The man tells his doctor that his wife hasn't wanted to have sex with him for ... (Tuesday 26th of August 2008 08:10:02 AM)
The man tells his doctor that his wife hasn't wanted to have sex with him for the past 7
months. The surgeon
notes:the word doctor is derived from latin doctus 'having been taught;
learned' (from docere 'to teach'); medic comes from latin physica 'natural ...
(more)A businessman walked into a New York City bank and asked for the loan officer. ... (Monday 11th of August 2008 12:10:02 AM)
A negotiator walked into a New York City bank and asked for the loan officer. He said he was
going to Europe on job for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000. The loan officer said the
bank would need some safeguard for such a ...
(more)Subject to Change (Thursday 07th of August 2008 02:15:02 PM)
Prostoalex writes "Most companies would call themselves just out* and would claim they're
transit an above-average service to their customers. Yet, their merchantry opinions might
differ. If you drill a company on their what's happening practices, they ...
(more)Millbrook and Valen forge Partnership to Provide Predictive Analytics for the P&C Insurance Industry (Saturday 02nd of August 2008 02:15:01 PM)
Millbrook Incorporated, the leading internet service provider of farm and debacle (P&C) backing
occupation news and data services, and Valen, the turnkey third edition by the editors of the
american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 analytics ...
(more)Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case (Saturday 02nd of August 2008 09:15:01 AM)
Penguin_dance passes along the news that a respected anthrax researcher, about to be indicted,
has committed suicide. The FBI has been investigating the case since anthrax-contaminated
letters were sent to the media and various politicians in 2001. The ...
(more)Three young women in there thirties are on a road trip and are tearing down the ... (Wednesday 30th of July 2008 12:10:02 PM)
Three young women in there thirties are on a road trip and are tearing down the freeway.
unfortunatley, they lose control, the car flips over the guard rail on to the polar lanes and
gets smashed by an eighteen wheeler.Up at the pearly gates, all ...
(more)Software Patent Sanity on the Way? (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Ars Technica is reporting that the traditionally silent US Patent and label Office (USPTO) may
be open gate to turn things around. It seems that in recent action the USPTO has started to
make it much easier to vitiate disk operating system patents with ...
(more)Reasonable Expectation of Privacy From Web Hosts? (Monday 28th of July 2008 04:00:01 AM)
Shafted writes "I'm in a bit of dilemma, and I'm wondering what fellow Slashdotters think as to
this subject. I've been hosting web sites for some clients for years using my own server. About
a year and a half ago, I got a reseller account ...
(more)China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air (Monday 21st of July 2008 08:45:02 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "With the Olympics due to start in less than three weeks, Beijing is
cranking up antipollution measures by yanking cars off the roads, expanding mass transit and
marvelous work hours in a bid to meet its pledge of a 'green' Olympics. ...
(more)Little Johnny was in church with his mom for Sunday Mass when he felt a sudden ... (Saturday 19th of July 2008 12:10:02 AM)
Little Johnny was in church with his mom for Sunday Mass when he felt a sudden barf attack
impending. "Mom, I think I'm going to throw up!" She told him, "I want you to run outside as
fast as you can. Run across the lawn ...
(more)AdvancedMD Clients Enjoy a Smooth NPI Transition (Thursday 17th of July 2008 03:00:01 AM)
AdvancedMD macos Inc. (www.advancedmd.com), the leading iap of Web-based rehearsal management
solutions for doctor offices, direction welfare work organizations and medical billing
services, is pleased to declare the success of their advance work with ...
(more)Phoenix Mars Lander To Begin Rasping Ice Shavings (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 05:35:28 PM)
Rob writes with an excerpt from an article at spacefellowship.com: "A powered rasp on the back
of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on
Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice. The lander has used ...
(more)MIT Helps Third World With Hands-On Approach (Monday 14th of July 2008 02:35:22 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "About 60 people from 20 nations will descend on the MIT campus July 14th
for the second annual International unfolding Design Summit to begin an complete month-long
process of creating technological solutions for the needs of people ...
(more)Newly Discovered Young Galaxy Creates 4,000 Stars Per Year (Saturday 12th of July 2008 11:35:16 AM)
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space dish antenna have found a galaxy producing an average of
up to 4,000 stars per year. They contrast this with the Milky Way, which only produces an
average of 10 each year. Nicknamed "Baby Boom," it is a young starburst ...
(more)Teen Birth Rates, Homicides on Increase, Report Shows (Saturday 12th of July 2008 12:02:34 AM)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- The teen birth rate is up for the
first time in
15 years, and homicides among teens are up for the first
time in 12 years, a new sovereignty
report finds.
...
