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Comment: Re:Depends on the electronics (Score 1) 153

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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+ - JavaScript Is Eating the World->

Submitted by Nerval's Lobster
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?->

Submitted by alphadogg
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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Comment: Re:Cicadas (Score 1) 622

by PolygamousRanchKid (#43711543) Attached to: UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects?

Here on the East Coast we're about be inundated with the 17-year cicadas (Brood II).

TSA: What is the purpose of your trip to the US, sir?

Passenger: I have come to eat your 17-year cicadas . . .

TSA: . . . um . . . ok . . . now if you'll just go down the hall with those gentlemen pointing the guns at you . . .

+ - New Strain of "Superwheat" Could Be An Answer To Food Security Concerns 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "A new, bigger, stronger strain of wheat has been created by British scientists who bred the "superwheat" by combining a modern wheat variety with an ancient one. Scientists at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany say that the U.K.'s wheat yields could increase by as much as 30 percent by introducing the new strain of synthetic wheat."

+ - UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects?->

Submitted by PolygamousRanchKid
PolygamousRanchKid writes "The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects. The Food and Agriculture Organization on Monday hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilized food for people, livestock and pets.

Insects are "extremely efficient" in converting feed into edible meat, the agency said. Most insects are likely to produce fewer environmentally harmful greenhouse gases, and also feed on human and food waste, compost and animal slurry, with the products being used for agricultural feed, the agency said. "Insects are everywhere and they reproduce quickly," the agency said, adding they leave a "low environmental footprint."

The agency noted that its Edible Insect Program is also examining the potential of arachnids, such as spiders and scorpions, although they are not strictly speaking insects."
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