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I nearly lost it when I realized I was wearing orange under my sweater. No one else cared. [pic.]

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:36:21 -0800

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Microsoft Advice Against Nehalem Xeons Snuffed Out

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:33:00 -0800

Eukariote writes "In an article outlining hidden strife in the processor world, Andreas Stiller has reported the scoop that Microsoft advised against the use of Intel Nehalem Xeon (Core i7/i5) processors under Windows Server 2008 R2, but was pressured by Intel to refrain from publishing this advisory. The issue concerns a bug causing spurious interrupts that locks up the Hypervisor of Server 2008. Though there is a hotfix, it is unattractive as it disables power savings and turbo boost states. (The original German-language version of the article is also available.)"

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Herschel Spectroscopy of Future Supernova

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:50:00 -0800

davecl writes "ESA's Herschel Space Telescope has released its first spectroscopic results. These include observations of VYCMa, a star 50 times as massive as the sun and soon to become a supernova, as well a nearby galaxy, more distant colliding starburst galaxies and a comet in our own solar system. The spectra show more lines than have ever been seen in these objects in the far-infrared and will allow astronomers to work out the detailed chemistry and physics behind star and planet formation as well as the last stages of stellar evolution before VYCMa's eventual collapse into a supernova. More coverage is available at the Herschel Mission Blog, which I run."

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What the iPod Tells Us About the World Economy

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:15:00 -0800

Hugh Pickens writes "Edmund Conway has an interesting article in the Telegraph where he analyzes where the money goes when you buy a complex electronic device marked 'Made in China,' and why a developed economy doesn't need a trade surplus in order to survive. For his example, Conway chooses a 30GB video iPod 'manufactured' in China in 2006. Each iPod, sold in the US for $299, provides China with an export value of about $150, but as it turns out, Chinese producers really only 'earned' around $4 on each unit. 'China, you see, is really just the place where most of the other components that go inside the iPod are shipped and assembled.' Conway says that when you work out the overall US balance of payments, it shows that most of the cash for high tech inventions has flowed back to the United States as a direct result of the intellectual property companies own in their products. 'While the iPod is manufactured offshore and has a global roster of suppliers, the greatest benefits from this innovation go to Apple, an American company, with predominantly American employees and stockholders who reap the benefits,' writes Conway. 'As long as the US market remains dynamic, with innovative firms and risk-taking entrepreneurs, global innovation should continue to create value for American investors and well-paid jobs for knowledge workers. But if those companies get complacent or lose focus, there are plenty of foreign competitors ready to take their places.'"

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[Steam Holiday Sale Day #3] Resident Evil 5, Borderlands, L4D1, Ghostbusters, Trine and spore!

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:34:20 -0800

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Obama Leaves Out "God" & "Life" in Thanksgiving Proclamation.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:32:06 -0800

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Government Delays New Ban On Internet Gambling

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:55:00 -0800

The Installer writes with this quote from the Associated Press: "The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving US financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling. ... The delayed rules would curb online gambling by prohibiting financial institutions from accepting payments from credit cards, checks or electronic fund transfers to settle online wagers. The financial industry complained that the new rules would be difficult to enforce because they did not offer a clear definition of what constitutes Internet gambling. They had sought a 12-month delay in implementing provisions of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that Congress had passed in 2006. ... US bettors have been estimated to supply at least half the revenue of the $16 billion Internet gambling industry, which is largely hosted overseas."

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The controversial 2000 election, 8 years of Bush, the tech stock crash, 9/11, Iraq, Katrina, the 2008 economic disaster. Goodbye to the decade from hell: the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World War II era

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:30:30 -0800

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Colleges Struggling With the Digital Bathroom Wall

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:36:00 -0800

theodp writes "Back in the day, anonymous character assassination was confined to permanent marker scrawl in bathroom stalls. But now, thanks to sites like the student-run CollegeACB.com (ACB=Anonymous Confession Board), which can get hundreds of thousands of hits on a good day, TIME reports that anonymous slander is going viral on campus. Even the most elite universities — normally the land of the politically correct — have been struggling with the problem of anonymous gossip sites and their very un-PC posts, which an Amherst dean likens to 'the worst of junior high.' If he thinks things are bad now, wait until the kids start getting creative with Google Sidewiki."

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Christians In Jerusalem Want Jews To Stop Spitting On Them

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:04:03 -0800

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Wikipedia Disputes Editor Exodus Claims

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:18:00 -0800

eldavojohn writes "The Wikimedia blog has a new post from Erik Moeller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and Erik Zachte, a data analyst, to dispute recent reports about editors leaving Wikipedia (which we discussed on Wednesday). They offer these points to discredit the claims: 'The number of people reading Wikipedia continues to grow. In October, we had 344 million unique visitors from around the world, according to comScore Media Metrix, up 6% from September. Wikipedia is the fifth most popular web property in the world. The number of articles in Wikipedia keeps growing. There are about 14.4 million articles in Wikipedia, with thousands of new ones added every day. The number of people writing Wikipedia peaked about two and a half years ago, declined slightly for a brief period, and has remained stable since then. Every month, some people stop writing, and every month, they are replaced by new people." They also note that it's impossible to tell whether someone has left and will never return, as their account still remains there."

