Comment But will the 1K Certs come in Spearmint? (Score 1) 207
I'm not sure a kilobyte-strength Cert would be strong enough to freshen the breath of some of the people I've worked with...
Comment Sighs matter (Score 2) 221
...or something like that
Comment Does no one remember THIS Hollywood treatment? (Score 2) 357
Comment FOOD and Drug, not FEDERAL Drug... (Score 1) 298
If you're talking about the FDA, at least try to get what the abbreviation stands for correct.
Comment Re:Seems just as safe as ever... (Score 1) 1148
So, your old car, built in 1998, gets approximately 50 MPG. Your new car is rated by its manufacturer to get anywhere from about 32.5 to about 48.5 MPG. No matter how you slice it, the car built 13 years ago gets better mileage than the one you're waiting for now. That doesn't exactly inspire me with confidence. Granted, I've never heard of either of those vehicles, so I don't know if one is much larger than the other or not. Still, on the surface, it doesn't sound as if we're making much progress in this area.
Comment I can see the new ad campaign now... (Score 1) 495
...showing a MacBook Pro running Logic and a certain Canadian singer/songwriter, captioned simply: Thunderbolt & Lightfoot.
Comment In 1981... (Score 1) 262
...back when "Late Night With David Letterman" first came on the air after his morning show was cancelled, he started doing Johnny Carson's "Stump the band" bit again. In a very early broadcast, he asked the audience member whose turn was next what he did for a living.
The contestant replied: "I'm a software engineer".
Letterman looked bewildered, turned to the crowd and said: "Software Engineer? Does that mean anything to anybody here?"
Even when the fellow tried to explain it, it didn't seem to register with anyone, least of all Letterman.
And that was a mere 13 years earlier.
The contestant replied: "I'm a software engineer".
Letterman looked bewildered, turned to the crowd and said: "Software Engineer? Does that mean anything to anybody here?"
Even when the fellow tried to explain it, it didn't seem to register with anyone, least of all Letterman.
And that was a mere 13 years earlier.
Comment S:\LEGCNSL\XYWRITE\COM11\NETFREE.4 (Score 1) 427
The big question is: did someone at Cantwell's office actually use XyWrite to author the bill?
Comment One question (Score 1) 470
Did they factor in how many of the non-drinkers were killed by drunk people?
Comment Mil-balky (Score 1) 192
...was the headline I suggested after attending a particular baseball game between the Yankees and the Brewers at Yankee Stadium. Curiously, the Post didn't use it.
Supermassive Black Hole Is Thrown Out of Galaxy 167
DarkKnightRadick writes "An undergrad student at the University of Utrecht, Marianne Heida, has found evidence of a supermassive black hole being tossed out of its galaxy. According to the article, the black hole — which has a mass equivalent to one billion suns — is possibly the culmination of two galaxies merging (or colliding, depending on how you like to look at it) and their black holes merging, creating one supermassive beast. The black hole was found using the Chandra Source Catalog (from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory). The direction of the expulsion is also possibly indicative of the direction of rotation of the two black holes as they circled each other before merging."
Comment Meego? (Score 1) 115
I thought MeeGo stood for "Me Eyes Glaze Over".
Submission + - Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers in 09 (krebsonsecurity.com)
krebsonsecurity writes: Organized cyber criminal gangs stole $25 million in the 3rd quarter alone last year, by pilfering the online bank accounts of small to midsized businesses, the FDIC reported last week. In contrast, traditional bank robbers hauled just $9.4 million in 1,184 bank robberies during that same period, according to an analysis of FBI bank crime statistics by krebsonsecurity.com. From that story: "The federal government sure publishes a lot more information about physical bank robberies that it makes available about online stick-ups. Indeed, the FBI’s bank crime stats are extraordinarily detailed. For example, they can tell you that in the 3rd quarter of last year, bank robbers were more likely to hold up their local branch between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on a Wednesday than at any other time or day of the week; they can tell you the number of tear gas and dye packs taken with the loot, the number of security cameras activated, the number of food stamps taken, even what percentage of suspected perpetrators had illegal drug habits at the time of the robberies. About the only thing the stats don’t tell you is what brand of jeans the perpetrators were wearing and whether the getaway car had cool vanity plates. What do we get about e-crime statistics from the federal government? One guy from the FDIC giving a speech at the RSA conference.
Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality 380
the3stars writes "'Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. This raises a number of interesting issues about spirituality, among them whether or not people can be born with a strong propensity towards spirituality and also whether it can be acquired through head trauma."
One critic's quoted response: "It's important to recognize that the whole study is based on changes in one self-report measure, which is a coarse measure that includes some strange items."
