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December 29, 2004
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Quake that spawned huge wave may have altered Earth's rotation.

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Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake on Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or 3 millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.


LCOS TVs are too tough for the big players.

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The pictures from LCOS sets can be rich and bright. But as more than one technology giant has discovered, LCOS is also a black hole for investment cash.


The Feds convict the first warez pirate. Damn.

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The Department of Justice said that Desir will be the first American citizen convicted as part of the plan that was introduced by outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft in April 2004. Since the debut of Operation Fastlink, law enforcement investigators have conducted more than 120 searches in 27 states and 11 foreign countries, resulting in the identification of nearly 100 people considered by the investigation to be leaders or high-level members of international piracy organizations, according to the agency.


More than 100K viruses in 2004.

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The count of known viruses broke the 100,000 barrier and the number of new viruses grew by more than 50%. Similarly phishing attempts, in which conmen try to trick people into handing over confidential data, are recording growth rates of more than 30% and attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated.


This guy invented optical storage and got ntohing.

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"He, in my opinion, is really the father of the technology; he had the original ideas for optical-digital recording and I feel is the original inventor of the basic concepts that made it all come into being," said Marv Erickson, senior program manager at Battelle's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland.


Robot that uses flies and apples for power.

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Insect-sized aircraft could be possible in the future, says Professor Melhuish, "The biological fuel cell would have to be made into a soft system which might, in the future, be able to do some sort of movement at a small level, a small insect level."

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