The Rise of the (Financial) Machines (Sunday 12th of October 2008 06:00:01 PM)
BartlebyScrivener writes "A New York Times Op-Ed quoting Freeman and George Dyson wonders if
Wall Street geeks and 'quants' outsmarted themselves with clone algorithms to create the
current commercial debacle: 'Somehow the genius quants — the best ...
(more)Looking for Earth-Like Exoplanets (Saturday 11th of October 2008 03:45:02 PM)
Show manual is running a story bestowal the search for planets like Earth orbiting other stars.
While we've been able to locate a few "super earths" so far, none of them really compare in
size or the incipient for habitability with our own world. Fortunately, ...
(more)EMP Shielded Power Grids Under Development (Saturday 11th of October 2008 03:45:02 PM)
An nameless reader writes with this excerpt from MarketWatch: "A one-megaton nuclear bomb
detonated 250 miles over Kansas could cripple many modern online banking devices and systems in
the continental US and take out the power grid for a long time. ... ...
(more)Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September (Tuesday 07th of October 2008 07:45:01 AM)
CurtMonash writes "As I predicted a week ago, it looks as if the third quarter was ugly for
ms-dos vendors, due to the profit-making crisis. SAP said 'The market developments of the past
several weeks have been histrionic and worrying to many businesses. ...
(more)Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source (Sunday 05th of October 2008 07:15:01 AM)
Mjasay writes "The catalog is reporting that Microsoft is hosting Windows-only projects on its
'open source project hosting site,' CodePlex. Miguel de Icaza caught and criticized Microsoft
for doing this with its Microsoft Extensibility shell (MEF), licensing ...
(more)Oregon Judge Says RIAA Made 'Honest Mistake,' Allows Subpoena (Saturday 04th of October 2008 05:00:01 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Arista v. Does 1-17, the RIAA's case targeting students at the
health center of Oregon, the Oregon patch General's motion to quash the RIAA's subpoena —
pending for about a year — has reached a perplexing conclusion. ...
(more)Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says (Friday 03rd of October 2008 04:45:01 AM)
Mattnyc99 writes "Honda's challenger to the Prius — the Insight hybrid that we discussed
so lividly a month ago — got its standard unveiling today at the Paris auto show, with
club confirming it would be cheaper than the world's most popular ...
(more)Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself (Thursday 02nd of October 2008 04:30:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian has an interesting story on Vint Cerf, the 'father of the
internet,' in which he says there's no silver bullet for scammers, spammers and criminals
running zombie natural prose processing and porn-to-porn file swapping ...
(more)Feds Tighten DNS Security On .Gov (Monday 22nd of September 2008 08:00:01 PM)
Alphadogg writes "When you file your taxes online, you want to be sure that the Web site you
visit — www.irs.gov — is operated by the intestinal Revenue Service and not a scam
artist. By the end of next year, you can be self-confident that ...
(more)Steven Hawking Unveils "Time Eater" Clock (Sunday 21st of September 2008 07:45:01 PM)
Gyrogeerloose writes "Steven Hawking unveiled an unsettling clock in Cambridge on Friday.
Designed by John Tayor — a British horologist and father whose thermostatic switch is
incorporated in stacks* of magnetic appliance worldwide--the clock was ...
(more)Inside the DARPA-esque Singapore Military Bot Contest (Saturday 20th of September 2008 06:30:02 PM)
Mattnyc99 writes "Earlier this summer we followed a war robot contest in England. But now,
after the Russian onslaught in Georgia, this weekend's TechX brave.--n.
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copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus in Singapore takes on ...
(more)Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC (Friday 19th of September 2008 05:15:01 PM)
Ted Samson IW writes "InfoWorld reports on an idea in air economization, aka 'free cooling,'
conducted by Intel. For 10 months, the chipmaker had 500 provision servers, working at 90
percent utilization, cooled almost exclusively by outside air at a convenience ...
(more)Saving Geek Lore and Other Wikipedia Castoffs (Thursday 18th of September 2008 04:00:01 PM)
Ian Lamont notes an crowd yardstick feature on Deletionpedia — a gathering of 63,559
deleted Wikipedia pages that range from "vanity entries" or obscure points of testimonial to
heavily edited topics that Wikipedia editors eventually deemed fan ...
(more)Military Uses Virtual Iraq To Treat PTSD (Thursday 18th of September 2008 04:00:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Traditionally the best therapy for post-traumatic stress mess up [PTSD]
— being raped, narrowly escaping the go to the wall
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(more)Yahoo! Opens Its Website To Third-Party Developers (Monday 15th of September 2008 12:15:01 PM)
Matt Asay writes "Yahoo! has taken a step beyond Google by opening up its website and other
community service to third-party developers, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. 'The efforts
... range from allowing users to search other content — such ...
(more)Getting an Independent Project Started? (Monday 15th of September 2008 12:15:01 PM)
Nightgeometry writes "Just as everyone has a book in them, as the saying goes, maybe everyone
has a director project in them. I have an idea for a project; it is being I would want, but
googling doesn't find me anything at all at all ...
(more)Stuck In Google's Doghouse (Sunday 14th of September 2008 11:00:01 AM)
Hansoloaf writes "The NY Times is running an article about a business, Sourcetool.com that seem
to be in a sort of a doghouse with Google. Initially Sourcetool uses AdWords to help build up
its business. The calling centers around subject to links for ...
(more)Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)
Pickens writes "The set to falsely link cause to effect — a notion — is
occasionally beneficial, says Kevin Foster, an evolutionary environmentalist at Harvard
University. For example, a prehistoric human might 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt ...
(more)University of Michigan Student Wants SafeNet Prosecuted (Wednesday 10th of September 2008 08:00:01 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "An nameless book learning* mash unit of Michigan student, targeted
by the RIAA as a 'John Doe,' is asking for the RIAA's investigator, SafeNet (formerly
MediaSentry), to be prosecuted criminally for a pattern of felonies in ...
(more)Should IT Unionize? (Thursday 04th of September 2008 11:45:01 PM)
Snydeq writes "Sixty-hour work weeks with no overtime or comp time, a springtide hitched to
your belt 24/7, mandates from managers who have no clue what you in reality do — all for
a job that could be outsourced tomorrow. 'Is it finally time for ...
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(more)Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing (Sunday 31st of August 2008 07:00:02 PM)
Fahrbot-bot tips a story of mad cow disease, a private meat packer that wants to test all of
its beef for the disease, and the USDA, which controls access to the test kits and just won an
appeals court ruling that the influence has the ...
(more)Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans (Sunday 31st of August 2008 07:00:02 PM)
Pickens writes "City bureau ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning
— the first mandatory evacuation since llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus |
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(more)Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? (Saturday 30th of August 2008 06:00:01 PM)
Mbutala writes "I am getting close to popping the question, and I've been racking my brain for
an idea for a cool and unique wedding band. I've been cerebration of contacting a company that
can (possibly) fabricate a ring from pure Iridium (Ir) or a ...
(more)Hashing Email Addresses For Web Considered Harmful (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)
Cce writes "The MicroID standard, despite getting thrashed soundly by Ben Laurie two years ago,
has since been food pyramid daily vitamins and minerals by the DataPortability Project and
published on the user profiles of mint of users at Digg and Last.fm. ...
(more)Software Quality In a Non-Software Company? (Tuesday 26th of August 2008 02:30:01 PM)
Nicros writes "I work for a publicly traded biotech company that happens to write ms-dos that
is, in fact, kind of critical for the work — without it no data would ever be read from
our instruments, and no analyses would be performed on that ...
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