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<description><![CDATA[From Jimmy Dean sausages to Kiwi shoe polish to its namesake baked goods, Sara Lee's brand cupboard is well stocked. But the company's biggest...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Bertha downgraded again to a tropical storm; should be absorbed by larger storm.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The 6,000 acres of tomatoes grown on Virginia's sea-swept Eastern Shore were never implicated in the national salmonella outbreak - they were still on the vine weeks after people starting getting sick.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance industry.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday.]]></description>
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<title>Sturdy Econo Speakers Rock Your Knoll, Blast Your Neighbors</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Neil Halstead leaves behind Slowdive's wall of gear and sound for a solo career featuring intimate pop. "We had a lot of pedals, a lot of love and some good grass," Halstead confesses. "When the love ran out, we sold the grass and smoked the pedals."
    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[Under new rules from the Transportation Security Administration, travelers who try to fly without ID will need to provide personal information from public records to convince federal employees to let them past the x-ray machines and onto the plane.
    
    
    
    
      
  
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<description><![CDATA[The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network launches the World Mural Project, which encourages children around the world to digitally illustrate their predictions of "what computers will empower us to do" in 40 years.
    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[It may be years before the new internet protocol IPv6 takes over from the current IPv4, but a security researcher is warning that many systems -- corporate and personal -- are already open to attack through channels that have been enabled on their machines to support IPv6 traffic.
    
    
    
    
      
  
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<description><![CDATA[Sci-fi and horror master Dan O'Bannon is returning to the horror genre with a new script, The Pain Clinic (co-written with Donald Grail). John Scott Lewinski shares some insights about O'Bannon's work gleaned from an exclusive interview.
    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[Stoked by fan fever over the manic performance of the late Heath Ledger as the Joker, "The Dark Knight" sets a one-day box office record with $66.4 million on opening day.
    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[Forget hydrogen. The car of the future has an extension cord and a great big laptop battery. 

The next evolution of the automobile will be plug-in hybrids that get their juice from a household electrical outlet. They'll start rolling into showrooms within in 18 months. Experts say plug-in hybrids could account for about 20 percent of vehicle sales within a decade -- and half of all sales by 2050. 

"It all boils down to the three ways electricity is better than gasoline," says Felix Kramer of Cal Cars, a plug-in advocacy group. "It's cleaner, it's cheaper and it's domestic." 

Advocates say plug-in hybrids are the best chance to address global warming and wean the nation from oil. Consumers remain unsure about electric vehicles. Ethanol's a shaky proposition because of the food-for-fuel debate. And it'll be decades before hydrogen is a viable option. That, advocates say, leaves plug-ins as the best option. They'll go up to 40 miles on a charge; but they'll also have a gas engine to keep you going beyond that at 80 to 100 mpg or more. 

People have been converting conventional hybrids to plug-ins for years, but the auto industry has been slow to catch on. Now the big automakers and start-ups like Fisker Automotive are scrambling to build them despite questions about their cost and long-term reliability. Those are just two of the issues that automakers, battery manufacturers and utility companies will discuss next week at the international Plug-In 2008 conference in San Jose. 

"The discussion is no longer one of 'if,' but of 'when' and 'how,'" says Chelesa Sexton, executive director of the advocacy group Plug-In America. "This has moved beyond the grass-roots level into the policy and business arenas." 

It all starts in 2010. General Motors promises to have the Chevrolet Volt rolling into showrooms by then. Toyota says it will roll out a small fleet of plug-in Prius hybrids to see how they do. Volkswagen has similar plans for its plug-in Golf. And Fisker hopes to have a few dozen pricey Karma sedans in driveways within 18 months. Ford and others are moving more slowly, aiming for 2012 and beyond. 

Automakers know plug-in hybrids are their best shot at meeting tightening federal fuel-economy regulations, and California's zero-emissions-vehicle mandate requires them to put nearly 60,000 of them on the road in six years. They're also responding to a seismic change in the market as record-high gas prices have consumers, fed-up with paying through the nose for gasoline, joining environmentalists to demand fuel-efficient cars. 



"For the longest time, this was seen as a crunchy environmental California movement," Sexton says. "It never was, but now there's a broad coalition of people sitting at the same table to demand these cars. There's a collective frustration with the status quo." 

Critics note that most of our electricity is generated by coal or natural gas and say plug-ins don't reduce carbon dioxide, they just move it around. 

Mark Duvall of the Electric Power Research Institute says they're wrong. His research shows widespread adoption of plug-in hybrids could cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 450 million metric tons annually by 2050. That's the equivalent of removing 82.5 million gasoline vehicles from the road. "There's significant CO2 reduction with plug-in hybrids over conventional vehicles and hybrids, and that reduction increases over time," he says. 

Duvall's research and a study by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory suggest that the grid could easily supply as many as 168 million plug-in vehicles. 

"We can handle as many plug-in hybrids as the auto industry wants to provide and people want to drive," he says. "The supply of electricity is almost limitless." 

All those plug-ins would cut petroleum consumption from 20.6 million barrels a day to 16 or 17 million. But the lithium-ion batteries that will store that electricity remain the cars' Achilles heel. 

The long-term reliability of lithium-ion batteries remains unknown, and by some estimates they cost as much as $15,000. That'll make selling plug-ins at a price most people can afford a tough proposition until the cars are made in volume -- and the cost of batteries comes down. GM says it doesn't expect to turn a profit on the $40,000 Volt anytime soon. 

Sales undoubtedly will start off slowly. Analysts don't expect GM to sell more than 30,000 Volts annually for the first couple of years. Other automakers will see similar sales figures until the cost of batteries comes down. 

"We're looking at small volumes initially," says Mike Omotoso of J.D. Power & Associates. "But we could see critical mass by 2015." 

