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Submission + - Map where you lost your virginity.

Submitted by

HolyJuan

on Sunday May 06, 2007 @09:32AM

HolyJuan writes: "http://www.holyjuan.com/2007/04/where-did-you-lose -your-virginity.html Where did you lose your virginity? Place a marker and a write brief description of that memorable twenty seconds of awkwardness."

Submission + - SeventeenOrBust - another 1 down, 7 to go

Submitted by

tqft

on Sunday May 06, 2007 @01:21AM

tqft writes: "" The 'Seventeen or Bust' distributed computing project today announced the discovery of a massive prime number. The new prime is 3.9 million digits long and stands as the largest non-Mersenne prime ever discovered. It is the fifth largest-known prime overall and the tenth such discovery for the project in its five year history."

http://www.seventeenorbust.com/documents/press-050 507.mhtml

Another one down."

Submission + - Open Call From the Patent Office

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05, 2007 @12:03AM

An anonymous reader writes: The patent office is looking to employ a Wiki-like process for reviewing patents. Here is the article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/03/04/AR2007030401263.html?nav=rss_email/c omponents?nav=slate

Journal SPAM: I am not a state secret 1

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday March 04, 2007 @10:51PM

"ON NEW YEAR'S EVE in 2003, I was seized at the border of Serbia and Macedonia by Macedonian police who mistakenly believed that I was traveling on a false German passport. I was detained incommunicado for more than three weeks. Then I was handed over to the American Central Intelligence Agency and was stripped, severely beaten, shackled, dressed in a diaper, injected with drugs, chained to the floor of a plane and flown to Afghanistan, where I was imprisoned in a foul dungeon for more than f

Submission + - Slashdot FireHose Beta Sneak Preview

Submitted by

Davak

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @02:42PM

Davak writes: "The old fogey slashdot has announced a new (dare I say, Web 2.0) youthful, digg-like voting system-Firehose. This new code is described as a "collaborative system designed to allow users to assist editors in the story selection process." This review of the Firehose describes the new features and implications of this new system. For example, much of Firehose's AJAX eye candy is built around yahoo's ajax toolkit."

Submission + - Damn Vulnerable Linux

Submitted by

Scott Ainslie Sutton

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @01:56PM

Scott Ainslie Sutton writes: "Enterprise GNU/Linux Resource Linux.com have highlighted a newly created GNU/Linux distribution named Damn Vulnerable Linux, built upon Damn Small Linux. The distribution, headed by Thorsten Schneider, aims to deliver the Operating System in such a way that it allows Security Students first hand insight and hands on experience with Security issues within GNU/Linux in order to teach them protection and mitigation techniques The project's website describes the distribution as 'the most vulnerable, exploitable Operating System ever' and it's true, the developers have ensured that it contains outdated, ill-configured, flawed code and contains GNU/Linux 2.4 Kernel which is known to have many exploitable avenues in itself. Damn Vulnerable Linux's website can be viewed here."

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