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Poll taken just after the presidential candidates debate

2008-09-04T09:58:00.004+05:00

Last night's debate between the presidential candidates was a historical event, a moment that all of us have been waiting for. It was an opportunity to compare and judge each candidate on a fair stage with no special media attention or opportunity for any candidate.This Facebook poll was taken at about 3:00 in the morning, just 3 hours after the debate. The target was the Maldives network which

India's Tata backs air-power car

2008-02-14T08:26:00.002+05:00

An engineer has promised that within a year he will start selling a car in India that runs on compressed air, producing no emissions at all in towns.The OneCAT will be a five-seater with a glass fibre body, weighing just 350kg and could cost just over £2,500.The project is being backed by the Indian conglomerate, Tata for an undisclosed sum. It says the technology may also be used for power

60 cups of coffee can kill you!

2008-01-08T08:27:00.000+05:00

After reading my friend Hammett's article on benefits of coffee, I found it biased on the Coffee pro side. Even though i love coffee i thought it is good to shed some light on it's darker side. We need to be aware of Caffeine's lethal dose.LD50 (Lethal Dose) of Caffeine is 192mg/Kg. To put is simply this amount of Caffeine have killed rats and other animals when tested.To make it even easier for

What Girls need to know about their geek Boyfriends

2008-01-03T13:33:00.000+05:00

Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht discuss an email about a geek about to marry a girl that just wont understand him on diggnation episode 129

Answering hammett the Poet.

2008-01-02T10:30:00.000+05:00

The New Year's Evewalls of stone, sky of coudsdark is the night, all that we havelast is the day, dusk is the yearhopes are the new, end is the darksleep is the king, night is the kingdomdestroyed is the splendid night.

Analysis of the IED exploded in Sultan park, Male'.

2007-10-01T15:21:00.000+05:00

The explosion in male' was caused by a simple homemade IED device that used atrigger combined with washing machine timer and a mobile phone.Components:Nokia 1110Washing machine timerDetonator Circuit9V Battery and ClipDetonatorLighter gas canMobile PhoneThe mobile phone used in the device is a Nokia 1110. The phone have two easy options to use as a trigger for the detonator circuit. One option is

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2007-08-01T11:33:00.000+05:00

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Magnetic "wobbles" cause disk failure

2007-07-23T02:21:00.000+05:00

New research could lead to more reliable hard disks Scientists have discovered one of the major causes of hard disk failure. According to researchers working at the University of California and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, understanding certain types of disk drive failures, called magnetic avalanches, could help disk drive manufacturers

True random number generator goes online

2007-07-23T02:20:00.000+05:00

A 'true' random number generator that relies on the unpredictable quantum process of photon emission has gone online providing academic and scientific community access to true random numbers free of charge. A group of computer scientists from Ruder Boškovic Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, developed and launched the Quantum Random Bit Generator Service (QRBGS) whose range of applications spans

The Psychology of Social Computing: What Best Explains the Success of Facebook?

2007-07-16T19:16:00.000+05:00

Facebook has been getting a lot of UK press of late, from consideration of how much it is worth, to privacy issues, universities getting annoyed at students using it to criticize staff, being censored by organizations frightened of it, and the musings of BBC journalists about whether people are too “old” to Facebook.What makes Facebook such an attraction? Some theories… more

Those OS X iPods? They're Already Here! Pixo, ARM, and the Mac OS

2007-07-16T19:14:00.000+05:00

Speculation has run rampant over how Apple might bring iPhone technologies to its iPod line. Will the next generation of iPods look like the iPhone and run the same software? It turns out I stumbled upon the answers six months ago. Now I've discovered additional proof. You’ll be surprised to find that much of what we all thought we knew about the iPod was wrong. -read more from..

Developing QuickTime Applications for the iPod

2007-07-16T19:11:00.000+05:00

It's commonly believed that Apple's iPod portable music player uses a bare-bones operating system developed by a company called Pixo, Inc., and that the device itself is a closed system insofar as only Apple can add software modules -- such as the games or contacts list manager -- to the device. And, it's further believed, even if there were a way to load third-party applications onto the device,

How I Became a Programmer

2007-05-09T03:30:00.000+05:00

This is a Nintendo Family Computer that we used to play Super Mario. What was interesting about this game console was that it is also a computer with a keyboard and a ROM cartridge with NS-HUBASIC programming language. It supports Text Modes and Graphic Modes on TV.I only saw it being used as a computer. But thats when i got interested in programming. That was in 1985.Some years later...I wrote

Something you all should know!

2007-05-09T02:20:00.000+05:00

As usual i was refreshing BBC NEWS Front page and came across this article. Once you read this, it comes to you that you see this kind of behavior among children nowadays.Parents are being advised by experts not to give their children food containing certain additives until the results of a new study are published. UK researchers tested the effects of a range of artificial colourings on

The Russian Progress, Europian ATV and the American Crew Exploration Vehicle

2007-05-07T03:58:00.000+05:00

The Progress is a Russian expendable freighter spacecraft. The spacecraft is an unmanned resupply spacecraft during its flight but upon docking with a space station it allows astronauts inside, hence it is classified manned by the manufacturer . It was derived from the Soyuz spacecraft, and is launched with the Soyuz launch vehicle. It is currently used to supply the International Space Station,

The Soviet version of "Concorde". The TU-144

2007-05-02T21:52:00.000+05:00

The Tupolev 144 a/c is a passenger airplan that can fly at the speed of sound. But this plane also didn't make it to the market as with the case of most Soviet developments. "Similarity of technical requirements and almost the same level of aircraft schools in UK, France and USSR have defined a striking likeness of “Concorde” and TU-144 a/c. However fortunes are different" The above image shows

The Russian Space Shuttle, Buran

2007-05-02T21:21:00.000+05:00

Those who have not heard of a Soviet or Russian space shuttle; yes they had a more advanced shuttle. It's very simillar to the American Shuttle in appearance and size. The Buran can fly unmanned flights that is not possible with American Shuttles. One other major difference is Buran doesn't have and engine like the American Shuttle.Buran-Energia is the Russian Space Shuttle system made up of the

The Milgram experiment

2006-12-13T22:31:00.000+05:00

The Milgram experiment was a series of famous scientific studies of social psychology, intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who instructs the participant to do something that may conflict with the participant's personal conscience.The experiment was first described in 1963 by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University,[1] and later discussed in his