Scammers Riding the Gustav Wave (Tuesday 02nd of September 2008 09:15:01 PM)
Ruphus13 sends in a sad tale of online scammers hoping to reap rewards from the misery in
Gustav's wake. They have been busy registering likely-sounding domains and setting up phishing
attacks and other ruses. While not all the domains were malicious ...
(more)There are four kinds of sex: ... (Saturday 30th of August 2008 08:10:02 AM)
There are four kinds of sex:HOUSE SEX: You and your spouse are newlyweds and you fuck all over
the house.BEDROOM SEX: You and your spouse have been married for a few years, have settled
down, and only fuck in the bedroom.HALL SEX: You and your ...
(more)Almost All Americans Believe They Are Safe Drivers, Yet Almost Three-Quarters Guilty of Distracted Driving, Finds Survey from Nationwide Insurance : ... (Tuesday 20th of May 2008 05:45:03 PM)
Nationwide security today released its second annual DWD (Driving While Distracted) study,
which found that, while 98 percent of Americans claim to be safe drivers, a vast majority also
admit to DWD. More than four out of five cell-phone owners are guilty ...
(more)Seeking Signs of Ancient Martian Life (Tuesday 13th of May 2008 08:15:03 PM)
StonyandCher writes in about a collaboration between NASA and a leading Australian inspection
and mining scientist, Dr. Brent McInnes, to search for signs of ancient life on Mars. The plan
is to develop and miniaturize the "Alphachron" — an examination ...
(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)Finance for Life, Premium Finance Industry Leader, Continues Getting Cases Funded Despite Industry Turmoil (Tuesday 15th of April 2008 10:10:22 PM)
In an possible shut down of several funding sources, it has been noted that as many as six
lenders have lost their funding sources or have had a delay in reception their funding. This
has caused a sudden and unexpected cessation of the ...
(more)Weak Rivets May Have Sped Sinking of Titanic (Tuesday 15th of April 2008 10:30:05 AM)
Pickens writes "Metallurgists opinion the hulk of the Titanic argue that the liner went down
fast after hitting an iceberg because the ship's builder used lousy rivets that popped their
heads and let tons of icy seawater rush in. They say that better ...
(more)A cowboy from Montana and a cowboy from California are on a sheep drive. ... (Saturday 05th of April 2008 04:10:02 AM)
A cowboy from Montana and a cowboy from California are on a sheep drive. They have been out for
weeks and have been pulling sheep out of the mud and working really hard. Eventually they come
across a sheep with her head stuck in the ...
(more)Has the Higgs Boson Particle Field Been Hiding in Plain Sight? (Friday 25th of January 2008 05:00:03 AM)
Sciencehabit writes with a link to the ScienceNow site, noting an article saying the Higgs
boson may already have been found in previous observations of the known universe. A theorist at
Michigan state is arguing that scientists may have already found ...
(more)DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble? (Thursday 24th of January 2008 03:45:12 AM)
Digitaldame2 writes "Many opponents of DRM have been overjoyed at recent efforts to free media
from its grip. But PC Mag Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff believes the whole world has gone mad.
His view is that our digital economy will collapse this way, ...
(more)The 12 Days of Christmas (Saturday 22nd of December 2007 12:00:00 AM)
December 14, 1972
My dearest darling John:
Who ever in the whole world would dream of
getting a real Partridge in a Pear Tree? How can I ever express my pleasure. Thank you a
hundred times for inasmuch as cap of me this way.
My love always, ...
(more)Android's "Non-Fragmentation Agreement" (Wednesday 14th of November 2007 01:30:15 AM)
Superglaze writes "The biggest doubt cast over Android (whose SDK was released yesterday) has
been the fact that much of it is licensed under Apache. There have been worries that
manufacturers might fork the code road in a non-interoperable kind of way. ...
(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)Storm Worm Being Reduced to a Squall (Monday 22nd of October 2007 12:30:04 AM)
Rumours of money schemes surrounding the botnet aside, PC World has an article that should
lower the blood pressure of some SysAdmins. The Storm Worm botnet is apparently shrinking. A
rocket techie* out of UC San Diego who has been tower the network has ...
(more)Ubuntu On Dell After Four Months (Tuesday 16th of October 2007 08:30:04 PM)
Mrcgran sends us to LXer for an examination with John Hull, a manager of the Linux social work
team at Dell, where he reports on how the Ubuntu machines have been working out for them so
far. "Embracing Ubuntu Linux on our desktops and laptops ...
(more)EA Denies DRM Problems With Sims 2 (Saturday 13th of October 2007 06:00:02 PM)
Fizzlefist writes "For the past 2 weeks there has been an uproar on the Sims 2 forums
concerning the inclusion of Sony's SecuROM DRM os in the latest expansion pack, Bon Voyage. It
seems paid customers have been having problems since day one of release, ...
(more)Windows XP SP3 Build 3205 Released w/ New Features (Monday 08th of October 2007 11:00:05 AM)
JBubba writes "Windows XP SP3 build 3205 is the first official & authorized release of the next
Windows XP service pack; and has been made available to testers as a part of the Windows Server
2008/Windows Vista SP1 beta program. NeoSmart Technologies ...
(more)Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray (Friday 05th of October 2007 07:45:03 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "The first two Blu-ray releases to hit the market encrypted with BD+
(an extra layer of protection designed to stave off hackers) are wreaking havoc on innocent
consumers. As High-Def Digest reports, this week's Blu-ray releases ...
(more)Newton II - Does The Rumor Have Legs This Time? (Saturday 29th of September 2007 01:45:03 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "Mike Elgan at ComputerWorld has an provocative analysis of the small
computing market, and predicts that the market is primed to take off. He admits that small
computers have been tried before and failed ('Every single UMPC device ...
(more)Astronomers Find Stars 7 Billion Light Years Away (Tuesday 18th of September 2007 05:15:08 PM)
StArSkY writes "The Age has an article about an international team of astronomers that has
discovered 14 galaxies, opening up a new era of 'galaxy hunting'. Using an infrared instrument
in Chile (the french Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope ...
(more)Radiation Absorbing Mineral Found In the Arctic (Saturday 08th of September 2007 03:23:57 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "A mineral has of late been found that exhibits the astounding
property of being able to remove radiation from water-based solutions. 'After coming into
contact with the mineral, radioactive water becomes completely safe. Had ...
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