Pwn The Net

It’s about time that people take the power back from our corporate overlords, especially the oil industry. This guy has figured out how to create energy cheaply. He has created a solar engine. He takes a Fresnel lens and focuses sunlight on a Sterling engine and presto! Check out how he does it in this [...]

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Turning household items into weapons = Awesome. These guys figured out how to turn a household vacuum cleaner into a bazooka. The best part is how they justify the experiment:
“The experiment illustrates low pressure incredibly well, which can be a deadly element in weather systems. Low pressure systems generally bring rain, cyclones or hurricanes. Perhaps [...]

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In the 1940s there was a rush by the US to patent the Atomic Bomb. WTF!
“Was the United States planning to sue the Germans if they built the bomb first?”
I don’t think patent law would supersede war, but apparently the lawyers didn’t agree.
NPR has a nice article on the rush to patent the atomic bomb [...]

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If you have ever tried to share large files online you have probably found it cumbersome. Two sites that I am familiar with using are Mega Upload and Rapid Share, and both of them blow ass.
The sites take your downloaders hostage…
The sites first bombard your visitors with ads. Not just any ads either: porn, [...]

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Why does it help to push the buttons harder on the remote control when the batteries are about to go dead?
Today I was playing around with a laser pointer and I could tell that the batteries were dying. How could I tell?  Because I had to push the button down harder to get it to [...]

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