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Comment Re:MS Office CD Key (Score 1) 454

I used to have it memorized to, but then I took....
Bonus story:
I worked at a help desk in college; several times per week, someone would come in looking for help re-installing windows on their computer.
At least once every 6 months, they would have that key written down and I would recognize it, and have to tell them to leave. That was the best part of the job.

Cellphones

SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights 436

cylonlover writes "Researchers at MIT and Princeton have now devised a system, dubbed SignalGuru (PDF), that gathers visual data from the cameras of a network of dashboard-mounted smartphones and tells drivers the optimal speed to drive at to avoid waiting at the next set of lights." In their testing, the system saved drivers about 20 percent in fuel.

Comment Re:http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ (Score 3, Informative) 163

That is what this is for:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html
2. TLDs for Testing, & Documentation Examples
  ".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.
3. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names
      The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the
      following second level domain names reserved which can be used as
      examples.

                example.com
                example.net
                example.org

Somebody should have read the official documentation before creating their own ~

Supercomputing

Cray's CX1 Desktop Supercomputer, Now For Sale 294

ocularb0b writes "Cray has announced the CX1 desktop supercomputer. Cray teamed with Microsoft and Intel to build the new machine that supports up to 8 nodes, a total of 64 cores and 64Gb of memory per node. CX1 can be ordered online with starting prices of $25K, and a choice of Linux or Windows HPC. This should be a pretty big deal for smaller schools and scientists waiting in line for time on the world's big computing centers, as well as 3D and VFX shops."

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