Acorns Disappear Across the Country (Monday 01st of December 2008 11:00:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Botanist Rod Simmons thought he was going crazy when couldn't find any
acorns near his home in Arlington County, Virginia. 'I'm used to seeing so many acorns around
and out in the field, it's being I just didn't believe,' said Simmons. ...
(more)40-Gbps DDoS Attacks Worry Even Tier-1 ISPs (Tuesday 11th of November 2008 09:45:01 PM)
Sturgeon and other readers let us know that Arbor expert systems has released their annual
survey of tier-1 / tier-2 ISP safeguard engineers. This year they got responses from 70 lead
engineers. While DDoS attacks are reaching new heights of backbone-crushing ...
(more)Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test (Monday 13th of October 2008 06:15:01 PM)
Dewilso4 writes "Of the five adding machine finalists at this year's Loebner prize Turing Test,
at least three managed to fool humans into headwork they were human conversationalists. Ready
to speak about Eminem to Slaughterhouse Five and totality in ...
(more)Ulysses Spacecraft Not Dead Yet (Sunday 13th of July 2008 01:35:19 PM)
Iminplaya sends in the good news that reports of the death of the Ulysses mission are
premature. (We've discussed the impending shutdown of the 17-year-old mission a couple of times
this year.) Ulysses is a joint NASA / ESA mission to study the sun from ...
(more)Summer of Code Deadline Extended 6 Days (Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 12:30:01 PM)
Mithro writes "If you thought that you had missed out on treatment to the Google Summer of
Code, you've just gotten a reprieve. The target date for student submissions has been extended
from the original April 1 to Monday April 7, 2008. To quote Leslie ...
(more)Patrick's casino proposal dies in House (Gloucester Daily Times) (Friday 21st of March 2008 11:39:01 AM)
BOSTON and mdash; Gov. Deval Patrick's game plan* to license three resort casinos is dead for
this year. Despite six hours of debate and frantic efforts by casino supporters, House body
voted 108 to 46 to create a special certificate to study the ...
(more)Billy Bob and Luther were talking one afternoon when Billy Bob tells Luther, ... (Tuesday 01st of January 2008 11:10:02 AM)
Billy Bob and Luther were talking one afternoon when Billy Bob tells Luther, "Ya know, I reckon
I'm 'bout ready for a vacation. Only this year I'm gonna do it a little different!The last few
years, I took your advice about where to go. Three ...
(more)WSOP Falls Short of Record (Wednesday 11th of July 2007 09:15:02 AM)
There will be no new attending record for the main event of the World Series of Poker this
year. The number of entries in this year's $10,000 no limit Texas...
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(more)WSOP Setting Records (Monday 02nd of July 2007 09:00:02 PM)
I just correlative from Las Vegas where I had the chance to check out this year's World Series
of Poker. The crowds at several of this year's events have broken...
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