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Comment Re:And more importantly... (Score 1) 364

by lordofwhee (#36591548) Attached to: One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard
And for what its worth, putting search in the start bar was a GOOD thing. I rarely ever have to go digging through the start menu hierarchy any more.

The idea there's a search bar there hasn't once gone through my head except after spending several seconds wondering where the hell the "Run..." item went. Admittedly I only use Windows for gaming purposes, but I've had it installed for quite some time (think years). The fact I cannot get used to it means either my brain is off or MS made a bad decision. This being /., you can probably figure out which I think it is.
Earth

An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen 166

Posted by timothy from the besides-me dept.
Julie188 writes "Scientists have found the first multicellular animals that apparently live entirely without oxygen. The creatures reside deep in one of the harshest environments on earth: the Mediterranean Ocean's L'Atalante basin, which contains salt brine so dense that it doesn't mix with the oxygen-containing waters above."
Image

Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts 428

Posted by samzenpus from the check-your-family-status dept.
Most kids hate having their parents join in on a discussion on Facebook, but one 16-year-old in Arkansas hates it so much he has filed suit against his mother, charging her with harassment. From the article: "An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page. Denise New's 16-year-old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no-contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting." Seems like he could just unfriend her.
Idle

Want a Body Piercing With That Server? 19

Posted by samzenpus from the this-will-only-hurt-for-a-little-while dept.
1sockchuck writes "The web hosting business is known for promotional gimmicks. But here's an unusual one: ServerBeach UK is offering a free body piercing with every new server ordered on April 1st. 'We were tired of the typical boring giveaways that have been done to death' said ServerBeach's Dominic Monkhouse. The stunt revives memories of earlier guerrilla marketing efforts by web hosts, like the 'human billboard' who was paid $7,000 to tattoo a hosting company's logo on the back of his head."
Science

Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus 205

Posted by timothy from the concealed-carry-in-australian-waters dept.
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from an AP report: "Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal. The scientists filmed the veined octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, selecting halved coconut shells from the sea floor, emptying them out, carrying them under their bodies up to 65 feet (20 meters), and assembling two shells together to make a spherical hiding spot. ... 'I was gobsmacked,' said Finn, a research biologist at the museum who specializes in cephalopods. 'I mean, I've seen a lot of octopuses hiding in shells, but I've never seen one that grabs it up and jogs across the sea floor. I was trying hard not to laugh.'"
Open Source

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.
diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."
Idle

Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus from the type-A-negative-personality dept.
trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."
The Internet

Submission + - Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Believe it or not, it wasn't iternet.com or dot.com that was purchased when the Internet was "born." Instead, it was the somewhat off-the-wall name of symbolics.com. The Symbolics company was the first to use an internet domain name to guide Internet viewers to its line of Lisp machines, which were single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. XF.com Investments, which is a Missouri-based Internet investments firm, has managed to secure the domain name from its original owner for an undisclosed sum and XF's CEO was quick to proclaim his excitement over the acquisition. It's hard to say why this domain name was the first purchased back on March 15, 1985, but for obvious reasons it holds a special place in history. There has been one original owner for nearly 25 years. Over that time, we've seen the Internet grow to the tune of 180,000,000+ registered domains, and thousands more are being added each and every day."
Idle

Submission + - NZ woman fired for using uppercase in email (nzherald.co.nz)

Submitted by
tomachi
tomachi writes: "This is hilarious. An accountant in NZ has been awarded $17,000 NZD for unfair dismissal after her boss fired her without warning for using uppercase letters in a single email to co-workers. The email, which advises her team how to fill out staff claim forms, specifies a time and date highlighted in bold red, and a sentence written in capitals and highlighted in bold blue. It reads: "To ensure your staff claim is processed and paid, please do follow the below checklist.""

Comment Re:Corporate executives are SOO much better right? (Score 1) 594

by lordofwhee (#28922807) Attached to: "Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas

There is only one real difference between public and private management of the economy: The government is, at least mildly,ACCOUNTABLE.

I don't know what government YOU'RE talking about, but surely it cannot be the US government that can simply refuse to comment and reasonably expect every news station to instead report on where Michael Jackson is being buried (breaking news: OR MAYBE HE ISN'T!!!).

Comment Re:I disagree (Score 1) 634

by lordofwhee (#28823707) Attached to: Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease"

I think its quite healthy to dislike ( ok, hate ) an entity whose stated goal is to wipe you from the face of the earth. We arent talking about some bully in a school yard, we are talking about a well funded organized corporation that wants you eradicated..

Work to prevent them causing damage and reverse what damage they do cause, but don't hate them. Hating them clouds your judgment.

Worse, hate validates their actions. It proves that what they're doing is working.

Comment Re:Making the world a better place. (Score 1) 288

by lordofwhee (#28661577) Attached to: ImageShack Hacked, Security Groups Threatened
If proof-of-concept code is never released, what's to motivate the vendors to release a patch? If nobody actually exploits a vulnerability, Joe Q. Public isn't going to care that someone could (even if they did, most people don't care...).

Plus, if a white hat gets their hands on the exploit code, they may be able to release a patch well before the vendor can, or at least try to mitigate the possible damage caused (saying 'program x is vulnerable to a buffer overflow!' isn't useful to ANYBODY). Full disclosure has worked so far, why do we need to change it?

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