Ferengi Texts 911 about FCC Micro Bead Desalination

The owner of Neocities.org figured out what internal IP blocks the FCC uses, and throttled all connections from those blocks to 28.8kbps modem speeds on the Neocities front site.

Some places in the US already allow cyclists to treat stop signs as yields, and red lights as stop signs, and these rules are no more dangerous

The researchers found that the men were more than three times as likely as the women to gender-switch (23 percent vs. 7 percent). When selecting female avatars, these men strongly preferred attractive avatars with traditional hairstyles

Text-to-911 is the ability to send a text message to reach 911 emergency call takers from your mobile phone or device.

In the future, text-to-911 will be widely available in the United States. However, for now, the ability to contact 911 using text is only available on a limited basis in a few markets. For this reason, you should not rely on text to reach 911.

“A surprising feature of Twitter is that there are many pairs of tweets from the same author that have different wordings but point to the same URL. Today, Chenhao Tan at Cornell University in Ithaca and a few pals, use a huge number of these pairs of tweets to study the question of what kind of wording makes a tweet successful.

“In the process, they

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Lockhead Martin has a new patin that, as John Stetson, senior engineer describes as “500 times thinner than the best filter on the market today and 1,000 times stronger. The energy that’s required and the pressure that’s required to filter salt is approximately 100 times less.”

We talked about local issues in Santa Cruz around Desalination on GeekSpeak’s October 29th 2011 episode

KUSP has award winning program How the Drought Looks from the Fields of Salinas Valley

Make sure not to take strange calls from “Windows Support.”

Find out what large tech companies are handling your data with privacy and respect in mind.