Old Li2-Crystals

There’s actually a small but growing group of people, amateur scientists, that are working on building fusion reactors. Quite a few of them have actually built working fusion reactors in their basements and attic labs.

I remember back when the dinosaurs still roamed the Earth (ok, maybe it wasn’t *quite* that long ago) when the Dymo label maker first showed up in stores. Looking at their website you can see that it’s come a long way since those first days of the sometimes cantankerous early models of the now infamous label makers.

That’s the question that more and more people are asking after Comcast and then others have been caught interfering with customers net connections by sending false reset packets to both sides of a bittorrent transfer.

The birth and death of a really useful application in one day.

Picture this: Joe Sixpack needs to check in on his fave blogs and online news but he hasn’t got the time to wait for Windows to boot. He flips on his computer, five seconds later he’s got a browser running and is getting up to date while the guy next to him is still looking at the Windows logo, waiting for his machine to boot.

I just read a story that’s going to be of interest those who like to be on the bleeding edge of speed capacities… Some physicists at the University of Sydney have come up with an optical chip that’s reportedly capable of speeds up to a hundred times faster than Australia’s current networks are doing.

Recently, as part of my never ending effort to keep from falling behind on things technical, I find that the Cat5e cables that I’ve been using for so long are no longer the standard and haven’t been for quite a while now.

AVG’s version 8 of their software has a new “feature” called Linkscanner. It sounds like a nice idea on paper but in reality it’s been a nightmare for webmasters because it’s requesting the pages that get listed in search engine results in order to scan them and warn the user in the event of a page loaded with malware. Thing is, up until a recent software update, it was doing this for every link that appeared on a search engine result page.

It makes you wonder how much privacy you really have. Is there a hidden transmitter in your television? How easy is it for your phone or email conversations to be snooped?

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I just ran across something in the LA Times that I can’t help find a bit disturbing. It seems that some bright young genius has decided Chrysler should offer wireless Internet services … IN 2009 model cars. Is it just me or does anyone else have a problem with [...]