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Telic didn’t know what to do next. The barn was gone. Not gone with splinters everywhere,
hinting that there was once a barn. This was gone like it had been edited out. Nothing left but
dirt.
The sun was setting, and the cows were wandering back, the first few lowing in confusion.
It wasn’t a big farm. A few dozen cows, twice as many chickens, and a family of German
Shepherds who maintained order. Now it was an even smaller farm, lacking what had been its
largest building.
He turned to look at the farmhouse, hoping it was still there, and secretly fearing it would not
be. Reassured by its lack of absence, a memory clicked, and he remembered his grandfather telling
stories about the war. Everyone called it the “Reality War”, because calling it
“World War Five” or “Interplanetary War One” didn’t quite cover it.
Yes, it had affected everyone on Earth, plus the lunar and martian colonies. But it wasn’t
a war of tanks and missles. It was a war of technology. Computer virii seemed harmless enough
until 2,000 people died when the life support on their dome on Mare Crisium went spastic. Half of
them cooked, the other half froze. Once the temperatures reached either 50C or -50C, the system
lowered the air pressure to 50 Pascals.
Then came the nanotech. Microscopic, general-purpose assemblers. Powered by low-dose microwaves,
they were like a miracle. They worked better as air pressure decreased, so the first big use was
going to be expanding our presence on Mars.
200 cubic meters of them were packed onto a rocket. During the count down, an alarm sounded. An
access hatch at the top of the payload area was open. At the same time, a TV satellite started
transmitting power and instructions to the nanobots. In hours, the entire launch facility was
gone.
The war had begun. No one knew (or at least no one said) who was behind each attack. For all the
news said, it could be rival internet gangs.
The war ended a few years later with millions of casualties and a newfound respect for computer
security experts. The UN unanimously agreed that using software to kill people was just as
offensive as using nuclear weapons. There would be no forgiveness for next time.
Despite the difficulty in determining who had launched which attacks throughout the war, this
somehow worked. Life got back to normal.
Some people wanted to get away from technology, including Telic’s grandfather. He had been
an accountant all his life, and was hired by the US government as part of a team that generated
economic forecasts for various attack scenarios. By the time the war was over, he was tired of
seeing the damage done, even if it was mostly on paper.
So he bought this farm in Northern California and settled down.
Recalling the history brought clarity, and Telic knew what his next step should be. Slowly
walking back to the house, he plugged in and fired up the old hardened laptop his grandfather had
left in a box marked “Justin Case”. No one named Justin had come by looking for it,
so like many things in disused corners of a farmhouse, it sat there until needed.
The laptop finished booting, and one of the folders on the desktop was named “nano”.
After a few minutes of reading, Telic knew a lot more about the war. Which side he was on, and
where he was headed with a small package and an old microwave oven.
You know steampunk has gone mainstream when it seeps into academic institutions... I recently was
given a steampunk assignment in one of my sculpture/metalworking classes, so I modded a vintage Kenmore sewing
machine with some spare parts from Phoenix's favorite junk shop, Apache
Reclamation. The propellers on the drive wheel and thread spool spin when the machine is
running.
This piece as well as many, many others will be on display at First Studio in downtown Phoenix
this friday, December 5 as part of a steampunk show put on by Arizona State University.
ASU's evening of Steampunk
Friday, December 5, 6-10pm (part of the First Friday art walk)
First Studio
631 N. 1st Ave. Phoenix
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pAs the newspaper industry's prospects darken, and rounds of buyouts and layoffs have left little
room for more cuts, The McClatchy Company (a
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title="MNI"NYSE: MNI/a) is joining with the non-profit iChristian Science Monitor/i on sharing
foreign news coverage on a trial basis. The trial will last for three months and then the two will
evaluate whether the combo worked. The exchange will involve two iCS Monitor/i correspondents, one
in New Delhi and the other in Mexico City, and two McClatchy foreign correspondents in Nairobi and
in Caracas. The arrangement comes two months after McClatchy said it would a
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of the state's largest dailies came together to pool resources. Now, the
three—Tribune Company's iThe Sun Sentinel/i, McClatchy's iThe Miami Herald/i,
and Cox's iThe Palm (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=PALM"
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Pakistan-based terrorists were plotting attacks against Mumbai targets.
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Just picked up this game. It's a ton of fun and definitely unlike anything out there in iphone
games. However there is a certain learning curve to get all the tricks down and it is kinda weird
to be constantly looking down instead of forward like in real world skating.
