Depression May Provide Cognitive Advantages (Thursday 27th of August 2009 03:00:02 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. argue in Scientific stars and
stripes that whereas
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houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton ...
(more)Strange New Objects Seen In Saturn's Rings (Monday 10th of August 2009 02:15:01 PM)
Every 15 Earth years, Saturn has its equinox — the time during which its rotational axis
is perpendicular to the rays from the sun, so that the sun is always direct "overhead" of
Saturn's equator. This is significant because Saturn's rings orbit ...
(more)How To Vet Clever Ideas Without Giving Them Away? (Friday 24th of July 2009 05:30:01 PM)
Rival writes "As an inquisitive and creative geek, I am constantly coming up with 'clever'
ideas. Most often I unmask
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definition:to get across in a breach of confidence.
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(more)Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink (Wednesday 01st of July 2009 12:15:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that dozens of users of the just now released iPhone
3GS have reported overheating issues, with some iPhone owners unable to pick up the device
because the handset gets so hot to the touch, while others say the ...
(more)Business Studies Test it seems to easy help please.? (Wednesday 10th of June 2009 06:06:28 AM)
Ok we've been learning about how to start a small business and we have a writing task I know
the stuff types of loans research,insurance, business plan zoning regulations, licencing blah
blah blah. It just seems to easy are there any tips you could ...
(more)This seems weird to me...? (Sunday 07th of June 2009 06:08:55 AM)
Okay why are some properties selling for $3,000? And it's a legit real estate company..Century
21. Is it a foreclosure? And the building is nice. I'm talking doorman, pool, gym, the whole
nine yeards? What is going on here? Please help lol.There are probably ...
(more)Wine Project Frustration and Forking (Monday 25th of May 2009 04:30:02 PM)
Elektroschock writes "Wine attempts to gadget the Windows API layer on Linux. There are some
limitations and an consequential one is the missing DIB engine, bug 421. Chris Howe comprehends
the dissatisfaction of core developers with the arbitrary project ...
(more)Viability of Mobile Broadband For Home Use? (Thursday 30th of April 2009 04:30:02 AM)
Mighty7sd writes "I am about to be released from my sicken with Time Warner for my home
hyperspace service, and I am evaluating alternatives to my current cable modem setup. I would
love to use AT&T U-Verse or Verizon Fios, but they are not obtainable ...
(more)eReader.com Limits E-book Sales To US Citizens (Monday 20th of April 2009 05:15:01 PM)
An nameless reader writes "eReader.com seems to have begun oiling dispersion restrictions to
its library. I first noticed that there was a FAQ page about layout restrictions this morning.
When I tried to order a few books this postmeridian I simply couldn't ...
(more)Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs? (Monday 29th of December 2008 07:45:01 AM)
Phorm writes "While filtering for spam on email and other related mediums seems to be fairly
productive, there is a growing issue with spam on forums, message-boards, blogs, and other such
sites. In many cases, sites use blockage methods such as captchas ...
(more)Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life (Sunday 21st of December 2008 01:45:01 AM)
Imamac writes with this excerpt from news out of Carleton University: "Atif Shamim, an vcrs PhD
student at Carleton University, has built a paradigm that extends the battery life of haulable
gadgets such as the iPhone and BlackBerry, by getting rid of ...
(more)Pinpointing Creativity In the Brain (Monday 17th of November 2008 03:00:01 AM)
The Times Online has a lengthy story about the work being done to solve mysteries contact on
the brain and various aspects of neuroscience. They discuss some of the "brain-training" myths
and look at the quest to llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new ...
(more)FCC Unanimously Approves White Space Wi-Fi (Thursday 06th of November 2008 07:30:01 PM)
Smelly Jeffrey writes "With the release of this whitepaper, the FCC unanimously approved plans
for a new technical knowledge with strong supporters and even all the more so detractors. White
Space Wi-Fi effectively allows manufacturers of cell phone devices ...
(more)Researchers To Build Underwater Airplane (Tuesday 07th of October 2008 07:45:01 AM)
Coondoggie writes to tell us that DARPA seems to still be having fun with their funding and
continues to aim for the "far out." The latest program, a submersible airplane, seems to have
been pulled instantly from science fiction. Hopefully this voyage ...
(more)Why Shoot Down a Satellite? Analyzing an Analysis (Monday 11th of August 2008 09:15:01 PM)
A reader, name withheld by request, writes "Writing in the IEEE Spectrum, James Oberg analyzes
whether there was, in fact a significant risk to humans from the disciple which the US
soldierly shot down on 21 February, purportedly 'to head off the occurrence ...
