Jilted Wife Rewires Husbands Power Tools To Deliver 220 Volts Of Revenge [Crime]

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What she did is wrong, but I have to admit—I like (and am a little turned on by) Carolyn Paulsen-Riat's style. When her husband decided to leave her, she got creative with her plot for revenge.

What she did was reverse the wires on his 220-volt table saw—delivering a shock that knocked him to the ground. He didn't suffer any lasting effects from the shock, but Carolyn was booked for investigation of third-degree assault, domestic violence, and second-degree malicious mischief. She was later released by judge let her go on her own recognizance. [Olympian via Access Atlanta via Fark]



Schwarzenegger – deep spending cuts, salary cuts for state workers and abolishment of welfare programs

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California is facing a $20 billion deficit. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger just proposed massive spending cuts, and outright elimination of long-standing government agencies.

From the LA Times, Jan. 8:

The Republican governor will renew his call to expand oil drilling off the Santa Barbara coast and extend the payroll cuts that have resulted in furloughs and a 14% salary cut for more than 200,000 state workers... and extend the payroll cuts that have resulted in furloughs and a 14% salary cut for more than 200,000 state workers... he will propose the wholesale elimination of CalWorks, the state's main welfare program, as well as a program that provides in-home care to the elderly and disabled.

But the Governor doesn't stop there:

"As bitter as the words are in my mouth, we face additional cuts," Schwarzenegger said in his State of the State speech before lawmakers Wednesday.

The Legislative Analysis Office (LAO) just released a report. Although they acknowledged dramatic actions needed to be taken, the LAO dubbed Schwarzenegger's cuts "draconian."

Meanwhile California's Capitol blog is reporting that the LAO is now saying that the budget includes $2.4 billion reductions for public schools despite the Governor's claim to protect the education budget from any cuts.

Reaction from California Liberals has been severe.

Democrat Assembly candidate Das Williams issued a release calling the cuts "devastating," and claiming: "Californians have been suffering from two years of nonstop budget cuts and one-sided sacrifices. More pain for children, seniors, the disabled, and our low-income citizens."

UC News called it: "bad news for state workers, health and social services and prisons..."

Democrat Assemblywoman Noreen Evans of Santa Rosa, Chair of the Budget Committee is accusing Schwarzenegger of wanting to "privatize the prisons," and has called his budget cuts "radical." (Source: Petaluma Press-Dem)

CESpool: More "Quality" Ideas From Haier’s "Share Your Ideas" Wall [Cespool]

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Last week you were crying out for more ideas from Haier's wall o' ideas, so I swung by there on the last day of the show to see if there were any more hare-brained suggestions. I was in luck!

Of course, I'm willing to bet some of these ideas are taking the piss, but if at least one of them is actually serious, humanity is even more doomed than I once thought. Check out the first batch of ideas over here, if you missed them.

Is this guy for realzies?

Until Star Wars comes out on Blu-ray, I really don't see the point.

The answer is: don't buy a 3DTV.

Designers can have senses of humor, too.

I'd say judging by the smell of some CES-goers, they didn't even bother with a catheter.

Spamming goes back to the pen and paper days.

Did anyone see a Dolby marketing guy lurking around Haier's stand last week?

While phones don't often fold, I'm pretty sure you can watch TV on them and they fit in pockets.

Dear god, please—no more!

It's such a simple idea, why didn't Apple think of it before?

Australians say the darndest things.

Has this guy never seen an iPod Touch, Zune or Creative Zen in his life?

I'll leave you with the CES equivalent of your mother's calendar. Enjoy.



Google Refuses to Continue Censoring Results in China [Censorship]

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Google has announced a rather bold move today: It will no longer censor search results on Google.cn, the Chinese version of the search engine. Apparently they will maintain this stance, even if it ends in shutting down Google.cn.

According to a post on the Official Google Blog:

We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

Google explains that part of the motivation behind this action are the recent cyber attacks on Google as well as "at least twenty other large companies" over the course of the last month:

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered—combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web—have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China

While it remains to be seen how the Chinese government reacts to this move, I couldn't be prouder of Google for making it. I hope that other major Internet properties follow suit and that perhaps we'll see an end of national filters and censorship one of these days. [Google Blog via Guardian]



Self-Assembling Solar Panels Use the Vinaigrette Principle | 80beats

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self-assembling-solarWhat if we could outsource the manufacturing process to the very things we’re manufacturing? That’s the tantalizing promise of self-assembling systems, in which scientists use the laws of nature to get components to organize themselves into, say, a computer chip. Or in this case, a solar panel. Researchers have announced the creation of self-assembling solar cells that rely on the a principle known to everyone who’s ever made a vinaigrette salad dressing: that oil and water don’t mix.

The researchers’ efforts to made a self-assembling solar panel had been unsuccessful for years, because the components were just the wrong size. Above a certain size it’s possible to use gravity to drive self-organization; on the nanoscale it’s possible to use chemical processes, like the base pairing of DNA, to drive the assembly process. That leaves an awkward range of devices on the micrometer scale in between that aren’t heavy enough for gravity to drive assembly, but too big to be pushed around by substances like DNA [Ars Technica].

