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| University of Utah Announces Mac OS X Classes! Posted: 03 Feb 2009 08:00 PM CST In a sign that Apple's Mac OS X operating system has gone truly mainstream, computer science programs like that at the University of Utah have formally announced classes like "Mac OS X Deployment v10.5" focused on administering Mac OS X.  |
| Pub refuses to serve two Marines who fought on Afghanistan Posted: 03 Feb 2009 07:50 PM CST Two Royal Marines tried to go for a homecoming drink a day after fighting on the front line in Afghanistan - but were refused entry to a pub because they only had military ID.  |
| Linux : Need a supercomputer? This guy builds them himself. Posted: 03 Feb 2009 07:40 PM CST February 2, 2009 (Network World) Bruce Allen is perhaps the world's best do-it-yourselfer. When he needed a supercomputer to crunch the results of gravitational-wave research, he built one with his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  |
| Man caught with pigeons in his trousers Posted: 03 Feb 2009 07:10 PM CST An Australian traveller was caught with two live pigeons stuffed down his trousers following a trip to the Middle East, customs officers said today.  |
| A Musical Casualty of The Bad Economy: Langerado Festival Posted: 03 Feb 2009 07:00 PM CST If the economy continues plummeting and more shows are canceled because of bad tickets sales, even big stars may have to start findingREAL jobs. Among the bands that were scheduled to play Langerado this year were Death Cab for Cutie, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, Broken Social Scene, Deerhunter, Modest Mouse, and Public Enemy.  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2009 07:00 PM CST The company posted a $641 million net loss for its most recent quarter - as a result EA will lay off 11% of its work force. A number of games will be delayed, and the portfolio of EA franchises will be narrowed due to the revenue shortfall and ongoing restructuring...  |
| As snow hits the UK the Twitter mashups storm in Posted: 03 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST There's nothing like a breaking news event to show off the usefulness of Twitter. Today large swathes of the UK were blanketed in snow, but the Twitter feeds and mashups came to the rescue of anyone wanting real-time updates about what was happening.  |
| Magician Nearly Drowns During Halftime Stunt Posted: 03 Feb 2009 06:30 PM CST Assistants had to open a sealed water chamber to rescue award-winning magician Kristen Johnson as she performed an escape act at midcourt....its like a real life version of NGC's new show One Way Out.  |
| How to Eat Ants Without Getting Bitten Posted: 03 Feb 2009 06:20 PM CST Harvester ants are among the most aggressive and venomous stinging insects known. Although their stings, in quantity, can kill, the horned lizard captures harvesters by the dozen — in a typical lizardlike manner.  |
| LinkedIn: “We Can Go Public Any Time We Want To" Posted: 03 Feb 2009 06:10 PM CST LinkedIn has raised over $100 million in financing - roughly $75 million of that was in 2008 alone. The company has been profitable for the last two years, Reid Hoffman says, and has $80 million in the bank.  |
| NVIDIA's Ion For Netbooks & HTPCs, Full Performance Coverage Posted: 03 Feb 2009 06:10 PM CST Ion is a combination of NVIDIA's GeForce 9400M integrated chipset for the Intel platform and includes support for both Intel Core 2 and low power Atom processor technology. Today, NVIDIA has unveiled detailed performance results for the Ion platform and it offers a much needed multimedia performance boost over existing Intel Atom based designs.  |
| Buddy Holly: Rare and Unseen Photographs (PICS) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 05:50 PM CST Fifty years after his tragic death in an air crash, London's Proud Galleries presents a collection of images from the rock star's life, many of them never seen before.  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2009 05:40 PM CST It was a utopian vision: an encyclopedia for the people, by the people. But eight years on, Wikipedia is plagued by endless hoaxes, riven by boardroom rebellion – and lurches from one cash crisis to another. Will it become a footnote in the history of the web?  |
| Smallest Earth-type Exoplanet Yet Discovered Posted: 03 Feb 2009 05:30 PM CST The CoRoT satellite has found the smallest terrestrial planet ever detected outside the Solar System. The amazing planet is less than twice the size of Earth and orbits a Sun-like star. Its temperature is so high that it is possibly covered in lava or water vapour.  |
| Seagate To Launch 2TB, 3.5-in Disk Drive Posted: 03 Feb 2009 05:20 PM CST The Constellation drive has four, 500GB platters and offers 6Gbit/sec SAS or 3Gbit/sec SATA interfaces.  |
| Record 19 Million Houses Seized and Vacant in the US Posted: 03 Feb 2009 05:10 PM CST A record 19 million U.S. houses stood empty at the end of 2008 as banks seized homes faster than they could sell them and prices continued to fall.  |
| Cured Meats (Bacon, etc.) Tied to Childhood Leukemia Risk Posted: 03 Feb 2009 05:00 PM CST Kids who regularly eat cured meats like bacon and hot dogs may have a higher risk of leukemia, while vegetables & soy products may help protect against cancer. Among 515 children & teens with and without acute leukemia, those who ate cured meats more than once a week had a 74 percent higher risk of leukemia than those who rarely ate these foods.  |
| The Tide is Shifting Against the Death Penalty Posted: 03 Feb 2009 05:00 PM CST Capital punishment has a lot less life in it. Last year saw just 37 executions in the U.S., with only 111 death sentences handed down. Though 36 states and the federal government still have death penalty laws on the books, the practice of actually carrying out executions is limited almost entirely to the south.  |
| IBM to send blazing fast supercomputer to Energy Dept Posted: 03 Feb 2009 04:50 PM CST Big Blue says the U.S. Department of Energy will use Sequoia, which will be nearly 20 times faster than the world's current fastest supercomputer, for nuclear weapons testing.  |