Advocates say politicians and policymakers can help by creating tax breaks to make it easier for consumers to buy the cars and automakers to build them. Such incentives -- coupled with perks like carpool-lane access -- helped hybrids gain a foothold, they say, and could do the same for plug-ins. 

The Department of Energy has handed out more than $60 million since 2006 to advance hybrid and battery technology and hopes to disburse another $62.3 million by the end of next year. 

Both Barack Obama and John McCain have hailed plug-in hybrids in general -- and the Volt in particular -- in recent weeks and promised to spur development of such cars if elected. And Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, has called for Washington to go further by launching a "New Manhattan Project" that would include getting plug-in hybrids on the road in large numbers. 

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<title>Palatial Tent Proves Nearly Pitch Perfect</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This ripstop outdoor shelter gets top marks for comfort. Checklist: quick setup, six gear pockets, dual vents, plenty of sleeping room.
    
    
    
    
  

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<title>Gallery: From Tiny Machines to Security, the Future of Nano-Fabrication</title>
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<description><![CDATA[: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comLOS ANGELES -- As nanomachines move beyond just prototypes, a potential industry of microscopic mass production awaits its own Henry Ford to make it a reality. 

In anticipation of this demand, researchers at a nanotech lab at UCLA are mass-producing billions of customizable microparticles using a machine normally found in the microchip fabrication industry. Lead by Dr. Thomas Mason, the team has created microscale letters to illustrate the possibilities of this new process.

"The idea is to make a powerful statement about a new class of materials that exist. Solid particles that have human-designed shapes. We can design millions of different kinds of shapes, highly uniform, highly precise," explains Mason.

Mason's ultimate goal is to quickly create large quantities of parts for complicated nanomachines. These parts would include nanogears, nanoengines and other small-scale parts that are currently created one at a time in an assembly line fashion. Click through the gallery to go behind the scenes of microfabrication.

Left: Billions of microscale letters on a silicon wafer reflect light like a diffraction grating.
: Photo: Thomas G. Mason and Carlos J. Hernandez Zoomed in, one can see the microscale alphabet soup and the potential for information and codes embedded in various substances. Though each letter is a few microns across, this new mass production technique will be able to produce objects on the scale of nanometers with upgraded equipment. 

: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis is the unglamorous beginning of nanoletter production. 

The white box at left is the spin coater, which applies the nanoletter polymer on a silicon wafer (see first slide), like the kind used to make microprocessors. First, a drop of the polymer is placed on a silicon wafer. Then the wafer spins and the centrifugal force spreads the liquid evenly over the silicon.

The polymer is photosensitive and hardens under exposure to ultraviolet light. In the next steps, the UV light takes on the shape of the desired micro-object and exposes that exact design in the polymer. The unexposed polymer washes away, leaving the hardened shapes, in this case letters, behind -- almost like cutting cookies from a sheet of dough.
: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis lamp enclosure emits strong UV light. The light bounces through a series of mirrors into the machine that exposes the nanoletters, called a stepper (shown in next slide).: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comUCLA nanotech professor Dr. Thomas G. Mason explains the basic operation of the stepper -- so named because it steps, or repeats, an image multiple times over the silicon wafer. The machine prints a microscopic version of the image at each step by shining UV light onto the photosensitive polymer, like the way positive film is exposed.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comInside the stepper sits a 200-pound lens encased in stainless steel (center) which very accurately imprints a shrunken image onto the polymer. This lens is ground to an extremely high level of precision to avoid introducing errors into the image being exposed.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comA robotic assembly inside the stepper grabs the silicon wafers and exposes it one section at a time. It exposes an entire wafer in roughly one minute, creating billions of micro-objects. : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThe stepper rests on a pneumatic dampening system (black cylinders with blue tops) to virtually eliminate vibrations. Just as you don’t want your camera shaking when you take a photo, you don’t want your stepper shaking when you make billions of nanoletters.

A positioning platform (middle, illuminated in pink) precisely moves the wafers between exposures.
: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comThis scrapped stepper system sits outside the clean room. It's now used for spare parts, just like that old car on cinder blocks in your front yard.: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comMason and Kun Zhao don gloves before entering the clean room where the Ultratech XLS stepper resides. Dust particles can ruin the nano and microscale patterns the stepper images on the silicon substrate.
    
    
    
    
  

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<title>&#x27;The Dark Knight&#x27; -- &#x27;Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys?&#x27;</title>
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Batman is just a gadget geek at heart. A very, very wealthy gadget geek. But until recently, he's employed some tech that's, well, pretty unbelievable. Ice skates popping out of boots? Come on!


Not in The Dark Knight. Director Christopher Nolan's version of Batman is an almost-believable early adopter, with every high tech gizmo at his disposal firmly grounded in real-world technology. To get the lowdown on the five coolest pieces of gear from the film, we sat down with the film's Oscar-nominated production designer, Nathan Crowley, to find out where the inspiration for each Bat-gadget came from. 



Bat-Pod



After the Batmobile (aka the Tumbler) is destroyed, Batman is forced to continue his pursuit of the Joker on this machine-gunning, shoulder-navigated, gimbals-sporting two-wheeler. This is a vehicle made for multitasking, allowing Batman to fire its guns, steer hands-free and maneuver hard without much risk of a wipeout. Says Crowley, "If you go over on its side, it keeps you upright."



Real-World Counterpart: Dodge Tomahawk
The Bat-Pod most closely resembles the V-10, 500-horsepower Dodge Tomahawk concept vehicle. But designwise, Crowley says, the 'Pod draws most of its inspiration from the general design of the Tumbler itself. Just compare the front tires on the two vehicles: They're the same. "We didn't want it to be anything more than raw function, and that's why it looks like it does," says Crowley.  



