Comment Re:Kilogram is a mass not a weight (Score 1) 538
No, a Newton is not a cookie. It is fruit and cake.
Submission + - Solved! Verizon to pay $25 million fine over "myst (arstechnica.com)
jamie writes: "Verizon will make record-setting restitution for overcharging "pay as you go" data users for the last three years. The company has to cough up $25 million to Uncle Sam and $52 million to customers."
Submission + - Schneier on Security: New Orleans Scrapping Survei (schneier.com)
Submission + - Daring Fireball Linked List: The Rise of HTML5 Vid (daringfireball.net)
jamie writes: "HTML5 video is making Flash more and more useless."
Submission + - Microsoft to charge royalty fees to prevent Acer, (digitimes.com) 2
Submission + - Google Suggest Venn Diagrams (blogspot.com)
Submission + - Schneier on Security: Fingerprinting Telephone Cal (schneier.com)
Submission + - Balloon Juice  Blog Archive  Just For (balloon-juice.com)
Submission + - Flash Crash - Norwegians Convicted for Outwitting (cnbc.com)
jamie writes: "The two men worked out how the computerized system would react to certain trading patterns ââoe allowing them to influence the price of low-volume stocks. The FT reports."
Submission + - C-beams off the shoulder of Orion | Bad Astronomy (discovermagazine.com)
jamie writes: "Astronomy | Orion is a morning constellation right now, high in the sky if you get up early enough. The three stars making the belt are obvious enough, and just below it ha"
Submission + - Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP (kottke.org)
Submission + - The Intimate Social Graph (itworld.com)
Submission + - How to Make a White Hole in Your Kitchen Sink | Wi (wired.com)
jamie writes: "That ring of water in your kitchen sink is actually a model white hole. For the first time, scientists have shown experimentally that liquid flowing from a"
Submission + - MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in (mpi-inf.mpg.de)
Submission + - Careful What You Post, the FBI has More of These (schneier.com)
jamie writes: "A comment posted to a website got its author's *friend's* car an unwanted aftermarket addon. The Orion Guardian ST820, a GPS tracking device, was attached to the underside of the car by the FBI. No warrant required. The bugged friend, a college student studying marketing, was apparently under suspicion because he's half-Egyptian. As Bruce Schneier says, 'If they're doing this to someone so tangentially connected to a vaguely bothersome post on an obscure blog, just how many of us have tracking devices on our cars right now...' The ACLU is investigating."