| Pay what you want, UK restaurant tells diners Posted: 03 Feb 2009 04:30 PM CST A London restaurant has decided to do away with bills for the next month, asking customers to pay only what they want for meals in an unorthodox bid to beat the credit crunch.  |
| Is gaming and technology damaging society? Posted: 03 Feb 2009 04:20 PM CST Computers, TV and gaming are yet again being blamed for teenage violence, casual sex and the breakdown of pretty much everything from the nuclear family through to the international financial system.  |
| Bonds' Retested urine sample comes back POSITIVE Posted: 03 Feb 2009 04:10 PM CST And so it begins....  |
| WEF: Bill Clinton Speaks on the Creation of the 'Bad Bank' Posted: 03 Feb 2009 04:00 PM CST At the 2009 World Economic Forum, former President Bill Clinton jokes about Vladimir Putin's comments on free enterprise. He then defends creating a 'bad bank' -- though he doesn't favor the term -- to spur economic stimulus.  |
| Study: racial profiling no more effective than random screen Posted: 03 Feb 2009 03:50 PM CST What degree of racial and ethnic profiling makes sense from a security perspective? A mathematician takes a look at some different approaches, and finds that strong profiling comes up short.  |
| SNL's MacGruber Sketches Were Actually Pepsi Commercials Posted: 03 Feb 2009 03:40 PM CST The three "MacGruber" sketches that aired on SNL last Saturday - one of which was aired during the Super Bowl - were actually paid Pepsi commercials. The segments weren't product placement, but commercials paid for by Pepsi and produced by "SNL." Though they appeared to be sketches on "SNL," they ran during allotted commercial breaks.  |
| Lenticular Clouds Above Washington (APOD PIC) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 03:30 PM CST Are those UFOs near that mountain? No -- they are multilayered lenticular clouds. Moist air forced to flow upward around mountain tops can create lenticular clouds. Water droplets condense from moist air cooled below the dew point, and clouds are opaque groups of water droplets. Waves in the air that would normally be seen horizontally .....  |
| Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video Posted: 03 Feb 2009 03:20 PM CST Four executives of Google begin trial Tuesday in Milan on criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in regard to a video posted on Google's Italian site. The case involves a three-minute cellphone video, posted in 2006 to Google Video, in which four youths in Turin tease a boy with Down syndrome.  |
| Get Multitouch, Tethering, and A Task Manager On Android! Posted: 03 Feb 2009 03:20 PM CST Before I start this howto, I must tell you that this hack doesn't just give you multitouch, it actually opens up the possibilities wide open for you. You can change your theme, tether (use your phone as a wireless modem), auto-rotate, get a fully operable task manager…and much much more!  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2009 03:10 PM CST After five years fielding thousands of calls to one of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated phone numbers, disc jockey Spencer Potter is hanging up on Jenny.  |
| The pedestrian has the right-of-way. Posted: 03 Feb 2009 03:00 PM CST Bucharest, Romania. Photographer: Filip Bogdan  |
| Tiny Charges on Bank Cards Could Presage Bigger Problems Posted: 03 Feb 2009 02:50 PM CST The mystery of a tiny charge on credit and debit cards is heightening to one of anticipation - of when the other shoe is going to drop.  |
| Macy's slashing up to 7,000 jobs Posted: 03 Feb 2009 02:40 PM CST Macy's announced that it will cut 7,000 jobs, or 4 percent of its work force, and slash its dividend as the department store chain looks to lower expenses and preserve cash.  |
| Explorers Solve One of Naval History's Great Mysteries Posted: 03 Feb 2009 02:30 PM CST Deep-sea explorers say they have solved "one of the greatest mysteries in naval history" with the discovery of what was "the world's mightiest and most technically advanced warship" when it sank in 1744.The HMS Victory -- the predecessor to a historic British flagship of the same name -- was found far from where history says it was lost.  |
| Top 25 Sports Illustrated Covers of the 1970s Posted: 03 Feb 2009 02:20 PM CST  |
| The 11 Most Unnecessary 'How To' Guides on the Web Posted: 03 Feb 2009 02:20 PM CST Who says there's nothing useful on the Internet? From Yahoo Answers to the countless How-To sites, the web is full of non-experts telling you how to do everything from change a muffler to castrate a llama. But some of these 'how-tos' seem so grossly unnecessary, we're wondering if these people aren't just getting paid by the word.  |
| Maryland surgeons remove donated kidney through vagina Posted: 03 Feb 2009 02:10 PM CST Surgeons removed a woman's kidney through her vagina so she could give it to her ailing niece, an unusual operation they hope will encourage others to donate because it reduces pain, scarring and recovery time.  |
| Microsoft announces Windows 7 editions -- THERE'S 6! Posted: 03 Feb 2009 02:00 PM CST Remember all those different Windows 7 versions we heard about? Well guess what? It's worse than you could have possibly imagined. There are six different editions!  |
| Toyota Prius plug-in gets 65 mpg Posted: 03 Feb 2009 01:40 PM CST Toyota Priuses with plug-in hybrid technology are averaging 65 mpg in combined gasoline and electric-mode testing."That is real-world driving," said Bill Reinert, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A.'s national alternative-fuel vehicle manager. "I ask my guys to drive them as you drive your normal Prius."  |
| Housing Affordability Reaches All-Time High Posted: 03 Feb 2009 01:40 PM CST One of the upsides of a crashing-and-burning housing market, as Edward Glaeser noted back in October, is that buying a home becomes more affordable.  |
| Shedding light on vitamin D deficiency ‘crisis' Posted: 03 Feb 2009 01:22 PM CST The seizures gripped the nine-month-old baby boy as he slept.In the beginning, the infant's mother thought he was sick with a cold. But then he became feverish and developed diarrhea, along with a strange, bulging soft spot on his skull.  |
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