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Comment 90% of the time we are right 20% of the time (Score 1) 1058

And in other news, reports indicate fossil fuel cars will be around for the next 100 years.... anyone can perform a study and come up with this dribble. In fact 90% of the time we are right 20% of the time. I love the 8 years comment, these people need to wake up and look outside at how many people are never going to let go of there gas chugging cars, let alone in 8 years. Ha!

Comment Amazing, and they cant build a server (Score 2, Interesting) 75

by bchickens (#54388899) Attached to: Apple Becomes First US Company To Top $800 Billion Value

Just amazes me how well they do when they completely ignore business needs. No servers, No way to run virtual machines on a PC, and a MAC cant hold more than like 2 or 3... The fact that you cant buy a mac with 10 processors or 1 TB of RAM is just crazy to me. And honestly, there macbooks are outdated, expensive, and bloated..... just my 2 cents.
 
Botnet

50 ISPs Harbor Half of All Infected Machines 140

Posted by samzenpus from the dark-half dept.
Orome1 writes "As the classic method of combating botnets by taking down command and control centers has proven pretty much ineffective in the long run, there has been lots of talk lately about new stratagems that could bring about the desired result. A group of researchers from the Delft University of Technology and Michigan State University have recently released an analysis of the role that ISPs could play in botnet mitigation — an analysis that led to interesting conclusions. The often believed assumption that the presence of a high speed broadband connection is linked to the widespread presence of botnet infection in a country has been proven false."

Comment Suprised! (Score 1) 360

by bchickens (#34255010) Attached to: Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book?

I am very suprised it took this long for them to realize that the phone book is a thing of the past. Only thing I ever think of when I look at a phone book is Terminator when he is killing all the Sarah Connors in order! See? Another reason not to be in the book!
Communications

Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? 360

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i'm-in-the-book dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The first phone directory was issued in 1878, two years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and for decades regulators across the US have required phone companies to distribute directories in paper form. But now the Washington Post reports that Verizon, the largest provider of landline phones in the Washington DC region, is asking state regulators for permission to stop delivering the residential white pages in Virginia and Maryland. About a dozen other states are also doing away with printed phone books as surveys show that the number of households relying on residential white pages dropped from 25 percent in 2005 to 11 percent in 2008. The directories will be available online, printed or on CD-ROM upon request but the inches-thick white pages, a fixture in American households for more than a century, will no longer land on porches with a thud each year. 'I'm kind of amazed they lasted as long as they have,' says Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. 'But there are some people nostalgic about this. Some people like to go to the shelf and look up a number.'"
Businesses

Rural North Carolina Experiences Data Center Boom 153

Posted by CmdrTaco from the hear-that-sound dept.
1sockchuck writes "Rural counties in western North Carolina have hit the data center trifecta, landing major projects from Google, Apple and Facebook. These marquee tech companies will invest more than $2 billion in small towns like Forest City, Kings Mountain and Maiden, a town of just 3,300 residents. How did western North Carolina become a tech hub? Aggressive tax incentives and an abundant supply of cheap power, a legacy of the textile mills that once thrived in the region, which narrowly missed winning a $499 million Microsoft data center project that ended up in Virginia."
Science

Graphene Can Be Made With Table Sugar 142

Posted by timothy from the let's-grid-it-on dept.
Zothecula writes with this snippet from Gizmag: "There's no doubt that the discovery of graphene is one sweet breakthrough. The remarkable material offers everything from faster, cooler electronics and cheaper lithium-ion batteries to faster DNA sequencing and single-atom transistors. Researchers at Rice University have made graphene even sweeter by developing a way to make pristine sheets of the one-atom-thick form of carbon from plain table sugar and other carbon-based substances. In another plus, the one-step process takes place at temperatures low enough to make the wonder material easy to manufacture."

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