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Comment: Re:Or (Score 3, Funny) 237

by PolygamousRanchKid (#43773753) Attached to: Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines

$CONSPIRACYTHEORY

Ooh, ooh . . . let me play . . . I'm good at this!

"The government has been working on vaccines that cause autism to use against political enemies by the IRS, which will be running Obamacare, which is why the IRS sorted out the political enemies' tax exemption forms, because those political enemies are against Obamacare, so they won't get the Obamacare autism causing vaccines, which is why the IRS planned to delay processing the tax exemption forms, until the paper borne version of the virus could complete testing in Libya, but the Libyans discovered that the IRS papers distributed to them by the US embassy were the cause of their autistic births, and then stormed the embassy, which was covered up by the government to look like an average Islamic riot, which was working, until the Associated Press found out about it, and was planning to publish, but IRS found out about that, and told then the FBI to tap the phone lines of the Associated Press, so they could find all the journalists and the government leaks, so they could be given a potent adult version of the autistic causing vaccine, and therefore silence them all up, and so this is why the Associated Press reporters are acting all autistic now, and . . . "

+ - Jolla Announces 1st Meego/Android-App Device Available Year End 2013

Submitted by x_IamSpartacus_x
x_IamSpartacus_x writes "Jolla, the Finnish company that continued Nokia’s work on the MeeGo mobile platform, announced details of its first smartphone on Monday. Availability for the Jolla device is expected by year end and can be pre-ordered now; the phone will be priced at no more than €399 (US $512.26).
The Jolla hardware looks similar to that of Nokia’s Lumia, with a clean, button-less front face that houses the 4.5-inch touchcscreen.The phone will use a dual-core processor and support 4G LTE in some regions. Internal storage tops out at 16 GB, but can be expanded via microSD card. The phone also includes an 8 megapixel rear camera with auto focus.
The phone is also “Android app compliant” which, in a move similar to that of BlackBerry, can help with available apps at launch."

+ - Jolla Promises Sailfish Phone by End of 2013->

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes "Jolla has announced the first phone to use Sailfish, the new name for the MeeGo Linux-based mobile operating system which originated in Nokia. Jolla says the phone's coloured cases are more than just covers — they are an "other half" of the phone which will change and customise the appearance and functions of software on the phone."
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Comment: Re:Ugh (Score 3) 255

by PolygamousRanchKid (#43769345) Attached to: IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update

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 . . .

+ - IBM takes System/z to the cloud with COBOL update->

Submitted by hypnosec
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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+ - Young females on the Internet defend Boston Bomber suspect->

Submitted by PolygamousRanchKid
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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Comment: Re:Depends on the electronics (Score 1) 238

by PolygamousRanchKid (#43764149) Attached to: Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US

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

by PolygamousRanchKid (#43743535) Attached to: Irish Judge Orders 'The Internet' To Delete Video

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->

Submitted by WheezyJoe
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->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
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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+ - Intel's Haswell Represents Major Advancement with Integrated Voltage Regulator->

Submitted by MojoKid
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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