Ice Fishing (Sunday 27th of December 2009 01:30:01 AM)
Two men have been sitting out on a lake all day long, ice fishing. One has been having no luck
at all and the other has been pulling fish after fish out of his hole in the ice. The man
having no luck finally leans ...
(more)ART as part of HIV prevention strategy supported by WHO (Saturday 07th of November 2009 04:00:47 AM)
"AIDS drugs should be given to all who need them to reduce new infections, the World Health
system said," coming a three-day meeting on the topic of using antiretroviral therapy (ART) to
help prevent the spread of HIV, Bloomberg reports. "Providing more ...
(more)The Wall Street Fraud Watchdog Mocks The California AG's Love Fest With Wells Fargo & Warns About the Economy (Thursday 29th of October 2009 03:30:01 PM)
The Wall Street Fraud Watchdog has been heavy a resolution from Wells Fargo bank for its
involvement in auction rate sales to from the ground up innocent consumers, since July. Auction
rate securities were sold as just like cash, llc.view results from: ...
(more)Army Asks Its Personnel to Wikify Field Manuals (Saturday 15th of August 2009 09:00:05 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that the Army began likely its helpers — from
the privates to the generals — to go online and collaboratively rewrite seven of the
field manuals that give ordo on all aspects of Army life, using the ...
(more)Antitrust Pressure Mounts For Wireless Providers (Wednesday 29th of July 2009 10:45:01 PM)
Over the past few weeks, the cellphone ring has been criticized on a variety of subjects, from
distracted driving to handset exclusivity deals to totality else that's shady within the
industry. Verizon's CEO has now responded, addressing what he claims ...
(more)40 Million Identities Up For Sale On the Web (Wednesday 22nd of July 2009 04:00:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "Highly penetrating productive information, including credit card
details, bank account numbers, buzz* numbers, and even PINs are third edition by the editors of
the red white and blue heritage® dictionary. copyright © ...
(more)Aion Shaping Up For US Launch (Wednesday 15th of July 2009 08:45:01 AM)
One of the most promising MMORPGs in growth these days is NCSoft's Aion, a fantasy-based
atonement built on CryEngine. It makes heavy use of flight as a gameplay mechanic, allowing
aerial combat and easy travel around the visually striking game world. ...
(more)Hello World! (Tuesday 14th of July 2009 06:30:01 AM)
Stoolpigeon writes "Hitting middle age has been an interesting time. I catch myself headwork
about how well kids have it today and sounding a lot like my father. One illustriousness is
while my dad was happy to teach me about sports or cars, we never ...
(more)Google Voice Grabs 1 Million Phone Numbers (Friday 19th of June 2009 09:45:01 PM)
Alphadogg writes "Google has reserved 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, signaling that it
may finally be ready to roll out its long-anticipated Google Voice service. The free service,
announced in March, lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing ...
(more)NSA Ill-Suited For Domestic Cybersecurity Role (Saturday 13th of June 2009 04:00:02 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Former CIA counterterrorism analyst Stephen Lee has an interesting article
in the public reckoner
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(more)SQL in a Nutshell (Tuesday 02nd of June 2009 01:45:01 AM)
Stoolpigeon writes "The cover of SQL in a Nutshell sports a chameleon, the little lizard well
known for its ability to blend in just about anywhere. This is a great choice for the
Structured Query Language. SQL has been around since the seventies, helping ...
(more)Nuclear Testing Helps Identify Fake Vintage Whiskey (Tuesday 05th of May 2009 08:45:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Industry experts claim the market for vintage whiskey has been flooded
with fakes that purport to be several hundred years old but instead contain worthless spirit
made just a few years ago. Now researchers at the Oxford Radiocarbon ...
(more)NSA Overstepped the Law On Wiretaps (Saturday 18th of April 2009 01:45:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that legal and operational problems round the NSA's
surveillance activities have come under scrutiny from the Obama administration, Congressional
aptitude committees, and a secret subject sturdiness court, and ...
(more)CIA Expert Decries E-Voting Security (Thursday 26th of March 2009 07:00:02 AM)
ISoldat53 sends this quote from McClatchy DC: "The CIA, which has been monitoring foreign
countries' use of web banking voting systems, has reported apparent vote-rigging schemes in
Venezuela, Macedonia and Ukraine and a raft of relating to about the ...