Cowl



Past Batmen have had a hard time turning their heads (paging Michael Keaton), because the cowl was a solid piece of rubber attached to the suit itself. Not this time. Able to move independently of the suit, Batman's new mask now allows him to crane his head up and down and side-to-side with ease. 



Real-World Counterpart: Motorcycle Helmet
When racing a Hayabusa at 180 mph, visibility and flexibility are everything. That's why the independently pivoting design of a motorcycle helmet and racing suit served as the chief point of reference for Batman's cowl design. 



The Batsuit 











The new Batsuit is designed with mobility in mind. Batman can now turn his head up and down and side-to-side.

Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures/TM, &#169; DC Comics  






"We really wanted to change up the suit," Crowley admits. Adding more protection in addition to more flexibility (and less nipple) than previous versions, the armor worn by Batman comprises hundreds of interlocking plates that move independently of each other. The result? Batman is more mobile, can do more stunts, and can kick a lot more ass. 



Real-World Counterpart: Samurai Armor 
The interlocking plates of the Batsuit -- while made of modern materials like Nomex, titanium and Kevlar -- share their design with ancient armor once worn by Samurai warriors in feudal Japan. These lightweight, lacquered get-ups were strong, contained hundreds of interlocking pieces, and allowed their wearers a full range of motion. 



Sticky-Bomb Gun



When Batman has to apprehend a villain in Hong Kong, he utilizes a weapon that fires sticky, orange bomb pellets that adhere to glass. The gun is collapsible, breaking down to small pieces that Batman can store on his belt. "It's more like a piece of origami than anything else," says Crowley.  



Real-World Counterpart: Collapsible Rifle
The sticky-bomb gun owes its DNA to any collapsible weapon. Just have a look at the M-40 rifle (.pdf) favored by Marine Corps snipers: The gun can be broken down into multiple parts for easy transportation. The explosive, sticky ammo, though? That's 100 percent pure Crowley.



3-D Sonar System



Since the Joker does not have a lair or a base, Batman must track the constantly mobile madman through the streets of Gotham. To do this he uses a cowl-mounted sonar device that triangulates the baddies' cellphone signals and then renders the sound of their communication into a 3-D visual map. 



Real-World Counterparts: Lidar and Sonar
Usually utilizing lasers, a Lidar system measures reflected light to find the range, dimensions and other properties of far-off objects. Sonar, of course, is the technology of bouncing sound waves off faraway objects to get a realistic picture of where those objects are. Combine the two, and you've got the 3-D system Batman uses to hunt his quarry.  

    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[With Rock Band and Guitar Hero revitalizing rock 'n' roll's moneymaking mojo, suddenly everybody's grooving on music games.
    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[Universal Music told a federal judge that it need not consider "fair use" when it sends takedown notices to video-sharing sites like YouTube. The notices require automatic removal of the video. Fair use allows certain limited uses of content without a copyright holder's permission.
    
    
    
    
      
  
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<description><![CDATA[The CarCam Voyager Pro not only records what happened, but where and when it happened. Just the thing for convincing your insurance agent you didn't cause that six-car pileup.
    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[So you've made the plunge to the iPhone 3G -- what about your old, first-generation iPhone or iPod Touch? Here are five ways to turn it from yesterday's news into something useful, from a multitouch controller for your Mac or Windows PC to a mini media server for your kitchen.
    
    
    
    
  

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Bill Gates doesn't get a lot of credit these days for being a visionary. But when it comes to his relationship with Facebook, he may still be a step ahead of the rest of us. The Sun, a British tabloid, reported this year that Gates had quit his half-hour-a-day Facebook habit, partly because he was getting more than 8,000 "friend" requests daily but also because he was finding "weird fan sites about him." (View a slideshow of several "weird fan sites.") A Microsoft representative confirms that the boss has gone cold turkey but wouldn't disclose whether Gates knew of a Facebook group called "Would you have sex with Bill Gates for half of his money?" 

Actually, it's a wonder that Gates was on Facebook in the first place (Microsoft's $240 million investment in it notwithstanding). Bill Gates obviously doesn't need to schmooze on Facebook. And neither do you, despite the pressure you've doubtless felt to join it (because, y’know, everyone is on Facebook). Perhaps you're like Ben Rosen, who co-founded venture-capital fund Sevin Rosen, which has bankrolled such companies as Electronic Arts and Compaq (which he once led as C.E.O.). Rosen is hardly averse to sharing personal information online; he says his blog, BenRosen.com, has become a small social network of sorts. But he has yet to use his Facebook account. "I'm trying to figure out the utility for me," he says. 

Or perhaps, like Gates, you just find Facebook a little … creepy. Businesspeople often claim to use Facebook for vague "market research" purposes or to satisfy idle curiosity. But the social norms of social networking are still in flux, making privacy a real issue, says internet-marketing writer David Weinberger. "Younger people violate older people's idea of proper behavior when it comes to privacy," he says.

"It's kind of eerie how much information is available about you on a social network," says Michael Fertik, C.E.O. of online-privacy service ReputationDefender, "and how many conclusions, tentative or otherwise, can be made so handily, fairly or unfairly, based on that information." Fertik estimates that all 55 of his employees use Facebook, and although he doesn't, he's unsettled by the all-consuming, constant-update M.O. it encourages. "I’ve seen a lot of quiet, passive-aggressive resentments and rumors that come from people just knowing that much about your business," he says. "If you're updating people, like, 'I’m at a barbecue at my colleague's house,' someone you work with might ask, 'Why am I not at that barbecue?'"

