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Comment Re:This was the logical end (Score 1) 453

by nihongomanabu on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:51PM (#36677256) Attached to: Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery!

They hated us for our way of life (rightly or wrongly.. doesn't matter at this point)

This is a fallacy created so the real reason terrorism exists, America's heavy-handed-holier-than-thou foreign policy, doesn't come to light. If we would treat other nations and their populations with something resembling respect, terrorism would recede to mere background noise. Then maybe we could start focusing on stuff that matters, but talk like that doesn't get any votes.

Comment Re:Another scam (Score 2, Funny) 205

by nihongomanabu on Thursday August 27, 2009 @10:10PM (#29226199) Attached to: Hackers (or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware on CD

A friend of mine in university got in a bit of trouble when he spoofed the reply address in a joke email. The IT dept wasn't happy they had to explain to a student that they didn't really get an email from god@heaven.com.

Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins 268

Posted by timothy on Monday April 13, 2009 @12:06AM from the going-on-the-beg-forgiveness-principle dept.

Anonymous writes "Two graduate students at the Ivy League's Brown University built a P2P system to use abandoned wiki sites to store data. The students were stealing bandwidth from open MediaWiki sites to send data between users as an alternative to BitTorrent. There was immediate backlash as site operators quickly complained to the University. The project appears to be shutdown, but many of the pages still remain on the web. The project homepage was also taken down and the students posted an apology this afternoon." The same submitter links to two different forum discussions on the project.

Amazon 1-Click Lawyers Make USPTO Work Xmas Eve 117

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 25, 2008 @07:05PM from the hey-those-guys-are-there-by-choice dept.

theodp writes "In a move that would do pre-makeover Ebenezer proud, Amazon.com's 1-Click lawyers put the USPTO to work on Christmas Eve. On Dec. 24th, the USPTO acknowledged receipt of yet another round of paperwork submitted by Amazon's high-priced legal muscle, the latest salvo in Amazon's 3-year battle to fend off a patent reexamination triggered by the do-it-yourself legal effort of actor Peter Calveley. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 1-Click patent is also under attack on another front — on Dec. 23rd, the USPTO received $810 from Amazon's attorneys together with a request that the agency invalidate Patent Examiner Mark A. Fadok's final rejection of 1-Click patent claims on the grounds of obviousness. On the bright side, patent clerks — unlike Bob Cratchit — get the day after Christmas off!"

(Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks? 238

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @06:51AM from the maze-of-twisty-stupid-tricks dept.

Wolfger writes "Continuing the recent (useful) stupid theme: I've recently become a BlackBerry user, and I'm in love with the obvious(?) tricks, such as installing MidpSSH to access my home box remotely. But I'd like to know what more experienced Crackberry addicts can share."

Multiple Asteroid Belts Found Orbiting Nearby Star 135

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @07:59PM from the no-word-on-asteroid-suspenders dept.

Kligat writes "Scientists have found two asteroid belts around the star Epsilon Eridani, the ninth closest star to our solar system. Epsilon Eridani also possesses an icy outer ring similar in composition to our Kuiper Belt, but with 100 times more material, and a Jovian mass planet near the edge of the innermost belt. Researchers believe that two other planets must orbit the 850 million year old star near the other two belts. Terrestrial planets are possible, but not yet indicated."

Comment Re:AUGGGHHH (Score 3, Insightful) 473

by nihongomanabu on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @09:15PM (#24577439) Attached to: Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition

As far as I know, fire/cooking predates farming. Most estimates place the origins of farming 10,000 years ago, and according to the summary, cooking developed 200,000 years ago. So while humans may have been cooking wild plants, I imagine a major advantage of cooking was allowing you to store meat much longer.

You're right about civilization being based on high calorie domesticated agriculture, but your timing is a little off.

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