safety

  1. VIDEO Drunk Woman Almost Killed By Train

  2. Windows 7 Codemasters been hacked?

    Guy's check your email accounts. Today I received an email from codemasters: Keep safe!
  3. HP expands voluntary battery recall for laptops bought July 2007 to May 2008

    There have been a string of voluntary battery recalls affecting HP laptops purchased between July 2007 to May 2008, with models added to the list each year since May 2009. The first recall began with Link Removed due to 404 Error and was then expanded last year in May to cover an additional...
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    Wallet Strings

    I've recently started looking into this, because today I came so close to losing my wallet in the city (if it wasn't for something, I would not have noticed I left it somewhere) and when I googled ways to not let this happen, I've been reading about "wallet chains" but I'm not interested in...
  5. IMAGES New tactics for Fukushima after setback

    Japanese officials are readying a new approach to stabilizing a reactor at a nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami after discovering a leak from the containment vessel of enough radioactive water to fill an Olympic swimming pool. The discovery has forced officials to abandon...
  6. [BBC] Fukushima: What happened - and what needs to be done

    A month has elapsed since the emergency at Fukushima began. But what exactly has gone on there and what are the priorities now? One way of looking at the drama that has unfolded around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors is as a narrative with one central plot, and a number of...
  7. Windows 7 Chris Hawblitzel and Juan Chen: Introduction to Typed Assembly Language (TAL)

    Typed Assembly Language (TAL) extends traditional untyped assembly languages with typing annotations, memory management primitives, and a sound set of typing rules. These typing rules guarantee the memory safety, control flow safety, and type safety of TAL programs. Moreover, the typing...
  8. [TOTALLY] 91-year-old crime-fighter told to stay home at night

    New Zealand war veteran John Bray, who calls himself a modern-day Batman, is on the lookout for a sidekick – after being banned from going out and fighting crime alone at night. The 91-year-old served in a raiding unit in World War 2 and therefore considered himself more qualified to deal...
  9. Fukushima vs Chernobyl

    Japanese authorities have raised the severity rating of the nuclear crisis at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the highest level, seven. The decision reflects the ongoing release of radiation, rather than a sudden deterioration. Level seven previously only applied to the 1986...
  10. Japanese Plant Starts Installation of Filters

    TOKYO—A project to install air filters to reduce airborne radiation at the No. 1 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex began Monday, in a move aimed at allowing workers to enter the building for the first time since the start of the crisis to make needed repairs...
  11. ☛ 8-Year-Old Buys Loaded Gun At School For $3

    It should come as no surprise to any parent that kids will bring home the darnedest things. Whether it is a slimy toad or a sniffling cold, they'll certainly keep you on your toes. Those items, as irritating as they may be, however, pale in comparison to an item one New York child recently...
  12. VIDEO For those who haven't seen TwisterNederland's vids...(must see)

    These compilations are great. Fails are always good... And of course, the ones in charge of keeping the world safe... TwisterNederland, you are a compilation genius. Keep.....compilating??
  13. Yellow lines on pavement to show pedestrians where to walk

    Yellow lines are normally used to stop motorists parking on the road - but now they have been painted on a pavement in a town centre to show pedestrians where to walk. Two lines stretch for 100m (328ft) down a high street. Other yellow lines have been painted around trees, a post box and...
  14. Hypnotist being hunted in Russia for stealing cash from bank customers

    A real-life ‘evil hypnotist’ is being hunted down after sending at least eight elderly bank customers into trances and stealing their money. The crafty crook has been collecting cash from unaware victims in the south-western Russian city of Stavropol. It is thought that he has...
  15. Mom on Facebook sentenced in son's drowning death

    A northern Colorado woman who was playing a game on Facebook while her 13-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Shannon Johnson, 34, of Fort Lupton, cried as District Judge Thomas Quammen told her he didn't think she was a bad person or that she...
  16. Future planes to get a 'magic safety skin'

    Despite the popular perceptions of plane travel, it is a relatively safe way to travel, and the folks over NASA are hoping to make it even safer. They have awarded four different research teams a total of $16.5 million to work on safer and more fuel efficient planes. They may even be quieter...
  17. What does 'safe' mean in a nuclear disaster?

    The news out of Japan has not been good this week. Officials there raised the severity rating of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the highest level, while the plant continues to dump radiation into the air and water and radiation is found in milk and drinking water in...
  18. Toddler served margarita instead of apple juice in Applebee's mix-up

    US restaurant chain Applebee's has been forced to apologise after a toddler was served margarita mix in his beaker instead of apple juice. Fifteen-month-old Dominic Dill-Reese was found to have enough alcohol in his blood to be over the adult drink-drive limit when he was rushed to...
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    Windows 7 Internet Explorer 9 - InPrivate Filtering - HELP me please

    I don't have InPrivate Filtering SETTINGS in the Safety menu, so i can't import filtering rules or add urls to my filter list, it's really annoying. I saw screenshots of other people's IE9 safety menu, and they all have that setting. I've tried to uninstall-reinstall ie9, but i still don't have...
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    Airports and discs

    Hello I am sorry if my prefix is not accurate but I could not find whay applied to this brief question. I will be flying soon and would like to know if my container of discs(dvd + cd) is safe to carry on or store . I am referring to xray and magnetism in that erasures may occur. If it is safe to...