This article may sound insightful, but it isn’t. Tech companies, like all large and successful publicly-traded companies, “lean” whichever way the political winds are blowing… if it looks like party X is going to win, they back party X, regardless of their personal opinions, because the X candidate is most likely to be the one …
A science-fiction fan’s fantasy planetary system, discovered in the real universe. President Obama, forget Mars, this is where we should send a manned mission! 😉
Toys… they’re not just for kids anymore. 😉
I wonder how long it’ll be before this is featured in a CSI episode? I’m betting they’ll do it next season, probably with an application somewhere between highly implausible and scientifically ridiculous.
The first computer virus that can infect humans too? Ah, no, apparently just some people looking for casual sex via Facebook. And presumably finding it. 😉
Interesting news on the cutting-edge science front. Amusing quote: Bob Harris says: “What’s the real-world application? No one knows, although cats should start avoiding any box they could become trapped in.” The comments are also highly amusing, at least to a science geek like me.
He’s got a point, and a darned good one. The people in charge seldom seem to think about proper security. Their usual thinking seems to go: “this is important, it should be protected., so get some security guards!” Then they fail to consider what purpose those security guards should serve, other than annoying the people …
Wow. The Happy Meal is so good that even mold will turn up its nose at it. Do we really eat this stuff? And pay for the “privilege”? If you have doubts that this could be real, put them to rest — it’s got a big brother that’s approaching puberty. Or has already hit it, …
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This is just ludicrous: The [Australian group] insists that the site should follow Australian law because, although the site is hosted in the US, with free speech protection, articles which can be read and downloaded in Australia are considered to have been published in Australia. It doesn’t take a genius to follow this thinking to …
“Service pack-free OS life support switched off as few mourn passing”. And good riddance to bad rubbish. Too bad they’ll have to keep supporting Vista SP1 and SP2 for a while longer.