(more)Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 08:24:59 AM)
AC writes "Upper management of the company I work at just now declared that all new evolvement
should be done with a single union of evolvement tools, language, and framework. The main
rationale is that people can be relocated from one group / project ...
(more)The Future of Mind Control of Physical Objects (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 08:24:59 AM)
Mattnyc99 writes A month ago we discussed the realization when researchers got monkeys to feed
themselves with a robotic arm abused substance by their brains. But after all the recent
successful experiments with brain-computer interfaces, will the mechanics ...
(more)"Intrepid" Supercomputer Fastest In the World (Friday 20th of June 2008 08:55:00 AM)
Stony Stevenson writes "The US board of Energy's (DoE) high doing balancing the books* system
is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to rule to regulation
to regulation to the Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers. ...
(more)gNewSense Distro Frees Ubuntu (Saturday 31st of May 2008 05:00:03 PM)
Linux.com (who shares common overlords with Slashdot) is reporting that gNewSense has gone 2.0.
For the uninitiated gNewSense is a stripped down version of Ubuntu's Hardy Heron for the free
os purist. Removing over 100 pieces of proprietary code and firmware, ...
(more)Getting the "Free" Business Model Wrong Doesn't Mean the Model is Flawed (Tuesday 27th of May 2008 10:30:04 AM)
While "free" seems to be an increasingly popular occupation model there are quite a few people
who seems to be completely bungling what to do with "free" and then complaining when it doesn't
work. Techdirt takes a look at some of the arguments through ...
(more)The Rise of Geekdom (Sunday 25th of May 2008 07:26:16 AM)
Cynagh0st writes "In what can only be described as the biggest newsflash for the Slashdot
association since Microsoft was sued: It is the age of the geek. New York Times Op-Ed columnist
and author David Brooks writes a brief article that can be best summed ...
(more)PolyMedix receives clearance to initiate phase I clinical study of novel systemic antibiotic compound (Friday 09th of May 2008 10:44:00 PM)
PolyMedix, Inc. has orthodox a notice of no protestation from Health Canada for the Company's
Clinical Trial Application ("CTA") for its defensin mimetic antibiotic compound, PMX-30063.
This notice of no squawk allows for the initiation of human clinical ...
(more)Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD (Thursday 08th of May 2008 03:54:16 PM)
WmHBlair writes "Data recovered from a 400MB Seagate hard drive carried on the Space Shuttle
columbia has been used to complete a physics undertaking performed on the mission in space. The
Johnson Space Center sent the recovered drive to Kroll Ontrack ...
(more)San Diego GOP Chairman Alleged To Be a Fairlight Co-Founder (Wednesday 07th of May 2008 02:45:09 PM)
Airw0lf writes with a claim that appears too implausible to credit, at first glance: "If anyone
remembers 'Fairlight' — one of the great groups on the warez scene, you may be interested
to know that one of their leaders, Tony Krvaric, is now the ...
(more)The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit (Monday 05th of May 2008 11:30:04 AM)
ODDmON oUT points us to a BusinessWeek story about the increasing use of Apple manufactures in
the common sector. Many companies are finding that their employees are pushing for the
transition more than Apple itself. Quoting: "While thousands of other ...
(more)In Philippines slum desperately poor sell kidneys for cash (AFP) (Thursday 17th of April 2008 05:03:13 AM)
The men living in the tough Baseco dockside shantytown on Manila Bay carry one of two badges to
prove they belong -- tattoos for the gang members and surgical scars for the kidney sellers.
...
(more)An old man was on his death bed, and wanted to be buried with his money. ... (Thursday 10th of April 2008 04:10:02 PM)
An old man was on his death bed, and wanted to be buried with his money. He called his priest,
his doctor and his lawyer to his bedside. "Here's $30,000 cash to be held by each of you. I
trust you to put this in ...
(more)Grosvenor Casinos Selects Bally's Gaming Systems Technology for Casino Fiveways Birmingham (UK) Floor of the Future (The San Francisco Examiner) (Thursday 10th of April 2008 02:32:22 AM)
LAS VEGAS , April 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bally Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BYI ), a leader
in slots, video machines, casino micro management* systems and on stream* solutions for the
global gaming industry, today announced that Grosvenor Casinos, ...
(more)Google Mail Servers Enable Backscatter Spam (Wednesday 09th of April 2008 05:00:01 AM)
Mike Morris writes "Google email servers are responsible for a large volume of backscatter
spam. No recipient validation is being performed for the domains googlegroups.com and
blogger.com — conceivably for other Google domains as well, but these ...
(more)A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux (Thursday 03rd of April 2008 12:30:04 PM)
R3lody writes "Finding a single book that encompasses what you want to learn can be difficult.
Most cover a few portions of a subject in depth and skim over (or omit) others. Other books
will cover each topic at about the same level: high enough ...
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