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Playboy Launches Safe For Work Website 98

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @02:33PM from the porn-now-without-nudity dept.

If you're one of the three people in the world who actually reads Playboy for the articles, today is your lucky day. Every young boy's favorite magazine to find in their uncle's closet has launched a "safe for work" website. From the article: "TheSmokingJacket.com will contain none of the nudity that makes Playboy.com NSFW — not suitable for work. Instead, it'll rely on humor to reach Playboy's target audience, men 25 to 34 years old, when they are most likely to be in front of a computer screen."

How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? 230

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 09, 2008 @05:08PM from the it's-all-been-mined-out dept.

DeadlyBattleRobot writes "I've been using Usenet searches since about 1995 to get programming information, sample code, etc., mostly for those standard APIs that are never documented well enough in the official documentation. At first I used dejanews, and now Google Groups (Google bought dejanews). Over the last few years, I've noticed a steady decline in the quantity of search results on programming topics on Usenet from Google, increasing difficulty with their search UI and result pages, and today I find I'm completely unable to get a working Usenet search on their advanced group search page. I'm used to searching on 'microsoft.*' or 'comp.*,' sometimes supplemented with variations like '*microsoft*' or 'comp*.' As an example, try to find a post from the 1996-1998 time period on 'database' in either the comp.* or microsoft.* hierarchies, and if you can do it, please show your search expression. There should be thousands of results, but I'm getting the result 'Your search — database group:comp.* — did not match any documents.'"

Comment Re:Really... (Score 2, Insightful) 462

by wook on Monday May 12, 2008 @04:14PM (#23383148) Attached to: To Curb Truancy, Dallas Tries Electronic Monitoring

Why don't we try this:

If the kids don't want to go to school and the parents aren't able to make them go to school...

Then they don't effing go to school.

We wouldn't have to worry with NCLB, because the kids in school would either a) want to be there or b) actually have parents who are capable of parenting. Everybody there will be interested (of their own accord or because their parents demand it) in doing the school work and furthering their education instead of bringing the class to a halt so they don't get "left behind"...

Life May Have Evolved In Ice 159

Posted by Zonk on Sunday February 03, 2008 @09:02PM from the where-else-would-it-evolve-i-tell-you-not-jersey dept.

Philip Bailey writes "An article in this month's Discover Magazine claims that some of the fundamental organic molecules required for the development of life could have spontaneously arisen within ice. Scientist Stanley Miller was responsible for seminal experiments in the 1950s in this area. He used sparks and a mixture of inorganic chemicals to test his theories, but turned to low temperature experiments in later years. He was able to create the constituents of RNA and proteins from a mixture of cyanide, ammonia and ice in trials lasting up to 25 years. A process known as eutectic freezing is thought to be the basis of these results: small pockets of liquid water, in which foreign molecules are concentrated enormously, increases the reaction rates, and more than compensates for temperature-related slowing."

A Look at The RIAA's War Against College Students 159

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 03, 2008 @01:21PM from the tomb-of-the-anonymous-peer dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "p2pnet.net has put together a fascinating retrospective on the RIAA's war against college students, commenced February 28, 2007. The campaign is described as one to 'force "consumers" to buy what they're told to buy — corporate "content," as the Big 4 call their formulaic outpourings.' In a scathing indictment not only of the major record labels, but of those schools, administrators, and educators who have yet to take a stand against it, Jon Newton reviews a number of landmark moments in the 11-month old 'reign of terror'. They include the announcement of the bizarre 'early settlement' sale, the sudden withdrawal of a case in which a 17 year old Texas high school student had been subpoenaed while in class during school hours to attend a deposition the very next day during his taking of a standardized test, the call by Harvard law professors for the university to fight back when and if attacked, and the differing reactions by other schools."

MIT Researchers Fight Gridlock with Linux 75

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 03, 2008 @11:26AM from the open-roads-with-open-source dept.

nerdyH brings us a report about a Linux-based device being developed at MIT which aims to reduce traffic congestion as well as assist automotive research projects. "The current focus of the project is in developing algorithms that run on top of the portal application to help drivers plot the best route at a given time. For example, the team's MyRoute project includes applications that model delays observed on road segments as statistical distributions. Various algorithms then use these to compute optimal routes for different times of the day. 'Instead of asking the shortest time or shortest distance from point A to point B, you ask what route should be taken, say, for the highest probability of getting to the airport by a certain time depending on the time selected,' says Madden."

Submission + - AMD releases register specs for R5xx and R6xx (arstechnica.com) 2

Submitted by ianare on Sunday September 23, 2007 @11:05AM

ianare writes: AMD has recently released register specifications for the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. This allows the OSS community to develop 2D (and theoretically 3D) drivers, given time. In fact, engineers from Novell have released a first alpha quality Open Source driver which currently supports initial mode settings. Although current work is focused on 2D, rather than 3D acceleration, this type of information sharing could conceivably lead to an OSS 3D driver.

Submission + - NYT & Economist articles on Algorithms (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Soylent Mauve on Sunday September 23, 2007 @10:59AM

Soylent Mauve writes: The trend toward data- and algorithm-driven tuning of business operations has gotten a lot of attention recently — check out the recent articles in the New York Times and the Economist. It looks like computer scientists, especially those with machine learning training, are getting their day in the sun.

Submission + - $1/watt solar panels. (industryweek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23, 2007 @07:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: Colorado State University's method for manufacturing low-cost, high-efficiency solar panels is nearing mass production. AVA Solar Inc. will start production by the end of next year on the technology developed by mechanical engineering Professor W.S. Sampath at Colorado State. The new 200-megawatt factory is expected to employ up to 500 people. Based on the average household usage, 200 megawatts will power 40,000 U.S. homes.

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