Buzz Out Loud 1004: We have come for your units
Dr. Kiki from This Week in Science joins us to talk tech and science, and we realize that we will all soon wear solar-powered Gundam suits and travel the Earth. That is until they become self-aware and eject us and kill us all. We also take NASA to task and tell you when to get a new Windows PC.
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EPISODE 1004 |
HTC Hero running Android and Sense UI
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/htc-hero-details-begin-leaking-from-htcs-own-website/
China not backing off despite filter code post on Wikileaks
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/china-not-backing-off-despite-filter-code-post-on-wikileaks.ars
Comcast, Time Warner team up to control TV on the Internet
http://gigaom.com/2009/06/23/comcast-time-warner-team-up-to-control-internet-video/
http://newteevee.com/2009/06/23/what-you-need-to-know-about-tv-everywhere/
Dutch gov. wants to tax online media to fund print
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/1925228/Dutch-Gov-Wants-To-Tax-Online-Media-To-Fund-Print
NIH funding level correlates with lower U.S. mortality rates
http://arstechnica.com/science/2009/06/nih-funding-level-correlates-with-lower-us-mortality-rates.ars
Free
Windows 7 won’t last forever
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10271092-56.html
Windows 7 upgrade program nears launch
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10271742-56.html
OLPC Fork Sugar on a Stick goes 1.0
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10
Switching to solar power, one year later
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/191230/Switching-To-Solar-Power-One-Year-Later
Deep in bedrock, clean energy and quake fears
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/energy-environment/24geotherm.html?_r=1&ref=science
NASA sticking to Imperial units for shuttle replacement
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1430236/NASA-Sticking-To-Imperial-Units-For-Shuttle-Replacement?from=rss
Jury reports that Steon’s Orbo does not produce free energy
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/23/jury-reports-that-st.html
VOICE MAIL
Alex from Europe about the Mercedes E class
Erin from Punxsatawnee on Verizon customers
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-verizon-wireless-phones/?tag=rb_content;contentNav
Dear Buzz Crew:
I'm OK guys, and today angry, no not they way you might think, I'm angry on the company I love the most and I have spent thousand of dollars buying their products, and loving them, yes, I'm talking to you Nokia.
As you can see on the article below Nokia has sold a monitoring application to Iran's Telecom, for monitoring calls, sms, mms, and internet usage.
http://www.mobile-review.com/fullnews/main/index_eng.shtml#24832
I have read in some other articles that Nokia has said we sold that application on late 2008 and the agreement says it can be used for limited number of users, mostly for security reasons like tracking and finding spy or anything like that, but the Iranian government is using it to monitor everyone's phone, and this is against Nokia's agreement and term of use and Nokia is going to sue Iran's government.
But who knows?
Have a great day
Best Regards
Siavash
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From Terry Rawkins, Isle of Wight, UK
About NASA and units of measurement. BOL 1004
I once heard about a "star wars" experiment on the Shuttle.
The Shuttle was flying over Hawaii. A NASA team on a mountain
in Hawaii had to fire a Laser beam targeting a mirror fixed to
a window on the shuttle.
Oops the shuttle was facing the wrong way, but why?
Mountains are measured in feet the Shuttles navigation worked
in Nautical miles.
The Shuttle's system should have looked for a Mountain 3,000 feet
high but in fact looked for one 3,000 Nautical miles high or higher
than the Shuttle's orbit.
So it had to flip over with the mirror facing outer space.
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If the old drawings are on CAD files the conversion is easy
SCALE ALL 0,0 25.4
Is the command that will work in AutoCAD
But it's not that simple.
I was told by a NASA rep at the Farnborough Air show last year that
many of the important modifications on old drawings are just
penciled notes on the paper drawings not CAD files.
Oops again
Love the show
Terry