The ease with which Facebook can be used to broadcast your whereabouts adds a particularly disturbing dimension for executives who would surround themselves with security in real life but are lulled into complacency by Facebook's tidy veneer. Last year, the British military sent a directive to its army units to avoid revealing their service connections online—"Be particularly careful if you are on Facebook, MySpace, or Friends Reunited"—fearing that, yes, Al Qaeda could use them to track prey. Your business competitors might not be terrorists per se, but Facebook can be useful for anyone trying to poach your M.V.P.’s.

Even social-networking evangelists are legitimately nervous about Facebook, given its fiasco last fall with Beacon, an advertising engine that automatically announced users' activities on other sites—revealing their purchases, for example—without the users' necessarily realizing that their every click was being chronicled. Facebook apologized, but that sort of unwitting dissemination of potentially sensitive information has strengthened the market for Connect Beam, a consultancy that sets up secure social networks for the corporate intranets of Fortune 500 companies. "Companies like Honeywell," says Puneet Gupta, Connect Beam’s C.E.O., "could not take a chance to put their information on someone else's cloud"—meaning on the servers of a social-networking site the company doesn’t control.

But Facebook's ick factor in the executive suite might have as much to do with its shiny, happy world of "friendship" as with security. "There's almost an inverse relationship between seriousness and how much you participate in social networking," says ReputationDefender's Fertik, laughing. That basically nails it: Facebook is simply unserious—particularly given how it prompts hard-driving business executives to regress into adolescent vernacular. "Poking" people, requesting "friends," writing on someone’s "wall": It’s cute when you're in high school or college. But in a corporate environment, it sounds disingenuous and downright silly.

Ultimately, Facebook candy-coats the true nature of business relationships. And it will rot your teeth.
    
    
    
    
      
  
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<description><![CDATA[According to her manager, YouTube owes teenybopper pop star Avril Lavigne around $2 million for playing her videos. There's just one problem: Her YouTube play count appears to have been gamed by an automated web page that generated publicity for the video.
    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[The Mythbusters are doing a do-over of their attempt to vet of the world's oldest tales — did the Greek scientist Archimedes set fire to a Roman fleet of ships using only mirrors and sunlight? Their first attempt was ... inconclusive. Now they are drawing on the crowd (300 hearty souls, to be exact) for a new try in September. One of them could be you.
    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[The results are in. After week upon week of relentless hype, we rate the iPhone 3G and find that the phone is not without its flaws. Sure, it still has the best touchscreen interface we've ever seen, but a few glaring blemishes prevent the phone from achieving perfection.
    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[1876:  The British government appoints a Royal Commission on Noxious Vapours to look into the growing problem of industrial air pollution. Its report two years later would bring better regulation but warn of impeding economic growth.

England had been trying to do something about air quality for centuries. King Edward I in 1306 prohibited burning sea coal in London, because of all the smoke it caused. By act of Parliament, anyone who sold and burned the outlawed coal could be punished by torture or hanging. Richard II and Henry V issued further regulations and restrictions in the following centuries.

The Industrial Revolution worsened things, with factories putting out a toxic soup of new pollutants. The 1853 Smoke Nuisance Abatement (Metropolis) Act provided for an inspector to work with the metropolitan police to reduce "nuisance from the smoke of furnaces in the Metropolis and from steam vessels 
above London Bridge." A similar act four years later applied to Scotland.

A  new process for manufacturing alkali (sodium carbonate, used in manufacturing glass and other products) was releasing huge volumes of the byproduct hydrochloric acid into the air. That led to a deluge of lawsuits and a loud public outcry. This resulted in passage of the Alkali Act in 1863. It required a minimum 95 percent capture of the acid and set dilution standards for what was emitted: 0.2 grains of HCl per cubic foot.

Chief inspector Robert Smith and four assistant inspectors worked with manufacturers to show them how to transform what would be pollution into marketable byproducts. The Alkali Act was extended and amended in 1874 to require manufacturers to use the "best practicable means" of controlling the acid vapors.

Still, things were so bad by 1876 that the Conservative government of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli appointed the Royal Commission on Noxious Vapours. The commissioners visited industrial areas around England, inspecting "alkali works, cement works, chemical manure works, coke ovens, copper works of all descriptions, glass, lead and metal works, potteries and salt works."

The commission asked 14,000 questions of 
196 witnesses, including "manufacturers, landowners, farmers, clergymen, occupiers of houses, lands and gardens, land-agents, scientific witnesses, medical persons, local officers" and the Alkali Act inspectors. 

Witnesses complained of damage to trees, crops, vegetation and human health. They said the noxious industrial gases were carried far and wide by the wind and caused coughing, difficulty breathing and nausea. The alkali manufacturers gave the commission a statement rebutting the allegations.

The commission made 10 recommendations in August 1878. New legislation increased the frequency of inspections and made the inspectors' reports public records. The commission concluded (.pdf) that "it is not a question of a few manufactories, but of industries all over the country, which in relation to man are causing pollution of the air in degrees sufficient to make them common-law nuisances." So, the Alkali Acts were extended to include the production of sulfuric acid, chemical fertilizer works and coke ovens. 

But witnesses who argued that noxious vapors were inevitable if the nation was to prosper had their effect. The commission noted that regulation was only practical if it did not involve "ruinous expenditure." And courts remained reluctant to shut down polluters if the result would destroy the industry of a town.

London suffered a killer smog in December 1952 that killed as many as 12,000 people. Britain passed its Clean Air Act in 1956. The United States passed a weak Clean Air Act in 1963 and strengthened it in 1970.

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<description><![CDATA[: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comSAN FRANCISCO -- Despite uneven support from the U.S. government, solar power is experiencing a
global explosion. Concerns over climate change and rising energy prices have driven billions of dollars into developing the efficiency and variety of technologies that capture power from the sun.

