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Police Publish 'An Introduction To PEDO BEAR' 324

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @11:42AM from the please-stop-getting-older dept.

According to this article, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department knows that Pedobear is an Internet joke, but that hasn't stopped them from trying to warn the public about him. Their most recent tool in the fight against internet memes is this public safety information bulletin entitled: "An Introduction to PEDO BEAR." I look forward to the bulletin warning parents about the dangers of children playing in Chocolate Rain.

Comment Re:Wow. (Score 1) 228

by ttyRazor on Thursday July 22, 2010 @04:01PM (#32995050) Attached to: The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel

In the product description on the brewer's site they claim the animal pelts were obtained from roadkill.

Comment Re:Tastes like iPad (Score 2, Insightful) 230

by ttyRazor on Friday May 21, 2010 @09:23AM (#32292156) Attached to: iPad Steering Wheel Mount

er, air bag

Microsoft Clears MechWarrior4 Free Launch 131

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday April 22, 2010 @03:36AM from the done-and-done dept.

Vamman writes "If you've been following the drama surrounding the free release of MechWarrior4, then you're probably aware that the initial announcement, made last summer, was a bit premature. Now, nearly a year since that announcement was made, MekTek Studios has announced that Microsoft Legal has given clearance for the free release of Mechwarrior4. This move by Microsoft Games couldn't come at a better time for the community, as the owners of MechWarrior are attempting a reboot of the franchise."

Comment Re:Design patent != Normal Patent... (Score 1) 390

by ttyRazor on Thursday September 03, 2009 @12:07PM (#29300741) Attached to: Google Patents Its Home Page

imagine car manufacturers making identical (not just closely resembling) exteriors. The idea is to be able to recognize something not just by the label or logo (trademark), but by the shape and appearance of the thing itself.

Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves 553

Posted by timothy on Friday August 21, 2009 @07:57AM from the check-my-belly dept.

eldavojohn writes that though gravitational waves are "predicted to exist by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, the initial tests run by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Scientific Collaboration (LIGO) failed to find anything. It doesn't disprove their existence although it does rule out a subset of string theory. From the article, 'For example, some models predict the existence of cosmic strings, which are loops in space-time that may have formed in the early universe and gotten stretched to large scales along with the expansion of the universe. These objects are thought to produce bursts of gravitational waves as they oscillate. Since no large-amplitude gravitational waves were found, cosmic strings, if they exist at all, must be smaller than some models predict.' The scientists working in Washington and Louisiana (in tandem to rule out flukes) will now move on to Advanced LIGO which will analyze a volume of space 1,000 times larger. If they don't find any gravitational waves in that experiment, the results will be more than unsettling to many theorists."

Comment Re:Did no one read the article? (Score 2, Insightful) 1142

by ttyRazor on Saturday June 06, 2009 @01:55PM (#28234605) Attached to: Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US

Because in far too many cases these are profits that exist overseas purely on paper.

Comment Re:No offense! (Score 1) 1142

by ttyRazor on Saturday June 06, 2009 @01:39PM (#28234491) Attached to: Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US

income - expenses = profits

paying staff is an expense. True, you get more profit if you reduce your expenses, but unless you're overstaffed cutting staff will limit your ability to bring in income.

Comment Re:Prior Art so Prior It Hurts (Score 4, Interesting) 281

by ttyRazor on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @01:30PM (#28097561) Attached to: IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation

More true than you know. A friend of mine started working for the the patent office not too long ago with the explicit instruction to reject everything that comes across his desk.

Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants 398

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:20PM from the what-could-go-wrong dept.

eldavojohn writes "What do you do when a foreign species has been introduced to your land from another continent? Bring over the natural predator from the other continent. Scientists in Texas have introduced four kinds of phorid flies from South America to fight fire ants. These USDA approved flies dive bomb ants and lay an egg inside the ant. The maggot hatches and eats away juicy tender delicious ant brain until the ant is nothing more than a zombie that wanders around for two weeks before the head falls off and the ant dies. A couple of these flies will cause the ants to modify their behavior and this will be a very slow acting solution to curb the $1 billion in damage these ants do to Texas cattle ranches and — oddly enough — electrical equipment like circuit breakers. You may remember zombifying parasites hitting insects like cockroaches."

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