To get around this problem, the researchers designed a kind of conveyor belt. They made a solar cell substrate with regular depressions lined with low-temperature solder, which were designed to receive the individual solar cell elements. Each element had gold on one side and silicon on the other. The silicon side was painted with a hydrophobic molecule that is repelled by water, and was painted the gold side with a hydrophilic, or “water-loving,” molecule. When the elements were dumped into a vial containing oil and water, the elements neatly lined up in a row at the boundary between the two liquids. Each element had its gold side pointed towards the water.

In the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers describe how the solar cell took over the work from there. The conveyor belt process is to simply dunk the [substrate] through the boundary and draw it back slowly; the sheet of elements rides up along behind it, each one popping neatly into place as the solder attracts its gold contact. The team made a working device comprising 64,000 elements in just three minutes…. The method tackles what [experts say] is the most challenging problem – the proper alignment of thousands of parts, each thinner than a human hair [BBC News].

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Image: PNAS / Robert J. Knuesel and Heiko O. Jacobs


numerical question-electrical engineering

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i am a faculty of diploma engg classes and urgently require solution to the following questions.

1)front 20mx50m of a concrete building in an industrial town is to be illuminated by projectors fixed on ground 50m away from the building.estimate the number and size of the same

2)a 220v,500r

Print word documented linked on the web page

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We got IE7 at work. I need to print like 100 procedures. These are word document linked on the web page. I tried

1)

file>print> 'options' tab> 'print all linked documents'. However, only thing that managed to do was waste paper as that printed only the url at the bottom and the pa

A Strong Rumor: Apple’s Tablet Won’t Have a Camera [AppleTablet]

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In a brief post this morning reminding readers that cellular carriers do not necessarily get sneak peeks of Apple's top-secret products, Daring Fireball's John Gruber said that his (often reliable) sources suggest that Apple's tablet will not have any camera.

Gruber, who has an imperfect but pretty solid track record on these matters, suggests that the Apple's tablet will not be any sort of videophone game changer, as has been widely speculated. In fact, he hears it won't have a camera at all:

And, for what it's worth, I'm hearing there is no camera, webcam or otherwise, on The Tablet.

So if you were looking forward to revolutionizing the way you interacted with your friends and family across the globe by holding this thing in front of your face all summer long, you might be disappointed. [Daring Fireball]



Sorry, PC Buyers of the Future: Prices Are Going Up [Computers]

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Way to go, semiconductor suppliers. Thanks to you, we're all going to be paying more for our PCs going forward. Possibly a lot more.

The main culprits are D-Ram memory chips, which have seen a 23% price increase this year and make up 10% of a computer's cost. The move from DDR2 to DDR3 is primarily what's wreaking havoc. Memory's not alone, though: while the overall cost of semiconductor components has declined by an average of 7.8% per year since 2000, the Financial Times reports that this year Gartner analysts expect them to go up 2.3%. LCD panels are also tapped for a 20% cost increase.

It remains to be seen how much of the cost is going to be passed along to consumers, but there's no way that the component prices can increase this much and the end product can keep getting cheaper. It was a good ride while it lasted, but it's almost time to pay the PC piper. [FT via Ars Technica]



THE BEST TABLE CONNECTION

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Hi every body,i need to use a good refrence for table branch connection,

now i ordinary use the table branch ASTMF681,

BUT I'M LOOKING FOR THE BEST REFRENCE THAT'S COMPARE WHIT PRESSURE?

(for example i want to connect the 1" pipe to 5" on 20bar pressure,what's your best suggestoin ?so

The US is Giving Digitalization 112 Percent [Charts]

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If you were ever curious to know how fast our lives are becoming saturated with digital technology, get a load of this graph. In 2004 we were in the kiddie pool and by 2007 we were drowning.

Citing the Census Bureau's recent Statistical Abstract of the United States, Fast Company notes that an estimated 110 billion text messages were sent on cellphones in December 2008—more than double the previous year. Retail sales also soared from $24 billion when the decade began to $128 billion in 2007.

So where are we now? It's probably safe to assume that the Cracken has dragged our lifeless corpse to Davy Jones' locker. [Fast Company]



History in a Picture from Hubble

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CLICK! (~110 k)

Here is one of Hubble’s latest pictures and it is simply jaw dropping.  The image shows part of a large galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey or GOODS.  You REALLY need to click the image to get the larger version to begin to appreciate it; I recommend very highly you go to this link which will take you to Hubblesite’s Zoomable image, it is fabulous.

The image shows thousands of galaxies and 12 billion years of cosmic history.  Yeah like we’re really alone.

To see the Hubble press release and more images, including the zoomable one go here to see the Hubblesite offerings.

Credit: : NASA, ESA, R. Windhorst, S. Cohen, M. Mechtley, and M. Rutkowski (Arizona State University, Tempe), R. O’Connell (University of Virginia), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Observatories), N. Hathi (University of California, Riverside), R. Ryan (University of California, Davis), H. Yan (Ohio State University), and A. Koekemoer (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Tru Tech Monitor – Black Screen

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I Got a free monitor, that supposedly only needed to have a mount made.

I ran through the menu & set it up to use as a monitor for my linux box

Looks fine for 30-45 seconds & goes black

here are the details:

Tru Tech

mod 008-09-0119

ser f1bia85016745