Re: [scifinoir2] American Greed: Scams - Funny Money
Autotuned, and thanks for the heads-up, Mr Worf! On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: This week's show was about Troy Stroud. An African American man from Englewood, CA that was the mastermind behind the biggest counterfeiting scam in the country. With an inkjet printer, photoshop, and hairspray this man produced 7 million in counterfeit $100, and $20 bills that circulated all over the country. Check it out on Saturday on CNBC. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Question
Fate, I keep meaning to peek at it whenever I happen into IMDb, but I always slip back out without doing it. I'll try to remember today. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Augustus Augustus jazzynupe_...@yahoo.comwrote: has anyone seen the trailer for the new Predator movie Predators with Lawrence Fishburn?It opens July 29. The trailor looks freaking AWESOME! Fate.
Re: [scifinoir2] (unknown)
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Re: [scifinoir2] Tale of the Titans
(writing that down as a must-miss) On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: http://blackplush.blogspot.com/2010/03/tale-of-titans.html
Re: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show
Axe? Mr Worf, there's probably a bonus check in his inbox as I type this. And don't be surprised if the Wasilla Wingnut isn't front-and-center when the cameras are rolling, probably at Roger Ailes' insistence. I can hear him saying, She's gotta get her feet wet sometime. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I hope and believe that they will do something so stupid that whoever is the head of the news division gets the axe. I think they have actual journalists conducting the interviews and Palin will do intros and wrap ups. She's too stupid to do anything else. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Well, I'm sure LL didn't know it was for a Palin-hosted show. Who interviewed him at that time? To wrap it up under Palin--someone whose beliefs and actions I have to believe he probably finds objectionable--is problematic at best. The Fox response is typically unprofessional, in suggesting he doesn't want to inspire other people. But nothing--nothing--Fox does surprises or disappoints me anymore. When they cut Obama's meeting with top Republicans a few weeks ago, they had no excuse. It was news, it was live, and they just cut away, because he was cleaning the Republicans' clocks. When Fox chairman Roger Ailes was asked about it on This Week, he just joked we cut away because we're 'fair and balanced'. The rest of the panel, including good friend Barbara Walters, who was guest hosting, all laughed. I was incensed. He made a joke of a news channel flagrantly ignoring news because of personal bias. And that's okay? Nothing Fox does surprises me anymore... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:43:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show Fox has cut his segment from the show, but I thought that it was an interesting story. LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show By DAVE ITZKOFFhttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/dave-itzkoff/ [image: LL Cool J] [image: Sarah Palin] *Update:* Fox News saidhttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/it would cut an interview with LL Cool J from the debut episode of “Real American Stories.” If the lineup and promotion for the inaugural episode of “Real American Stories,” a new Fox News Channel series to be hosted by Sarah Palinhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html, caught you by surprise, you’re not the only one. On his Twitter accounthttp://twitter.com/llcooljon Tuesday night, LL Cool Jhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/ll_cool_j/index.html, who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox was misrepresenting him. “Real American Stories” is scheduled to have its premiere on Fox News Channel on Thursday night. On its Web site http://www.foxnews.com/, Fox News said the show would profile people who have “given back, given all and never given up.” Among the guests that Fox News is announcing in an advertisement for the first episodehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBY2__J9t0are the country musician Toby Keith; John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman of General Electric; and LL Cool J, the rapper and star of “NCIS: Los Angeles.” But LL Cool J wrote on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/llcoolj/status/11339785126: “Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW.” He then re-sent the message nearly two dozen times to various followers in a two-hour span. Fox News has responded herehttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/. Representatives for LL Cool J were not immediately available. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough
Related Sections: Future Tech http://dvice.com/archives/future-tech/ Portable Gadgets http://dvice.com/archives/portable-entertainment/ Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi] Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging, never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals and constantly recharging the device's battery. http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php
[scifinoir2] MLK: A Call to Conscience
ahar...@earthlink.net Subject: [PDA Accountability Justice] MLK: A Call to Conscience I just saw Tavis Smiley's special tonight on MLK: A Call to Conscience. It was a great program, and I hope you'll watch it, too! It is especially relevant today, with wars going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the same time the gap between rich and poor is growing. Those wars have gone on longer than WW II, and the money and lives we're spending in those wars is being diverted from our real needs here at home, with high unemployment (unless you want to fight in a war half way around the world), and growing poverty among people who are losing their jobs, their homes, and their health. Episode 2 - MLK: A Call to Conscience . Tavis Smiley Reports . Tavis Smiley | PBS www.pbs.org The second episode of Tavis Smiley Reports examines Martin Luther King, Jr.'s stand against the Vietnam War and the influence of his legacy today. Tavis speaks with scholars and friends of King, including Cornel West, Vincent Harding and Susannah Heschel. The scholars and friends are well chosen. I've long felt that MLK Jr. spoke with a prophetic voice, and his Beyond Vietnam speech is as relevant today as when he gave it more than 40 years ago. Again, highly recommended. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups PDA Accountability and Justice group. To post to this group, send email to pda-accountabil...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to: pda-accountability+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pda-accountability?hl=en No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.791 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2781 - Release Date: 03/31/10 02:32:00
