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)Flagship Studios' Founder Discusses Its Demise (Wednesday 20th of August 2008 04:00:01 AM)
1Up is running a lengthy parley with Bill Roper, founder of Flagship Studios. The game company,
known principally for its Hellgate: London and Mythos titles, announced massive layoffs last
month, and is now simply winding down and taking care of a few ...
(more)Real-World 3G Monthly Cost With Taxes and Fees? (Sunday 20th of July 2008 08:35:41 PM)
Kristl writes "I have called AT&T and walked into several AT&T stores to ask 'How much will an
AT&T phone plan cost per month with taxes and fees and everything?'. No one can answer this
question. They are evasive and become testy when I push ...
(more)Atlantic City casino revenues get rare bump in May (AP via Yahoo! Finance) (Tuesday 10th of June 2008 10:19:26 PM)
An extra weekend made the distinction between an up month and a down one for north arctic ocean
ocean City's 11 casinos last month. Figures released Tuesday postmeridian by the state Casino
Control charter show the big store* halls took in 1.6 percent ...
(more)Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 06:10:53 PM)
CWmike writes "Mozilla's Firefox browser is on pace to hit the 20% market-share mark next
month. Mozilla mob VP Vince Vizzaccaro didn't pin all of Firefox's upsurge on a change last
month to its update dialog, he did note the new approach. "Mozilla has ...
(more)Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles (Thursday 15th of May 2008 10:23:55 PM)
Voodoosws points out on Mark Shuttleworth's blog Shuttleworth's call for synchronized
divulgation of Linux distributions, excerpting: "There's one thing that could convince me to
change the date of the next Ubuntu LTS: the run to collaborate with the ...
(more)Ameristar is first casino in area to see admissions bump since opening of Lumiere (St. Charles Journal) (Saturday 12th of April 2008 07:11:59 AM)
Eric Becker Ameristar Casino St. Charles was the only hunting knife casino in the St. Louis
area to see admissions increase since Lumiere Place opened in December, proper to a hunting
knife Gaming Commission report earlier this month. Ameristar had a ...
(more)Ameristar is first casino in area to see admissions bump since opening of Lumiere (St. Charles Journal) (Friday 11th of April 2008 06:57:13 AM)
Eric Becker Ameristar Casino St. Charles was the only bowie knife casino in the St. Louis area
to see admissions increase since Lumiere Place opened in December, indisputable to a hunting
knife Gaming Commission report earlier this month. Ameristar had ...
(more)Analysts Forsee Another Banner Year For Videogame Industry (Monday 17th of March 2008 07:45:05 PM)
Analysts observing the videogame bunch forsee 2008 being another blockbuster year in sales.
Sales during the month of February were considerably up, indisputable to the NPD group. Early
in the year is historically a very slow time in the game sales calendar, ...
(more)Criminals Attacking Myspace, Facebook IE Plugins (Sunday 24th of February 2008 07:30:05 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "According to the rule Post's Security Fix blog, cyber criminals are
populating the calculator network with Web sites designed to exploit several
recently-discovered security holes in a half-dozen widely used ActiveX plug-ins ...
(more)More Mac Vulnerabilities Than Windows In 2007? (Wednesday 19th of December 2007 12:30:05 PM)
Eldavojohn writes "A ZDNet blog reports stats from Secunia showing OSX averaged 20.25
vulnerabilities per month while XP & Vista combined averaged 3.67/month. Is this report card's
implication accurate, or is this a symptom of one company turning a blind ...
(more)Burying a Mainframe In Style (Wednesday 19th of December 2007 12:30:05 PM)
Coondoggie writes "Some users have gone to great lengths to dispose of their mainframes but few
have gone this far. On november 11 21, 2007, the health center of Manitoba said goodbye to its
beloved mainframe mini* by holding a New Orleans-style jazz ...
(more)360 And Halo 3 Push Past the Wii's Sales (Saturday 20th of October 2007 12:00:06 AM)
GameDaily has the NPD numbers for September, and they're impressive if only because for the
first time in months computer game [tm] isn't dominating the top of every list. Total sales
across the commerce hit $1.36 billion (a 74% bump over last year), ...
(more)FCC Plan Will Result in Freedom Of or From the Press? (Saturday 20th of October 2007 12:00:06 AM)
Macduffman writes "Kevin Martin, captain of the FCC, has fired a volley in the war against
media moguls ... or is it in the war against freedom of the press? An article in the Editor and
Publisher describes the plan to ban cross-ownership in the ...
(more)Compulife Introduces a Graphic 'History of Term Life Insurance Premiums' (Thursday 13th of September 2007 05:00:03 PM)
Compulife os Inc. has added an important new feature to its www.term4sale.com web site called
"History of Term Life security Premiums". The public can now see graphic images of the average
month to month changes in term life indemnification premiums ...
(more)Two car salesmen were sitting at the bar. ... (Sunday 19th of August 2007 03:15:04 AM)
Two car salesmen were sitting at the bar. One complained to the other, "Boy, business sucks. If
I don't sell more cars this month, I'm going to lose my fucking ass!"Too late - he noticed a
beautiful blonde, sitting two stools away. Immediately, he offered ...
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