Comment: Re:Incredible! (Score 1) 49
One day, humans might even be able to go into space!
One day, the IRS might even be able to go into space!
One way.
The newt was actually a human . . . he got better.
Comment: Re:Ugh (Score 1) 114
The damned thing's immortal.
IBM has found the secret to everlasting life!
Surely, there is some money to be made here?
Old COBOL programmers made a fortune with the year 2000 problem.
The exact same ones will make a fortune with the year 10000 problem. So, yeah, there must be some secret to everlasting life in all that COBOL stuff somewhere . . .
+ - Young females on the Internet defend Boston Bomber suspect->
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PolygamousRanchKid writes "A small but vocal chorus of young people, many of them female, are filling social-media sites with claims that the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings are innocent and have been unjustly accused, even "set up."
In defense of 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (identified as Jahar on his Twitter account) sympathizers have taken to the Internet to proclaim their support. On Twitter, they post with hashtags including JaharisInnocent; fightforJahar; freejahar; and FreeTheLion. More than 6,600 visitors on Facebook have "liked" The Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Free Jahar movement.
Some of the tweets are fawning and cheeky, such as this one from @freeJahar97: "Yes i like Justin Bieber and i like Jahar but that has nothing to do with why i support him. I know he's innocent, he is far too beautiful." And this one from @keepitbluntedd: "getting one of jahars tweets tattooed on me tomorrow. I guess you could say I'm a #freejahar supporter. ;)
Most, however, are in the vein of @xoangelabellexo: "I don't think Jahar is cute. I think he's innocent."
That teenage girls and twenty-something women are among the most active participants of this social-media charge comes as no surprise to experts who work with adolescents. In some ways, "there's a romanticism about him that is being connected to," says Jennifer Powell-Lunder, a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor at Pace University in New York. Supporters are drawn to "the boy next door the smart, attractive young college student.""
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Some of the tweets are fawning and cheeky, such as this one from @freeJahar97: "Yes i like Justin Bieber and i like Jahar but that has nothing to do with why i support him. I know he's innocent, he is far too beautiful." And this one from @keepitbluntedd: "getting one of jahars tweets tattooed on me tomorrow. I guess you could say I'm a #freejahar supporter.
That teenage girls and twenty-something women are among the most active participants of this social-media charge comes as no surprise to experts who work with adolescents. In some ways, "there's a romanticism about him that is being connected to," says Jennifer Powell-Lunder, a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor at Pace University in New York. Supporters are drawn to "the boy next door the smart, attractive young college student.""
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+ - IBM takes System/z to the cloud with COBOL update->
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hypnosec writes "IBM is taking its COBOL server platform to the next level by updating the mainframe platform in a bid to extend and enable its mainframes to host cloud based applications and services. The latest update is looking to add XMLS Server as well as Java 7 capabilities to the System/z COBOL platform and this update would extend the overall lifespan of COBOL by taking it up a notch and gearing it towards the cloud computing arena."
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Comment: Re:Depends on the electronics (Score 1) 213
But, yes, I'm curious why they prefer bathrooms instead of living rooms, why probably have more electronics.
Maybe they are little sexual voyeur perverts, with ant-cams . . . ? And they share what they see via chemical signals with the rest of their nest in a kinda sorta micro-ant-internet . . . or Interant . . .
Maybe folks should think about keeping anteaters as household pets . . . ?
But if that went terribly wrong, we might end up with a "Planet of the Anteaters!"
Comment: Re:Quick! (Score 1) 243
Please also download the picture of the judge Tebowing with Angelina Jolie's leg, while Clint Eastwood lectures him in a chair, in the middle of Prince Harry's strip billiard party, while an enraged taxi driver pounds on the door demanding his fare, at a Japanese spanking schoolgirl enema nurse clinic on the back of a turtle, with . . .
Reality. It's shopped photos, all the way down . . .
+ - A Computer-based Smart Rifle with Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale->
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WheezyJoe writes "A story on NPR reports that the TrackingPoint rifle went on sale today, and can enable a "novice" to hit a target 500 yards away on the first try. "The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display. The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger... But here's where it's different: You pull the trigger but the gun decides when to shoot. It fires only when the weapon has been pointed in exactly the right place, taking into account dozens of variables, including wind, shake and distance to the target. The rifle has a built-in laser range finder, a ballistics computer and a Wi-Fi transmitter to stream live video and audio to a nearby iPad. Every shot is recorded so it can be replayed, or posted to YouTube or Facebook."
