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Submission + - Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning (space.com)

Submitted by GringoChapin on Monday November 16, 2009 @06:31PM

GringoChapin writes: Space.com reports that "One of the best annual meteor showers will peak in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and for some skywatchers the show could be quite impressive. The best seats are in Asia, but North American observers should be treated to an above average performance of the
Leonid meteor shower, weather permitting." Folks from the United States will want to start watching at 0100 Pacific, 0400 Eastern, and those in Europe from 0100 local time until dawn.

Submission + - Flyer Arrested After Declining to Show ID (philosecurity.org) 1

Submitted by

Sherri Davidoff

on Monday November 16, 2009 @04:50PM

Sherri Davidoff writes: "Officials at the Metropolitan Detention Center have confirmed that a traveler was arrested and is being held for $1000 bail after declining to show ID to TSA at the ABQ airport. He is being charged with "concealing identity, disorderly conduct, refusing to obey an officer, and criminal trespass."

"Phil Mocek, a Seattle area native, was traveling with his friend Jesse Gallagos when he politely declined to show ID to TSA agents...""

Comment Re:squeezebox family (Score 1) 438

by ellbee on Saturday November 07, 2009 @09:45PM (#30018468) Attached to: Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio?

Couldn't agree more - I've had three Squeezeboxes around the house for six or seven years and they've been great. Others at work also rave about them. There are now several ways to control them to suit taste and need.

I drove to their office to buy the first two and they're just good people.

Comment Advice from the past (Score 3, Interesting) 445

by ellbee on Monday July 13, 2009 @02:40PM (#28680521) Attached to: Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". - (Henry VI Act IV, Scene II - Shakespeare, ca. 1623). Good idea then, good idea now.

Comment Been done before (Score 5, Interesting) 472

by ellbee on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @03:11PM (#28364839) Attached to: Gold Sold From Vending Machines In Germany

When I lived in Switzerland '86-'88 you could get small gold ingots from a UBS ATM on the Bahnhofstrasse in downtown Zurich. Just the sort of thing a conservative Swiss banker would do on the way home from work.

Submission + - States seek more oversight of Microsoft

Submitted by taoman1 on Thursday August 30, 2007 @10:31PM

taoman1 writes: A group of states led by California said in a court filing Thursday that ending oversight of Microsoft's business practices in November would not allow enough time to consider the antitrust implications of Windows Vista.

Submission + - 10 Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation (popularmechanics.com)

Submitted by

longacre

on Thursday August 30, 2007 @02:18PM

longacre writes: "Americans practically take safe commercial flight for granted these days: out of over 50 million takeoffs over the past five years, there has been only one fatal crash (Comair flight 5191). It wasn't always this way... much of the technology that makes air travel so extraordinarily safe today has come as a direct result of fatal accidents of the past. Popular Mechanics lists eight crashes and two emergency landings whose influence is felt — for the good — each time you step on a plane."

Bill Gates' Management Style 362

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday May 06, 2007 @11:31AM from the behold-the-glorious-borg-icon dept.

replicant108 wrote in to give us Tom Evslin's fascinating account of working for Microsoft in the early 90s. "So you're in there presenting your product plan to billg, steveb, and mikemap. Billg typically has his eyes closed and he's rocking back and forth. He could be asleep; he could be thinking about something else; he could be listening intently to everything you're saying. The trouble is all are possible and you don't know which. Obviously, you have to present as if he were listening intently even though you know he isn't looking at the PowerPoint slides you spent so much time on. At some point in your presentation billg will say "that's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft." He looks like he means it. However, since you knew he was going to say this, you can't really let it faze you. Moreover, you can't afford to look fazed; remember: he's a bully."

AOL's Embarassing Password Woes 192

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday May 06, 2007 @10:26AM from the top-sekrit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AOL.com users may think they have up to sixteen characters to use as a password, but they'd be wrong, thanks to this security artifact detailed by The Washington Post's Security Fix blog: "Well, it turns out that when someone signs up for an AOL.com account, the user appears to be allowed to enter up to a 16-character password. AOL's system, however, doesn't read past the first eight characters." This means that a user who uses "password123" or any other obvious eight-character password with random numbers on the end is in effect using just that lame eight-character password."

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