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Textbook of Psychodiagnostic Chirology. br / quot;As seen here, we cannot point to anything in
these prints which establishes genius. Nevertheless, what very markedly differentiates Einstein's
hands from what we normally find in any general population is the length of the fingers relative to
the size of the palm. The fingers, considered collectively, are short to an extreme.Short fingers
speak of marked intuitive faculties and the tendency to visualize reality as an extention of
subjectively defined probabilities. In its worst expression we would find the damaging effects of
prejudices and most every other manner of cognitive dissonance. In its best expression we would
find a vital inventiveness, critical insights and a very creative expansion of meaning of acquired
information.quot;
pWith the government pledging to help rightsholders clamp down on illicit P2P file-sharing, digital
rights groups have more than a few concerns about how this might work. The music industry loves the
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I know the soft unlock isnt available yet...but what would be the advantage of a hard unlock vs a
soft unlock, and vice versa
I kind of think a hard unlock is safer for the phone cuz you're not really messing with any
programming codes. But I'm assuming that a soft unlock would probably work better. It seems like a
hassel though when you need to update the firmwire
Also, quick question...would those turbo sim-type hard unlock work for at&t (i.e. with a
non-iphone, normal at&t sim card)
Is it TV sweeps week? Usually taunting the Apple community is a surefire way to to get a traffic
spike as the faithful rush to defend their choice of computer. (Fair disclosure: I use a Mac and
have had one since they first came out :-)
Here is a very funny episode of The Simpsons: "Mypods and Boomsticks," courtesy of Hulu (my
apologies to my non-US readers - you would need a US proxy to view the episode.)
Ever wonder what happens to old subway cars when subway lines upgrade to newer trains? In Beijing
at least, the ones used pre-Olympics have been shipped to Sichuan and converted into temporary
winter...
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height="371" / Ever wonder what happens to old subway cars when subway lines upgrade to newer
trains? In Beijing at least, the ones used pre-Olympics have been shipped to Sichuan and converted
into temporary winter shelters. Ten DK-16 trains, each with six cars, are now in Guangyuan, a city
north of Sichuan's capital Chengdu./p pimg
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they're an ingenious way to deal with the terrible problem of the thousands left homeless by the
earthquake, while making sure older subway models don't end up in a landfill somewhere. Altogether,
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The holiday season is upon us, and the Boss is like Santa Claus - the gift that keeps on
givin’. This week, he unleashes another new song from his upcoming release ‘Working
on a Dream’. This one’s called “My Lucky Day”.
Bruce Springsteen’s new song “My Lucky Day” - from the album ‘Working on
a Dream’ (January 27 / Columbia Records) — will be available on AmazonMP3 and MySpace
Music for one week starting today.
Additionally, Amazon.com, Inc. and MySpace today exclusively debuted the music video for
“My Lucky Day,” the first time that the two sites have collaborated on streaming
video. Fans can visit the Amazon Bruce Springsteen Artist Store,
http://www.amazon.com/brucespringsteen, and the MySpace Bruce Springsteen Artist Profile page,
http://www.myspace.com/brucespringsteen, to watch the video and download the new single. As an
added bonus, fans can also check out an extra two-minutes of behind-the-scenes footage of Bruce
Springsteen and the E Street Band preparing to record the song.
Springsteen’s new album ‘Working on a Dream’ has been set for January 27
release on Columbia Records. ‘Working on a Dream’ was recorded with the E Street Band
and is the fourth collaboration between Springsteen and Brendan O’Brien, who produced and
mixed the album.
Well.. I'm fairly new to Macs. I used a PC my whole life, and switched over about 2-3 months ago
when I purchased my MacBook Pro. On my PC, I download winrar to unzip files. But I noticed that
winrar is a windows program, and I don't know which program I would use for my Mac.
I was under the impression that with Macs, when you download a file they automatically unzip
themselves (silly me :_P haha). So if anybody can help me out, I would appreciate it. I hope I'm
not too much of a pain in the butt.
Nokia Siemens Networks claims to have staged the first demonstration of LTE-A (long term
evolution-advanced) wireless broadband technology, a future evolution of today's 3G networks that
could deliver speeds up...
I just upgraded my HD in my early 2008 MBP from 200GB to 320GB. I would like to put the old 200GB
HD in my late 2007 Mac Mini. This should fit, from what I understand.
What I'd like to know is, how to I restore my mini data onto the already-used hard drive? I have a
current time machine backup and the leopard disks. But once I stick in that 200GB drive I'm going
to get what looks like my MBP popping up on the screen. Do I need to format that drive? Disk
Utility doesn't seem to want to make that too easy (understandably so).
I don't want to get an external enclosure. There has to be a way for this to work!
Did a test this morning to see how long the battery would last. Had a full charge to start. Running
Firefox (pretty constant browsing with a few breaks) and Mail. Airport turned on. Set Powersave to
not allow the computer or screen to sleep. Turned brightness to about 2/3rds.
Result: 4 hours 45 minutes
This is best case since I wasn't doing much to exercise the disk, but not bad.
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