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I brought it in, released it, watched some TV, turned around, and had vanished. That was three days ago.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:53:00 -0800

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I am curious how many Americans would support the change to the metric system in the next few years. I for one am for such a change.

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:32:21 -0800

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Flexible, Color OLED Screens For E-Readers

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:12:00 -0800

nadiskafadi writes "Taiwanese researchers have shown off several flexible display technologies in an endeavor to promote e-readers and e-paper. One of the newest technologies from the Industrial Technology Research Institute was a flexible 4.1-inch color OLED (organic light emitting diode) display, which it claims is for the next era of portable devices."

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Little surprised kitty makes happiness

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:54:08 -0800

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First Look inside Burj Dubai (PICS)

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:30:11 -0800

Towering high above the Dubai skyline, Burj Dubai, the world's tallest man-made construction, edges closer to completion

"Yawn", one of the best things you can do for your brain

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:20:03 -0800

Go ahead: Laugh if you want (though you’ll benefit your brain more if you smile), but in my professional opinion, yawning is one of the best-kept secrets in neuroscience.

Apple Forced To Clean Up Its Fine Print

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:09:00 -0800

Barence writes "Apple has been forced to tidy up its online terms and conditions, at the behest of the UK's Office of Fair Trading. The company has redrafted its Ts & Cs so that it now accepts liability for faulty or misdescribed goods sold from its website or the iTunes store. Apple must also ensure that its conditions are 'drafted in plain or intelligible language' and that they 'do not potentially allow changes to be made to products and prices after an agreement is made.'"

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The World Has A New Strongest Beer: Tactical Nuclear Penguin

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:40:03 -0800

The 32% abv brew, called Tactical Nuclear Penguin (great name), takes over the mantle as the world's strongest beer from German concoction Schorschbraerm which weighs in at a measly 31% abv.

One legged cowboy is still able to.... wtf is that horse drinking?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:15:52 -0800

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Algae Could Be the Key To Ultra-Thin Batteries

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:10:00 -0800

MikeChino writes "Algae is often touted as the next big thing in biofuels, but the slimy stuff could also be the key to paper-thin biodegradable batteries, according to researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden. Uppsala researcher Maria Stromme and her team has found that the smelly algae species that clumps on beaches, known as Cladophora, can also be used to make a type of cellulose that has 100 times the surface area of cellulose found in paper. That means it can hold enough conducting polymers to effectively recharge and hold electricity for long amounts of time. Eventually, the bio batteries could compete with commercial lithium-ion batteries."

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Rainbow trapped for the first time

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:30:02 -0800

An ingeniously simple device, made with just a magnifying lens and a plate of glass, has been used to trap a rainbow of visible light. The technique could be used to store information using light, a boon for optical computing and telecommunications.

Black Friday for the U.S Air Force = 2200 PS3s

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:20:03 -0800

The Air Force is buying 2,200 PlayStation3s. They’ll use them to build a Linux supercomputer. Their current one, made of 336 of the old-style consoles at a cost of $118,000, has already been used for a few applications not currently available on the regular stand-alone, non-supercomputer PS3.

3D Video Game Collaboration Used To Solve Crimes

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:14:00 -0800

eldavojohn writes "Reuters explains how the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program is funding research used to implement real life crimes in a CSI-like game. They will use IC-CRIME's laser scanner technology and the Unity platform (which recently enjoyed the release of a freeware version) to recreate the crime scene as closely as possible. The crime scene will then be hosted for multiple remote crime scene investigators to explore concurrently while discussing what they see, sharing their data and experience as well as learning and asking questions."

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Cassini Captures Saturn's Northern Lights

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:26:00 -0800

al0ha writes "In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known 'northern lights' in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness high above the ringed planet. The new video reveals changes in Saturn's aurora every few minutes, in high resolution, with three dimensions. The images show a previously unseen vertical profile to the auroras, which ripple in the video like tall curtains. These curtains reach more than 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) above the edge of the planet's northern hemisphere."

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So the question is -- can a real, normal car actually do a 360-degree loop without falling off? Let's find out...[VIDEO]

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:27:31 -0800

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New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:52:00 -0800

siddesu writes in with "compelling" new data that chemical and fossil evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars was carried to Earth in a Martian meteorite. The finding is being highlighted by the same NASA team who made the initial discovery 13 years ago. Spaceflight Now has more details of the analysis.

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