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Submission + - Dating Site Expels 'Fatties' (cnn.com)

Submitted by the4thdimension on Monday January 04, 2010 @09:53PM

the4thdimension writes: Online dating site BeautifulPeople.com has apparently decided to cancel over 1,500 of its customers because they were found to have put on too much weight this holiday season. The site, which bases its business model on having only attractive people on its site, requires that a user be voted in by current members as being beautiful in a 48 hour period. The site claims that having overweight people on its site is directly damaging to its business model, but promises that expelled members can register again once they lose the weight.

Submission + - Bruce Schneier on Airport Security (cnn.com)

Submitted by the4thdimension on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @10:32AM

the4thdimension writes: Bruce Schneier has an opinion piece on CNN this morning that illustrates his view on airport security. Given that he has several books on security, his opinion carries some weight. In the article, Bruce discusses the rarity of terrorism, the pitfalls of security theater, and the actual difficulty surrounding improving security. What are your thoughts? Do you think that we can actually make air travel (and any other kind of travel, for that matter) truly secure?

Submission + - 32 Exoplanets Discovered by Chilean Telescope (cnn.com)

Submitted by the4thdimension on Monday October 19, 2009 @04:46PM

the4thdimension writes: An article on CNN describes that 32 exoplanets have been discovered using a new Chilean telescope. The telescope is capable of detecting movement 2.1mph (comparable to a slow walking pace). These 32 new planets gives the telescope a total of 75 planets its discovered out of the 400 discovered using all methods employed by astronomers. This places the HARPS system as the worlds foremost exoplanet hunter.

Submission + - The tech behind preventing airplane bird strikes (cnn.com)

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on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @10:24AM

the4thdimension writes: "CNN is running an article covering the technology used at Sea-Tac for preventing airplane bird strikes, like the one that occured weeks ago to the now famous Flight 1549. The hardware used ranges from low-tech pyrotechnics, to netting, to lasers, to avian radar. Using a combination of all these technologies, Sea-Tac believes they save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in avoiding dangerous bird strikes."

Submission + - Scientist "teleport" information one meter (time.com)

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on Thursday January 29, 2009 @03:39PM

the4thdimension writes: "While we may not be beaming up to the Enterprise anytime soon, a team of scientists from the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan have managed to teleport information between two atoms up to a meter apart. Until this point, only very tiny distances were able to be traveled. However, using a complicated system of photons, ions, lasers, and electromagnetics, scientists have managed to "teleport" information contained on one atom to another atom that is in a separate sealed container. This can lead to a wide range of developments in computing and communications."

Submission + - Anonymous anger rampant on the Web (cnn.com)

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on Monday November 03, 2008 @11:27AM

the4thdimension writes: "In a story that may bring out the "duh" in you, CNN is a story about how anonymous anger is rampant on the Internet. Citing various reasons, it attempts to explain why sites like MyBiggestComplaint and Just Rage exist and why anger via the web seems to be everywhere. Various reasons include: anonymity, lack of rules, and lack of immediate consequences. Whatever the reason, they describe that online anger has resulted in real-life violence and suggest methods for parents and teens to cope with e-aggression and to learn to be aware of it."

Submission + - Video games linked to child aggression (cnn.com)

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on Monday November 03, 2008 @11:14AM

the4thdimension writes: "CNN is running a story this morning that explains new research showing a correlation between video games and aggression in children. The study monitored groups of US and Japanese children, asking them to rate their violent behavior over a period of several months while they played video games in their free time. The study concludes that it has "pretty good evidence" that there is a link between video games and childhood aggression."

Submission + - UK hacker loses extradition appeal (cnn.com)

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on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @07:59AM

the4thdimension writes: "A UK man, accussed of breaking into US Pentagon and NASA computers in March 2001, lost an extradition appeal that would have freed him, or at least had him tried in the UK. While the US accuses him of causing over $900,000 in computer damage, his attorney asserts that, if extradited to the US, he faces harsh penalties that are "intolerable" and "...he British government declined to prosecute him to enable the U.S. government to make an example of him." He intends to appeal to the European courts."

Submission + - MySpace joins OpenID Coalition (cnn.com)

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on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @08:36AM

the4thdimension writes: "MySpace has joined a coalition of other big-name e-services in support of OpenID. If you aren't familiar with the OpenID coalition, they are a group that seeks to allow users to create a single account/password set to be used on a number of services. Such services already signed up include: Google's Blogger, Wordpress, AOL, Yahoo, Vox, Livejournal, and others."

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