[scifinoir2] Re: LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show
The interview was over 2 years old and sitting in a can. Since the formerly scary black man is now on a show that the Faux audience watches they dug it up to give Palin's lame show a boost. The thing that was funny was their bs attempt to disrespect him by calling him a fledgling actor. Really? So being a working actor for just shy of 20 years makes you a newbieright. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: Axe? Mr Worf, there's probably a bonus check in his inbox as I type this. And don't be surprised if the Wasilla Wingnut isn't front-and-center when the cameras are rolling, probably at Roger Ailes' insistence. I can hear him saying, She's gotta get her feet wet sometime. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: I hope and believe that they will do something so stupid that whoever is the head of the news division gets the axe. I think they have actual journalists conducting the interviews and Palin will do intros and wrap ups. She's too stupid to do anything else. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Well, I'm sure LL didn't know it was for a Palin-hosted show. Who interviewed him at that time? To wrap it up under Palin--someone whose beliefs and actions I have to believe he probably finds objectionable--is problematic at best. The Fox response is typically unprofessional, in suggesting he doesn't want to inspire other people. But nothing--nothing--Fox does surprises or disappoints me anymore. When they cut Obama's meeting with top Republicans a few weeks ago, they had no excuse. It was news, it was live, and they just cut away, because he was cleaning the Republicans' clocks. When Fox chairman Roger Ailes was asked about it on This Week, he just joked we cut away because we're 'fair and balanced'. The rest of the panel, including good friend Barbara Walters, who was guest hosting, all laughed. I was incensed. He made a joke of a news channel flagrantly ignoring news because of personal bias. And that's okay? Nothing Fox does surprises me anymore... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:43:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show Fox has cut his segment from the show, but I thought that it was an interesting story. LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show By DAVE ITZKOFFhttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/dave-itzkoff/ [image: LL Cool J] [image: Sarah Palin] *Update:* Fox News saidhttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/it would cut an interview with LL Cool J from the debut episode of Real American Stories. If the lineup and promotion for the inaugural episode of Real American Stories, a new Fox News Channel series to be hosted by Sarah Palinhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html, caught you by surprise, you're not the only one. On his Twitter accounthttp://twitter.com/llcooljon Tuesday night, LL Cool Jhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/ll_cool_j/index.html, who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox was misrepresenting him. Real American Stories is scheduled to have its premiere on Fox News Channel on Thursday night. On its Web site http://www.foxnews.com/, Fox News said the show would profile people who have given back, given all and never given up. Among the guests that Fox News is announcing in an advertisement for the first episodehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBY2__J9t0are the country musician Toby Keith; John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman of General Electric; and LL Cool J, the rapper and star of NCIS: Los Angeles. But LL Cool J wrote on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/llcoolj/status/11339785126: Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW. He then re-sent the message nearly two dozen times to various followers in a two-hour span. Fox News has responded herehttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/. Representatives for LL Cool J were not immediately available. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Re: What Is 'Music by Prudence'?
Yup. I usually DVR it and watch the segments that catch my eye. He routinely has interesting guests on their all the time that aren't big enough for other late night shows to book and lots of musical guests that are on the verge of breaking into the mainstream. So folks like Lee Daniels, Roger Ross Williams, Idris Elba, Charlie Hunman, Morena Baccarin and others get some face time. Plus he's a bit of a geek so it's pretty common to see familiar faces from the world of sci-fi pop up on there from time to time. Recently he had Lupe Fiasco on talking about the climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro that he Kenna, Santigold, Jessica Biel and others took to raise awareness about the worldwide safe drinking water initiative. I'd been following the the story for a while and it was cool to hear about the climb and the reasons that he got involved with the charity. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: You actually watch Carson Daly? On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:01 AM, B Smith daikaij...@... wrote: The music is beautiful and Prudence's incredible story of overcoming almost insurmountable odds gets you in the heart. I saw Roger Ross Williams on Carson Daly before the Oscars and they did an in depth look at the movie and I was hooked. BTW the movie premieres on HBO next month. Can't wait to watch. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf HelloMahogany@ wrote: What Is 'Music by Prudence'? - March 8, 2010 - | - By: Eric Larnick http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/bloggers/eric-larnick/ - Comments (0) http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2010/03/08/music-by-prudence-oscar-short/#comments With HP wireless printers, you could have printed this from any room in the house. Live wirelessly. Print wirelessly. PRINT EMAIL http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=insidemoviesv=250source=tbx-250tt=0s=twitterurl=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.moviefone.