ReconRat

me no have those apps either. But now downloading TrustGo anti virus. It's all hype anyway. It's difficult to run into and download an android virus. But yes, somebody does, I'm sure.

Website of photos of aurora borealis taken in Michigan: http://michpics.wordpress.com/category/northern-lights/ Time lapse video from Eastern Michigan:

If careful, I could get there in one day, and not come back till rested up. I suppose that's the idea when trying to catch an Aurora Borealis event. There would only be a one or two day warning in advance. Direct on freeway would be 781 mi, 13.75 hr, average one way. Crossing the Mackinaw Bridge. Worst case would be to give up at Mackinaw City and stay there. I laid out a 1000 mile iron butt that direction a couple of years ago. Didn't do it. The easiest roads with the minimum traffic from Columbus would be up to the top of the lower Michigan peninsula and back in 24 hours.

I'd be dead meat twice if I tried that...

There's not much engineering on standard construction like this. It's mostly tried and true methods and design from previous successful construction. Maybe some change was not integrated correctly, but it's too soon to guess. I'd lean toward bad fasteners or an unexpected change in material strengths somewhere. The guys that buck rivets in large beam constructions are not amateurs. They generally work as a team that has experience. I'm sure that will be checked also. The temperature of the heated rivets is critical for strength.

Looks like motor control of her left arm isn't quite right. A man in France was recently found with nearly no brain at all. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors.html And I don't find info on it, but years ago in Australia, a man in distress was found wandering along the road. He eventually died, but he had no brain at all when they looked. I don't think they ever figured out who he was or how he could live that way or how it happened. The x-ray showed only the stump at the top of the spine, with some nerve endings spreading out, and no grey or white matter of the brain.

it says "something they ebdnulis" (the second word only translates as unknown/phonetic) I'd have to ask a friend that speaks Russian and would know words not in the dictionary And it's Russian, I've probably got it all wrong, heh.

Cincinnati: http://s3.amazonaws.com/newscloud-production/newscloudcms/2012/01/4f22df507fd0dc19d20000b4/photos/1029764/original.jpg?1327685525 Cleveland: http://media.cleveland.com/metro/photo/10493585-large.jpg Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling about going in a poorly built casino full of people... or not. edit: In the Cincinnati pic: I-beam shear rivets failed. They... well... they sheared... nice design. You can see where the middle horizontal I-beam simply fell to the ground. The Cleveland pic it appears something pretty much the same happened. A center I-beam dropped. edit: How would that happen. Assuming that proper strength rivets were used, the rivet has to fully form in the drilled holes (properly lined up drilled holes). If it does not, then a tiny spot on top of the rivet in the hole, takes the full load and it starts to break/crack. You need both experienced riveters and good inspectors. As usual, about three things have to go wrong before you'll get a major disaster/failure. The rivets might not have been strong enough, giving it the third wrong.

Most aviation maintenance manuals indicate basic danger zones. Which will vary a bit with different types of aircraft. A military engine running afterburner at takeoff has a large and nasty zone to the rear in both temperature and wind speed. I can't find the blast and temp danger maps I remember seeing, so here is some Canadian aviation info: Typical commercial danger zones: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ol1kEjVRTt4/TUWEn0wD9JI/AAAAAAAAAAs/p86DNCPD_HU/s400/Picture1.png http://www.tc.gc.ca/media/images/ca-publications/air1_7en.gif Notice the jumbo jet 1600ft danger area to the rear during takeoff. I drove past the airport one night (in a van) and boom, I got knocked out of the right lane into the left. I look back and some goof mechanic had a small twin jet backed up at the fence, and running one engine at a part throttle test.

Since I like weird science... Wait, what? They said what? amplified the laser light 200 million times a billion to 10 billion times brighter than any previous x-ray source 2-million-degree Celsius on a target (3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit — hotter than the sun’s corona) required input of 200 billion megawatts for a few millionths of a nanosecond similar to attempts in the 1980s to build ultrahigh-power x-ray lasers to shoot down nuclear missiles roughly the power output of a small country sounds like a weapon of the future, but it's really meant to be an x-ray microscope of matter at the atomic and sub atomic level. But it's possible weapons like this already exist. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/physicists-squeeze-x-ray-laser-l.html?ref=hp http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/laser-3-million-degrees/ Stanford Press Release https://news.slac.stanford.edu/press-release/scientists-create-first-atomic-x-ray-laser

This article is missing a few things. Like Megaupload was already suing Universal Music Group over blocking of the MegaBox, and blocking of YouTube that Megaupload was using. So if it looks like the music industry is afraid of independent artists producing and easily selling their own music, they probably are. Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a “Rogue Label”Megaupload to Universal: You’ve Got Some Explaining To Do

Yeah, I saw that too. Different source, but still just incredible.

