FBI Says Dark Market Sting Netted 56 Arrests (Friday 17th of October 2008 10:00:01 PM)
Narramissic writes "A two-year undercover FBI sting operation targeting online 'carder' forums
hosted on the DarkMarket.ws Web site has netted 56 arrests and prevented about $70 million in
fraud losses, the FBI said Thursday. DarkMarket.ws was widely ...
(more)Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics (Friday 03rd of October 2008 04:45:01 AM)
Many readers have written to tell us that researchers are examining the feasibility of using
Brownian ratchets to help combat the problem of heat dissipation in miniaturized electronics.
"Currently, devices are engineered to operate near thermal equilibrium, ...
(more)A young married couple has difficulties conceiving a baby, ... (Tuesday 16th of September 2008 12:10:02 PM)
A young married couple has difficulties conceiving a baby, so after a while the wife consults
her doctor, who recommends the minor of three thinkable
idioms:humanly possible operations.The
operation is performed, but a couple of months later, she's still ...
(more)The DIY Dialysis Machine (Thursday 07th of August 2008 02:15:02 PM)
Millie Kelly was born with a state that required an instantaneous operation. During this
operation her kidneys started to fail and since she was too small for dialysis machines,
doctors told her parents that she was unlikely to live. Luckily for Millie, ...
(more)Comforting (Monday 16th of June 2008 01:15:02 PM)
A man was seen fleeing down the hall of the mash unit just before his operation.
"What's the
matter?" he was asked.
He said, "I heard the nurse say, 'It's a very simple operation, don't
worry, I'm sure it will be all right."
"She was just trying to ...
(more)Man Hypnotizes Himself And Has Bone-cutting Thumb Operation Without Anesthetic (Saturday 19th of April 2008 03:00:00 PM)
Doctors were amazed when Alex Lenkei, a professional hypnotist, underwent a thumb operation
which required sawing and chiseling of a bone without any anesthetic - and he said he did not
feel a thing during the 80-minute operation at Worthing and Southlands ...
(more)Fighting Spam Through Regulation and Economics (Sunday 09th of December 2007 02:30:04 AM)
Bryan29 writes ""Next door to our offices was a spam operation... One day they weren't there
anymore". Apparently in the past several months some black hat SEO companies (comment spammers)
closed shop. Mr. Evron explores using a couple of case studies ...
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