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fmusic-by-prudence-oscar-short%2Ftitle=What%20Is%20%27Music%20by%20Prudence%27%3F%20-%20Inside%20Moviescontent=template=%7B%7Burl%7D%7D%20via%20%40moviefonelng=en http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=insidemoviesv=250source=tbx-250tt=0s=facebookurl=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.moviefone.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fmusic-by-prudence-oscar-short%2Ftitle=What%20Is%20%27Music%20by%20Prudence%27%3F%20-%20Inside%20Moviescontent=lng=en http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=insidemoviesv=250source=tbx-250tt=0s=myspaceurl=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.moviefone.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fmusic-by-prudence-oscar-short%2Ftitle=What%20Is%20%27Music%20by%20Prudence%27%3F%20-%20Inside%20Moviescontent=lng=en http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=insidemoviesv=250source=tbx-250tt=0s=diggurl=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.moviefone.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fmusic-by-prudence-oscar-short%2Ftitle=What%20Is%20%27Music%20by%20Prudence%27%3F%20-%20Inside%20Moviescontent=lng=en http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=insidemoviesv=250source=tbx-250tt=0s=aimurl=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.moviefone.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fmusic-by-prudence-oscar-short%2Ftitle=What%20Is%20%27Music%20by%20Prudence%27%3F%20-%20Inside%20Moviescontent=lng=en MORE It achieved some notoriety at the Academy Awards last night, when director Roger Ross Williams http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/roger-ross-williams/10018237/mainand producer Elinor Burkett http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/elinor-burkett/10018238/main fought for microphone time during their acceptance speech (you can read more about it over on PopEater http://www.popeater.com/2010/03/08/music-by-prudence-elinor-burkett-oscars/ , where they explain why it has become the Kanye moment of the Oscars). But what's the story behind the Oscar-winning Best Documentary Short, 'Music by Prudence' http://www.moviefone.com/movie/music-by-prudence/10026603/main? The 32-minute film documents the story of Prudence Mabhena, a Zimbabwe native suffering from a debilitating condition known as arthrogryposis that has left her body crippled. Unwanted by her father, Prudence was raised by her grandmother and taught the joys of singing. Living as a migrant worker made it difficult for Prudence's grandmother to support both of them -- and as a result, she was forced to go back to her abusive, neglectful father. Eventually Prudence was able to escape her upbringing, thanks to a scholarship from the King George VI School Centre for Children with Physical Disabilities, where her singing talents were encouraged. She quickly excelled at the school, joining multiple bands and leading the school choir. The film looks at how she and her bandmates have supported each other to overcome the harsh, economic conditions of Zimbabwe and Prudence's disabilities. The documentary concludes with a powerful concert performance of Prudence and her band,
[scifinoir2] Re: Tale of the Titans
Same here. I was looking forward to this movie but the early buzz has been underwhelming. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: (writing that down as a must-miss) On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: http://blackplush.blogspot.com/2010/03/tale-of-titans.html
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show
Once again, I *chortle* at Faux/Fixed/Fox's credibility... On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:27 AM, B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: The interview was over 2 years old and sitting in a can. Since the formerly scary black man is now on a show that the Faux audience watches they dug it up to give Palin's lame show a boost. The thing that was funny was their bs attempt to disrespect him by calling him a fledgling actor. Really? So being a working actor for just shy of 20 years makes you a newbieright. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: Axe? Mr Worf, there's probably a bonus check in his inbox as I type this. And don't be surprised if the Wasilla Wingnut isn't front-and-center when the cameras are rolling, probably at Roger Ailes' insistence. I can hear him saying, She's gotta get her feet wet sometime. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: I hope and believe that they will do something so stupid that whoever is the head of the news division gets the axe. I think they have actual journalists conducting the interviews and Palin will do intros and wrap ups. She's too stupid to do anything else. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Well, I'm sure LL didn't know it was for a Palin-hosted show. Who interviewed him at that time? To wrap it up under Palin--someone whose beliefs and actions I have to believe he probably finds objectionable--is problematic at best. The Fox response is typically unprofessional, in suggesting he doesn't want to inspire other people. But nothing--nothing--Fox does surprises or disappoints me anymore. When they cut Obama's meeting with top Republicans a few weeks ago, they had no excuse. It was news, it was live, and they just cut away, because he was cleaning the Republicans' clocks. When Fox chairman Roger Ailes was asked about it on This Week, he just joked we cut away because we're 'fair and balanced'. The rest of the panel, including good friend Barbara Walters, who was guest hosting, all laughed. I was incensed. He made a joke of a news channel flagrantly ignoring news because of personal bias. And that's okay? Nothing Fox does surprises me anymore... