No kidding. What kind of snob asks how to actively and passively cool a city that has been around longer than almost any other city on the planet. I can seriously imagine some ridiculous sandal wearing tree hunger walking around Cairo right now dripping all over the place bitching and moaning about how "quaint these people are that they can't figure out how to survive in the desert. iPhone... to the Internet. Find me the the answers that have alluded this ancient civilization for millennia. While we're at it, ;let's start a blog to figure out perpetual motion so we can finally put big oil out of business."

So here's my advice. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Or in parlance... If you can't stand the heat, take your iPhone and fly back to your air conditioned hovel in New England. And try to avoid 'constructive criticism' of that 'authentic demonstrating mother' whose taken her child outside in the 'child endangering' heat... mother's always know best.

This just pisses me off more than my relatives visiting me in New Mexico and bitching about the heat... ignoring the crystal clear skies, clean air, and mosquito free evenings.

Apparently by teenagers and young adults angry at the world who like nothing more than to 'test' websites with a nice little Iranian program, complete with a GUI and tutorial. They are all to happy to share their results with as many people as possible... all for free. Normally you have to pay for that:P

And yet we wonder why there is a rash of SQL injection attacks on public websites and servers by teenagers who are pissed at the world.

Other than that lovely little sentence, you'd be correct. Generally speaking, our words are no different than traditional American English. Some might call it less sophisticated however, as we tend to leave out the colorful expressions one can use with words such as "Dawg," "Brah" and "yo' Bitch" in our daily conversations. I suspect it has something to do with our conservative nature. Either way, it's quite the burden...."fa' realz!"

Exactly. It's likely they came from some sort of government employee program, like free viagra for postal workers or something... anything, I don't know. It's highly unlikely the organization (NSA) that has paper after paper detailing the need to hash passwords using a random salt to prevent rainbow attacks went ahead and stored their accounts in clear-text [*@nsa.ic.gov].

This is yet another Bobby Tables script attack against yet another site failing to use prepared statements and sanitation as suggested in every freaking doc, book, and manual for every freaking database for the last 10 years! I'm convinced this is all the result of lowest bidder and India-sourcing el Cheapo front end projects. You know, giving the job to people who don't even know what a mailing list is, let alone how to subscribe to one.

Regardless, this is not the "OMG I now have the codes to play chess with the Nuclear Launch Computer!!!! Mega LoLZ"

Float a Trojan coffee pot outside the station and watch as astronauts play snap dragon with the icy cold of space... all for a fresh cup of piping hot Java.

The advertisements will just roll in.

Rare earths are not rare. It was a horrible, horrible mistake to call them rare. Some of the elements in that family are more abundant than copper. They were coined 'rare' because as far as metals go, they are quite reactive, which makes them great for batteries, but also means they don't have much time to bond with eachother...which makes them great FOR BATTERIES! In essence, you do not find chunks of Cerium just laying around like you do, or did in some cases, as iron and boxite (aluminum) and copper. Thus they are usually found as minor, but significant, traces in other minerals and not all by themselves or as significant ores.

The largest mines prior to the mid 90s were located in the United States in Oregon, Brazil, and South Africa. There were literally Indiana Jones like warehouses full of 'rare earths' that were unneeded because the chemical properties of this family mean they are not found in huge chunks, but rather spread out in a given area. If you are digging for Lanthanum, for example, you'll end up with 'worthless' Neodymium and other metals. Prior to the mid-90s, these elements would often flip flop on the market as mines started pulling out different metals (Scandium vs Yttrium and Neodymium vs. Iridium)

China undercut global demand for the metals 20 years ago, and the World hasn't looked back since. It was an arrangement of convenience, as China started pulling out the damn stuff faster than the world could 'spend it.' No longer did lamp makers and battery manufacturers have to worry about ridiculous future contracts for rare earths. Prices stabilized quite dramatically, and the Wold loved it. China got a huge boost to a nascent technological and manufacturing industries due to the flood of foreign investment, as well as first dips on cheap metals.

The minute the so called 'Peak Earth' hits, and rare earths spike on the market because they have all 'disappeared', mines across the Globe will open up once again since it will be cost effective to sell the damn things.