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+ - Explosive Hog-Shit Foam->
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An anonymous reader writes "According to a presentation by agricultural researchers at the University of Minnesota, there's quicker, tangible ways for shit to kill us. Layers of noxious foam–up to four feet thick–collect atop vats of manure at hog farms. Working as an airseal, the foam can capture large amounts of flammable methane beneath its bubbly surface. A stray spark from a welder, a mechanical heat element, or a worker's cigarette can create flash-fires and incredible blasts, capable of incredible destruction.
While reports in the past have labeled farm explosions as "mysterious," awaiting evidence to link them to the shit bubbles, U of M's research offers some best practices for dealing with the fast-growing foam. Ventilation is key, and agitation of the stew is helpful. There is also talk of using monesin, an antibiotic generally given to cattle to help them grow faster, to treat the pits of dispair. Twenty-five pounds of monesin is effective in preventing half million-gallon tanks from foaming."
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While reports in the past have labeled farm explosions as "mysterious," awaiting evidence to link them to the shit bubbles, U of M's research offers some best practices for dealing with the fast-growing foam. Ventilation is key, and agitation of the stew is helpful. There is also talk of using monesin, an antibiotic generally given to cattle to help them grow faster, to treat the pits of dispair. Twenty-five pounds of monesin is effective in preventing half million-gallon tanks from foaming."
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Comment: Re:Marijuana? (Score 3, Funny) 212
And when you make them into hot dogs, they all taste relatively the same.
Yeah, people get the munchies when they are stoned.
Don't look at your dog that way when you get high.
Dogs can sense when someone is thinking about eating them.
Comment: Re:Only when (Score 2) 187
I suspect to see more CEOs will be developing this condition . . . right around the time to report earnings and analyst conference calls.
Comment: Re:Personality rights (Score 5, Funny) 200
In this case, googleing the name "Bettina Wulff" of the first lady would autocomplete to things like "escort" and "prostitute",
Hmmm . . . when I enter "Bettina Wulff" into amazon.de, it suggests to me:
Kunden, die Betinna Wulff gekauft haben, kauften auch: . . .
+ - Intel's Haswell Represents Major Advancement with Integrated Voltage Regulator->
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MojoKid writes "For the past decade, AMD and Intel have been racing each other to incorporate more components into the CPU die. Memory controllers, integrated GPUs, northbridges, and southbridges have all moved closer to a single package, known as SoCs (system-on-a-chip). Now, with Haswell, Intel is set to integrate another important piece of circuitry. When it launches next month, Haswell will be the first x86 CPU to include an on-die voltage regulator module, or VRM. Haswell incorporates a refined VRM on-die that allows for multiple voltage rails and controls voltage for the CPU, on-die GPU, system I/O, integrated memory controller, as well as several other functions. Intel refers to this as a FIVR (Fully Integrated Voltage Regulator), and it apparently eliminates voltage ripple and is significantly more efficient than your traditional motherboard VRM. Added bonus? It's 1/50th the size."
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+ - US Government monitoring Associated Press phone records-> 1
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Picass0 writes ""The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a 'massive and unprecedented intrusion' into how news organizations gather the news.""
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+ - JavaScript Is Eating the World->
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Nerval's Lobster writes "Sandeep Bhanot, a developer evangelist at Salesforce.com, argues that JavaScript is eating the world. "There are several trends and technologies that are coalescing at the same time to make Jeff Atwood’s famous 'law'—any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript—more true than ever," he writes. In the following column, he digs into everything from JavaScript's increasing maturity to its use in ultra-responsive UIs. "Love it or hate it, the one thing a modern developer cannot do is ignore JavaScript," he concludes. "It is slowly but surely eating your world." Do you agree?"
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+ - Sun Microsystems' stars: Where are they now?->
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alphadogg writes "Sun was founded Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy in 1982. The company went public in 1986 and was raking in $1 billion in annual sales by 1988. One of the brightest lights in Silicon Valley for more than two decades, Sun’s bread and butter was high-performance workstations and servers running Sun’s SPARC chips and Sun’s Solaris operating system. The company was also a staunch open source supporter. The recession that began in late 2007 pummeled the financial industry, which accounted for about a third of Sun revenues. The company never recovered and was sold to Oracle in 2009 for $7.4 billion. While Sun is gone, memories linger for former employees. Sun exec Mike Dillon says, "Although it has been three years since the sale to Oracle, not a week goes by that I don’t speak to some former employee or Sun partner. Most of the people have significant jobs and careers, but when describing those other jobs, they always stare wistfully away and say something along the lines of: 'but, it’s not like Sun.'”"
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