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:43:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show Fox has cut his segment from the show, but I thought that it was an interesting story. LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show By DAVE ITZKOFFhttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/dave-itzkoff/ [image: LL Cool J] [image: Sarah Palin] *Update:* Fox News said http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/it would cut an interview with LL Cool J from the debut episode of Real American Stories. If the lineup and promotion for the inaugural episode of Real American Stories, a new Fox News Channel series to be hosted by Sarah Palin http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html , caught you by surprise, you're not the only one. On his Twitter accounthttp://twitter.com/llcooljon Tuesday night, LL Cool J http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/ll_cool_j/index.html , who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox was misrepresenting him. Real American Stories is scheduled to have its premiere on Fox News Channel on Thursday night. On its Web site http://www.foxnews.com/, Fox News said the show would profile people who have given back, given all and never given up. Among the guests that Fox News is announcing in an advertisement for the first episode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBY2__J9t0are the country musician Toby Keith; John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman of General Electric; and LL Cool J, the rapper and star of NCIS: Los Angeles. But LL Cool J wrote on Twitter http://twitter.com/llcoolj/status/11339785126: Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW. He then re-sent the message nearly two dozen times to various followers in a two-hour span. Fox News has responded here http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/ . Representatives for LL Cool J were not immediately available. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ --
Re: [scifinoir2] MLK: A Call to Conscience
Amy, thanks for the heads-up. I apparently missed it, but I think it'll repeat later this week. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Amy Harlib ahar...@earthlink.net wrote: ahar...@earthlink.net *Subject:* [PDA Accountability Justice] MLK: A Call to Conscience I just saw Tavis Smiley's special tonight on MLK: A Call to Conscience. It was a great program, and I hope you'll watch it, too! It is especially relevant today, with wars going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the same time the gap between rich and poor is growing. Those wars have gone on longer than WW II, and the money and lives we're spending in those wars is being diverted from our real needs here at home, with high unemployment (unless you want to fight in a war half way around the world), and growing poverty among people who are losing their jobs, their homes, and their health. Episode 2 - MLK: A Call to Conscience . Tavis Smiley Reports . Tavis Smiley | PBShttp://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/reports/episode-two.html www.pbs.org The second episode of Tavis Smiley Reports examines Martin Luther King, Jr.'s stand against the Vietnam War and the influence of his legacy today. Tavis speaks with scholars and friends of King, including Cornel West, Vincent Harding and Susannah Heschel. The scholars and friends are well chosen. I've long felt that MLK Jr. spoke with a prophetic voice, and his Beyond Vietnam speech is as relevant today as when he gave it more than 40 years ago. Again, highly recommended. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups PDA Accountability and Justice group. To post to this group, send email to pda-accountabil...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to: pda-accountability+unsubscr...@googlegroups.compda-accountability%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pda-accountability?hl=en -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.791 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2781 - Release Date: 03/31/10 02:32:00
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Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough
Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :) I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours and you can pretty much do anything with it. One story I read was a guy took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Related Sections: Future Tech http://dvice.com/archives/future-tech/ Portable Gadgets http://dvice.com/archives/portable-entertainment/ Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi] Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging, never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals and constantly recharging the device's battery. http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] The article says this is NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE...
... still, break out the boxes of salt before you tale this one. Is Joss Whedon Really In Line To Direct The Avengers?http://io9.com/5507044/is-joss-whedon-really-in-line-to-direct-the-avengers?skyline=trues=i Even if this is a joke, the first comment is, IMO, worth the trip.
Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough
Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out of his way to rip off and ruin him? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :) I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours and you can pretty much do anything with it. One story I read was a guy took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Related Sections: Future Tech http://dvice.com/archives/future-tech/ Portable Gadgets http://dvice.com/archives/portable-entertainment/ Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi] Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging, never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals and constantly recharging the device's battery. http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] First Look: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Poster
I'll be over in the corner, rewiring my jaw on and digging out my spare bibs... [?][?][?][?] On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to thank the geeks out there for making my inner kid happy the last couple of years. :) First Look: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Poster - By Lewis Wallacehttp://www.wired.com/underwire/author/lewis_wallace/ [image: Email Author] lwall...@wired.com - March 30, 2010 | - 6:19 pm | - Categories: Movies http://www.wired.com/underwire/category/movies/, animation http://www.wired.com/underwire/category/animation/ - [image: harlock_660] Get an eyeful of space pirate Captain Harlock, as seen on the promo poster for an upcoming CG animated movie based on the adventuring anime character. The photo, taken during the Tokyo Anime Fair last weekend, came with a rave review for the 90-second trailer show at the festival. The action-packed video was “really jaw dropping-amazing,” wrote photographer Jean-Charles van Heurck in an e-mail to Wired.com. “Lots of smoke effect, lighting effects and so on.” The character, created by anime legend Leiji Matsumotohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiji_Matsumoto, appears on the poster just as in the trailer — which also shows Captain Harlock’s nicely designed spaceships (and “a fantastic weapon”), according to van Heurck. “It’s gotten a really impressive/aggressive look,” he said. The clip also showed Captain Harlock’s bird and Kei Yukihttp://www.animevice.com/kei-yuki/18-25220/. “She was really … very sexy for CG,” said van Heurck. Japan’s Toei Animation plans to release the CG Captain Harlockhttp://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-23/toei-plans-3d-cg-harlock-gaiking-filmsmovie in 2012. Read More http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/03/first-look-space-pirate-captain-harlock-poster/?intcid=inform_relatedContent#ixzz0jsnjfOJQ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ 327.gif360.gif
