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Comment Re:Heroin? What Kinda Book Reading Do You Do, JR? (Score 1) 73

by svyyn on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @03:07PM (#28029489) Attached to: Space Vulture

The book reads like the cereal style stories it imitates.

I assumed he was dripping the the heroin on his cereal instead of smoking. Or maybe the book was emulating the exploits of Toucan Sam and his Loops of Froot? I'm baffled.

Comment Re:What's the purpose... (Score 1) 1182

by svyyn on Thursday February 26, 2009 @11:46AM (#26998709) Attached to: Gamer Claims Identifying As a Lesbian Led To Xbox Live Ban

but i just think there's a time and place for things like that

When is that time and place? In a special free speech zone?

Submission + - Forensics Meets Its Match: New Tools Thwart Police (cio.com)

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rabblerouzer

on Thursday May 31, 2007 @03:40PM

rabblerouzer writes: "Antiforensic tools have slid down the technical food chain, from Unix to Windows, from something only elite users could master to something nontechnical users can operate. "Five years ago, you could count on one hand the number of people who could do a lot of these things," says one investigator. "Now it's hobby level." Take, for example, TimeStomp. Forensic investigators poring over compromised systems where Timestomp was used often find files that were created 10 years from now, accessed two years ago and never modified."

Submission + - First Hand Account of a Botnet Waking Up

Submitted by Talaria on Thursday May 31, 2007 @03:21PM

Talaria writes: This is the first hand account, from a large U.S. broadband provider, of what happened when a zombie botnet — their customers' compromised computers — woke up and started attacking. As a total of more than 3000 customer computers woke up and started spewing Russian spam, this security team member details what occurred.

Submission + - Manhattan's Stonehenge Sunset (scienceandthecity.org)

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lehtaylor

on Thursday May 31, 2007 @11:56AM

lehtaylor writes: "Today the concrete towers that line Manhattan's streets will catch the light like the stone plinths of Britain's Stonehenge structure and the sun will line up perfectly with the East-West streets on the city's grid. Read more here."

Submission + - Seawater as fuel

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wsawyer

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @08:12AM

wsawyer writes: "Fla. Man Invents Machine To Turn Water Into Fire. A Florida man may have accidentally invented a machine that could solve the gasoline and energy crisis plaguing the U.S. John Kanzius is a former broadcast executive from Pennsylvania who wondered if his background in physics and radio could come in handy in treating the disease from which he suffers: cancer. Kanzius, 63, invented a machine that emits radio waves in an attempt to kill cancerous cells while leaving normal cells intact. While testing his machine, he noticed that his invention had other unexpected abilities. Filling a test tube with salt water from a canal in his back yard, Kanzius placed the tube and a paper towel in the machine and turned it on. Suddenly, the paper towel ignited, lighting up the tube like it was a wax candle. "Pretty neat, huh?" Kanzius asked. Check out the story at http://www.wpbf.com/news/13383827/detail.html"

Submission + - The Straight Dope on Colony Collapse Disorder

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friedo

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @07:20AM

friedo writes: "Slashdot has been covering the bizarre story of Colony Collapse Disorder — the mysterious disappearance of agricultural beehives all over North America. Now the Straight Dope has weighed in with the unsurprising conclusion that much of the panic is no more than simple media hype. "[T]there's no reason at this point to think European honey bees are going to be wiped out, now or ever. The die-offs so far appear to affect some beekeepers more than others, sometimes in the same area. That's one reason scientists are so puzzled, but it strongly suggests the losses may have something to do with how individual beekeepers are managing their bees. The "significant percentage" of failing hives is still a drop in the bucket when viewed against the global population of honey bees, and there are lots of beekeepers (even in the U.S., which appears hardest hit) who have not had, and may never have, significant losses of colonies. Plenty of honey bees remain to replace the ones that have died."

Submission + - TRex Genetic Material Decoded

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CarnivoreMan

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @04:47PM

CarnivoreMan writes: "Your dream of training a Tyrannosaurus Rex to do your bidding is one step closer to fruition. Per duplicate articles at Fox and The Daily News: "Researchers have decoded genetic material from a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, an unprecedented step once thought impossible. "The door just opens up to a whole avenue of research that involves anything extinct," said Matthew T. Carrano, curator of dinosaurs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History."

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