“The universe speaks: ‘It’s time to get off your rock!'”
Those of us who think about these things have been saying that for decades. I hope people listen soon enough for it to do humanity some good.
Archive of posts filed under the Science and Technology category.
Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
“Greenland ice SIMPLY WOULD NOT MELT in baking +8°C era 120k years ago”
Article here. Posted without commentary, except this: :-p
“Boffins create quantum gas with temperature BELOW absolute zero”
I’m breaking my self-imposed silence to mention an article that really caught my interest today. From near the end of the article: […] As Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told Nature, “This may be a way to create new forms of matter in the laboratory.” Boffins have theorized that such sub-zero matter …
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It’s a Speed Demon, All Right
The Solid State Drive (SSD) has been in the system for over a week now, so here’s an update on it: It’s FAST! Okay, that’s not news, but I felt compelled to say it anyway. 😉 After letting the Linux VM run for several days with memory-hog programs like Firefox (with about a dozen pages …
Speed Demon!
Both the new Solid State Drive (SSD) and the Data Doubler mounting bracket arrived way ahead of schedule — on Thursday afternoon, in fact, a day early for the Data Doubler and at least four days early for the drive itself. I’m not complaining. 🙂 The drive was in OEM packaging, meaning that it was …
Solid State Drives
Solid State Drives. Ridiculously fast. Ridiculously expensive too. I’ve wanted to move to one for years, but one major thing held me back: their longevity. Not only do they fail, but according to both Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky (old-school computer geeks who I highly respect), they fail catastrophically, and in a really, really short …
Scammers, Chapter IV
In which the villains finally get their come-uppance. Remember the scammers I talked about several times last year? They didn’t stop, I just stopped reporting on them. We’ve been averaging a call from them every couple weeks since then, all from the “Windows Support Department” or “Windows Technical Service Department” (of what company, they never …
The Power of Beliefs
Playing with some random thoughts recently, I wondered: if the Lefkoe Belief Method can eliminate deep-seated false beliefs from your subconscious mind, is it possible to install new ones that you’ve chosen? It wouldn’t be as straightforward. Given the success of the Lefkoe method, the model of beliefs it proposes is very likely to be …
“Good-bye old Internet: Europe is down to its last IPv4 addresses”
Another nail in IPv4’s coffin. And the article’s summary says: […] The U.S. and Canada? Our day of reckoning comes in August 2013. I’ve been working on my communications code library recently, upgrading it to support proxies (which is a real pain in the tail when you don’t have a proper proxy to test things …
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…and Why Your Neighbors Should Care Too
(This is a continuation of my last two articles, here and here, on a mental health technique I discovered a few months ago.) It used to be that your mental health didn’t matter much to most people. Your family probably cared, assuming they weren’t too screwed up to do so, as an unfortunate number of …
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