Re: [scifinoir2] American Greed: Scams - Funny Money
No problem. You should also check out next week as well. It is about a woman that was doing a foreclosure scam in the ATL area I believe. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Autotuned, and thanks for the heads-up, Mr Worf! On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: This week's show was about Troy Stroud. An African American man from Englewood, CA that was the mastermind behind the biggest counterfeiting scam in the country. With an inkjet printer, photoshop, and hairspray this man produced 7 million in counterfeit $100, and $20 bills that circulated all over the country. Check it out on Saturday on CNBC. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough
Apologies for any anger there, Mr Worf. That's one of my few sore spots, the way Tesla got screwed. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out of his way to rip off and ruin him? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :) I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours and you can pretty much do anything with it. One story I read was a guy took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Related Sections: Future Tech http://dvice.com/archives/future-tech/ Portable Gadgets http://dvice.com/archives/portable-entertainment/ Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi] Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging, never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals and constantly recharging the device's battery. http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough
What I'd like to know is who has the bulk of his papers and what are they doing with them? Also, what about Edgar Casey's papers? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out of his way to rip off and ruin him? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :) I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours and you can pretty much do anything with it. One story I read was a guy took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Related Sections: Future Tech http://dvice.com/archives/future-tech/ Portable Gadgets http://dvice.com/archives/portable-entertainment/ Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi] Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging, never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals and constantly recharging the device's battery. http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough
Everyone that challenged the status quo at the time was pretty much a target in every industry. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Apologies for any anger there, Mr Worf. That's one of my few sore spots, the way Tesla got screwed. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out of his way to rip off and ruin him? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :) I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours and you can pretty much do anything with it. One story I read was a guy took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Related Sections: Future Tech http://dvice.com/archives/future-tech/ Portable Gadgets http://dvice.com/archives/portable-entertainment/ Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi] Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging, never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals and constantly recharging the device's battery. http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Knight and Day
Has anyone seen the trailer for this movie? It made me think about Human Target. I wonder if this is a rip off of that show? What do you think? Could this movie have been mistaken for Mission Impossible? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Re: First Look: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Poster
Arcadia of my youth indeed. Can't wait for this one. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: I'll be over in the corner, rewiring my jaw on and digging out my spare bibs... [?][?][?][?] On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: I'd like to thank the geeks out there for making my inner kid happy the last couple of years. :) First Look: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Poster - By Lewis Wallacehttp://www.wired.com/underwire/author/lewis_wallace/ [image: Email Author] lwall...@... - March 30, 2010 | - 6:19 pm | - Categories: Movies http://www.wired.com/underwire/category/movies/, animation http://www.wired.com/underwire/category/animation/ - [image: harlock_660] Get an eyeful of space pirate Captain Harlock, as seen on the promo poster for an upcoming CG animated movie based on the adventuring anime character. The photo, taken during the Tokyo Anime Fair last weekend, came with a rave review for the 90-second trailer show at the festival. The action-packed video was really jaw dropping-amazing, wrote photographer Jean-Charles van Heurck in an e-mail to Wired.com. Lots of smoke effect, lighting effects and so on. The character, created by anime legend Leiji Matsumotohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiji_Matsumoto, appears on the poster just as in the trailer which also shows Captain Harlock's nicely designed spaceships (and a fantastic weapon), according to van Heurck. It's gotten a really impressive/aggressive look, he said. The clip also showed Captain Harlock's bird and Kei Yukihttp://www.animevice.com/kei-yuki/18-25220/. She was really very sexy for CG, said van Heurck. Japan's Toei Animation plans to release the CG Captain Harlockhttp://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-23/toei-plans-3d-cg-harlock-gaiking-filmsmovie in 2012. Read More http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/03/first-look-space-pirate-captain-harlock-poster/?intcid=inform_relatedContent#ixzz0jsnjfOJQ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Audi’s Robotic Car Drives Better Than You Do