 
And we're not just talking about new photovoltaic panels. The entire production chain is being re-engineered, from materials to manufacturing process to solar tracking. 

 
Check out the hottest advances in sun-energy harvesting on display at this week's Intersolar North America conference. 

 
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China's Red-Hot Solar Water Tech


These strange-looking pipes are actually part of a solar hot-water heater produced by the Chinese company WesTech. Stick these on your roof, and they collect heat energy from the sun, heating the water inside, and insulating like a thermos to keep warm. 


While U.S. residential setups usually employ other, more-expensive technologies, Chinese systems often
just use evacuated tubes like these. Lower price points have helped drive
the Chinese domestic market: An estimated one in 10 Chinese households
owns one. And now, Chinese companies with big manufacturing capacity are
trying to bring their low-cost tech to the United States.

: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comSolar-panel placement is like sunbathing: You want maximum exposure to the sun's most direct rays. That’s the idea behind this rotating rack for solar panels. As the sun moves across the sky, the superstructure and circular track rotate to keep the panels in the most direct sunlight. 


SunCarrier (pictured) and RW Energy, which make similar systems, claim the rigs increase the efficiency of solar panels by 30 percent.

: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comPhotovoltaics have long been the province of scientists and green idealists. That's one reason why less than 1 percent of the world's energy is derived from solar power. To make a dent in the world energy market, solar players are going to have to scale up -- and fast. 


One major way, said Ian Chen of Multicontact, which makes solar-panel connectors, is the way industry has always done it: automation. It's not just "doing the same process you've been doing in a garage but at a larger scale," he said. To cut costs and increase production, solar companies are having to design processes for automation from the ground up.

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This machine from Adept uses machine vision and a vacuum to pluck solar cells off a conveyor belt. This speedy, spidery robot -- the Quattro -- can be had for under six figures, according to Jay Sacharia, the company's head of corporate marketing.

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You could be staring at the future of solar power. SolFocus' concentrating solar panels use mirrors to focus the sun's rays on a small amount of highly efficient photovoltaic material. First, the primary mirror -- the curved backstop -- concentrates the light onto a smaller mirror that you can see the back of in the image. That second mirror bounces the light down the unit's optical rod to the waiting PV cell. 


The setup allows SolFocus to capture light over a large area while keeping costs down. How much? Stephanie Southerland, head of corporate development, said the company's goal is "cost parity with fossil fuels by 2010." Talk like that has tickled investors' imaginations: They've already poured $95 million into the company through two rounds of financing. 

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Lumeta's new solar panels are the first "solar stickers." Developed by a roofing-and-construction company for easy installation, contractors simply peel-and-stick the panels onto flat roofs. While the panels are lighter than traditional racked systems, they lose the optimal angle to the sun by sticking flat on the roof. Lumeta COO Stephen Torres told Wired.com in May that this downside costs his company's panels about 5 percent of their power production. 

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"Integrated solar" has been a catch phrase for a long time. It refers to solar panels that can be manufactured directly into buildings and products. At the conference, Global Solar was showing off a thin-film, building-integrated product it calls PowerFlex Solar Strings. These striplike solar cells offer 70 to 90 watts per meter of material, according to the company. 


Global Solar also uses its technology in solar chargers like the one pictured, which generates 6.5 watts and goes for about $100. Charles Gambill, the company's corporate product director, said it could charge a cellphone in two to three hours. And most important, it looks just like Wall-E's fold-up charger.

: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.com Considering that Intersolar was held in conjunction with Semicon West, it's no surprise that semiconductor companies were crawling around the showroom floor. What was surprising was the buzz surrounding Applied Materials' entrance into the photovoltaic market.    One show participant, Nathan Singsen of SolarFrameWorks, even went so far as saying, &quot;Applied Materials will probably take over the whole solar industry.&quot; Chris Beitel, Applied Materials' thin-film manager, would probably agree. He argues that Applied's experience scaling and optimizing semiconductor production will be directly applicable to similar problems in PV. &quot;We can go to a new level of scale.&quot;    As proof, Applied showed off this extra-large thin-film panel, which Signet Solar manufactured with Applied technology. Solar companies appear to buy the rap: Beitel said they've already signed $3 billion worth of contracts.  : Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.com
As solar companies receive more venture capital, they can afford to invest in new materials that could drive innovation. That's where Agilent's Nano Indenter comes into play. It measures the mechanical properties, like stiffness and elasticity, of ultrathin materials. The indenter presses on the material at nanoscale and measures the shape and nature of the impression that it makes.

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Silicon wafers have to be sliced and diced in order to become the chips that
go into your PC and phone. A similar process has to occur to make solar
cells. Chipmakers used to use diamond blades, but the German company
Jenoptik has a new way: thermal laser-beam separation. The company's
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UNIVERSAL CITY, California -- It's the ultimate revenge of the nerds as product developers use their big brains to create sex machines that kick pleasure into overdrive. In fact, the very nature of the sex "toy" is changing as a new generation of sex-positive engineers infiltrates the industry.



From the smooth, silent glide of the Monkey Rocker Tango to Le Chair's ability to put two people into a dozen compromising positions, the new products and prototypes unveiled at this week's Adult Novelty Expo straddle the line between toy (a passive, frivolous object) and machine (a substantial apparatus that inspires commitment and even emotional attachment).



Here are some of the most interesting.



Power Bullet 









The gigantic Power Bullet gives you the stealth option, because it doubles as a muscle massager and hides its complex machinery inside a velvety, matte-black cylinder. It wouldn't be out of place in a Pilates studio or a physical therapist's office for people to roll up and down their quadriceps, but straddling it on a pillow is going to be a lot more effective at relaxing muscles and relieving stress. Its motors provide a deep throbbing touch and its single button offers a simplicity much appreciated by tired tech workers with wrist pain. I'm just sayin'.




