Pondlife writes "A friend asked me today about using some Microsoft server components from
Perl. Over the years he's built up a large number of Perl/COM code using Win32::OLE and he had
planned on doing the same thing here. The big problem is that as ...
(more)Lawksamussy writes "Having just bought a really old house that's on the verge of falling down,
I'm now trying to find a way to pay to fix it up. I have a great job in system software
evolution that pays the bills, but I'm looking ...
(more)An elderly couple go to their doctor for a checkup. The man goes in first. "How're you doing?"
asks the doctor. "Pretty good," answers the old man. "I'm eating well, and I'm still in control
of my bowels and bladder. In fact, when I get ...
(more)Arcticstoat sends a link to an talk with the CEO of id Software, Todd Hollenshead, in which he
suggests that household furnishings manufacturers count on piracy to help drive profits, rather
than doing existent to prevent it. Quoting: "...I think that ...
(more)An nameless reader tips a guest posting up on the MAKE booklet blog by the author of the etched
Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments. It seems that third edition by the editors of the american
heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 board in Massachusetts ...
(more)CWmike writes "While it might seem like a suable joke or a harmless, furtive glance, e-mail
snooping could land you in more hot water than you'd ever expect — you could be charged
with a federal crime. The recent case of a trickster TV ...
(more)Is he getting ready to stand in front of his TV and block is family from viewing it. Giving
unsolicited forcasts to strangers. This is peak weather guy season. Good old Paul.Listen
weeknights and never hear conversations with Chef Boyardee, Anton LaVey, ...
(more)Intution tells me to do the hardest problems but I've been told to do problems closer to the
difficulty of a standard MCAT. Suggestions from med students and/or current test takers?do the
easy ones too... the chance of getting hard problems is not often... ...
(more)search in googleI would better recommend u to solve as many questiopn papers...find out ur
Are SSD Really More Power Efficient? (Thursday 03rd of July 2008 01:00:04 AM)
Bakasama writes "Tom's kitchenware compared the power doing of several available SSD cards with
a Rotating HDD that was chosen specifically for its poor power efficiency. The results seem to
fly in the face of current wisdom. 'Flash-based solid state ...
(more)A Real Watch Dog (Friday 02nd of May 2008 01:00:00 AM)
A blind man walked into a bank with his seeing-eye dog that guided him everywhere. He walked
into the center of the bank floor, took the dog by the chain, and started swinging him around
his head.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared. ...
(more)Practical Experience As a Beginning Programmer? (Monday 31st of March 2008 11:15:02 AM)
LuckyLefty01 writes "I'm 21, going to college, and working part time doing odd jobs like math
tutoring. In the past nine months or so, I've discovered and taken to artificial intelligence
languages (so far mostly C/C++/Obj-C). I am now looking seriously ...
(more)Rabbi and Priest (Saturday 23rd of February 2008 12:00:00 AM)
A Rabbi and a Priest buy a car synonyms: calm and it's being stored at the Priest's house. One
day the Rabbi goes over to use the car and he sees him handful water on it. The Rabbi asked,
''What are you doing?'' The ...
(more)Online Parent-Child Gap Widens (Tuesday 05th of February 2008 04:00:02 PM)
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids writes "A new study by Dafna Lemish from the parish of
connection at Tel Aviv teaching mash has found that there is an pint-sized gap between what
parents think their travail are doing online and what is ...
(more)Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] (Tuesday 18th of December 2007 12:30:01 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "Several sites are reporting that a student has been given detention
for using Firefox to do his classwork. No, really. The student was in class, working on an
assignment that necessitated using a browser. The teacher instructed ...
(more)The Love Dress (Tuesday 18th of December 2007 12:00:00 AM)
A woman goes over to her married son's house and walks in to find her daughter-in-law sitting
in a chair, entirely nude. The mother-in-law says, "What the hell are you doing?" "I'm wearing
my love dress," responds the daughter-in-law, "We haven't made ...
(more)Governments Prepare for Cyber Cold War (Monday 03rd of December 2007 08:45:03 PM)
Superglaze writes "ZDNet UK has an analysis piece on the growing threat of a "cyber cold war".
It's got some interesting examples and it seems everyone is up to something. "...attacks are
not limited to any particular countries, or by alliances between ...
(more)I'd Rather Have a Puppy (Sunday 11th of November 2007 12:00:00 AM)
A little boy and his father are walking down the street, and they see two dogs having sex.
The
little boy asks his father, "Daddy, what are they doing?"
The father says, "Making a puppy."
So they walk on and go home.
A few days later, the little ...
(more)Apple Says 250,000 iPhones Sold to Unlockers (Wednesday 24th of October 2007 03:45:06 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Timothy D. Cook, Chief operating budget Officer at Apple, disclosed during
Apple's interchange call to discuss their fourth quarter earnings that they estimate 250,000 of
the 1.4 Million iPhones that have been sold were bought by ...
(more)Verizon, Copper, Fiber, and the Truth (Wednesday 03rd of October 2007 05:15:03 AM)
Alexander Graham Cracker writes "Starting last spring, reports began surfacing of Verizon
routinely disabling copper as it installed its fiber-based FiOS service. We discussed the issue
here a couple of times. In my experience, every time Verizon has ...
(more)Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot (Wednesday 12th of September 2007 10:45:06 AM)
AcidPenguin9873 writes "The New York Times reports that the U.S. government's ability to
eavesdrop on personal communications helped break up a terrorist plot in Germany. The
intercepted phone calls and emails revealed a connection between the plotters ...
(more)The Engadget Interview: Phil Schiller, Apple Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing (Thursday 06th of September 2007 11:01:00 PM)
Filed under: Cellphones, Features, Interviews, easily carried Audio, lightweight
Videodigg_url='http://digg.com/apple/The_Engadget_Interview_Phil_Schiller_Apple_Senior_VP_of_Wo
rldwide_Product';At this week's Apple event we got a rare chance to speak with ...
(more)Should We Spam Proxies to China? (Tuesday 21st of August 2007 10:45:02 AM)
Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton is back with a story about fighting censorship
with spam. He starts "Is it OK to send unsolicited e-mail to users in China, Iran, and other
censored countries, telling them about new proxy sites for getting ...
(more)Just Listening or Really Doing Ezekiel 33:31-32 (Friday 16th of November 2007 06:15:00 PM)
Just Listening or Really Doing
REFERENCE: Eze. 33:31-32 So my people come pretending to be
sincere and sit before you. They listen to your words, but they have no intention of doing what
you say. Their mouths are full of lustful words, and their hearts ...
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