Audi’s Robotic Car Drives Better Than You Do - By Chuck Squatriglia http://www.wired.com/autopia/author/wiredchuck/ [image: Email Author] chuck_squatrig...@wired.com - March 31, 2010 | - 8:00 pm | - Categories: Cool Carshttp://www.wired.com/autopia/category/cool-cars/ - The race to the top of Pikes Peak is among the most harrowing in motorsports, a flat-out sprint through 156 turns on a 12.4-mile road to the clouds. It is a test of grit and skill that demands the best from drivers as they brave perilous drops at 130 mph. Audi thinks it can do it *without* a driver. The German automaker will send an autonomous TTS barreling to the summit in September. It will navigate the course at race speeds — the best drivers make the run in around 12 minutes — with no one at the wheel or even in the car. No one’s ever attempted anything like it before. Although robocars have driven the course, they haven’t done it at more than 25 mph. Audi says it is pushing autonomous-vehicle technology to its very edge in an effort to make the cars the rest of us drive smarter and safer. “We’re interested in the safety opportunities this technology presents,” said Dr. Burkhard Huhnke, executive director of the Electronics Research Laboratory. Volkswagen Group, which owns Audi, works alongside Stanford University at the lab in Palo Alto, California. “We want to understand the best way to use this technology to provide additional support to drivers in critical situations.” [image: audi_fb]http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2010/03/audi_fb.jpg Audi, Volkswagen and Stanford are building on their success with Stanley, a VW Touareg http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/stanley.html that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005, and Stanley, a VW Passathttp://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/news/2007/10/grandchallenge_walkup?currentPage=allthat took second in the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. Those vehicles used radar, sensors and cameras to track the road at relatively low speed on a closed and controlled course. The TTS will use differential GPS and an inertial measurement system to tackle a road where anything can happen. “We’re aiming high,” said Chris Gerdes, director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford. “Pike’s Peak has been a challenge since the first race in 1916. It is a place where you have to push to the very limit, and there’s a very stiff penalty if you get it wrong.” The car won’t compete in the Pike’s Peak International Hill Climbhttp://www.usacracing.com/ppihcin June. But the all-wheel drive TTS will follow the same course the racers use. It’s a mix of pavement, dirt and gravel that rises 4,721 feet at an average grade of 7 percent. The current record for a production-based all-wheel-drive car stands at 11:48.434. No one expects the TTS to hit that mark, and it won’t achieve the kind of speeds rally driver Marcus Gronhölmhttp://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/07/fiesta-pikes-peak/or four-time winner Nobuhiro Tajima have, but it will make the run faster than you ever could. “I want to go up the mountain much faster than anyone with any sense of self-preservation would go,” Gerdes said. The robocar is a 2010 TTS. The team chose it because it features a fly-by-wire throttle, adaptive cruise control, a semiautomatic DSG gearbox and other gadgetry. That made it relatively easy to make the car fully autonomous using electronics developed at the Electronics Research Lab. [image: Differential GPS tracks the car's location to within 2 centimeters.]http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2010/03/audi_fd.jpg Differential GPS tracks the car's location to within 2 centimeters. “The components we added that actually interface with the car would fit in a shoebox,” said Marcial Hernandez, a senior research engineer at the Electronics Research Lab. “The largest component by far is the gyroscope, and it’s an 8-inch cube.” The TTS is named Shelley in honor of Michèle Moutonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Mouton, an Audi rally driver and the first woman to win at Pikes Peak. Shelley uses differential GPS to track its location to within 2 centimeters, though Gerdes says the margin will be closer to 1 meter on the mountain. Wheel-speed sensors and an accelerometer measure its velocity and a gyroscope controls equilibrium and direction. The algorithms that make it all work run on hardware developed by Sun Microsystems. “The computational power needed to do this is less than you’d find in your laptop,” Hernandez said. Redundant systems ensure a measure of safety, and Shelley can shut itself down if the system detects a problem. The car also transmits real-time data to the team, which can shut it down from up to 20 miles away. Audi set up a dirt oval about the length and width of a football field and let us ride shotgun for half a dozen laps (video at top of post). Although there was a grad student behind the wheel, he was there only to monitor test data and hit the kill switch
[scifinoir2] GMail's Vowel Outage
Okay, April Fool's Day it is... ** http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html Today’s vowel outage Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:49 AM Posted by Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering Director If you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you who rely on Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we’re incredibly sorry. We take morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to let you all know what happened and what we're doing about it. At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started failing to render the letter 'a' for a subset of users. As error rates escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap solution that limited the damage to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u.' As a result, we're experiencing Gmail’s first temporary vowel outage. (We’re still investigating whether the letter 'y' is impacted and will post an update here shortly.) Over the last hour we've received numerous reports of this issue via our help forums, from colleagues at Google, and via email you’ve sent us. Some of you have already found creative workarounds for communicating without vowels, like Aaron, who sent us this: Having 80.8% of the alphabet available is significantly below the 99.9% full letter uptime reliability we strive for. Since identifying the root case of this issue, we’ve started bringing vowels back to Gmail, so you should see them back in your account within the next few hours if you don’t already. In the meantime, while you may still see this issue in Gmail's web interface, both IMAP and POP access are functioning normally. We'll post an update as soon as things are fully resolved and, again, we're v3ry s0rry. Update (7:30 am) : We’ve determined that the letter 'y' is not impacted.
