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Comment Re:Is "for everyone" on the table? (Score 1) 2987

But people in uniform are always perfectly sane:

'Cannibal cop' allegedly wanted to cook woman for Thanksgiving

Prosecutors said phone and computer records showed he had been building a database of women -- complete with personal information and physical descriptions -- as part of a plot to kidnap, torture, cook and eat them.

"This case is all the more disturbing when you consider Valle's position as a New York City police officer and his sworn duty to serve and protect," the U.S. attorney, Preet Bharara, said in a statement at the time.

Comment Re:a quick (and faulted) primer on bhuddist cosolo (Score 1) 223

No, this particular temple has him reborn as a Yaksha:

Yaksha (Sanskrit: ààà¥à yaká£a)[1] is the name of a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, who are caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in the earth and tree roots.

I'm not being flip here, but it essentially reminds me of a Leprechaun.

"In Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist mythology, the yaká£a has a dual personality. On the one hand, a yaká£a may be an inoffensive nature-fairy, associated with woods and mountains; but there is also a darker version of the yaká£a, which is a kind of ghost (bhuta) that haunts the wilderness and waylays and devours travelers, similar to the raká£asas."

According to the temple, Steve Jobs hasn't gotten angry yet, so he's still in the "inoffensive nature-fairy" phase and not the "haunting the wilderness and waylaying and devouring travelers phase."

  However, if he gets angry... watch out!

Submission + - Flat lens focuses without distortion (harvard.edu)

yahyamf writes: Applied physicists at the Harvard have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without the distortions of conventional lenses.

“Our flat lens opens up a new type of technology,” says principal investigator Federico Capasso. “We’re presenting a new way of making lenses. Instead of creating phase delays as light propagates through the thickness of the material, you can create an instantaneous phase shift right at the surface of the lens. It’s extremely exciting.”

Security

Submission + - Hackers Dump Millions of Records of CIA, Banks, Politicians (paritynews.com)

hypnosec writes: TeamGhostShell, a team linked with the infamous group Anonymous, is claiming that they have hacked some major US institutions including the likes of CIA, major banking institutions, accounts of politicians and has posted those details online. The dumps comprising of millions of accounts has been let loose on the web by the hacking collective. The motivation behind the hack, the group claims, is to protest against banks, politicians and the hackers who have been captured by law enforcement agencies.
Businesses

Submission + - Application Development is a $9 Billion Industry (drdobbs.com)

CowboyRobot writes: "Although not as lucrative as video games or movies, Gartner projects the software application development industry to pass the US$9 Billion mark this year. They credit "evolving software delivery models, new development methodologies, emerging mobile application development, and open source software". Also in the report is a projection that "mobile application development projects targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4:1 by 2015.""

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