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7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail 320

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 19, 2010 @07:40PM from the gasoline-and-head-shots dept.

Whether they spoil in the heat, freeze in the winter, or get taken out by a human-friendly venue of vultures, a zombie outbreak is unlikely to succeed. Here's 7 reasons why we should stop worrying about the shambling dead and start concentrating on a real threat: sparkly vampires.

Salad Spinner Made Into Life-Saving Centrifuge 87

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @10:49AM from the kitchen-and-lab-equipment dept.

lucidkoan writes "Two Rice University students have transformed a simple salad spinner into an electricity-free centrifuge that can be used to diagnose diseases on the cheap. Created by Lauren Theis and Lila Kerr, the ingenious DIY centrifuge is cobbled together using a salad spinner, some plastic lids, combs, yogurt containers, and a hot glue gun. The simple and easily-replicated design could be an invaluable tool for clinics in the developing world, enabling them to separate blood to detect diseases like anemia without electricity."

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!"

xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 22, 2010 @12:39PM from the a-different-breed dept.

xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.

How Will Recent Financial Downturns Affect IT Jobs? 372

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 11, 2009 @05:30PM from the queue-management-gets-new-significance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "So, with the financial crisis and loss of jobs everywhere, what are the chances of getting a good IT job? I'm going to graduate this year with a BS in Software Engineering majoring in Network Security. I'll be looking for a job as a penetration tester eventually, but I hear that is hard to get right out of college so I'll be looking for a job as a Junior Network Admin or similar type of job to start off in. Is there a lack of jobs in this field? I figure computers always need fixing so they have to have some sort of IT personnel on staff to maintain the core of their business. Anyone have a good insight on this issue?"

Comment Re:Umm, Carbon-2 and Carbon-3? (Score 1) 208

by cloudious on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @08:13PM (#25982901) Attached to: Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System

I fully understand that, but they still use subscripts to denote number of atoms in a compound, not hyphens. Those conventions do not vary.

Comment Umm, Carbon-2 and Carbon-3? (Score 3, Insightful) 208

by cloudious on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @07:31AM (#25973531) Attached to: Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System

I'm fairly certain that isotopes of carbon with those masses is impossible unless this comet also contains some neat subatomic particles with anti-mass as well.

The original article has it correct with the 2 and 3 as subscripts. Leave isotopic notation to isotopes.

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