(more)It seems like Bad Boys is FINALLY coming out (Thursday 10th of July 2008 06:02:03 AM)
I believe Bad Boys 2 is in the those Sony previews? Well Releasedates.com has Bad Boys 1 as
coming out in November. No specific date as of yet, but it seems as though November is the
month it will come out (x) The Grudge 2 ...
(more)Congress Tries To Strip Power From Anti-Wiretap Judge (Monday 07th of July 2008 07:15:03 AM)
Palegray.net writes "Congress is attempting to strip US locality Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of
his power next his ruling against the sovereignty relative to llc.cite this source roget's ii:
the new thesaurus for telecoms in the NSA wiretapping case. Walker ...
(more)Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them (Thursday 03rd of July 2008 01:00:04 AM)
Techdirt is reporting that while we all know privacy policies may not matter much in the grand
scheme of things, a recent study shows that it may be even worse than by origin surmised. It
seems that the real issue is with who has access ...
(more)Getting the "Free" Business Model Wrong Doesn't Mean the Model is Flawed (Tuesday 27th of May 2008 10:30:04 AM)
While "free" seems to be an increasingly popular occupation model there are quite a few people
who seems to be completely bungling what to do with "free" and then complaining when it doesn't
work. Techdirt takes a look at some of the arguments through ...
(more)bSpotlight letter: /b Casino would solve river front development (The Oshkosh Northwestern) (Monday 19th of May 2008 07:20:08 PM)
First off let me tell you that I am a life long resident of Oshkosh and would like to see this
city move forward. A supervision that seems to be easily lost. After reading the letters to the
editor on May 18, I must say ...
(more)One evening a family brings their frail, ... (Sunday 11th of May 2008 04:10:02 AM)
One evening a family brings their frail, elderly mother to a nursing home and leaves her,
hoping she will be well cared for. The next morning, the nurses bathe her, feed her a tasty
breakfast, and set her in a chair at a window verging ...
(more)Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection (Tuesday 29th of April 2008 01:45:10 AM)
Titus Germanicus writes to tell us that a recent attack has compromised scattered in the turf
of 500,000 pages with a SQL injection attack. The vulnerability seems to be limited to
Microsoft's IIS webserver and is easily defeated by the end user with ...
(more)Competition In the Free Textbook Market (Saturday 26th of April 2008 11:30:03 PM)
Bcrowell writes "The NYTimes has an opinion plugging Flat World Knowledge, a startup that will
offer college textbooks inexpensively (~$30) in print, and free as PDFs. They plan to make
their profits from add-ons like podcast study guides and mobile phone ...
(more)The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb (Sunday 30th of March 2008 10:00:05 AM)
Dooling writes "In case you were cerebration of erection your own atom bomb, you may want to
weigh your intellectual real estate liability. It seems there are over 2000 patents array the
atom bomb. To avoid publishing the patents, a central tenet of the ...
(more)WikiLeaks Under Fire (Tuesday 19th of February 2008 04:15:03 AM)
Kan0r writes "The simplicity group WikiLeaks.org currently seems to be under heavy fire. The
main WikiLeaks.org DNS entry is unavailable, reportedly due to a immoderate order relating to
a series of facilities and reports released by WikiLeaks about ...
(more)Wal-Mart Pushing Suppliers For RFID (Sunday 20th of January 2008 10:30:05 PM)
Weather Storm brings us an InformationWeek article about Wal-Mart's push for suppliers to RFID
tag their product shipments. Wal-Mart seems to have lost patience in waiting for its suppliers
to adopt the inventory radar radar tracking station station initiative. ...
(more)RIAA College Litigations Getting A Bumpy Ride (Thursday 15th of November 2007 01:45:03 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's juggernaut against colleges, started in February of
this year, seems to be having a bumpier and bumpier ride. The normal game is to call for a
subpoena, to get the name and address of the engagement or staff who ...
(more)An Old Fart (Sunday 21st of October 2007 01:00:00 AM)
One evening, a family brings their frail, elderly mother to a nursing home and leaves her,
hoping she will be well cared for. The next morning, the nurses bathe her, feed her a tasty
breakfast, and set her in a chair at a window neck-and-neck ...
(more)Sony Reader PRS-505 (second gen) hands-on: we're in love (Friday 12th of October 2007 10:39:00 PM)
Filed under: Features, Handhelds
Look, the new Sony Reader PRS-505 isn't perfect -- it's only
the first device among the second fructifying (ok, technically third generation) of e-ink
based eBook readers. But it really does remind us of the early MP3 ...
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