Tick Tech Talk http://horologist.yuku.com/forums/14 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:38:20 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://horologist.yuku.com/forums/14 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Switch Back To Windows XP From Windows Vista. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1478/t/Switch-Back-To-Windows-XP-From-Windows-Vista-.html
How To Switch Back To Windows XP ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1478 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:38:20 GMT <![CDATA[ US to Shoot Down Broken Spy Satellite. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1408/t/US-to-Shoot-Down-Broken-Spy-Satellite-.html US to Shoot Down Broken Spy Satellite
AP
Posted: 2008-02-14 16:30:14
WASHINGTON (Feb. 14) - President Bush decided to make a first-of-its-kind attempt to use a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1408 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:10:13 GMT <![CDATA[ The History Behind the Mercedez-Benz Brand and the Three-Pointed Star. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1406/t/-History---Mercedez-Benz-Brand---Three-Pointed-Star-.html

The History Behind the Mercedez-Benz Brand and the Three-Pointed Star

Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz

The invention in the 1880s of the high-speed engine and the automobile enabled Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz - independently of one another - to lay the foundations for the motorization of road transport.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1406 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:59:47 GMT <![CDATA[ Court Strikes Down EPA's Plan on Mercury. What About Clocks? ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1399/t/Court-Strikes-Down-EPA-s-Plan-on-Mercury-What-About-Clocks-.html Court Strikes Down EPA's Plan on Mercury

By H. JOSEF HEBERT,
AP
Posted: 2008-02-08 18:09:53
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court said Friday the Bush administration... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/1399 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:06:41 GMT <![CDATA[ Energy-Saving Bulbs Causing Migraine Headaches. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/937/t/Energy-Saving-Bulbs-Causing-Migraine-Headaches-.html
Posted Jan 2nd 2008 10:08AM by Tim Stevens

Compact fluorescent bulbs, the twisted looking replacement lights that use as little as one fourth the power of their common incandescent counterparts (and last much longer), are being adopted worldwide in an effort to reduce energy consumption. They are even becoming mandatory in some countries -- a little troubling according to the Daily Mail, which reports that health experts in the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/937 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:17:38 GMT <![CDATA[ AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/938/t/AOL-Pulls-Plug-on-Netscape-Web-Browser-.html
By ANICK JESDANUN,AP
Posted: 2007-12-28 17:11:59

NEW YORK (AP) - Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.

Its current caretakers, Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, decided to kill further development and technical support to focus on growing the company as an advertising business. Netscape's usage dwindled with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Horologist) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/938 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:41:46 GMT <![CDATA[ Illegal Cell Phone Jamming Could Cost You $11,000.00. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/939/t/Illegal-Cell-Phone-Jamming-Could-Cost-You-11-000-00-.html
According to the New York Times, overseas exporters of the cell zapping boxes say shipments to the U.S. have increased recently. They've been shipping hundreds every month to owners... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/939 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:38:02 GMT <![CDATA[ Study Ties Time Shift, Pedestrian Deaths. Time Change. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/940/t/Study-Ties-Time-Shift-Pedestrian-Deaths-Time-Change-.html Friday, November 2, 2007 10:35 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) After clocks are turned back this weekend, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change, two scientists calculate. Ending daylight saving time translates into about 37 more U.S. pedestrian deaths around 6 p.m. in November... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/940 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:29:49 GMT <![CDATA[ Vampire Electronics Drain Homes of Energy. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/941/t/Vampire-Electronics-Drain-Homes-of-Energy-.html By JULIE CARR SMYTH,AP
Posted: 2007-10-30 00:58:12
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A force as insidious as Bram Stoker's leading man is quietly sucking a nickel of every dollar's worth of the electricity that seeps from your home's outlets.

Insert the little fangs of your cell phone charger in the outlet and leave it there, phone attached: That's vampire electronics.

Allow your computer to hide in the cloak of darkness known as... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/941 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:15:25 GMT <![CDATA[ Secrets of Sputnik Emerge 50 Years Later. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/942/t/Secrets-of-Sputnik-Emerge-50-Years-Later-.html By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV,AP
Posted: 2007-10-01 17:38:13

MOSCOW (Oct. 1) - When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunning Cold War triumph.

A Soviet rocket carrying the satellite Sputnik blasts off on Oct. 4, 1957, from Kazakhstan. Fifty years later, scientists involved with the launch... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/942 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:34:47 GMT <![CDATA[ Cellular Surge Overwhelms California 911 System. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/943/t/Cellular-Surge-Overwhelms-California-911-System-.html AP
Posted: 2007-08-26 08:28:57

LOS ANGELES (Aug. 26) - California's emergency agencies are struggling to adapt to a surge in calls from cell phones that have overwhelmed the state's 911 system, leading to lost calls and long waits, according to a published report.

