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Comment Re:Funny in summary (Score 1) 392

by fearanddread on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @12:21PM (#33872734) Attached to: Economy Puts US Nuclear Reactors Back In Doubt

Part of that was Enron: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/02/eveningnews/main620795.shtml

Comment Re:proof (Score 1) 125

by fearanddread on Monday August 23, 2010 @03:03PM (#33346326) Attached to: Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web

youporn is breaking into the big time.

Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company 406

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @01:59PM from the dog-ate-it dept.

markass530 writes "An iPhone insurance carrier says that four in six claims are suspicious, and is worse when a new model appears on the market. 'Supercover Insurance is alleging that many iPhone owners are deliberately smashing their devices and filing false claims in order to upgrade to the latest model. The gadget insurance company told Sky News Sunday that it saw a 50-percent rise in claims during the month Apple launched the latest version, the iPhone 3GS.'"

Grateful Dead Percussionist Makes Music From Supernovas 57

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 29, 2010 @10:59AM from the music-of-the-exploding-spheres dept.

At the "Cosmology At the Beach" conference earlier this month, Grammy-award winning percussionist Mickey Hart performed a composition inspired by the eruptions of supernovae. "Keith Jackson, a Berkeley Lab computer scientist who is also a musician, lent his talents to the project, starting with gathering data from astrophysicists like those at the Berkeley Lab’s Nearby Supernova Factory, which collects data from telescopes in space and on earth to quickly detect and analyze short-lived supernovas. 'If you think about it, it's all electromagnetic data — but with a very high frequency,' Jackson said of the raw data. "What we did is turn it into sound by slowing down the frequency and "stretching" it into an audio form. Both light and sound are all wave forms — just at different frequencies. Our goal was to turn the electromagnetic data into audio data while still preserving the science.'"

Comment station tahoe pipeline will be gone (Score 2, Informative) 316

by fearanddread on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @08:39PM (#30745886) Attached to: US Coast Guard Intends To Kill LORAN-C

Coasties all know that the way to get a sweet station assignment like Station Lake Tahoe is to spend a year in attu. I wonder what the new pipeline will be.

Comment The Jedi Abides (Score 3, Insightful) 179

by fearanddread on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @02:49PM (#29661809) Attached to: Fans Come Together To Complete Star Wars Uncut

1:41 Big Lebowski meets SW. Brilliant!

Comment Re:Punishment doesn't fit the Crime (Score 5, Insightful) 587

by fearanddread on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @01:58PM (#29042197) Attached to: Illinois Bans Social Network Use By Sex Offenders

what's wrong is a society that treats public urination as a sex crime.

Comment Another reason to vote these bums out (Score 1) 555

by fearanddread on Friday September 26, 2008 @01:49PM (#25169683) Attached to: CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime

Check out the approval rating for the CA legislature. Bush style numbers. Can't be bothered to get the budget done on time. Complete failure. It's absolutely time to flush the entire legislature and start over.

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