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Language of computing
I was reminded this Christmas Holiday season that computers do not ‘know‘ any human language, only binary, and that it takes humans to provide the translation from the machine to something human readable. And while most computer programing languages are … Continue reading
Posted in Education, General IT issues, History, Information, language, programming, Psychology, Science
Tagged Computers, language, programming
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The very first Higgs Boson
Yup! The first of many Higgs Boson’s, just like the early Greeks predicted, particles within particles within particles ad infinitude.
Posted in Energy, History, Information, Religion, Science, The Future, Truth
Tagged Higgs Boson, Research, Science
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Putting touch feel back into touch screens at SRI
Watch this video on an new feedback element developed at SRI (watch from 2:50 minutes ). More SRI stories at TechCrunch PS: I used to work at SRI, an amazing place to work.
Posted in Information, iPhone, Science, The Future
Tagged Feedback, SRI, Technology, Touch
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Underground War – Whistle Blowers strike back.
I may be the last to see this, a war, underground and undeclared, but a war. The opponents are a bit undefined but there is a clear and escalating combat in the world. I’m not talking about Terrorists, (although the … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracies, corruption, Crime, Democracy, Economy, Education, Freedom, government, Honesty, Information, Internet, Law, Lies, monopolies, Myths, Politics, Press, Religion, Science, Social Networks, Terrorism, The Future, Truth, World Events
Tagged Underground War, Whistleblowers, WikiLeaks
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More Pseudoscience in the Press
This video at the BBC U.S. Site that claims Technology ‘rewires’ our brains Is yet another Pseudoscience attempt to baffle with Bullshit, the viewer. It comes off all Super Tech and is really no better than claiming that “Technology destroys … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracies, Education, Family, Health, Honesty, Information, Internet, lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology, Science, Social Networks, telecommunications, The Future, Truth
Tagged BBC, Pseudoscience, Science
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A Green reason for Electric Cars
I have often wondered if the use of Electric Vehicles, cars and Scooter’,s would ever become viable. And I had a revelation about how they could be more integrated into a green lifestyle. Almost everyone knows that that an electric … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, lifestyle, Science, The Future
Tagged eAuto, Electric Cars, Electric Scooters, Green, Power, Solar, Wind
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Gore – As cardiac stimulator to the environment
A cardiac stimulator (shock box) is not a heart rhythm but you can’t restore one without the other when it gets out of kilter. But in this nitpicky article Do-gooder Gore has it all wrong Where the author uses cherry … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracies, Energy, Politics, Science, The Future, Truth, World Events
Tagged co2, Global Warming, Gore, weather
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Displaying Toys
Conor got a cheap thrill from some of my Amazing Collection of computer Toys that I brought to the BarCampCork III meet up. I was more than happy to bring them out for an airing, although my back, and Walter’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cork, History, Ireland, Old Issues, Science, Tourist Sites
Tagged Computer History, Cork, Museum
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Give a man a fish…
Everyone has heard the old saw: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Lao Tzu But no one seems to think that it … Continue reading
Posted in Broadband, Economy, Education, General IT issues, government, Ireland, Recession, Science, The Future
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Internet to shutdown to help environment.
In this article Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches the Times On-Line quotes from an energy researcher who has no access to Google energy data to state “A Google search has a definite environmental impact.” Much like posting his … Continue reading
Dark Energy / Dark Matter The Devil incarnate
I’m just waiting for the first fundamentalist religious group to propose that mysterious dark energy and Dark Matter are manifestations of the Devil and that this Darkness is the Biblical metaphor for Hell That We in the universe of Lightness … Continue reading
The (subtle) war on Science
Outside of the blatant Anti-Science attacks like Sarah Palin’s War on Science! There are more subtle attacks, a smearing of Science research that undermines Science such as this article; The world’s smelliest magnets I call BS on these sort of … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracies, Education, Honesty, Psychology, Religion, Science, Truth
Tagged Religion, Science
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Defeat McCain with the Truth
While the mud slinging and lies are flying from the GOP, the Obama campaign I’m sure are trying to find a strategy that will nullify the muck flowing from McCain and Palin. This West Wing Clip, while addressing a religious … Continue reading
Medicine and medieval torture
Having a Transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) a Angiogram and a Transesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) in that order over the last three hospital working days, I can truly see that if you have the chance to avoid the hospital, you should make every … Continue reading
And everything else
As we were talking about our cat, my wife mentioned; “What would we do without him”, and I replied “Everything else!” And this brought to mind an old saying that was common when I was in the Navy. “A bitchy … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, corruption, Family, Funny Things, government, lifestyle, Politics, Science, The Future
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