For pure age of the data I don't think you can really beat vinyl unless you get into the written word, I mean 50-60 year old albums are pretty common and I've seen stories of people doing 100 or better year old albums. Now of course it isn't very complex.... just plug the player into your computers sound in, but if all you're intrested in age I think it's pretty much unbetable unless you're counting the scanning dead sea scrolls or something.

Yes but the Jamestown colonist could be reasonably assured of finding food to eat, water to drink, air to breath, and resources to build shelter with everywhere. On mars you'd need factories just to produce each of those, factories to produce spare parts for those factories, and large scale mining to supply those factories.
Good luck shipping all of that to mars any time in the near future.
With our current level of technology we can probably get to mars, for maybe a trillion dollar mission we might even be able to stay a while. But to thrive would probably require a non trivial amount of the world's GDP working to supply such a colony for a very long time.
Just to put it in perspective it cost about a billion to put two 400 pound rovers on mars. Now think about how it would cost to put all the things that were required to build those rovers on mars and you might begin to approach the difficulty of building a thriving colony on mars. All the chip fabrication plants, all the foundries required to produce the metal, all the machines required to mine it, power plants, transport for the resources, you’d need things to make glass, plastic, 100s of different chemicals.
Baring some unimaginable break through (cheap, easy, and small fusion might do it) the best we can hope for in our life time is robot miners shipping resources back to earth and even that is probably unlikely when asteroids are so much easier to get to and back from.
Maybe we can vacation on mars in a few decades for a few billion, but anything more is science fiction at this point.

I was forced to pick up a e version of my math textbook for 70 bucks, no option but to do so since the book is tied to the eclass that the collage out sourced it's vitual classroom to. What makes it extra special is the profssor lets us take the final in person with open book... but we're not allowed to have any type of computer. So if we want to actually use the book on the final we're force to print the whole damn thing out. Collage is dumb.

Not that I agree but to play devils advocate. Do we really want to turn the stock market into any more of a ‘game’ then it’s already turned into. We’d have computers with billion dollar portfolios all bidding each other trying to find the others algorithms out. Remember when Proctor and Gamble and Accenture dropped like 99% of their value in just a few mins? Imagine that happening too 100s of stocks everyday as the computers attempt to trick each other into making mistakes. Now should this be the risk people pay for allowing a computer to do their trading? Maybe. But there is a good reason why the rule is in place.

Thank you; I had no idea why Clash of the Titans 3d felt so weak compared to Avatar's 3d.... now if only there was some way to get my money back.

Why not just use a computer to count craters? The current algorithms for optical recognition should work rather well for 'find circles'. Not that it's nice that they're involving us normal folk in their fancy science, but this is the sort of mundane task that computers are made for....

"The idea that you can hide a missile system in a box and drive it around without anyone knowing is pretty new," said Hewson, who is editor of Jane's Air-Launched Weapons.

"Nobody's ever done that before."
Most missiles on ships are.
Sure there are some that aren't but most of those are land based where conditions are a little more friendly.
Sure making it look like a shiping conatiner maybe new, but missiles in boxes is hardly cutting edge stuff.

Looks like this can be broken into three parts. First

Once they accessed the database, known as the Home Location Register (HLR), the researchers are able to determine which mobile provider a given subscriber uses, and then combine that with the caller ID data, giving them a profile of the subscriber.

But no details are given about how they got in. But really, this isn't that much more scary then a phonebook.
Second

They can spoof someone's mobile number, dial that same number using this dialing technique, and in many cases a call to a handset from that handset's number that goes to voice mail will bypass the voice-mail authentication mechanism.

I know my company, verizon, still requires your password even if you call from your number.
Third

builds upon earlier work on geolocation of GSM handsets and exposes a number of fundamental weaknesses in the architecture of mobile providers' networks.

But no further info is given...

Looks like there really isn't much news here except that maybe t-mobile doesn't require a password for voicemail if you call from your home phone number.

I know right? What are the odds that someone who just happens to find an iphone at bar takes it home and opens it ups?
Total BS. In the reall world the thing would simply be on ebay within the hour an no one would know that it was special.
The odds that the phone was left in the bar and found a person who could not only identify it as a new prototype phone but also had the curitosity to open it up in the first place.... someone should be buying lottery tickets.

Not necessarily, different people attract different bacteria; just look at why people smell differently based on what bacteria they have growing on them.
Similarly something in the Japanese gut could be encouraging the growth of this specific bacteria...
Just speculation, article was lacking about causes.

You know what the sad part is? I think of stupid crap like this all the time but then I think 'No.... No one would ever pay for that' and just forget about it.
I swear my faith in the human race is holding me back from making some serious coin.
Maybe I will move forward with my strip club/barber shop idea; I mean who wouldn't want to get their hair cut by a topless woman?

Meh I'd send it out if someone wrote one for me. It's pretty easy not to get caught, just go to a public network, launch it and NEVER take credit for it. Espically for the simpler but more brutal ones like slammer or blaster I always wondered why if it was so easy to make the worm why did no one created a quick program that deletes the worm and turns on autoupdates? Not only would it save everyone a lot of work but would also be fun to watch them fight ;)

According to Fiona Patten, Convenor of the Australian Sex Party: "We are starting to see depictions of women in their late 20s being banned because they have an A cup size."

You know I've been an independent my whole life but I think I've finally found a party I could really get behind ;)

FYI from the 4chan boards

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My blackberry connects fine as well.