So no, it will not be commercially viable to dig these elements out of the ocean floor for many many years. Keep in mind, the ocean floor is also full of gold nuggets, and the ocean itself as a vast amount of gold in solution. But just as it wouldn't be worth it to fly to the Moon where it made of gold, it isn't worth it to go panning for the stuff 1km below the ocean surface.

Anyway, 2.5 cents.

Honestly, I'm reading a lot of comments and this seems to be the only plausible idea. Either some idiot with the password was spear phished, or more likey, yet another major organization failed to sanitize their user input and somebody managed to use injection on their ass. I can easily see FOX, or another or big outfit with a twitter account, having an employee site that allows authorized personal to log in an send a 'tweet.' A script then formats the 'tweet' and sends it along to twitter. Anyway, when will people start sanitizing their data?

By the by, as funny as the parodies are ,what's with the original? The guy on the right looks like he's pointing to the ground and saying "Ah... look how close I am to the edge." And the others are just looking onward, as if to say, "Chan is a very brave man for walking so close to that edge. We should all be very proud of this very safe road that one can walk on the edge so close without falling over."

Nope. But they did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...

to make sure that thousand dollar escort treated the Senator just right.

Probably all of them... it will just make it that much more fun to watch.

"Patty, get Tom on the line. My Word isn't working and I can't check my e-mail."
"Sorry Mr. Jamison, you fired Tom and replaced him with a BORG"

You discount the money hole syndrome. I a business dig's itself into a hole, you the only way to fill it back up it to pour more money into it.

Seriously though, there are a lot of executives happily looking forward to the day they get to fire that IT guy who keeps making him feel bad. I bet they could call it Office 256 and plenty of businesses would buy it.

I didn't really feel like going into details as it's not all that clever except it gets around spam filters easy enough. All the spammer does is generate a typical spam and break up the words. The user who brought this to my attention wanted an alias forwarded to his personal mailbox I host because Hotmail doesn't even try to catch it. The poor SOB gets about 17 a day, and on a netbook it can get hard to read your e-mail in a browser full of advertisements and such when the tiny little window that actually shows your inbox is full of spammy text like that.

And since this user is my father in law... erm, sure daddy whatever you want. It took a bit of work, and a ton of help, but I did manage to fanagle a rule that catches the broken words, and so far has had a 100% positive to false-positive rating. Good enough for me :P I thought about rejecting the mail outright with a polite message containing my rule's Regex expression, but I thought it would be rude to reject an auto-forwarded e-mail as spam.

The text in incomprehensible, but the message body has an link that always points to a yahoo group message that is nothing but an advertisement. Hotmail, in it's infinite wisdom, will automatically display that page inline for some reason. Oh well, problem solved. Inboxes are full of delicious ham, and junk boxes are full of tasteless spam.

I'm the paranoid sort though. I have a tin foil hat and everything :P

To be fair, it's a vanity domain for me, but several dozen other people seem to enjoy it as well. Years ago I used the typical one in a million freebie hosting for $5/month, but hours and days of "IMAP error" and "server could not connect" changed that tune. Now Google sounded like a great idea to me as well, and I was ready to make the plunge a couple months ago. But Google is $5/user for over 10 users and it just wasn't financially viable.

So we many not be Helen of Troy (IO.com), but I don't plan on leaving my buddies flapping in the wind either. MTA's are a hassle, I'll grant that, but I will not be going back to the unlimited e-mails for $5/month anytime soon.

That's what the guy said he was making. Hell if I know. I'm not trying to champion spam, but someone is doing it and I don't think it's because they like writing about free watches. One thing is for sure, over the last few years spam has gotten to the point were inboxes are mostly full of ham, and junk boxes are mostly full of spam. I'll not complain. But in a world where people will, and can, work for peanuts whose to say how valuable spam is and isn't?

That is totally possible. For example, I will outright reject mail that is 99.9999% guaranteed spam (10 times the "spam score" threshold) before even attempting to deliver it to my user's mailbox. It doesn't save on bandwidth or anything, but it cuts down on SPAM by close to 60%.

Most mail admins aren't going to do that by default however, because there is that one in a million chance it isn't SPAM.

The war is still ongoing, and I don't care what the "Spam King" says. Spammers from the 3rd world are perfectly happy to keep it up knowing they are making twice as much as some guy laying it on the line in a crummy factory.