Scientists at North Carolina's PULSTAR nuclear reactor facility fired a positron bean five times stronger than any other ever created earlier this month, breaking a record previously held by a team in Germany. The antimatter device -- which apparently looks like a Star Trek warp reactor -- was developed as part of a two year project by NC State, the University of Michigan, and Oak Ridge National Labs. Now that the device is working, the team is looking for practical applications for the tech, including building an "antimatter telescope," which would allow even closer observations of atomic interactions. Or they could use it to blow up the universe. You know, whatever.

They should test it on Cheney.

Researchers fire most powerful antimatter beam ever - Engadget

Oh come ON.

Why not just call it what it is?

Throttling. They are throttling the traffic so low that it is no longer worth it to try it.

It was a big selling point when my former network decided to go with Cisco. The salesman said - "Oh, yes, well you are academic, so you can't censor, but with our product, you can throttle it down so low no one will try it on your network."

That's rather underhanded, but customers don't know any better....do they?

"Comcast on Monday again denied that it was cutting off peer-to-peer access after a technology think tank posted two separate blog posts that backed up news reports of the ISP cutting access to the file sharing applications like BitTorrent and Gnutella.

"Comcast does not block access to any Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent," a Comcast spokeswoman said Monday. "

Comcasts says they are DELAYING, not stopping P2P/Bittorrent....

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

We use this - it is a really good program. :)

Stellarium

This video is rad!! They are playing video games and showing short videos using the lights in highrise buildings!!

Blinkenlights Arcade

I hate cellphones. This is why I don't carry one. THey make me paranoid.

Stalker remotely controls family cellphones, even when they're off - Engadget

It is VERY creepy.

CB2 Child Robot is possibly the most disturbing machine ever built - Engadget

"In this instructable I make a common WiFi Thumbdrive into a beefy wifi extender!'

The parabolic Asian cooking(dumpling) strainer is the perfect candidate for this project.

I was able to pick up 20 more access points in the city and connect to a network a few blocks away!

This is BY-FAR the most simple of all Wifi extensions!"

WokFi - Wire Kitchen Strainer Turns into Super Parabolic Network Extender

You see this sort of payback on eBay all the time - but I never tire of it. Priceless.

John McCain’s MySpace Page “Enhanced”

The Department of Homeland Security is paying Rutgers $3 million to oversee development of computing methods that could monitor suspicious social networks and opinions found in news stories, Web blogs and other Web information to identify indicators of potential terrorist activity.

The software and algorithms could rapidly detect social networks among groups by identifying who is talking to whom on public blogs and message boards, researchers said. Computers could ideally pick out entities trying to conceal themselves under different aliases.

Researcher Nick Belkin is one of the PIs; check out his presentation on the "Prospects for information 'selection'" for the Unified Cryptologic Architecture Office.

Also: GSA on SIS:

The Unified Cryptologic Architecture Office (UCAO) is developing a secure information sharing architecture, called HatWizard, to support intelligence information dissemination within the cryptologic community.

Also: Trust Architecture for Future Intelligence Processing, alternately titled "A Trust Framework for the DoD Network-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Environment".

Government research to track online networking

Sometimes it takes a little work to install Vista to a given machine.

YouTube - Anthony Cumia's Vista Installation