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Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

Posted by samzenpus from the nice-feed dept.
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.

Comment Re:Not useful review (Score 1) 144

by NeuroKoan (#28153801) Attached to: Palm Pre Reviewed

Being CDMA only (for the time being) there are no SIM cards to swap. To activate the phone on Sprint's network (or any other CDMA network for that matter) they would have to take it into a store. That's probably why there wasn't a phone test yet.

Comment Two Points (Score 2, Funny) 260

by cephyn (#25239735) Attached to: No Space Porn (For Now)

2 hours isn't a problem. Porn movies aren't really known for their epic length. Well, not in minutes, anyway.

And so what if some actors get sick? You just make a different movie. There's an audience for everything (disturbingly)!

Comment Re:This wasn't a sat-kill test (Score 1) 616

by Larthallor (#22504474) Attached to: US Claims Satellite Shoot-Down Success
I agree that this was mainly an opportunity to test the SM-3. We keep hearing about how we've had an anti-satellite (ASAT) capability since 1975 and that the SM-3 is an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) device rather than ASAT. So, why didn't we use our ASAT capability? You would think that if we wanted to take out a satellite, we would have used our anti-satellite technology. The fact that we didn't is proof of your argument.

Comment Re:Yes, Solar is great... (Score 1) 478

by iamskelter (#21891426) Attached to: Molten Salt-Based Solar Power Plant
Well, its not San Francisco, but we do have 2 nuclear power plants operating along the California coast. Frisco isn't the only place in California that has earthquakes, either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_Station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant How bout Japan? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan
Biotech

Submission + - Open Sourcing Healthcare Systems (nytimes.com)

Submitted by 330Pilot
330Pilot writes: The New York Times reports that Misys announced that it was taking its product for linking physicians' offices and hospitals, Misys Connect, and making it open source. There is no doubt that doctors and hospitals need to be able to share patient and clinical information to achieve efficiency gains and quality improvements. Yet hospitals and those physicians' offices with electronic health records — about a fourth of the nation's primary care doctors — use many different proprietary systems that often don't communicate with each other. The lack of interoperability, in technical terms, is a roadblock.
Businesses

Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop? 528

Posted by Zonk from the put-em-up-put-em-up dept.
An anonymous reader writes "RDM asks Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop?, a comparison of recent sales and profits and the future outlook for Macs and PCs. It's the opinion of the article's author that Apple doesn't have to take a majority share of the desktop market to win. The key is to take the most valuable segments of the market. They show via a few quick financial numbers that even though Apple is selling fewer machines, they're making more money per machine than your Dells or your Gateways. Not being beholden to Microsoft gives them a big advantage when competing with traditional PC sellers. Once Apple is positioned, Microsoft will be forced to choose whether it wants to battle Mac OS X for control of the slick consumer desktop, or repurpose Windows as a cheaper, mass market alternative to Linux in corporate sales. If it doesn't make a choice, the company will face difficult battles on two fronts.""

Comment Flawed methodology (Score 4, Informative) 738

by vanillaspice (#15638577) Attached to: Cell Users As Bad As Drunk Drivers
So the researchers at the University of Utah determined that using your phone is worse than having a BAC of 0.08, the equivalent of one drink, not the equivalent of being drunk. How does the rubric stand up to two drinks? Four? As it is, the data don't suggest much. And don't be fooled by the "alcohol is involved in 40 percent of the 42,000 annual traffic fatalities" statistic, either. Most states derive that number from whenever any party, regardless of fault, has a BAC of 0.01 or more. In other words, you could eat a cherry cordial and a sober person could plow right through you and the state would consider your death an alcohol-related traffic fatality.

Immaturity Level Rising in Adults 862

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the is-not-are-too dept.
Ant writes to tell us that a Discovery News article is exploring the old adage, "like a kid at heart", which may be closer to the truth than we would like to admit. New research is showing that grown-ups are more immature than ever. From the article: "Specifically, it seems a growing number of people are retaining the behaviors and attitudes associated with youth. As a consequence, many older people simply never achieve mental adulthood, according to a leading expert on evolutionary psychiatry."

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