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Imatah








As you can see in this photo, Imatah spokesmodel Danka takes the machine's debut very seriously. That's a custom-made dildo mounted on a plate connected to a mechanism that can pump straight in and out or move in an oval pattern. The Imatah weighs about 5 pounds and comes with a fabric sleeve that hides its legs and prevents the machine from falling off the bed when you use it.



"The machine becomes part of you!" gushes inventor James Hatami, who is working with Fleshlight (NSFW) to add functionality for male users. The Imatah requires only a 12-volt power supply "so you don't electrocute yourself," Hatami says.




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Monkey Rocker








The original Monkey Rocker (NSFW) is an amazing cybersex accessory, a silent machine that responds to your body motions without any complicated control panels or need for batteries. It's handmade from powder-coated, 100 percent recovered and recycled wood fiber -- PermaCore MDF, if you want to get technical -- and supports up to 400 pounds.




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Monkey Rocker Tango








The new Monkey Rocker Tango brings the cybersex experience offline -- when you meet your online lover in person, you can both ride it at the same time (as long as your combined weight is less than 450 pounds). The Tango also works for folks who skip the whole cybersex thing and just have a regular ol' fashioned, in-person relationship. (Weird!)




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Le Chair









In a surprise departure from its inexpensive signature collections from porn stars and sex therapists, an upcoming robotic sex chair from California Exotic Novelties (NSFW) is based on love furniture already available in Japan.



This prototype, called Le Chair, comes with motors in the seat and back supports that can pound, vibrate or stroke. One seat adjusts up and down to place lovers in optimal positions for various intimate activities, and both sides provide arm and leg support as well. A representative confided that the company plans to work with programs to help get Le Chairs to war veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan at low or no cost.



At right, we have Le Chair with people in it, to give you an idea of its scale. For this picture, we have raised one seat and reclined its back support. If the woman were to lie back, her pelvis would be positioned conveniently for her partner's mouth. The target audience for Le Chair is "adventurous people" and "people with physical limitations," says California Exotic Novelties, although of course it's fun for everyone.



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Menage-A-Tool








I'm convinced that the man who goes by "Preston Penobscott" developed the Menage-A-Tool (NSFW) simply as an excuse to spend more time in his machine shop, machining things. The tool is an adjustable, lightweight rod with two attachments for various dildos, so you can penetrate two people at a time and still have one hand free for someone else.



"The next one's gonna be hydraulic," he enthuses, already sketching out how he wants to make the new version even more adjustable so the dildos can go closer together for double penetration or further apart if whatever you're doing requires more space between your partners.





See you in a fortnight,



Regina Lynn



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 Regina Lynn is the author of Sexier Sex: Lessons From the Brave New Sexual Frontier. She blogs at reginalynn.com.
    
    
    
    
  

