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Comment excuses are like old diapers (Score 1) 865

by CaptYossarian (#28551275) Attached to: Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule?
they all stink and noone wants em that sounds like a regular day in a busy armory like mine. its all about time management. i love to sleep in as late as possible (0610 usually for me) so i prep my stuff to the point where when its time to get up, im out the door in a minute tops. adjust your diet to include a healthy breakfast and many small healthful snacks. if you cant find the intestinal fortitude to sacrifice some of that me time for some real productive time, then do something to up your heartrate every time you get up to get a drink, a snack, a smoke, or go to the bathroom. as mentioned earlier, find a way to get a pullup bar near you and bang out a max set every time you do something. the better shape youre in the more energy youll have and the better youll sleep, so you can use those as building blocks to help you jump outta bed and do a quick workout-maybe a mile or two on the eliptical/exercise bike (if youre not already used to working out id advise against running because its high-impact), some situps, flutter kicks, jumping jacks, pushups....the process is continuous.
The Media

Submission + - Infomercial King Billy Mays Found Dead (foxnews.com)

Submitted by CaptYossarian
CaptYossarian writes: "Television pitchman Billy Mays who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday" Fox News reported today that Mays, 50, was found dead earlier this morning. Foul play is not suspected.
Image

NIH Spends $400K To Figure Out Why Men Don't Like Condoms 844

Posted by samzenpus from the as-obvious-as-the-rubber-nose-on-your-face dept.
The National Institutes of Health has given $423,500 to researchers at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute to figure out why men don't like to wear condoms. The institute will also study why men have trouble using condoms and investigate "penile erection and sensitivity during condom application." "The project aims to understand the relationship between condom application and loss of erections and decreased sensation, including the role of condom skills and performance anxiety, and to find new ways to improve condom use among those who experience such problems," reads the abstract from Drs. Erick Janssen and Stephanie Sanders, both of the Kinsey Institute.
Censorship

Submission + - Researchers Find Gaps in Iranian Filtering (securityfocus.com)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "With all the turmoil and internet censorship in Iran making it difficult to get an accurate picture of what's going, security researchers have found a way to analyze gaps in Iran's filtering by analyzing traffic exiting Iran. The short version is that SSH, torrents and Flash are high priorities for blocking, while game protocols like WoW and X-Box traffic are being ignored, even though they also allow communication. Hopefully, this data will help people think of new ways to bypass filtering and speak freely, even though average Iranians have worse things to worry about than internet censorship, now that the reformists have been declared anti-Islamic by the Supreme Leader. Given the circumstances, that declaration has been called 'basically a death sentence' for those who continue protesting."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Inside the World's Greatest Keyboard (pcworld.com)

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ThousandStars
ThousandStars writes: "PCWorld has a story detailing the creation and longevity of what it calls the "World's Greatest Keyboard," the IBM Model M. After a weak early effort, IBM convened a design team and "Their resulting 101-key design, 1984's Model M, became the undisputed bellwether for the computer industry, with a layout that dominates desktops to this day. As we peek under the hood of this legend, you'll soon see why many consider the Model M to be the greatest keyboard of all time." Today, Unicomp makes a modern Model M, which Slashdot covered earlier."
Google

Submission + - Google helps catch 'muggers' (bbc.co.uk)

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Bifurcati
Bifurcati writes: "Two Dutch men have been arrested after a boy they allegedly mugged spotted them in Google StreetView. The 14-year-old boy was pulled off his bicycle in the town of Groningen in September and robbed of his mobile phone and about 250 dollars. He found the pictures in StreetView apparently by chance and while his attackers' faces were blurred (as per Google's rules) Google gave investigators the original unobscured pictures. The bad guys were also apparently twins...or there's some clever real life photoshopping going on!"
Games

Submission + - Valve is actually releasing a Linux supported game (phoronix.com)

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ndogg
ndogg writes: "There was some speculation last year about Valve possibly releasing Linux ports of Steam when some Linux libraries were found with Left 4 Dead. Some speculated that it had nothing to do with any client libraries at all, but instead perhaps with their servers. Now there's even more reason to believe that Steam is being ported to Linux since Valve is releasing a game called Dyson with Linux listed as among the requirements."
The Internet

Submission + - Kevin Kelly's Internet Mapping Project (kk.org)