Re: [scifinoir2] GMail's Vowel Outage
They also changed the name from Google to Topeka. Gotta love those guys... On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Okay, April Fool's Day it is... ** http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html Today’s vowel outagehttp://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:49 AM Posted by Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering Director If you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you who rely on Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we’re incredibly sorry. We take morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to let you all know what happened and what we're doing about it. At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started failing to render the letter 'a' for a subset of users. As error rates escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap solution that limited the damage to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u.' As a result, we're experiencing Gmail’s first temporary vowel outage. (We’re still investigating whether the letter 'y' is impacted and will post an update here shortly.) Over the last hour we've received numerous reports of this issue via our help forums, from colleagues at Google, and via email you’ve sent us. Some of you have already found creative workarounds for communicating without vowels, like Aaron, who sent us this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JE4qNpFW6Yk/S7PvkBdO1DI/AiY/6C2rq7OHkiA/s1600/vowelfail.jpg Having 80.8% of the alphabet available is significantly below the 99.9% full letter uptime reliability we strive for. Since identifying the root case of this issue, we’ve started bringing vowels back to Gmail, so you should see them back in your account within the next few hours if you don’t already. In the meantime, while you may still see this issue in Gmail's web interface, both IMAP and POP access are functioning normally. We'll post an update as soon as things are fully resolved and, again, we're v3ry s0rry. Update (7:30 am): We’ve determined that the letter 'y' is not impacted. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] GMail's Vowel Outage
That's what I'm figuring. When I log into either of my Gmail accounts, I see the vowelless (sp?) left side of the page, but a perfectly intact right side. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Okay, April Fool's Day it is... ** http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html Today’s vowel outagehttp://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:49 AM Posted by Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering Director If you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you who rely on Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we’re incredibly sorry. We take morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to let you all know what happened and what we're doing about it. At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started failing to render the letter 'a' for a subset of users. As error rates escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap solution that limited the damage to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u.' As a result, we're experiencing Gmail’s first temporary vowel outage. (We’re still investigating whether the letter 'y' is impacted and will post an update here shortly.) Over the last hour we've received numerous reports of this issue via our help forums, from colleagues at Google, and via email you’ve sent us. Some of you have already found creative workarounds for communicating without vowels, like Aaron, who sent us this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JE4qNpFW6Yk/S7PvkBdO1DI/AiY/6C2rq7OHkiA/s1600/vowelfail.jpg Having 80.8% of the alphabet available is significantly below the 99.9% full letter uptime reliability we strive for. Since identifying the root case of this issue, we’ve started bringing vowels back to Gmail, so you should see them back in your account within the next few hours if you don’t already. In the meantime, while you may still see this issue in Gmail's web interface, both IMAP and POP access are functioning normally. We'll post an update as soon as things are fully resolved and, again, we're v3ry s0rry. Update (7:30 am): We’ve determined that the letter 'y' is not impacted.
Re: [scifinoir2] Audi’s Robotic Car Drives Better Than You Do
Here come those 'bots again... now they'll be able to bump us off on the highways. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Audi’s Robotic Car Drives Better Than You Do - By Chuck Squatrigliahttp://www.wired.com/autopia/author/wiredchuck/ [image: Email Author] chuck_squatrig...@wired.com - March 31, 2010 | - 8:00 pm | - Categories: Cool Carshttp://www.wired.com/autopia/category/cool-cars/ - The race to the top of Pikes Peak is among the most harrowing in motorsports, a flat-out sprint through 156 turns on a 12.4-mile road to the clouds. It is a test of grit and skill that demands the best from drivers as they brave perilous drops at 130 mph. Audi thinks it can do it *without* a driver. The German automaker will send an autonomous TTS barreling to the summit in September. It will navigate the course at race speeds — the best drivers make the run in around 12 minutes — with no one at the wheel or even in the car. No one’s ever attempted anything like it before. Although robocars have driven the course, they haven’t done it at more than 25 mph. Audi says it is pushing autonomous-vehicle technology to its very edge in an effort to make the cars the rest of us drive smarter and safer. “We’re interested in the safety opportunities this technology presents,” said Dr. Burkhard Huhnke, executive director of the Electronics Research Laboratory. Volkswagen Group, which owns Audi, works alongside Stanford University at the lab in Palo Alto, California. “We want to understand the best way to use this technology to provide additional support to drivers in critical situations.” [image: audi_fb]http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2010/03/audi_fb.jpg Audi, Volkswagen and Stanford are building on their success with Stanley, a VW Touareg http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/stanley.html that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005, and Stanley, a VW Passathttp://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/news/2007/10/grandchallenge_walkup?currentPage=allthat took second in the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. Those vehicles used radar, sensors and cameras to track the road at relatively low speed on a closed and controlled course. The TTS will use differential GPS and an inertial measurement system to tackle a road where anything can happen. “We’re aiming high,” said Chris Gerdes, director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford. “Pike’s Peak has been a challenge since the first race in 1916. It is a place where you have to push to the very limit, and there’s a very stiff penalty if you get it wrong.” The car won’t compete in the Pike’s Peak International Hill Climbhttp://www.usacracing.com/ppihcin June. But the all-wheel drive TTS will follow the same course the racers use. It’s a mix of pavement, dirt and gravel that rises 4,721 feet at an average grade of 7 percent. The current record for a production-based all-wheel-drive car stands at 11:48.434. No one expects the TTS to hit that mark, and it won’t achieve the kind of speeds rally driver Marcus Gronhölmhttp://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/07/fiesta-pikes-peak/or four-time winner Nobuhiro Tajima have, but it will make the run faster than you ever could. “I want to go up the mountain much faster than