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Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex 397

Posted by samzenpus from the there's-a-lap-for-that dept.
An anonymous reader writes "According to OK Cupid's survey of 552,000 user pictures iPhone users have more sexual partners than BlackBerry or Android owners. By age 30, the average male iPhone user has had about 10 partners while female iPhone users have had 12. By contrast, BlackBerry users hover around 8 partners and Android users have a mere 6. As the blog's author's wryly observe: 'Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting f*@ked by Apple.'"
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Volkswagen Creates Sewage-Powered Beetle 83

Posted by samzenpus from the 35-miles-per-burrito dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that Volkswagen is giving new meaning to the term 'Dung Beetle' with a prototype able to cover 10,000 miles annually on the waste from 70 households. The Bio-Bug was launched by Wessex Water, which is generating methane from human waste at a sewage treatment works near Bristol. 'Our site has been producing biogas for many years, which we use to generate electricity to power the site and export to the National Grid,' says one company official. 'We decided to power a vehicle on the gas, offering a sustainable alternative to using fossil fuels which we so heavily rely on in the UK.' The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association says the launch of the Bio-Bug proves that biomethane from sewage sludge can be used as fuel. 'This is a very exciting and forward-thinking project demonstrating the myriad benefits of anaerobic digestion (releasing energy from waste). Biomethane cars could be just as important as electric cars.'"
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Droid X Gets Rooted 97

Posted by Soulskill from the root-root-root-for-the-home-team dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Droid X forums have posted a procedure to root the new Motorola Droid X, putting to rest Andoid fans' fears that they would never gain access to the device's secrets due to a reported eFuse that would brick the phone if certain boot files were tampered with. Rooting the phone is the first step in gaining complete control over the device."

Comment Re:How is eMule... (Score 1) 672

by paranoia2k (#12422266) Attached to: Azureus Decentralizes Bittorrent
AFAIK the tracker has nothing to do with encouraging seeding; the tracker just keeps track of who is downloading a file, and keeps that data to anyone who connects to the tracker (and memorizes that one's adress as well).

While this may be true for many tracker sites, but there are also numerous sites (usually requiring some sort of signup) that use the tracker to track UL/DL ratios. Some of these will give extra privilages to people with good ratios, while some take things a step further and actively limit users that are leeching excessively. This is particularly effective when aren't a huge number of high-speed seeders as it keeps the overall UL/DL ratios more in balance.

Comment Re:65 TFlop is only an estimate (Score 3, Informative) 192

by foobar3149 (#10578043) Attached to: NEC Strikes Back With SX-8 Supercomputer
I just wanted to point out that is not an apples to apples comparison, and that such a comparison is not fair to either machine. For that matter, the number for the IBM machine is only a subset of BlueGene/L so then why not use the 360 TFlop projected performance of BlueGene/L as the comparison point?

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