mayhemt - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Reason? (Score 1) 430

by mayhemt on Saturday July 22, 2006 @09:14PM (#15764598) Attached to: Feds Arrest Private Eye at HOPE

I contract (maintaining credit cards etc) for a federal company (cant tell u the name)...& i had to deal with someone from experian (one of the big fat credit bureaus) for credit scores....according to him, all you need is a name & probably address, they can give you social security number, & the whole credit history, for 9 cents!!!! (if you buy scores for like 100K persons!!!!) talk about privacy there..

Cosmic Radiation Speeds up Aging in Space? 218

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 22, 2006 @06:27PM from the space-raisins dept.

SpaceAdmiral writes "The Theory of Relativity tells us that the faster a person travels the slower time passes for that person relative to someone left on Earth. This means that traveling at high velocities in a spacecraft should reduce one's aging. However, recent research suggests that cosmic radiation may counteract that anti-aging effect. Iron-nuclei radiation affects the aging of cells, which is possibly one of the reasons astronauts who have been to the Moon tend to get cataracts about 7 years earlier than other astronauts."

CentOS 4.3 Multi-Platform Release 172

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @09:24PM from the with-that-new-os-cent dept.

hughesjr writes "The CentOS development team has announced the availability of CentOS-4.3 for the i386, x86_64, and ia64 architectures. Major changes in this version of CentOS include: upgraded update system - this new system provides more that 100 total mirrors for updates and picks geographically close and non-stale mirrors based on our master server's content; Frysk, InfiniBand Architecture (IBA), and z/VM hypervisor added; see the release announcement for more information. ISO's are also available for download on their site."

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