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Bram
Bram writes: "Wired editor Kevin Kelly has posted the results of "The Internet Mapping Project" on his website. He presents drawings representing a broad public's conceptualization of the Internet as a place or thing, and they make for fascinating viewing. In his words: "I've become very curious about the maps people have in their minds when they enter the internet. So I've been asking people to draw me a map of the internet as they see it. That's all. More than 50 people of all ages and levels of expertise have mapped their geography of online.""
Medicine

Submission + - Chinese passing off fake drugs as 'Made in India' (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by prapu
prapu writes: The Times of India reports "Are fake drugs manufactured in China being pushed into various African countries with the `Made in India' tag? The Indian government has long suspected this to be the case, but it now has definite evidence for the first time. " http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/China/Chinese-passing-off-fake-drugs-as-Made-in-India/articleshow/4633377.cms
Social Networks

Submission + - Iranians Prove You Can't Unplug Twitter (channelinsider.com)

Submitted by
dasButcher
dasButcher writes: "Looks as those Iran tried disconnecting the country from the Internet (http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/06/iranian-traffic-engineering/), and is still trying to throttle traffic to keep protesters from organizing via Twitter. As Larry Walsh writes (http://blogs.channelinsider.com/secure_channel/content/web_security/iranians_prove_disconnecting_is_not_an_option.html), Iran's futile efforts to block social networking shows that Internet dependency is so high that even a toleration regime cannot simply pull the plug."
The Internet

Submission + - Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Michael Geist summarizes an important new study on file sharing from economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf. The Harvard Business School working paper finds that given the increase in artistic production along with the greater public access conclude that "weaker copyright protection, it seems, has benefited society." The authors' point out that file sharing may not result in reduced incentives to create if the willingness to pay for "complements" such as concerts or author speaking tours increases.
Image

Frog Species Discovered Living In Elephant Dung 56

Posted by samzenpus from the I've-lived-in-worse-places dept.
rhettb writes "Three different species of frogs have been discovered living in the dung of the Asian elephant in southeastern Sri Lanka. The discovery — the first time anyone has recorded frogs living in elephant droppings — has widespread conservation implications both for frogs and Asian elephants, which are in decline. Apparently the frogs feed on the many invertebrates present in elephant dung."
Education

Submission + - Valedictorian Pressured to Drop WofW Reference

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theodp
theodp writes: "Springstead High valedictorian Jem Lugo delivered a watered-down graduation speech after her original address was rejected as too real by school officials. 'Graduation is no longer about the students at all,' complained Harvard-bound Lugo after administrators put the kibosh on her blunt observations, pop culture references and affectionate digs at classmates. Among those finding the original material objectionable was her speech-plagiarizing principal, who was backed-up by a school superintendent who hadn't read Lugo's speech (and didn't see the need to do so). You can check out the attitude and platitude versions of her speech. A sample of what was found objectionable: 'First off, get money. You can't do anything without money. Do something with your life where you're able to have a steady, reliable, source of income. Gamers, I'm sorry, but farming for gold in World of Warcraft is not considered a RELIABLE, or socially-acceptable source of income.' Hardly the stuff of Lenny Bruce."
Education

Submission + - Women Engineers and Workplace Sexism

Submitted by yali
yali writes: Women in traditionally male-dominated fields like math and engineering face the extra burden that their performance, beyond reflecting on them individually, might be taken as broader confirmation of stereotypes if they perform poorly. A newly published series of experiments tested the effects of such stereotype threat among engineering students. Standardized observations showed that male engineering students who had previously expressed subtle sexist attitudes on a pretest were more likely, when talking with a female engineering student about work issues, to adopt a domineering posture and to display signs of sexual interest (such as noticeably looking at the woman's body). In the next 2 experiments, female engineering students were randomly assigned in one experiment to interact with males who had endorsed different levels of subtle sexism, and in a second experiment with an actor who randomly either displayed or did not display the domineering/sexual nonverbal behaviors. Women performed worse on an engineering test after interacting with the randomly-assigned sexist males (or males simulating sexists' nonverbal behavior). In another experiment, women's poorer performance was shown to be limited to stereotype-related tests, not a broad cognitive deficit. In a final experiment, interacting with a domineering/sexually interested male caused women to have temporarily elevated concern about negative stereotypes, which they subsequent attempted to suppress (thought suppression being a well-known resource hog). The results indicate that even subtle sexism can be toxic in workplace environments where women are traditionally targets of discrimination.

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