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Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain 270

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 25, 2010 @12:12PM from the friends-and-really-good-friends dept.

ectotherm writes "According to Professor Peter Kelly, a director of Public Health in Great Britain: 'There has been a four-fold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected, with more young women being affected.' Why the increase? People meeting up for casual sex through Facebook. According to the article, 'Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex. There is a rise in syphilis because people are having more sexual partners than 20 years ago and often do not use condoms.'"

3-D Printer Creates Buildings From Dust and Glue 139

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 18, 2010 @02:20PM from the one-layer-at-a-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "D-Shape, an innovative new 3-D printer, builds solid structures like sculptures, furniture, even buildings from the ground up. The device relies on sand and magnesium glue to actually build structures layer by layer from solid stone. The designer, Enrico Dini, is even talking with various organizations about making the printer compatible with moon dust, paving the way for an instant moonbase!"

Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:03PM from the non-obfuscated dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"

Comment Suck it up (Score 1) 347

by Neil2526 on Saturday June 25, 2005 @08:36AM (#12908446) Attached to: Cross Skilling Across Multi-OS Platforms?

Its my thought that as the IT industry standardizes itself more in the future ALL IT folk will need to know more. Don't stick in a niche like UNIX, or even Windows for that matter, suck it all up, all the time, its the only way to win. If you are too "busy", "lazy" or "poor" to pursue the IT field like an addict who can't get enough then you will reap what you sow. There are no excuses or handouts! Successful mechanics work on more than transmissions. There is room for specilization in our field, but in a field that changes as quick as ours I think its a bad idea, unless you like to "re-specialize" every three-five years. Now, if your an M.D., its a different story as their systems (our bodies) haven't changed in thousands of years! I know an enterprise admin position can fill all your day hours (I used to be one in choclate town) but I still found ways to expose myself to as much as possible, side work/consulting helps A LOT! Realize my comments above are for those looking at the big picture and long term. Sure Microsoft or Cisco may carry your career for 10 years or so, but whats after that?

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