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| British engineer fights global warming using clouds, Scotland may actually rain harder You can probably say that the Simpsons already did it, but they certainly didn't go for the easier route to block the sun. Last weekend Professor Stephen Salter of Edinburgh University proposed his global warming solution to The Manchester Report conference: create clouds to cover the sea using cloudseeding ships. That's right, this weird looking vessel will suck up seawater and spray it into the atmosphere, thus creating low-level clouds that will reflect some sunlight back into the dark cold space. While it may sound like something that even a bunch of kids can do using their water pistols, the geoengineer pointed out that they need to "increase the reflectivity by about 3%" (i.e. they need to cover a huge area of the sea) in order to cancel out the "increased CO2 in the atmosphere". Now that we've warned you, don't bother calling the police when you see a huge fleet of these water-spraying yatchs in a few years' time.
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| Dear O2, stop screwing with us iPhone customers!
Listen up, O2! It's been two weeks since the iPhone tethering hack was widely spread across the webs, and by now you should've worked out that we don't like how you're treating us. Our iPhone friends in Hong Kong and Canada are somewhat luckier than us here in the UK, as their carriers are kind enough to allow iPhone tethering with no extra charge (even with unlimited data in Hong Kong). For us, however, we are given a greedy minimum £15 per month tethering package on top of our so-called unlimited data tariffs. As far as we can see it makes little sense for such extortionate charge.
O2's excuse is that "laptops and computers are far more data intensive than a mobile phone". Technically this is true, but no one's stopping them from blocking ports for P2P downloads and voice/video conferencing, and it's not hard to implement either! We'd be happy to tether just for the basic Internet needs, and most of us are sensible about this so don't treat us like kids, please. Even O2 admitted that as of 19th June they had yet to phone up anyone regarding breach of fair use policy (before charging or disconnecting them if they maintain such behaviour).
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| Nice try, Nigerian scammer, but I still sold my iPhone 3G in the end
The Nigerian scammers have learned little over the last few years, as they are still using the same old tricks to con us into sending valuable items to their African soil. With a shy 247 feedbacks (100% positive!), I have seen enough dirty tricks on eBay to spot a scammer straight away, but this latest case is a pretty interesting one, and I would like to share it with you all as a warning:
As most of you would know, I had recently purchased the new iPhone 3GS to replace my then-three-week-old iPhone 3G, and naturally I put the latter on eBay soon after I had completed comparison reviews. Three days later I was surprised to see that it was sold for £310 (I was only expecting about £280), but soon I got this worrying eBay message from the winner:
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| OCZ steps up the game, adds one extra year of SSD warranty
I've always been a bit skeptical about the reliability of SSDs, even in this day and age. However, "after extended performance in the field and extensive testing", OCZ recently showed some silicon balls and added an extra year to the two-year warranty of their premium Vertex Series and Summit Series SSDs. Hell, they even offered this generous extension to current owners.
Also, according to HKEPC.com, OCZ responded to the unofficial Core Series Version 2 SSD firmware circulated around the Internet, claiming that some owners have managed to permanently damage their SSDs with them, and OCZ will not service such damages. Owners should get their goodies from OCZ's drivers page instead: http://www.ocztechnology.com/drivers/
Still, we are no closer to the utopia where SSDs are actually affordable by the mass.
OCZ warranty extension: [Read]
OCZ responds to unofficial SSD firmware: [Read]
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