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Submission + - Emoticons in the Workplace

Submitted by Platonic on Monday July 30, 2007 @10:28AM

Platonic writes: According to the New York Times, the Emoticon has become much more than something the kids do after school. The little guys seem to have found their way into the workforce: being used by stock brokers and even the U.S. Military.
From TFA: "I mean, it's ludicrous," said Ms. Feldman, 25. "I'm not going to feel better about losing hundreds of thousands of dollars because someone puts a frown face to regretfully inform me."

Submission + - Author: How cheaters are winning at online games

Submitted by BobB on Monday July 30, 2007 @10:01AM

BobB writes: An interview with security expert Gary McGraw, co-author of the new book "Exploiting Online Games," which explains how cheaters are winning at online role-playing games such as World of Warcraft where millions of players compete in the virtual world to win battles or treasure that is sometimes later sold to avid game players for real money. McGraw says cheaters use specialized "bots" that manipulate online gaming activity to their advantage. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/072707-onlin e-games-dirty-secrets.html

Comment Re:Why are people allowed to possess guns in the U (Score 1) 2661

by gdavidp on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @02:03AM (#18778523) Attached to: Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting

Please, please, please, get your facts straight: The first case of SARS appeared in November 2002. It killed 800 people around the world, including 44 in Toronto. The disease killed 350 in China. That country later ordered the killing of some 10,000 civet cats, suspected to be carriers of SARS. The weasel-like mammals are considered a delicacy in Guangdong and are served in wild-game restaurants.

Submission + - Shimmering holograms to check anticancer drugs

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @01:41PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "Physicists at Purdue University have developed a new digital holographic imaging system. This device permits to watch in 3-D how anticancer drugs fight tumors. It uses a laser which does not harm living tissues and a common microchip used in your digital cameras to see inside tumor cells. The real innovation of this system is that the holograms generated are not permanently recorded. These shimmering holograms recorded on holographic film "change in time, tracking and adjusting to changes in the image intensity and phase," according to one of the researchers. Of course, this device can have other applications in drug development and medical imaging. Read more for additional details showing how the researchers are working on their digital holographic imaging system."

Submission + - New DST to cost $350 million?

Submitted by

ktappe

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @01:32PM

ktappe writes: "An analyst at Forrester Research estimates the daylight saving time (DST) switch coming this Sunday will cost the average company $50,000 in time and labor expenses — a conservative figure that doesn't take into account missed airline flights or forgotten appointments. That's a total of $350 million for the 7,000 publicly traded companies in the U.S. Is this another case of an analyst pulling numbers out of the air, or will we really be paying a high price for earlier DST?"

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