Yeah, if you like his pics, there's more here: http://www.arcticphoto.no/ He's lucky he lives way far North, and can see that stuff nearly every night. Far enough North that it's night close to half a year... And here is a rare red white blue aurora from Nori Sakamoto on Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/108851026326071355993/posts

Squirrels don't live in palm trees? Let's set the record straight, there's one living in a palm tree behind my parent's place in Florida. And making a mess, of course...

Just read an Apple iCloud article. Sounds like most cloud sharing allows sharing with friends, relatives, etc. But iCloud so far hasn't said anything, so currently it's no sharing. iCloud is also currently limited to compatible Apple product files only. Although they've just released an API for everyone else to "be compatible". some files like PDF, might never be usable in the iCloud.

If you haven't noticed yet. Today and tonight, most of the download websites have shut down, or changed, or started deleting files and accounts. An article here at TorrentFreak: Cyberlocker Ecosystem Shocked As Big Players Take Drastic Action And a list from another source: MegaUpload Closed. FileServe Deleting multiple files. Closed affiliate program. FileJungle (Owned by FileServe) Deleting multiple files. Testing out blocking some USA IP addresses. UploadStation (Owned by FileServe) Deleting multiple files. Testing out blocking some USA IP addresses. FileSonic Sharing disabled. Closed affiliate program. Deleting files and accounts. VideoBB Closed affiliate program. Uploaded.to Banned USA IP addresses. FilePost Started suspending accounts with infringing material (doing what Hotfile did) VideoZer Closed affiliate program. 4shared Deleting multiple files. Wupload Many accounts disabled. East European & former Soviet Union countries based file sharing services are working as usual :-)

I noticed Verizon stuff showing up late or out of order this morning. Weirdness. Back to it, the solar flare portrait captured in ultra-violet wavelength: (That's the flare in the upper right, where it's really bright.) http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=23&month=01&year=2012 Here's the impact of the previous smaller flare, that hit yesterday. http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=BjAcrn-JAcrgensen-s_1201_4987_1327280066.jpg

Occasionally, the "charged particles" headed toward Earth conspire, and gather in a strike force package, and attempt to hit something worthy and destroy it. This seldom works, but hitting the power lines in New York years ago was priceless. Nothing more fun than an entire major metro blacked out for several days...

OOPS! Apparently the snow plow on a motorcycle is a valid concept....

Cloud computing is about control of media distribution. Just my opinion I suppose.

Filesonic is gone. No longer available from the USA. edit: Filesonic no longer exists... Uploaded.to says no longer available in the USA. Unibytes gives an error. People think it's blocking USA. The question is how well will cloud computing work if it gets shut down? heh...

VOM time. Trace till it's found. Both sides? Jumper past the flasher relay to see if they light up? Or jump 12v into the circuit at places to see where they light up and where they don't... edit: use alligator clips or similar for heat sinks on the diode leads when soldering. You get a few more seconds that way before they are damaged.

I went into a history class at work to fix some classroom computer thing. But something about the teacher caught my attention. I had to turn back and look, and I said "You're Special Forces, aren't you?" He was. Not past tense, but forever present tense. Retired Army Special Forces, teaching history to college students. I say he can teach whatever he wants, show any movie he wants. Ok by me.

Chemistry set complete with glow in the dark radioactive compounds. I don't think mine had the radioactive stuff, but I went and got some radium from the hardware, muhahahaha. No explosives, yeah... took only a trip to the library to fix that... These were free when you bought rocket kits... I liked rocket kits... Most of the toys were made of metal or wood. There wasn't much plastic around...

I'll echo what vf1000ride said. It's really easy to walk into a prop, even when you know better. A prop can even hypnotize people into walking into them. They are quite dangerous and must always be treated with respect.