed and survive all but the worst crashes or fires anyway
nene: Quite, but car crash does not currently mean "Major hazard to biological life"
nene: Other than the obvious ;)
cheezn8r: yes, other than the obvious hazard of death, car crash is completely harmless :)
cheezn8r: summary of the summary: fund this technology because it's the only thing i've seen in many years of interest, which has any chance of saving the planet while preserving a lifestyle anything like what we have today (in fact better, if the nanoparticles can be contained well)
nene: Currently a car crash is mostly harmless to people not directly involved in squishage
cheezn8r: i think chances of busting a capacitor by impact in a car crash are low .. and present technology such as petrol or lpg gas also are detrmintal to health (and carcinogenic) if the crash is energetic enough
cheezn8r: remember, petrol?

http://www.automanonline.org/
posted by cheezn8r at 2009-02-23 13:20

cheezn8r: WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE DEDICATED TO AUTOMAN!

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/hous-a06.shtml
posted by seti at 2009-02-23 12:56

seti: !2005!

http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=newsdesc&news_no=591
posted by cheezn8r at 2009-02-23 12:14

cheezn8r: the english is poor, but i think they're saying that this heatsink/fan uses the CPU waste heat to drive a small stirling piston engine which powers the fan to cool the CPU ...
cheezn8r: i wonder if it makes a thrumming sound ... ?
cheezn8r: anyone have an envelope to figure out if that's even theoretically possible?
cheezn8r: animation
cheezn8r: i guess this can only be worth using when the CPU cooler fan power-use is only a fraction of the amount the CPU burns, ie it'd have to be a tiny efficiency measure or it wouldn't work
cheezn8r: and with the complication and i guess noise, i guess this is why in 1 year we haven't seen this for sale
cheezn8r: here is an equivalent idea for people with wood stoves, to blow the hot air around the room
cheezn8r: which sounds significantly more practical, especially because it isn't held together with rubber bands

Women are more beautiful than men on average because beautiful parents have significantly more daughters than less beautiful parents.
posted by anomie at 2009-02-23 05:43

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posted by kandinski at 2009-02-23 01:24