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<description><![CDATA[News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said it was "very unlikely" his company would be involved in any Yahoo transaction and said Yahoo and Microsoft would not end up with any deal.  SUN VALLEY, IDAHO--News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said it was "very unlikely" his company would be involved in any Yahoo...]]></description>
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<link>http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6243093.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services.   Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary.  Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external...]]></description>
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<link>http://news.zdnet.com/2424-3515_22-208816.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates joins CEO Steve Ballmer at a town hall event Friday, Gates' final day as a full-time Microsoft employee.    Bill Gates' farewell speech to Microsoft reminded employees that the company knows how to come from behind as well as to lead.   ...]]></description>
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<link>http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-208815.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company.  Redmond, Washington--Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious...]]></description>
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<link>http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-208750.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[During his last day as a full-time Microsoft employee, Microsoft's Bill Gates told Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo was likely.  NEW YORK--Microsoft's Bill Gates told journalist Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo was likely, CNBC reported on Friday.  ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has accepted a proposal allowing companies, cities and others to use almost any suffix they want for a web address.     At its meeting in Paris, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that...]]></description>
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                SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=553</link>
<description><![CDATA[
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                SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales            
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<description><![CDATA[
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                SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales            
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<description><![CDATA[
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1491">
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                Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1491</link>
<description><![CDATA[
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                Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1491</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Hamilton "Hammett" Verissimo, the founder of the open-source Castle Project, is joining Microsoft on August 11 as a program manager on the Microsoft Extensibility Framework MEF team. by Mary Jo Foley  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1491">
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                Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1491</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Hamilton "Hammett" Verissimo, the founder of the open-source Castle Project, is joining Microsoft on August 11 as a program manager on the Microsoft Extensibility Framework MEF team. by Mary Jo Foley  
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                How to make Microsoft Silverlight enterprise fit            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenfield/?p=231</link>
<description><![CDATA[
                   A father and son team think they've found a way to make Microsoft SilverlightÂ  more enterprise friendly.    Navot and Gai Peled who run Gizmo, Ltd., an Israeli startup, have enabled their Visual WebGui environment to redirect Siliverlight calls across the network,...  
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                How to make Microsoft Silverlight enterprise fit            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenfield/?p=231</link>
<description><![CDATA[
                   A father and son team think they've found a way to make Microsoft SilverlightÂ  more enterprise friendly.    Navot and Gai Peled who run Gizmo, Ltd., an Israeli startup, have enabled their Visual WebGui environment to redirect Siliverlight calls across the network,...  
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                How to make Microsoft Silverlight enterprise fit            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenfield/?p=231</link>
<description><![CDATA[
                   A father and son team think they've found a way to make Microsoft SilverlightÂ  more enterprise friendly.    Navot and Gai Peled who run Gizmo, Ltd., an Israeli startup, have enabled their Visual WebGui environment to redirect Siliverlight calls across the network,...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=982">
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                A solar cooled air-conditioning system            
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                A solar cooled air-conditioning system            
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<description><![CDATA[
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                A solar cooled air-conditioning system            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=982</link>
<description><![CDATA[
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                The fastest way to learn open source            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2655</link>
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             Tim O'Reilly has taken everything he and his company have learned training people in programming for two decades and condensed it into the format of this series. Even I can learn with it. by Dana Blankenhorn  
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<description><![CDATA[
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<description><![CDATA[
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                Eclipse gets its first Russian member            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2653</link>
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                Eclipse gets its first Russian member            
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<description><![CDATA[
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                Eclipse gets its first Russian member            
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<description><![CDATA[
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                Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase            
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<description><![CDATA[
             Symantec has reported that the Neosploit toolkit has been updated to include attack vectors for the recent Microsoft Access ActiveX vulnerability.Â  Neosploit is a toolkit for sale on the market (price estimates fall between $1500-$3000) that seeks to automate and extend the capability of browser exploits.    Symantec...  
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                Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase            
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<description><![CDATA[
             Symantec has reported that the Neosploit toolkit has been updated to include attack vectors for the recent Microsoft Access ActiveX vulnerability.Â  Neosploit is a toolkit for sale on the market (price estimates fall between $1500-$3000) that seeks to automate and extend the capability of browser exploits.    Symantec...  
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                Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1493</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Symantec has reported that the Neosploit toolkit has been updated to include attack vectors for the recent Microsoft Access ActiveX vulnerability.Â  Neosploit is a toolkit for sale on the market (price estimates fall between $1500-$3000) that seeks to automate and extend the capability of browser exploits.    Symantec...  
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                My Awesome IT Job: Chief architect, The Hive            
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<description><![CDATA[
             Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here's a new Friday feature at The IT Grind showcasing IT professionals that love their work....  
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                My Awesome IT Job: Chief architect, The Hive            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/careers/?p=122</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here's a new Friday feature at The IT Grind showcasing IT professionals that love their work....  
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                My Awesome IT Job: Chief architect, The Hive            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/careers/?p=122</link>
<description><![CDATA[
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1478">
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                Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90% of desktops currently at risk*            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1478</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             * The 90% of desktops currently at risk comes from numbers presented at the Java One Keynote in 2008.Â  If you aren't patched, get the Java control panel up and get updated, or go to Sun's site to download the update, cause this one's big.    Yesterday Sun...  
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                Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90% of desktops currently at risk*            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1478</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             * The 90% of desktops currently at risk comes from numbers presented at the Java One Keynote in 2008.Â  If you aren't patched, get the Java control panel up and get updated, or go to Sun's site to download the update, cause this one's big.    Yesterday Sun...  
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                Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90% of desktops currently at risk*            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1478</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             * The 90% of desktops currently at risk comes from numbers presented at the Java One Keynote in 2008.Â  If you aren't patched, get the Java control panel up and get updated, or go to Sun's site to download the update, cause this one's big.    Yesterday Sun...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1187">
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                From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe            
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<description><![CDATA[
             "Information engineering." had nothing to do with engineering, but tried to use the PC to draw, store, and link models of complex applications and auto-generate some of the COBOL code needed to implement the models using database products like IMS. by Paul Murphy  
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                From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe            
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                From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe            
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                Google&#x27;s secret project turns out to be Second Life            
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                Google&#x27;s secret project turns out to be Second Life            
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<description><![CDATA[
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                Google&#x27;s secret project turns out to be Second Life            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1088</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Niniane Wang, the person behind Google's new service called Lively, has been working on this "confidential" project since November 2005 according to her resume.  There have been hints throughout the years that this might be coming, but it turns out that the rumors were true -- Google made Second...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=615">
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                Google shares more of its secret sauce: Protocol buffers            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=615</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             It's a common problem in computer science: how do you get data from one part of your program to another part? What if the two parts were written by different people, at different times, in different languages, on different machines? Search giant Google has to deal with this issue all...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=615">
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                Google shares more of its secret sauce: Protocol buffers            
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<description><![CDATA[
