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LeadSongDog writes:
El Reg reports that UK privacy campaigners Big Brother Watch are unhappy with Siri's retentiveness, calling Apple's decision to keep voice queries for two years "intrusive".
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LeadSongDog writes:
Just when you thought the hunt was finished, at the April APS meeting, the possibility is now being raised of multiple versions of the Higgs. It seems we just can't take "The standard model works" for an answer.
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LeadSongDog writes:
Using inexpensive quantum nanodots in a colloidal suspension, researchers have boosted the IR conversion efficiency of PbS solar cells by a whopping 35%. While this still needs much work, anything that brings down cost while raising output has to be welcome. Further info at http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/33826/.
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LeadSongDog writes:
Disney/Lucas are bringing back Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in "Star Wars: Episode VII". No word yet if she'll follow this up with a "Blues Brothers" sequel.
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LeadSongDog writes:
El Reg, never shy with their headlines, gives us this story as "HORNY ALIEN vegetarian monsters once ROAMED CANADA"...
Drs. Michael Ryan and David Evans, of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Royal Ontario Museum respectively have newly identified a bigger, uglier, hornier descendant of Triceratops they call "Xenoceratops foremostensis".
The Open Access paper is:
“A new ceratopsid from the Foremost Formation (middle Campanian) of Alberta” Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (CJES) Oct 2012 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full/10.1139/e2012-056
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LeadSongDog writes:
The staggering family history collection of ten billion records at Ancestry.com has just been sold to Permira Funds (a European private equity firm), along with subscriber records for two million users.
If anyone is still using their mother's maiden name as a security question, it's wake-up time.
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LeadSongDog writes:
The Daily Buzz tells us that the cost of closing an account with French telecom carrier Bouygues Telecom now exceeds the French gross domestic product by 5,872 times. Would paying that bill disrupt the economy much?
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LeadSongDog writes:
Assad's now trying intimidation by text messaging. Someone should really explain to him that text is inconsistent in producing the intended psyops result. That's why we invented emoticons ;!)
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LeadSongDog writes:
Once again, a fool with a tool ruins the day for the smart masses, this time taking out the Wikimedia servers. Isn't it about time DNS caching got some tolerance for this kind of incident?
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LeadSongDog writes:
From Amsterdam comes news that artist Bart Jansen has taught his dead cat to fly. Now, get that damned cat off my roof!
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LeadSongDog writes:
After all these years, the FAQ on /. still doesn't tell a submitter how to encode a link so that it appears the way one expects, as underlined or coloured text rather than as a naked URL. So where's the markup manual? Sooner or later, somenerd is going to want to read it...
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LeadSongDog writes:
Sure, we all thought they were made of nice, safe, expanded polystyrene foam. But now it turns out that Pepsico's Korean operation has been secretly trying to emulate W.T. Hawkins' "Cheezies".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheezies Yes, "with a zed" http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/documentaries/2012/01/01/thats-cheezies-with-a-zed/
That's right, behind the backs of the unsuspecting public, it seems Pepsi has been sneaking cheese into "Cheetos"!
Damn. Now I'm hungry. Where's my Stewart's Root Beer and Cheezies?
http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/assets_c/2011/12/mouse2-thumb-300x251-149474.jpg
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LeadSongDog writes:
Gravity measurements by the GRACE satellite experiment have shown 148±30Gt/yr of cumulative ice melt through 2003-2010 (inclusive). Before you rush to grab your life jacket, that's about a 3.2mm sea level rise totalled over eight years.
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LeadSongDog writes:
It'll soon be two years since the wizards of Mountainview acknowledged that gCal couldn't stay synced from other calendars. Does Google really believe the world will happily rehost all calendars from other platforms to them?
https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/calendar/syncing-my-calendar/0TtKisfdEL4
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LeadSongDog writes:
According to http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nnano.2007.412.html researchers have found that by putting a normal capacitor in a magnetic field it can be used to store spin. Marty McFly, where are you now?
