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25
Apr
09
I love my XM radio. It has single-handedly quelled my testy demeanor during the aggravating 1/2 hour trek around monstrous potholes and through clouds of apoptotic-inducing truck emissions on my way to school.
Lately, however, my XM has become quite nefarious. Temperamental. Traitorous. Why? It has started picking up signals from other cars, leaving me to listen to the […]
Apr
09
Hand-held Lie Detector
Posted by adam under tech
I found this article on hand-held lie detectors being used by the US military. Statements about the accuracy of the device varied depending on whether inconclusive results were counted in the statistics. When inconclusive results were counted, the accuracy was around 70%, but when only positive and negative results were used, it was […]
Feb
19
18 Minutes
How many times have you sat through a lecture, graduation, or speech and wondered when it would finally be over? Sure, you may start out interested in the topic, but after the speaker has droned on for almost an hour, it gets harder to concentrate. Don’t you wish the person would have taken the most […]
Feb
13
so what do you think about this ancient concept?
Let’s say in the case of a land patent, if the U.S. grants a land patent to Mr. A for 25 years; Mr. A dies after 12 years, leaving everything to Ms. B; should that violate the land patent? (don’t worry about the laws, but what […]
