Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 130
Insightful? Wait, what? Who's modding this? This is funny!
Comment My Aunt Betsey (Score 1) 130
If those meteorites were trying to hide she'd find them in less than a heartbeat.
Comment Good Question (Score 1) 1
Why isn't /. using HTTPS as well?
Submission + - Why isn't more of the Web using HTTPS? (arstechnica.com) 1
JDRucker writes: "You wouldn't write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it for the world to see, so why are you doing it online? Every time you log in to Twitter, Facebook or any other service that uses a plain HTTP connection that's essentially what you're doing."
Submission + - Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage' (npr.org) 2
schwit1 writes: This extraordinarily intimate account of the 1967 death of a Russian cosmonaut appears in a new book, Starman, by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony, to be published next month. The authors base their narrative principally on revelations from a KGB officer, Venymin Ivanovich Russayev, and previous reporting by Yaroslav Golovanov in Pravda. This version — if it's true — is beyond shocking.
Comment Direction (Score 1) 2
Maybe if our parents had shown each of us a compass early in life we could all have aspired to greater things! Happy Birthday Albert!
Submission + - Happy Birthday Albert Einstein 2
adeelarshad82 writes: Since we're celebrating things, let's not overlook Albert Einstein's 132nd birthday. We all the know the hair, his goofy sense of humor, the relationship between energy, mass, and light, plus it's safe to say that we all have a decent understanding of his theory of relativity. So to celebrate his birthday and get to know the man better, here are a few things we didn't know about him.
Submission + - Man hacks time square's video screens (youtube.com) 1
RichiH writes: "If what a man going by the name of BITcrash44 claims is true, a lot of video screens will soon be displaying content no one designed them to. In related news, expect many people to find out who Rick Astley is very soon."
Comment Missing Option: (Score 1) 316
Scott Walker.
Comment Rose Seeds? (Score 1) 242
Moses supposes his toses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously, Moses he knowes his toeses aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be.
Submission + - NIST puts nail in the Mercury thermometer (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: The venerable Mercury thermometer has been on its way out for a number of years and the National Institute of Standards and Technology next month may give it a final push.
On March 1, NIST said it will no longer provide calibration services for mercury thermometers. The cessation of the mercury thermometer calibration program marks the end of an era at NIST, which has provided the service since the doors opened in 1901. In fact NIST itself at one point had a stockpile of more than 8,000 industrial-use mercury thermometers hidden away in drawers.
On March 1, NIST said it will no longer provide calibration services for mercury thermometers. The cessation of the mercury thermometer calibration program marks the end of an era at NIST, which has provided the service since the doors opened in 1901. In fact NIST itself at one point had a stockpile of more than 8,000 industrial-use mercury thermometers hidden away in drawers.
Comment Re:Call Mulder & Scully! (Score 1) 100
please have it back...only so many clothes you can take off when it's too hot...under appropriate circumstances *ahem*
Comment Re:Call Mulder & Scully! (Score 1) 100
hm...but is it an *alien* sunburn? like in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Comment Call Mulder & Scully! (Score 1) 100
no one posted immediately b/c there was an alien-induced loss of time...
Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 333
It's not new until your immune system has been compromised by illness.
