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The rise and rise of the cognitive elite-> 1

Submitted by hessian on Sunday January 23 2011, @01:50PM

hessian writes "As technology advances, the rewards to cleverness increase. Computers have hugely increased the availability of information, raising the demand for those sharp enough to make sense of it. In 1991 the average wage for a male American worker with a bachelor’s degree was 2.5 times that of a high-school drop-out; now the ratio is 3. Cognitive skills are at a premium, and they are unevenly distributed."
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Dominos Pizza website hacked, customer data leaked 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 23 2011, @04:06AM

An anonymous reader writes "Dominos Pizza has been in India for more than a decade now and with much enthusiasm it decided to tap into the rapidly growing internet population by launching its online ordering system late last year. Recently a hacker managed to get away with a lot of customer data by hacking into their server. Though the company is tight lipped on the extend of the damage in an apologetic letter to its customers it says that customer email id's mobile phone numbers and delivery addresses have been compromised."

Mac OS X Machines Roped Into Jnanabot Network-> 0

Submitted by Spottywot on Saturday January 22 2011, @01:24PM

Spottywot writes "Security specialist Symantec has released an analysis of the cross-platform Jnanabot worm, revealing that around 16 per cent of infections are found on Mac OS X machines.

The figures, which Symantec released earlier this week, analysed the infected machines that made up the Jnanabot botnet in December 2010, and came to a somewhat surprising conclusion

While the vast majority of machines infected by the Java-based Jnanabot worm and forming the botnet were Windows-based, 16 per cent of the network was made up of machines running Apple's Mac OS X — a platform that is often claimed to be immune to malware."
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Comment: What about birds then? (Score 1) 785

by JawzX on Friday January 07 2011, @07:02PM (#34798436) Attached to: Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons?

So, when do parrots and crows get the vote? I know parrots who are clearly smarter, more emotionally mature, and have better reasoning skills than a depressingly large portion of the US population.

Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project 687

Posted by samzenpus on Saturday January 16 2010, @05:37PM
from the duck-and-cover dept.

garg0yle writes "Police in San Diego were called to investigate an 11-year-old's science project, consisting of 'a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics,' after the vice-principal came to the conclusion that it was a bomb. Charges aren't being laid against the youth, but it's being recommended that he and his family 'get counseling.' Apparently, the student violated school policies — I'm assuming these are policies against having any kind of independent thought?"

Comment: Re:My experience (Score 1) 483

by JawzX on Thursday December 24 2009, @10:49PM (#30548696) Attached to: In total, I've downloaded X Linux ISOs, where X= ...

This is nearly identical to my own experience. Of course I have only recently switched to full time Intel hardware usage and spent many a year searching for good ways to run unix-like systems on PPC and 68K machines... and floppies, wow, I remember installing something, maybe it was NetBSD on a IIVX via floppies... and then there was all the fun with A/UX and SunOS and PPCLinux and YellowDog, and BeOS, AIX and all the fun I had with that 604 equipped CHRP reference board, and PPC Amigas, and 68k Amigas running FreeBSD and m68k distros (I think those came on floppies too now that I think about it!) and QNX and Darwin and fuck I don't know what else. I never could get my grubby little hands on a NeXT box though...

Then in 2001 I Installed OSX server 10.1.1 on my Beige G3 tower and never went back. I still have those CDs with the green marker on them saying "OSX Server 10.1.1 ISOs" I may frame them.

Thats about the time I began to spend less time here on Slashdot too...

Comment: Re:Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447 (Score 1) 884

by JawzX on Saturday June 06 2009, @10:04AM (#28232545) Attached to: Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447?

On a complete randon tanget probability is proof that time is not infinite: if time were infinite all things would have an equal probability of happening. perhaps we don't have large enough samples yet, but there are certian things that are just VASTLY more likely to happen than others and this seems to support a non-infinite timeline.

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