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Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 17, 2009 @09:40PM 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 Liability for missed 911 call? (Score 2, Interesting) 572

by jestill on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @12:41PM (#30459252) Attached to: Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service

If this works and someone can not get through for a 911 call, is fake Steve Jobs going to real jail?

Comment Overstock.com does not publish negative reviews (Score 5, Informative) 454

by jestill on Sunday October 04, 2009 @11:30AM (#29635255) Attached to: Do Retailers Often Screen User Reviews?

I have had my reviews not published on Overstock when they were negative. I tried multiple times to get the review online, and I quit buying anything from overstock without first finding external reviews. I have never had a review not accepted from Amazon, even when they were negative.

Submission + - Perl Monk passwords have been hacked (perlhacks.com)

Submitted by jestill on Thursday July 30, 2009 @11:02AM

jestill writes: It seems that the Perl Monks database has been compromised through some kind of security hole on the server that hosts it. That would, of course, be bad enough. But it seems that the user passwords in that database were stored in plain text. So whoever got the database, got access to the passwords of every user. Some of those passwords (those belonging to the saints and the janitors) have been shared publically. And changing your password might not help as the original vulnerability hasn't been plugged yet so the same people could grab any password that you change it to.

Submission + - Microsoft boldy patenting the study of evolution (freshpatents.com)

Submitted by jestill on Friday July 24, 2009 @03:25PM

jestill writes: It appears that US patent application #20090030925 'Clustering phylogenetic variation patterns' from Microsoft is an attempt to patent the study of evolutionary biology. The broadly written application attempts to patent the process that nearly every evolutionary biologist uses to reconstruct the tree of life. The prior art for phylogeny reconstruction is immense and is extremely well documented in the scientific literature. The applications of clustering and classification algorithms to the study of evolutionary relationships is certainly not new, and many open source programs that molecular biologist depend on make use of these approaches. Everything in biology ranging from the next wave of cancer and AIDs research to the study of relationships in Cichlid Fishes depends on these algorithms. Patenting such a core concept of basic biology could do great harm to a broad range of disciplines.

Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters 189

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 16, 2008 @03:42PM from the please-go-outside dept.

If your significant other complains that you play too much World of Warcraft, just show them this article about a user named "Prepared." He plays an amazing 36 World of Warcraft accounts on 11 different computers at the same time. He is his own raid group. "It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule," he writes. "Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft."

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