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Was China's earthquake triggered by a nuclear accident?

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2008-05-21 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...epicenter of the quake that struck Monday is Mianyang, a science city whose outskirts house the primary laboratory for the design of Chinese nuclear arms. It is considered the Chinese equal to Los Alamos Nuclear experts said that closer to the epicenter of the earthquake, in rugged hills a two-hour drive west of Mianyang, China runs a highly...
 
Tags: complex, supersecret main complex, earthquake, nuclear experts, epicenter, york times story, highly secretive center, close china, stores nuclear arms
 
 
 
 
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Was China's earthquake triggered by a nuclear accident? Episode 2: Perhaps

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2008-06-04 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...epicenter Broad wrote, "Nuclear experts said that closer to the epicenter of the earthquake, in rugged hills a two-hour drive west of Mianyang [top], China runs a highly secretive center that houses a prompt-burst reactor. It mimics the rush of speeding subatomic particles that an exploding atom bomb spews out in its first microseconds ...
 
Tags: china, anti-china agendas, earthquake, china runs, map, chinese weapons scientists, crack research team, nuclear experts, chinese
 
 
 
 
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Wireless Mics Already In White Space Frequencies without Calamity (Duh!)

2008-03-27 14:52:44 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...Epicenter , points out that there are already is a group using White Space television frequencies to broadcast datathe very same wireless microphones that manufacturers are claiming will be disrupted by the technology. While Kahn admits that the low power, mobile white space proposition -- the one that would allow these various unlicensed...
 
Tags: wireless mics, space, white space, tv people, people, massive interference, epicenter, interference, intel fellow calls
 
 
 
 
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Apple stock falls despite record quarter and promise of new products

2008-07-22 11:53:38 by Rob Beschizza in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...Epicenter : When inquired about Jobs' health during the conference call, Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's senior vice president and chief financial officer, declined to disclose details He has no plan to leave Apple," Oppenheimer said. "Steve's health is a private matter Andy Hargreaves, consumer electronics analyst at Pacific Crest Securities,...
 
Tags: apple, cfo peter oppenheimer, oppenheimer, steve jobs, steve, jobs, peter oppenheimer, stock, health
 
 
 
 
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Triple Your Wi-Fis Signal Strength With Wi-Fire

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2008-01-08 15:46:07 by David Fried in hiptechblog.com
...epicenter of a dead spot, a barren wasteland of former Wi-Fi signal My solutions included hardwiringtoo easy. Setting up a router? Forbidden. And as this epic conundrum reached a head, an epiphany hit me like a ton of bricks (as they tend to do). However, this epiphany came in the form of a small device called the Wi-Fire from a startup...
 
Tags: signal, strong wi-fi signal, wi-fi signal, wi-fire, wireless signal, device, hfield technologies wi-fire, hfield technologies, device retails
 
 
 
 
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Macworld: Microsoft Can Whip It -- Whip It Good!

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2008-01-16 12:21:31 by Dylan Tweney in Gadget Lab
As Megan McCarthy over in Epicenter blogged, Macworld attendees saw 80s new-wave band Devo perform at San Francisco's famed Warfield theater last night. The occasion? Helping Microsoft celebrate the release of Office 2008 for the Mac. We'll have a full gallery a bit later today, but for now, here's a teaser shot of the ultimate geek band in action
 
Tags: famed warfield theater, microsoft, geek band, teaser shot, megan mccarthy, macworld attendees, san francisco, epicenter, bit
 
 
 
 
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Net-based Jaman to Offer Movie Service on TiVo

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2008-01-18 17:25:33 by Jose Fermoso in Gadget Lab
...Epicenter, including its new social features and tag-based functionality, as well as its last set-top box move, allowing movie rentals on Apple TV (before Apple announced their own direct service via iTunes at Macworld this week Before anybody gets too excited for the wrong reasons, it should be noted that Jaman primarily offers independent...
 
Tags: service, tivo, tivo box, amazon unbox service, jaman, tivo dvr, direct service, tivo users, international movies
 
 
 
 
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Switched On: PopCatcher teaches a new 'Pod old tricks (Part 1)

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2008-02-04 19:36:00 by Ross Rubin in Engadget
...epicenter of digital music acquisition. Portable players -- from last year's Sansa Connect to Archos Generation 5 players to the just-released Slacker Portable -- have only begun to break free from the PC's tether. Even these rely on broadband and WiFi for Internet service-based music discovery, making them pricey and relatively complex "poor...
 
Tags: popcatcher teaches, popcatcher, players, portable players, digital entertainment, mp3 players, radio, patient proto-playlist creators, terrestrial radio
 
 
 
 
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Synthetic Identity: 'The borrower who never was'

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2008-02-21 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...epicenter of identity theft and there's no pressure at this point to force them to make changes," he says The FTC has estimated that the no-hit phenomenon has created "tens of millions" more files in the credit bureaus' databases than there are actual consumers. It has said the bureaus don't routinely investigate these files, pointing to cost...
 
Tags: unpaid credit-card bills, credit, credit system lenders, credit-card fraud, credit card, credit charge-offs, produce credit histories, atm cards, cards