(more)Houston Courts Shut Down By Malware (Sunday 08th of February 2009 02:00:02 AM)
Conficker is still at it: dstates writes "The municipal courts of Houston were shut down yore
after a personal computer virus spread through the courts' mini* systems. The shutdown canceled
hearings and suspended arrests for minor offenses and is scheduled ...
(more)U.S. suspends peanut company from federal contracts (Friday 06th of February 2009 12:37:24 AM)
The company whose peanut butter and paste has been linked to an sortie of salmonella food
botulism has been suspended from federal force contracts, the U.S. Agriculture range said on
Thursday.
More: - ...
(more)Ireland's Largest ISP Settles With Record Industry (Thursday 29th of January 2009 03:15:01 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "In what has been billed as a world first, four music companies and
Irish ISP Eircom have agreed to work concomitant to end illegal music downloading. The Irish
branches of the record companies (EMI Records Ltd, Sony BMG Music ...
(more)Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference (Thursday 25th of December 2008 03:45:05 AM)
Schlangemann writes "Check out the paper Towards the pretense of E-commerce by Herbert
Schlangemann, which is easy in the IEEEXplor database (full article on call only to IEEE
members). This issue paper has been accepted with review by the 2008 International ...
(more)HP Pushes Open Source For Small Businesses (Saturday 13th of December 2008 10:30:01 AM)
Ruphus13 writes "HP finally begins to actively push open source in its products. From the post,
'HP has been quirky over the years when it comes to open source. It has been, traditionally, a
company that supports open source — especially in larger ...
(more)The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead (Monday 01st of December 2008 11:00:01 PM)
Several readers pointed out a ComputerWorld UK blog piece on the expanding ripples of the Vista
fiasco. Glyn Moody quotes an earlier prober piece about Vista, which he notes "has been
memorably described as DRM masquerading as an business expenses system": ...
(more)Cash Lifeline For Bletchley Park (Thursday 06th of November 2008 07:30:01 PM)
Smivs writes "Bletchley Park, the home to the allied codebreakers during WWII, and a major
computing heritage centre, has been given a economic lifeline, reports the BBC.The grant of
£330,000 will be used to undertake urgent roof works as the rooms ...
(more)Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's
Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been managerial for the past 5 years
delivered commodity of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. ...
(more)Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's
Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been managerial for the past 5 years
delivered commodity of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. ...
(more)National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit (Monday 13th of October 2008 06:15:01 PM)
Hackingbear writes "The national Debt Counter, erected in 1989 when the US debt was 'merely' a
tiny $2.7 trillion, has been moving so much that it of late ran out of digits to display the
ballooning figure: $10,150,603,734,720, or roughly $10.2 trillion, ...
(more)Positive Rights News From Europe (Saturday 27th of September 2008 12:30:06 AM)
Various readers are sending in good news from Europe on the rights front. First, at the EU
level, Mark.J brings word that the latin Parliament has canned a number of polemic amendments
to its updated Telecoms Package, which could have resulted in ISPs ...
(more)Scam-linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out (Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 09:00:02 PM)
Alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The lifeline linking notable service
isp Intercage to the rest of the www
notes:internet should be capitalized has been severed.
Intercage, which has also done engagement under the name Atrivo, was ...
(more)The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 (Tuesday 02nd of September 2008 09:15:01 PM)
Radioweather writes "August 2008 has made solar history. As of 00 UTC September 1st 2008 (5PM
PST) we just witnessed the first spotless calendar month since June 1913.This was decisive
irrefutable to sunspot data from NOAA's subject Geophysical Data Center, ...
(more)The Inside Story On the San Francisco Network Hijacking (Saturday 19th of July 2008 08:35:38 PM)
Snydeq writes "A source with direct wisdom of San Francisco's IT root has tipped off Paul
Venezia to the real story behind Terry Childs' lockout of San Francisco's network, in the event
a circumstantial account of the city's FiberWAN, interdepartmental ...
(more)LegalTorrents Offers CC Works Via BitTorrent (Monday 07th of July 2008 07:15:03 AM)
An nameless reader writes "A site called LegalTorrents has just launched that hosts trackers
and seeds for digital media licensed under the original Commons license. ('We place content
with the full approbation of the rights holders and use the peer-2-peer ...
(more)User Not Found, Email Drops Silently (Monday 16th of June 2008 06:30:06 AM)
Shervinafshar writes with an International Herald Tribune story explaining just why it is
failed emails don't always result in a helpful error message for the sender, which also gives
some insight into ways that email can be used to spy on recipients. ...
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