Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh (Wednesday 24th of September 2008 09:15:02 PM)
Pittsburgh Public Schools chairman have enacted a policy that sets 50 percent as the minimum
score a student can receive for assignments, tests and other work. commune third edition by the
editors of the old glory heritage® dictionary. copyright © ...
(more)LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) (Wednesday 24th of September 2008 09:15:02 PM)
Rufey writes "The recent problems at the Large Hadron Collider will now keep it idle until
spring 2009. The sanctioned press release is here. The LHC went offline due to a suspected
failure in a superconducting connection, which overheated and caused ...
(more)Mars Orbiter Finds Evidence For Ancient Rivers, Lakes (Saturday 19th of July 2008 08:35:38 PM)
Cowards unsigned points out news that studies based on data from the Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter have found that vast regions of Mars contained rivers and lakes when the planet was
young. The studies also suggest that the water existed for quite some ...
(more)What are the US GAAP rules for depreciation of a fixed asset that has an extended period of non-use? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:01:04 AM)
Chiefly, I'd like to know what happens when you bring the asset (in this case a building) back
into service. How do you calculate the new asset base?1.If the asset is not fully
depreciated:
If you are using straight-line depreciation, it doesn't matter ...
(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)"Crimeserver" Full of Personal/Business Data Found (Wednesday 07th of May 2008 02:45:09 PM)
Presto Vivace sends news of a server found by security firm Finjin that contained a 1.4-GB
cache of stolen data, accumulated over a period of less than a month from compromised PCs
around the world. The "crimeserver," as Finjin dubs it, "provided command ...
(more)White House Tape Recycling Possibly Erased Emails (Friday 18th of January 2008 07:30:03 PM)
Pojut points us to a regulation Post story which details the White House's admission that it
routinely recycled backup tapes from 2001 to 2003, possibly destroying e-mail records from that
time period. While the tapes are being analyzed to determine if ...
(more)Apple May Introduce New iPod on Wednesday (Monday 03rd of September 2007 09:00:06 PM)
UnHolier than ever writes "Apple may be planning to announce a 'revamp' of the iPod on
Wednesday. Reporters from across Europe have been asked to view a broadcast presentation by
Steve Jobs at the BBC headquarters. Theorized features for this new iPod ...
(more)Ape-Human Split Moved Back By Millions Of Years (Sunday 26th of August 2007 04:09:34 PM)
E++99 writes in to let us know about a evolving in paleo-anthropology. It seems that up until
now, mathematical consensus has placed the divergence of man from the ape line five to six
million years ago (based on "genetic distances"). But newly discovered ...
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