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Dead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones" 106

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 04, 2010 @03:55PM from the big-ocean-long-pig dept.

timothy writes "As places to study what happens to corpses, the Atlantic Ocean is both much larger and much more specialized than the famous 'body farm' in Knoxville, TN. But for all kinds of good reasons, sending human bodies into Davy Jones' locker just to see where they float and how they bloat is unpopular. Pigs don't pay taxes, and more importantly, they don't vote. So Canadian scientists have taken to using them as human-body proxies, to study what happens when creatures of similar size and hairlessness (aka, us) end up 86ed and in the drink."

Windows XP Update Library On a CD 166

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @03:22AM from the offline-bliss dept.

KrispyKofta sends us to APC Magazine for a writeup on Project Dakota, a one-man effort to provide all Windows XP SP2 updates on one downloadable CD. It's poor man's XP SP3, but even when SP3 is out, the project will continue to offer a CD that will install all patches offline. "When was the last time you installed a fresh copy of Windows XP SP2? The process is still straightforward and relatively quick... but then you think 'I'll just make sure the patches are up to date,' and proceed to stare in horror at the 100+ security updates and critical fixes that Windows Update or WSUS demands you install. And it takes forever. A better option which we've just discovered is the innovative work of Alek Patsouris... it's a self-contained boot CD which contains all the necessary updates to automatically patch a Windows XP SP2 system with all the patches available at the CD's build time."

MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building 388

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @10:13AM from the modern-architecture-means-modern-bugs dept.

theodp writes "MIT has filed a negligence suit against world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, charging that flaws in his design of the $300 million Stata Center, one of the most celebrated works of architecture unveiled in years, caused leaks to spring, masonry to crack, mold to grow, and drainage to back up. The complex, which houses a Who's Who of Computing including Tim Berners-Lee and Richard Stallman, includes the William H. Gates Building."

Submission + - Blockbuster Chooses Blu-ray (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

s31523

on Monday June 18, 2007 @09:04AM

s31523 writes: "The format war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray has posted another battle, this time the victor seems to be the Blu-ray side. Blockbuster has announced it has chosen Blu-ray as the HD format to rent out in the majority of it's stores. This decision comes after rental data was looked at for the 250 stores that carry both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray with the majority of rentals being Blu-Ray. Blockbuster now plans to stock Blu-ray only in 1450 of it's stores, but says the 250 stores with the HD-DVD movies will be kept on the shelf."

Journal Journal: Slackware 12.0 RC1 released

Journal by arun_s on Monday June 18, 2007 @07:41AM

It feels like only yesterday when I downloaded slackware 11.0, and now I see a new version's already almost released. The kernel defaults to 2.6 (finally!), and kde is somewhere at 3.5.7.

Feed FBI investigates virtual casinos in Second Life (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @08:52AM

A surge in gambling inside the virtual world coincides with a crackdown in the real world by the US government

Google Desktop for Mac Released 186

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @08:31AM from the very-frooty dept.

Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes "Google on Tuesday will release a Mac version of Google Desktop. This software, like the PC version, indexes the content of a hard drive and serves it up on familiar Google-style search-result Web pages (or via a its own drop-down results list, if you prefer). But Google Desktop for the Mac is streamlined compared to the busy, gadget-y Windows version, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The focus is squarely on search — including local indexing of an online Gmail account of your choice. It will also index your iDisk."

Comment I don't feel that bad (Score 2, Insightful) 325

by arsenicnet on Saturday May 24, 2003 @10:01AM (#6030502) Attached to: Ballmer Sells Part of his Stake in Microsoft

Sure, he's a billion dollars richer, but he's still got some 400 million shares. must be nice

Comment Question (Score 1) 232

by scagnetti on Tuesday December 28, 1999 @05:09AM (#1442353) Attached to: Interviews: Two This Week - First, L0pht...

You guys obviously have some hacking/cracking skillz but what I want to know is if you've ever used something you discovered in a "not-so-nice" way. No need for specifics (legal reasons) but I'm talking about anything from crashing a server or just nuking some llama on IRC.

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