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Scientists Say Toads Can Predict Earthquakes 66

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 01, 2010 @04:38AM from the does-the-toad-think-it's-safe? dept.

reillymj writes "Researchers claim toads sensed a severe earthquake last year five days before it hit. Last spring's L'Aquila earthquake devastated the medieval city of the same name in Italy. Five days earlier, a group of biologists noticed some toads behaving strangely in a pond nearby that would later be the quake's epicenter."

Comment Re:How is this worth it? (Score 1) 242

by HistoricPrizm on Thursday March 05, 2009 @05:11PM (#27082525) Attached to: Amazon.com To Accept Game Trade-Ins

And, if you're in the market for a new game, that missing $3.46 can be easily made up by the 10% off a new game they're offering if you trade in a game in the next two weeks.

FBML Essentials 85

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 02, 2009 @02:12PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

stoolpigeon writes "Facebook became the largest worldwide social site in the middle of last year. If their current pace holds they will pass MySpace as number one in the US some time next year. Those numbers have led a number of people to strike out and develop Facebook applications, hoping to grab a piece of that huge audience. One aspect of writing such applications is knowing Facebook Markup Language, which has been described as the icing on the Facebook API cake. FBML Essentials aims to be the resource that provides hopeful application writers with what they need to use FBML successfully." Keep reading for the rest of JR's review.

How Do You Manage Your SD Card Library? 485

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @03:46AM from the sticky-notes dept.

txmadman writes "Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children, I have several SD , mini-SD, and micro-SD cards for various purposes: cameras, cell phones, my laptop, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant storage, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose SD card was whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen SD card 'wallets' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your SD cards?"

Comment Re:How are they storing this data? (Score 1) 58

by HistoricPrizm on Friday December 19, 2008 @09:18AM (#26171637) Attached to: Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps

It's a data dump, not the filtered results that you're referring to. Think of how much you type every day, and then think of how much of that is data useful for stealing your money/credit/identity.

FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations 409

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 11, 2008 @02:20PM from the was-that-print-too-fine-for-you? dept.

Brett Smith writes "This morning the Free Software Foundation filed suit against Cisco for violations of the GPL and LGPL. There's a blog post with background about the case. The full complaint is available too." The short version, as excerpted by reader byolinux, is that "in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library. In doing so, Cisco has denied its users their right to share and modify the software."

Comment Re:How convenient! (Score 2, Insightful) 857

by HistoricPrizm on Thursday October 09, 2008 @02:10PM (#25311765) Attached to: Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over

Evolution IS the response to the environment and life-affecting issues. Evolution is, in a manner of speaking, random genetic mutations that result in having a better chance of surviving those environmental changes. So, yes, modern medicine is definitely a factor in keeping people from passing on their genes. Take for example, a childhood leukemia victim. If modern medicine saves that child, that child now has the ability to pass on whatever genes predisposed them to that leukemia. Now, I'm not saying that that person shouldn't be saved, but it serves to support both the article and the medicine aspect. Society's support of curing leukemia, combined with the ability to do so, have limited the evolutionary path.

Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax 154

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 03, 2007 @10:14AM from the too-good-to-be-true dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The author of the Windows Vista keygen that was reported yesterday has admitted that the program does not actually work. Here is the initial announcement of the original release of the keygen, and here is the followup post in which the same author acknowledges that the program is fake. Apparently, the keygen program does legitimately attack Windows Vista keys via brute force, but the chances of success are too low for this to be a practical method. Quote from the author: 'Everyone who said they got a key is probably lying or mistaken!'"

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