Comment Re:A few items (Score 1) 338
In all seriousness I keep an 8" TANDY floppy disk in a drawer to amaze people with. The uninitiated tend to believe it's a novelty item.
New Virus Jumps From Monkeys To Lab Workers 160
sciencehabit writes "It started with a single monkey coming down with pneumonia at the California National Primate Research Center in Davis. Within weeks, 19 monkeys were dead and three humans were sick. Now, a new report confirms that the Davis outbreak was the first known case of an adenovirus jumping from monkeys to humans. The upside: the virus may one day be harnessed as a tool for gene therapy."
Comment Re:Toothpaste (Score 1) 554
I would mod this up if I could. Oil has saved the tracks off many a CD for me in the past. I recommend 3-in-1 small machine oil.
EU Court Says File Sharers Don't Have To Be Named 52
Stony Stevenson writes "European Union countries can refuse to disclose names of file sharers on the Internet in civil cases, the EU's top court said. The European Court of Justice has ruled on a dispute between Spanish music rights holders association Promusicae and Spain's top telecoms operator Telefonica over Telefonica's Internet clients who shared copyright material on the Web. Telefonica argued that, under a national law based on EU rules, it only had to disclose the name of an Internet subscriber for criminal actions, not civil ones. But the court said: 'Community law does not require the member states, in order to ensure the effective protection of copyright, to lay down an obligation to disclose personal data in the context of civil proceedings.' I wonder if this ruling will have any effect on other cases in other countries."
Comment ACK! (Score 0, Offtopic) 81
According to IDC, storage capacity is exploding at a rate of almost 60% per year.
Quick! Someone back up all of the porn before we lose it all!
Quick! Someone back up all of the porn before we lose it all!