Cell phone emergency calls take longer to handle and dispatchers can easily become swamped, such as when multiple callers report from the same accident scene.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/943 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:38:41 GMT <![CDATA[ Sprint Dumps Problem Customers. Never Use Sprint! ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/944/t/Sprint-Dumps-Problem-Customers-Never-Use-Sprint-.html Posted Jul 6th 2007 10:05AM by Tim Stevens

One of the most frequent complaints levied against wireless provider Sprint is the lengthy waits experienced when calling into its customer service department. Sprint is taking a strong stance and making a major change to solve the problem, though perhaps not in the way you might be expecting. The company has decided to cancel the accounts of subscribers who it feels call... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/944 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:08:22 GMT <![CDATA[ Web Beacon and Web Bugs. What Are They? ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/945/t/Web-Beacon-and-Web-Bugs-What-Are-They-.html A Web beacon, also known as a Web bug, is a small, graphic image on a Web page, Web-based document or in an email message that is designed to allow the site owner or a third party to monitor the address and other information of the computer viewing the item. Web beacons are often invisible to the user because they are typically very small (only 1-by-1 pixel) and the same color as the background of the Web page, document, or email message. Web beacons are represented as HTML IMG tags in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/945 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:24:03 GMT <![CDATA[ Why is it called Bluetooth? ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/946/t/Why-is-it-called-Bluetooth-.html
Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark in the late 900s. He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. He left a large monument, the Jelling rune stone, in memory of his parents. He was killed in 986 during a battle with his son, Svend Forkbeard. Choosing this name for the standard indicates how important companies from the Nordic region (nations including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland)... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/946 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:12:06 GMT <![CDATA[ AT&T Then Cingular Then AT&T. What Next? ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/947/t/AT-amp-T-Then-Cingular-Then-AT-amp-T-What-Next-.html
By STUART ELLIOTT

Published: January 12, 2007
One of the biggest de-brandings in advertising history is to begin Monday when AT&T, now the sole owner of Cingular Wireless, starts changing all Cingular marketing to adopt the AT&T name.

AT&T will not disclose the budget for the campaign, which will continue for five or six months leading to the partnership with Apple on the new iPhone, scheduled for... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/947 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:26:02 GMT <![CDATA[ Defense Contractors Warned About Spy Coins. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/948/t/Defense-Contractors-Warned-About-Spy-Coins-.html
By TED BRIDIS
AP
WASHINGTON (Jan. 11) - Money talks, but can it also follow your movements?


Which country planted the coins with the tiny transmitters? Outside experts cited several suspects, including China, Russia and France. All are believed to have espionage operations inside Canada and the ability to produce such technology.

In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/948 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:27:06 GMT <![CDATA[ Hubble Proves Einstein Correct About Dark Energy. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/949/t/Hubble-Proves-Einstein-Correct-About-Dark-Energy-.html By MATT CRENSON, AP

NEW YORK (Nov. 16) - The Hubble Space Telescope has shown that a mysterious form of energy first conceived by Albert Einstein, then rejected by the famous physicist as his "greatest blunder," appears to have been fueling the expansion of the universe for most of its history.

This so-called "dark energy" has been pushing the universe outward for at least 9 billion years, astronomers said Thursday.

"This is the first time we... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/949 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:16:32 GMT <![CDATA[ Cell Phones Spell Doom for the Toll-Free Number. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/950/t/Cell-Phones-Spell-Doom-for-the-Toll-Free-Number-.html
By Kevin Maney, USA TODAY


AFP/Getty ImagesWith most cellular plans including free long distance, 1-800 numbers are becoming a thing of the past.


The 800-number for 40 years a part of daily American life is doomed. Like what happened to pay phones. And milkmen.

This would be very bad news for phone companies, which rake in $12 billion a year from toll-free numbers.

The 800-number's destiny... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/950 Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:33:29 GMT <![CDATA[ How does a lie detector work? Is it possible to fool one? ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/951/t/How-does-a-lie-detector-work-Is-it-possible-to-fool-one-.html
How does a lie detector work? Is it possible to fool one? (Just curious. Honest!)

In curiosity,
Abe

Dear Honest Abe,

Have you ever told a lie? If you say no, well, I don't believe you. You're lying. If I were hooked up to a lie detector (a polygraph) when you asked me this question, I'd be in a bit of a bind, because lie detectors don't work, as such. They operate, recording a person's metabolic functions, but they can't detect lies or lying. No... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/951 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:45:01 GMT <![CDATA[ Cingular Accused of Deceiving AT&T Cell Customers. ]]> http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/952/t/Cingular-Accused-of-Deceiving-AT-amp-T-Cell-Customers-.html By GENE JOHNSON, AP

SEATTLE (July 7) - Cingular Wireless Corp. promised to provide uninterrupted service to AT&T Wireless customers when it acquired that company in 2004, but instead it nickel-and-dimed them and degraded their reception in an effort to persuade them to sign new contracts, a federal lawsuit says.

An attorney displays cell phone records of Amy Frerker, who says her service worsened after AT&T Wireless merged with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Timebuilder) http://horologist.yuku.com/topic/952 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:44:19 GMT