Any Day Now, Any Day
on Nov 21, 2009 in General Word on the street — and by that we mean Reuters — is that Tesla’s looking to go public with the company “any day.” The luxury electric car make, whose Roadster still goes for a cool $109,000, would be the first US auto...

Dwayne Johnson to the Rescue!
on Nov 21, 2009 in General Perhaps space travel has become old. Perhaps people have come to take it for granted. It’s been seen in so many movies. So many space shuttles have taken off and returned to Earth that we think little more of them than we do of jumbo jets. NASA...

Now Who’s Giving You the Finger?
on Nov 21, 2009 in General In this image provided by Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze shows a finger attributed to Galileo Galilei. A Florence museum says, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to Galileo Galilei have been found a...

Hot Stuff That Firefox
on Nov 21, 2009 in General Firefox has a CPU usage issue and, consequently, can cause overheating problems in some laptops, particularly ultraportables. This is documented on a Mozilla support page entitled “Firefox consumes a lot of CPU resources.” The page states...

On Becoming God
on Nov 21, 2009 in General Scientists are preparing the world’s largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. When the machine is fully operational, its magnets will contr...

It’s Not Like The World’s Going To End or Anything
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0.75mm Per Year!! OMG!! I Can’t Swim!
on Nov 21, 2009 in General Greenland lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice between 2000 and 2008, making it responsible for one-sixth of global sea-level rise. Even worse, there are signs that the rate of ice loss is increasing. Michiel van den Broeke of Utrecht University in the...

They Have Nothing to Laugh At Back At the Precinct
on Nov 21, 2009 in General A police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission has been suspended — not for using the weapon but for not having a video camera attached when he used it. Mayor Vernon McDaniel said off...

LG N4B1 NAS with BD Drive
on Nov 21, 2009 in General From Computerworld: LG’s N4B1 NAS box is neither a comprehensive media server nor a particularly fast performer, but as a network-attached storage device, it’s quick enough for home/small-business file serving. The unit–available at...

Pistol-Rifle Converter
on Nov 20, 2009 in General Built by CAA Tactical, it adds a stock, front grip, picatinny rails, sight/scope and extra mag holder, while being compatible with a silencer. But it doesn’t extend the barrel, for instance, nor can it replace pistol ammo with the larger cartr...