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Can pure* water be made to fluoresce if illuminated by some particular frequency of Ultra-Violet light ? [* No chemicals added ]

Surface features on Pluto become visible ... http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/06/25/pluto_north_pole_bright_spot_getting_clearer.html'][/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/06/25/pluto_north_pole_bright_spot_getting_clearer.html'][/PLAIN] Photo by...

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/intervalometer shows new intervalometers between $10-$20

The magic-word is "intervalometer" ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervalometer If the camera has a remote-shutter-release, there may be an aftermarket intervalometer you can use.

The Windows "PE" on Hiren's CD isn't legal ... http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/464504/hirens-not-allowed/#entry2800130

They don't have to guess passwords : it is possible to be redirected to a fake-version of the login-page where you input the password : it's called phishing ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing#Website_forgery [ Having said that , in the past Hotmail has been hacked behind-the-scenes...

In that screen-grab, Java , (which is not the same a JavaScript), is disabled by default : you have to give your permission for it to run, so is not a vulnerability if you only allow it to run on sites you trust. However your Flash addon is "always activate", so Flash is a vulnerability. If you...

The [crypto]malware can be delivered via a drive-by-download when browsing webpages which include features which use JavaScript or Adobe Flash. The NoScript browser-addon , [free] , can block that sort of thing , [ it reduces the attack surface ]. Such blocking software is a useful addition to...

If the files have actually been encrypted then realistically the encryption cannot be broken. [ even the police can't crack it ]. Paying the ransom does not guarantee they will provide decryption, even if the criminals do enable decryption, they could exploit you again in the future if you...

Windows own-brand antivirus is usually near the bottom of the league-table, see ... http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/ Having said that Windows own-brand uses less computer resources [ CPU & memory ] than its competitors, and it's free.

Windows-Defender and McAfee antivirus will both do real-time scanning, they could compete/conflict with each other and slow your computer, ( you should disable real-time scanning in one of them), see ...

Thanks Ryan. According to my one hit on Google the tick is not a "unique" case : the other species mentioned was "spirostomium minus", a single-celled thingy. [ published in 2003 ]. The claim I heard was pathogenic bacteria exist in human mitochondria, (not symbiotic as in the tick) , and...

I heard a claim bacteria can exist within human mitochondria, is there any evidence that is true ?. mitochondria"']https://www.google.com/search?q="bacteria+within+mitochondria"[/URL] only gets one hit, and the examples given are not human.

I believe a factory reset is the same as reinstalling the operating system. Doing that will then require downloading & reinstalling years of updates [Gigabytes of data] , which will take many hours.

IIRC Windows 8 comes with free own-brand antivirus/antimalware called Windows "Defender" ... http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/using-defender#1TC=windows-8 You could try a full scan of your hard-drive using defender to see if it finds any malware*, that could take a couple of hours...