5210687
submission
wjousts writes:
Technology Review has a piece on new research aimed at determining how spammers get your e-mail address.
The researchers exposed 22,230 unique e-mail addresses over five months. E-mail addresses in comments posted to a website had a high probability of getting spammed, while of the 70 e-mail addresses submitted during registration at various websites, only 4 got spammed.
5210637
submission
SciGuy writes:
I am a physics teacher for 9th graders. I really want to teach them modern electronics (something beyond the light bulb and battery).
My hope is for a project that:
1) Is fun
2) Teaches about circuits that are relevant to their life.
3) Doesn't rely to heavily on a black box microcontroller. Individual components would probably be better. (I realize that #2 and #3 are probably contradictory. They will already be programming in my class but I want them to understand the circuitry behind modern tech.)
4)It must be as cheap as possible. Yay public school. Unless some of the parts can be scrounged or found at home, I would probably want to keep the project around $5.
Thanks everyone!
5210537
submission
NoC#Skills writes:
I've been an IT Architect for about 1.5 years now, graduated 4 years ago with an IT degree from a State School, but am tired of where I'm working and would like to leave. As I've begun to talk to people, they've all said "you aren't going anywhere unless you learn how to program." I did some back in College, but haven't touched much of anything for years now. My architecture work has been mostly schematics and process work, nothing involving code of any kind, and I'm feeling like I'm becoming less and less valid in an increasingly competative IT landscape, with my lack of programming keeping me from alot of positions. Is programming for an IT employee, specifally one that wants to work with mobile devices, that critical? What's the best place to start, career wise? Or is programming going away, and I just need to focus on component integration opportunities, etc? Do people really care anymore about what languages you know?
5210019
submission
astroturfer writes:
'Amazon said that sales of Windows 7 in the first eight hours it was available outstripped those of Windows Vista's entire 17 week pre-order period"
'Because of a recent European Commission anti-trust ruling, Windows 7's European version will not be integrated with Windows' Internet Explorer, meaning that a browser will have to be installed separately'
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I remember when the BBC wrote news ...
5209901
submission
drunken_boxer777 writes:
[S]ix men emerged from a metal hatch after 105 days of isolation in a mock spacecraft, still smiling after testing the stresses that space travelers may face on the journey to Mars.
They had no television or Internet and their only link to the outside world was communications with the experiment's controllers — who also monitored them via TV cameras — and an internal e-mail system. Communications with the outside world had 20-minute delays to imitate a real space flight.
5209519
submission
Meshach writes:
An article in ars technia claims that 12% of internet users have actually responded to spam messages and tried to buy items. Although I find this hard to believe it does explain why my spam folder is always full.