             It's a common problem in computer science: how do you get data from one part of your program to another part? What if the two parts were written by different people, at different times, in different languages, on different machines? Search giant Google has to deal with this issue all...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=615">
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                Google shares more of its secret sauce: Protocol buffers            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=615</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             It's a common problem in computer science: how do you get data from one part of your program to another part? What if the two parts were written by different people, at different times, in different languages, on different machines? Search giant Google has to deal with this issue all...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1477">
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                On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1477</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             The road to "Midori" is paved with lots of other Microsoft codenames, according to tipsters who've been coming out of the woodwork since I made public my latest couple of posts on Midori, Microsoft's next-gen operating system. by Mary Jo Foley  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1477">
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                On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1477</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             The road to "Midori" is paved with lots of other Microsoft codenames, according to tipsters who've been coming out of the woodwork since I made public my latest couple of posts on Midori, Microsoft's next-gen operating system. by Mary Jo Foley  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1477">
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                On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1477</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             The road to "Midori" is paved with lots of other Microsoft codenames, according to tipsters who've been coming out of the woodwork since I made public my latest couple of posts on Midori, Microsoft's next-gen operating system. by Mary Jo Foley  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1943">
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                iPhone hacked to run Flash Lite            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1943</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             According to a post over at Gizmodo, Belgian programmer Thomas Joos has hacked together a way to run Flash Lite on the iPhone. It requires a lot of work, mostly via b.Tween and eyeGT and its not sanctioned by either Adobe or Apple, but either way it gives us hope...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1943">
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                iPhone hacked to run Flash Lite            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1943</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             According to a post over at Gizmodo, Belgian programmer Thomas Joos has hacked together a way to run Flash Lite on the iPhone. It requires a lot of work, mostly via b.Tween and eyeGT and its not sanctioned by either Adobe or Apple, but either way it gives us hope...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1943">
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                iPhone hacked to run Flash Lite            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1943</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             According to a post over at Gizmodo, Belgian programmer Thomas Joos has hacked together a way to run Flash Lite on the iPhone. It requires a lot of work, mostly via b.Tween and eyeGT and its not sanctioned by either Adobe or Apple, but either way it gives us hope...  
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1449">
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                C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?            
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             First off, I hope that everyone's fourth of July was as good as mine.Â  There's nothing quite like spending time with family and friends over the holidays to put your work-life relationship into perspective of what's important.     In any case, the security news didn't stop for the...  
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                C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?            
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<description><![CDATA[
             First off, I hope that everyone's fourth of July was as good as mine.Â  There's nothing quite like spending time with family and friends over the holidays to put your work-life relationship into perspective of what's important.     In any case, the security news didn't stop for the...  
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                C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?            
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<description><![CDATA[
             First off, I hope that everyone's fourth of July was as good as mine.Â  There's nothing quite like spending time with family and friends over the holidays to put your work-life relationship into perspective of what's important.     In any case, the security news didn't stop for the...  
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                Microsoft warns of &#x26;quot;active, targeted&#x26;quot; ActiveX control attacks            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1446</link>
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             Microsoft has issued a pre-patch security advisory to warn about "active, targeted attacks" against an ActiveX control for theÂ  Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access.    The skinny:  An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. When a user views the Web page,...  
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                Microsoft warns of &#x26;quot;active, targeted&#x26;quot; ActiveX control attacks            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1446</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Microsoft has issued a pre-patch security advisory to warn about "active, targeted attacks" against an ActiveX control for theÂ  Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access.    The skinny:  An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. When a user views the Web page,...  
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                Microsoft warns of &#x26;quot;active, targeted&#x26;quot; ActiveX control attacks            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1446</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Microsoft has issued a pre-patch security advisory to warn about "active, targeted attacks" against an ActiveX control for theÂ  Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access.    The skinny:  An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. When a user views the Web page,...  
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                Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2            
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<description><![CDATA[
             Sometime in August, Microsoft plans to release Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. Yesterday, I spoke with Austin Wilson, Director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, about some of the security-related changes due in this milestone, and got a preview of the changes announced today. Here are some details...  
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                Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2            
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<description><![CDATA[
             Sometime in August, Microsoft plans to release Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. Yesterday, I spoke with Austin Wilson, Director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, about some of the security-related changes due in this milestone, and got a preview of the changes announced today. Here are some details...  
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                Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2            
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<description><![CDATA[
             Sometime in August, Microsoft plans to release Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. Yesterday, I spoke with Austin Wilson, Director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, about some of the security-related changes due in this milestone, and got a preview of the changes announced today. Here are some details...  
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                Sony PlayStation&#x27;s site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security software            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1394</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             The latest high trafficked web site to fall victim into the continuing waves of massive SQL injection attacks courtesy of copycats and the ASProx botnet, is Sony's PlayStation U.S site according to a recent post at SophosLabs's blog :  "Researchers at IT security firm Sophos have warned lovers of...  
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                Sony PlayStation&#x27;s site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security software            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1394</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             The latest high trafficked web site to fall victim into the continuing waves of massive SQL injection attacks courtesy of copycats and the ASProx botnet, is Sony's PlayStation U.S site according to a recent post at SophosLabs's blog :  "Researchers at IT security firm Sophos have warned lovers of...  
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                Sony PlayStation&#x27;s site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security software            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1394</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             The latest high trafficked web site to fall victim into the continuing waves of massive SQL injection attacks courtesy of copycats and the ASProx botnet, is Sony's PlayStation U.S site according to a recent post at SophosLabs's blog :  "Researchers at IT security firm Sophos have warned lovers of...  
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                Stop the madness: 10 steps to kill failures            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=879</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Are you too pussy-footed to pull the plug on projects that will inevitably fail? If so, you're not alone. Whether through fear, denial, or ignorance, many organizations don't kill their doomed projects fast enough. It's a darn shame because these lousy things can drive everyone crazy while burning scarce resources....  
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                Stop the madness: 10 steps to kill failures            
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<description><![CDATA[
             Are you too pussy-footed to pull the plug on projects that will inevitably fail? If so, you're not alone. Whether through fear, denial, or ignorance, many organizations don't kill their doomed projects fast enough. It's a darn shame because these lousy things can drive everyone crazy while burning scarce resources....  
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                Stop the madness: 10 steps to kill failures            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=879</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             Are you too pussy-footed to pull the plug on projects that will inevitably fail? If so, you're not alone. Whether through fear, denial, or ignorance, many organizations don't kill their doomed projects fast enough. It's a darn shame because these lousy things can drive everyone crazy while burning scarce resources....  
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                SlideShare: user communication failure            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=869</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             While Enterprise 2.0 applications can be useful, hassles sometimes abound. In this case, I innocently tried to upload a simple file to SlideShare, only to learn things aren't always straightforward.After attempting to upload the file, I received an error message stating in part:  There's a big chance this is...  
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                SlideShare: user communication failure            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=869</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             While Enterprise 2.0 applications can be useful, hassles sometimes abound. In this case, I innocently tried to upload a simple file to SlideShare, only to learn things aren't always straightforward.After attempting to upload the file, I received an error message stating in part:  There's a big chance this is...  
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                SlideShare: user communication failure            
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<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=869</link>
<description><![CDATA[
             While Enterprise 2.0 applications can be useful, hassles sometimes abound. In this case, I innocently tried to upload a simple file to SlideShare, only to learn things aren't always straightforward.After attempting to upload the file, I received an error message stating in part:  There's a big chance this is...  
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