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Submission + - Chinese Magical Hard-Drive (jitbit.com)

Submitted by jamax
jamax writes: From TFA: "A Russian friend .... works at a hard-drive repair center in a Russian town, located near the Chinese border. A couple of days ago a customer has brought a broken 500Gb USB-drive that he had bought in a Chinese store across the river, for an insanely low price. But the drive was not working: if you, say, save a movie onto the drive, playing the saved movie back resulted in replaying just the last 5 minutes of the film."
    Apparently the contents of the external HDD box included: two nuts, glued to the inner surface of the box with a 128MB flash drive wedged between them (image)..
  And it was a clever hack too — if ever an attempt was made of writing a file that's too large it got sort of cycled — rewriting itself over and over from the beginning, while leaving the existing files intact. And it reported everything correctly — file sizes and all!
Idle

Submission + - Blank sex book becomes bestseller (ibtimes.com)

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "A book titled — "What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex" — containing blank pages has been lapped up by youths, making it a bestseller at Amazon. British author Sheridan Simove's book with 200 blank pages implies that men think of absolutely nothing apart from sex."
Science

Atomic Weight Not So Constant 147

Posted by kdawson from the thulium-and-thalium dept.
DangerousBeauty writes "Yahoo has a Canadian Press story up about new changes to the periodic table of elements concerning the weights of specific elements — it seems that the weights fluctuate based on where they are found in nature. Quoting: '"People are probably comfortable with having a single value for the atomic weight, but that is not the reality for our natural world," says University of Calgary associate professor Michael Wieser.' He is is secretary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry's Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Weights."

Comment Oh gods.... (Score -1, Troll) 473

by jamax (#34457470) Attached to: Medical Researcher Rediscovers Integration

Oh gods.... I'm not overly sentimental (I think), but I've almost cried over humanities' fate after reading the abstract..

This.. clown (it's the nicest epithet I can think of, since it imples at worst an improper attempt at joke) is called a researcher.. He or she comes daily to his/her work (I assume) to this Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY and probably even wears some sort of white labcoat (when not busy with composing doctorate about exciting new uses for those holes and buttons which exist on the front of his/her coat.. ("You just wait till I tell you what happens if you combine the two! You'll never guess! I'll call the process "Tais' button-hole pairing bond" and win a Nobel!")

Honestly, I can't understand how THIS could happen anywhere.. I'm just sad now...
The Internet

Submission + - Wikileaks Vows Release '7x' Bigger Than Iraq Logs (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Wikileaks has promised to release a load of information seven times bigger than the Iraq War Logs, which raised the Internet group's profile around the world and caused some nations to take notice of the issue of leaks of top-secret documents online. In a note on Twitter, Wikileaks said, 'Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs. Intense pressure over it for months,' and asked supporters to continue donating to the cause. A District Court in Stockholm last Thursday decided to detain Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 'on probable cause suspected of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.' Wikileaks did not say what the new release of information would be about.
Botnet

US Reigns As Most Bot-Infected Country 121

Posted by samzenpus from the we're-number-one dept.
Trailrunner7 writes "The US has by far the highest number of bot-infected computers of any country in the world, with nearly four times as many infected PCs as the country in second place, Brazil, according to a new report by Microsoft. The quarterly report on malicious software and Internet attacks shows that while some of the major botnets have been curtailed in recent months, the networks of infected PCs still represent a huge threat."

Submission + - One giant leap for Big Brother (wired.com)

Submitted by JerryQ
JerryQ writes: It is a simple step from this new technology to record sounds in public places, including stadiums, the microphones will not need to be in a circle, and, after the event, replay any conversation within range. The scope for intrusion is truly terrifying. At least here in the UK the government would never sanction it. mmmph.

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