anyone with any sense of self-preservation would go,” Gerdes said. The robocar is a 2010 TTS. The team chose it because it features a fly-by-wire throttle, adaptive cruise control, a semiautomatic DSG gearbox and other gadgetry. That made it relatively easy to make the car fully autonomous using electronics developed at the Electronics Research Lab. [image: Differential GPS tracks the car's location to within 2 centimeters.]http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2010/03/audi_fd.jpg Differential GPS tracks the car's location to within 2 centimeters. “The components we added that actually interface with the car would fit in a shoebox,” said Marcial Hernandez, a senior research engineer at the Electronics Research Lab. “The largest component by far is the gyroscope, and it’s an 8-inch cube.” The TTS is named Shelley in honor of Michèle Moutonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Mouton, an Audi rally driver and the first woman to win at Pikes Peak. Shelley uses differential GPS to track its location to within 2 centimeters, though Gerdes says the margin will be closer to 1 meter on the mountain. Wheel-speed sensors and an accelerometer measure its velocity and a gyroscope controls equilibrium and direction. The algorithms that make it all work run on hardware developed by Sun Microsystems. “The computational power needed to do this is less than you’d find in your laptop,” Hernandez said. Redundant systems ensure a measure of safety, and Shelley can shut itself down if the system detects a problem. The car also transmits real-time data to the team, which can shut it down from up to 20 miles away. Audi set up
Re: [scifinoir2] Knight and Day
I don't think so, Mr Worf. It's too over-the-top cartoony for an M:I movie. I HOPE. Tommy-Boy's already b*stardized the series... On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone seen the trailer for this movie? It made me think about Human Target. I wonder if this is a rip off of that show? What do you think? Could this movie have been mistaken for Mission Impossible? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Tale of the Titans
I hate to see Rave's review (which was great, Rave) that Alexa Davalos wasn't used much. I think she is a nice screen presence, and so nice to see a gorgeour brunette instead of blondes all the time. I thought of her as a Wonder Woman candidate at one point (a bit slight of build, but then if Meagan Fox was considered...) - Original Message - From: B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2010 12:20:05 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Tale of the Titans Same here. I was looking forward to this movie but the early buzz has been underwhelming. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: (writing that down as a must-miss) On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: http://blackplush.blogspot.com/2010/03/tale-of-titans.html
Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough
Mr Worf, I don't know that right off. I have a lot of texts on Tesla, but they're all in storage (had to put them there late last year, after a serous house renovation, and I can't pull them out yet). I want to say that Tesla's family has them, and New Jersey has a few, if memory serves, mostly his patent application paperwork. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: What I'd like to know is who has the bulk of his papers and what are they doing with them? Also, what about Edgar Casey's papers? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out of his way to rip off and ruin him? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :) I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours and you can pretty much do anything with it. One story I read was a guy took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Related Sections: Future Tech http://dvice.com/archives/future-tech/ Portable Gadgets http://dvice.com/archives/portable-entertainment/ Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi] Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging, never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals and constantly recharging the device's battery. http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough
Just did a search. If you're interested, here's a link to many of his writings. http://www.teslaresearch.com/ On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, I don't know that right off. I have a lot of texts on Tesla, but they're all in storage (had to put them there late last year, after a serous house renovation, and I can't pull them out yet). I want to say that Tesla's family has them, and New Jersey has a few, if memory serves, mostly his patent application paperwork. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: What I'd like to know is who has the bulk of his papers and what are they doing with them? Also, what about Edgar Casey's papers? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out of his way to rip off and ruin him? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :) I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours and you can pretty much do anything with it. One story I read was a guy took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Related Sections: Future Tech http://dvice.com/archives/future-tech/ Portable Gadgets http://dvice.com/archives/portable-entertainment/ Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi] Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging, never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals and constantly recharging the device's battery. http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] American Greed: Scams - Funny Money
I shall. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: No problem. You should also check out next week as well. It is about a woman that was doing a foreclosure scam in the ATL area I believe. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Autotuned, and thanks for the heads-up, Mr Worf! On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: This week's show was about Troy Stroud. An African American man from Englewood, CA that was the mastermind behind the biggest counterfeiting scam in the country. With an inkjet printer, photoshop, and hairspray this man produced 7 million in counterfeit $100, and $20 bills that circulated all over the country. Check it out on Saturday on CNBC. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Predators (was Re: Question )
Thanks for the heads up. I forgot it was coming out. The trailers look great. Here's the web site: http://www.predators-movie.com/ http://www.predators-movie.com/ . It starts July 9th (not the 29th). I'm there! Angela --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: Fate, I keep meaning to peek at it whenever I happen into IMDb, but I always slip back out without doing it. I'll try to remember today. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Augustus Augustus jazzynupe_...@...wrote: has anyone seen the trailer for the new Predator movie Predators with Lawrence Fishburn? It opens July 29. The trailor looks freaking AWESOME! Fate.
Re: [scifinoir2] Knight and Day
Seems like it wouldn't be a good idea to do two spy movies in the same year. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I don't think so, Mr Worf. It's too over-the-top cartoony for an M:I movie. I HOPE. Tommy-Boy's already b*stardized the series... On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone seen the trailer for this movie? It made me think about Human Target. I wonder if this is a rip off of that show? What do you think? Could this movie have been mistaken for Mission Impossible? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
