Cap'n Refsmmat

I think "Truth, Justice, and the Politically Correct Way" would sound rather funny for a motto. Perhaps for SuperPoliticianMan.

While it may conjure up images of Spiderman for some, researchers have actually entered clinical trials in a drug to treat brain cancer with a particularly odd chemical: radioactive scorpion venom. The drug is an artificial version of the venomous protein attached to radioactive iodine. The compound attaches to the cancer cells and the iodine promptly irradiates them, killing the cells with minimal damage to the surrounding area. The treatment has already increased patient survival rates and helped treat tumors, and many hope it will pass clinical trials and become one of the many cancer-fighting drugs in the medical arsenal. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/hps-rsv062706.php

"Experimental studies in which animals are exposed to tobacco smoke have produced results supporting the view that exposure to secondhand or 'environmental' tobacco smoke is carcinogenic." My post above. Not a statistical study.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_smoking 29 experts from 12 countries say: "These meta-analyses show that there is a statistically significant and consistent association between lung cancer risk in spouses of smokers and exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke from the spouse who smokes. The excess risk is of the order of 20% for women and 30% for men and remains after controlling for some potential sources of bias and confounding." Another study: "Experimental studies in which animals are exposed to tobacco smoke have produced results supporting the view that exposure to secondhand or 'environmental' tobacco smoke is carcinogenic." Many other groups agree. There's hardly any dispute on the subject right now. Let's not sensationalize things.

A new study shows that the radiation emitted by cell phones may make regions of the brain more "excitable" - leading to researchers suggesting cell phones may play a role in disorders such as epilepsy. The study measured the "excitability" of brain regions by strapping a cell phone to the heads of test subjects and then using pulses of trans-cranial magnetic stimulation on certain regions of the brain. Each pulse stimulates the brain, and the response can be measured through electrical activity in muscles. The researchers found that the brain was more responsive when the cell phone was switched on, suggesting its emitted radiation may affect the way the brain works. http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9411

Be yourself and don't panic. Trying to act like someone else is bad, and being a nervous wreck is too.

Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys has suddenly and inexplicably stopped working, says a NASA spokesman. The problem appears to be increased voltages from a faulty power supply, although it could also be caused by corrupted memory or some other unknown problem. Scientists are confident they can resolve the problem, but it goes to show how desperately Hubble needs maintenance to continue operating. It is estimated that Hubble will cease working in 2008, when its batteries and gyroscopes will fail. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060624/ap_on_sc/hubble_camera_problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Hardware_requirements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_power

Closed and moved. tsolkas is, as swansont says, a hit-and-run poster.

No. The Internet2 network is lead by universities and companies, not individual companies. It simply develops new technologies for use on the Internet. Once its technologies become more widely used, there will be no need for prioritization - the network will be so fast it will be capable of handling increases in bandwidth for years to come, and nobody will have to prioritize traffic to keep things running smoothly.

But your traffic is still given the same priority. If their network becomes clogged, everybody experiences a slowdown, whereas if there was a "fast lane", the sites that paid would get around the clogs. Let's just get Internet2 out and widely used so there's no need for prioritization.

Vista's minimum requirements are 512 MB of RAM for the basics. You don't always need Aero, after all.

Plenty: http://www.maratz.com/blog/archives/2005/06/16/essentials-of-css-hacking-for-internet-explorer/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_Internet_Explorer#Workarounds

Yes, one major problem IE is going to face is that many of the little hacks that got IE6 to work on sites are going to screw up sites in IE7.

Vista has a vastly expanded system for controlling group policy and how administrative privileges. It will also be more expensive, although a bulk license may be cheap enough.

In the first space missions, astronauts wore their spacesuits from launch to landing. In Gemini, for example, when the first spacewalk (and all subsequent ones) were carried out, they just let all the air out and opened a hatch. Both people in the capsule, including the non-spacewalker, had to have spacesuits on to survive, and there wasn't enough space to squirm into one during the mission.

According to a book I have from an ex-Space Shuttle astronaut, people do "grow" in space a significant amount, and get very nasty backaches as a result. Spacesuits and such have to be made 2 or so inches bigger to fit the astronauts in space.

I've seen a version of this made with a remote-controlled helicopter, which has more lift but is decidedly louder. Although a big silver blimp is quite noticeable too.

Hmm... I was also looking into regular radio scanners recently. The electromagnetic spectrum can get rather interesting in places.

What all do you hear on VLF? Just various atmospheric noises?

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

How could a company like Google pay off every ISP and network that people access it from? From what I understand, any ISP or company like Time Warner could say "pay up for good speed", and so a web site would have to pay off dozens of different companies that are linked to it, directly or indirectly. (I may be misunderstanding this entirely)

I think she's gotten so many emails about it that her staffers send out the same email in response to all of them.

http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB301.html