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The Almighty Buck

Submission + - SPAM: Will Gold Save You In Economic Disaster?

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rinkjustice
rinkjustice writes: "With the real possibility of a US dollar crisis and the implosion of the banking industry and credit markets, is gold really the right investment for survival? And how would you use gold as a medium of exchange for goods and services in a broken economy? Here are some answers."
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Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details 409

Posted by Zonk from the preview-of-the-preview dept.
babyshiori writes "Users of Microsoft Windows Vista can rejoice in the fact that Microsoft just released a preview of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate! The build is the lead-up to the actual service pack, which will be made available to even more testers at a later date. 'In our early tests with the beta, we saw some small improvements in boot time on an HP Compaq 8710p Core 2 Duo notebook. Before SP1, the laptop took 1 minute, 51 seconds to boot. After the update, that figure dropped by almost 20 seconds. Microsoft is also touting improvements in "the speed of copying and extracting files," so we tested a few of those scenarios. We noted a slight increase in the time required to copy 562 JPEG images totaling 1.9GB from an SD Card to the hard drive of the aforementioned HP Compaq notebook.'"
Biotech

Submission + - SPAM: Three Energy Systems of the Body

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rinkjustice
rinkjustice writes: "Did you know the human body has three separate mechanisms for creating energy, depending on the intensity and duration of the activity? I call them 'Immediate Response', 'Fight' and 'Flight', and it's the protocol by which your body expends energy."
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Biotech

Submission + - SPAM: More Microbe than Human

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rinkjustice
rinkjustice writes: "Next time you go on a gut feeling, make sure it's not the 10 trillion microbes swarming in your stomach at any given time. Gut bacteria plays a crucial role in digestion, our energy levels, and even our weight."
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Books

Submission + - SPAM: Death Games for the Elderly Blook

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rinkjustice
rinkjustice writes: "Here's an exclusive first look at Cheryl Hagedorn's latest novel, Gold Medal Murder, about five senior citizens in their early sixties who play games leading to murder. It's a taut, terrifically written thriller and the second in a series. Best of all, it's being released as a free "blook" (a book published via a blog) before going on sale. Story updated regularly!"
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The Courts

Submission + - SPAM: Confessions of a Burned Out Ex-Lawyer

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rinkjustice
rinkjustice writes: ""Ex-Lawyer" is a blook (an online book published via a blog) about the underground world of lawyers from a former defense attorney. These are true stories involving real events and real people (whose names have been changed natch). Updated with new stories almost daily."
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Yahoo!

Submission + - SPAM: Yahoo! Can't Write Good Copy

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rinkjustice
rinkjustice writes: "For a behemoth juggernaut like Yahoo with buckets of cashmoney and cube farms by the acre to not understand the importance of a good subject heading is shocking, but for them to write such bad copy it rends the very fabric of reality is quite another..."
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Operating Systems

Submission + - SCO Group admits it may fold (news.com)

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mytrip
mytrip writes: "Having filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, SCO claims it may go under permanently, depending on how much the court decides it owes Novell.

The SCO Group may need to wind up its operations after its copyright case against Novell collapsed, prompting it to file for bankruptcy.

"As a result of both the court's August 10, 2007, ruling and our entry into Chapter 11, there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern," read part of a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, made on Tuesday."
Caldera

Submission + - SCO Admits It May Go Under Soon

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Penguinisto
Penguinisto writes: "It appears that now even SCO is seeing that they're doomed. CNET reveals that in a public statement by SCO yesterday, it was announced that: "If a significant cash payment is required, or significant assets are put under a constructive trust, the carrying amount of our long-lived assets may not be recovered." So as a parallel to RMS Titanic, has the bow finally dropped below the waves, as shareholders and SCO employees scramble for the last few remaining lifeboat slots?"

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