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Thieves Use Vacuum To Siphon Cash From Safes Screenshot-sm 173

Posted by samzenpus from the gone-with-the-wind dept.
Tootech writes "A gang of thieves armed with a powerful vacuum cleaner that sucks cash from supermarket safes has struck for the fifteenth time in France. The burglars broke into their latest store near Paris and drilled a hole in the pneumatic tube that siphons money from the checkout to the strong-room. They then sucked rolls of cash totaling £60,000 from the safe without even having to break its lock. Police said the gang — dubbed the Vacuum Burglars — always raid Monoprix supermarkets and have hit 15 of the stores branches around Paris in the past four years. A spokesman added: 'They spotted a weakness in the company's security system and have been exploiting it ever since.'"

Comment Re:Jesus no (Score 1) 402

by EricWright (#33370864) Attached to: Should Developers Have Access To Production?

As a developer, I agree 100% with this. However, my company doesn't provide a day-old cleaned copy of production, so I still need read-access to debug what piece of data is causing catastrophic failure in the customer billing process.

When I have all the tools I need to do my job, then no, I don't need any access to production.
When I don't have all the tools I need to do my job, I need to have the ability to look at production.
I should never be given the ability to touch production.
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Student Wants Science To Name 'Hella' Big Number Screenshot-sm 193

Posted by samzenpus from the big-way-big-and-hella-big dept.
thodelu writes "Austin Sendek, a 20-year-old UC Davis student, is trying to get scientists from Boise to Beijing to use the term 'hella' to denote the unimaginably huge, seldom-cited quantity of 10 to the 27th power. From the article: 'It started as a joke, but Sendek's Facebook petition: to the Consultative Committee on Units, a subdivision of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, has drawn more than 60,000 supporters. Its chances for formal adoption by the global weights-and-measures community are hella dim, but Google was so taken with Sendek's modest proposal that it incorporated "hella" in its online calculator.'"
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Parasite Correlated With World Cup Success 366

Posted by kdawson from the yeah-yeah-not-causation dept.
mahiskali writes "A parasite commonly found in cats, Toxoplasma gondii, has an unnerving relation to World Cup victories by country. (This parasite was discussed here twice in 2006.) Toxo can be found in almost every type of mammal, from rats to humans. The overall goal of the parasite is to end up in a feline stomach, which is the only place it can reproduce. In other mammals, humans for example, the parasite heads for the brain. It is estimated that nearly 1/3 of the human population has a latent Toxo infection, with individual countries having infection rates varying from 6% (Korea) to 92% (Ghana). Countries with greater incidence of this parasitic infection in their populations tend to win more World Cups than those without. The article, written by a Stanford University neuroscientist, goes on to try out various rationales for such a correlation, ranging from increased testosterone to increased dissent of authority — all symptoms of a Toxo infection. Now we just need to find a parasite that causes an inability to referee properly, and we'll have this whole World Cup business all sorted out."

Comment Re:Yay for common sense (Score 1) 612

by EricWright (#32771638) Attached to: Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers

Yup.. Cue up the people that spent too much for their Masters and PHD clamoring how they are far better than the unwashed masses...

Those guys must have been doing it all wrong. I spent 5 years in grad school getting my PhD and they paid ME. The average grad student taught 3-4 lab sections per semester, worked 15 hr/wk in the on-campus tutorial center or was on a research stipend. I put in for 4 lab sections AND 10 hr/wk tutoring ... was making roughly $22k/yr in the mid-late 90s. It was enough to live a frugal lifestyle and I got my degrees for free.

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