Someone has a link to it here:

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Yes, that is the patch. My redirector is started and email is getting through.

A direct link to that patch:

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It makes sense that they would put out a patch quickly. They have had redirector problems for years, but when it starts disabling pop3 email, the most common non-web based protocol for email...

How did I miss this story?

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Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.

John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.

Holy crap.

Somebody was trying to sell this as a new energy source. Of course, the energy consumed by the radio (or microwave) is much more than the energy produced by the burning.

Somebody was trying to sell this as a new energy source. Of course, the energy consumed by the radio (or microwave) is much more than the energy produced by the burning.

Thermodynamics is a harsh mistress.

I get cranky when someone claiming to be a scientist says that the water was burning. No, it wasn't. You electrolyzed it into hydrogen and oxygen, and then you're burning the hydrogen (which converts it back into water). I can do the same thing with a couple of carbon electrodes wired to a D battery. I also have to wonder how come I've never found the hydrogen charred remains of a tea bag tag after nuking a cup of tea in the microwave.

Yeah, I wasn't saying holy crap on the water burning, but the radio frequencies making it release Hydrogen to burn. If it can be fine tuned with research, it's a whole different avenue than electrodes.

It suggests a possible new path to hydrogen production, and that's a good thing.

Yeah, I wasn't saying holy crap on the water burning, but the radio frequencies making it release Hydrogen to burn. If it can be fine tuned with research, it's a whole different avenue than electrodes.

True, but I really want to see someone else repeat the work in another lab before I get my hopes up. Cold fusion, anyone?

I can see where salt water might act as an antenna for radio waves. It's certainly conductive enough.

Gloomcookie, perhaps this might have the solution to your iPod cover art problem: [link] It's about Coverflow, but has instructions on getting cover art onto an iPod. I haven't looked at it in detail so I don't know what they're doing differently....

Odd question - for dial-up, obviously you have to have a phone line, but does it need to be active, i.e., have a dial tone?

for dial-up, obviously you have to have a phone line, but does it need to be active, i.e., have a dial tone?

If you need to dial, you'll need dial tone.