Paraben's CSI Stick Copies Data from Cell Phones (9)
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The world is poorer than we thought, the World Bank discoversIN APRIL 2007 the World Bank announced that 986m people worldwide suffered from extreme poverty—the first time its count had dropped below 1 billion. On August 26th it had grim news to report. According to two of its leading researchers, Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion, the “developing world is poorer than we thought”. The number of poor was almost 1.4 billion in 2005.This does not ...
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Dung beetles provide an object lesson in the speed of natural selectionONE of the lies regularly promulgated by creationist ideologues is that you cannot see evolution in action right now. For microorganisms this is obviously untrue. The evolution of new viral diseases, such as AIDS, is one example. The evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is another. But bacteria and viruses breed fast, so natural selection has time, within the span of a human life, to make ...
The G8 summit in Hokkaido | They came, they jawed, they failed to conquer | Economist.com (1)
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A mountain-top gabfest provided a spectacular show and a long guest list but few answers to the woes of the world
Locked iPhones can be unlocked without a password | InfoWorld | News | 2008-08-27 | By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service (3)
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Private information stored in Apple's iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone just by pushing a few buttons
And on that farm the cows face north - says Google - life - 25 August 2008 - New Scientist (1)
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Study of satellite photos claims grazing cows tend to align themselves just off magnetic north or south
How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity (1)
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Free online business articles and news at Harvard Business Review. Read a preview of How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity, by Ed Catmull.
Diebold comes clean, admits that its e-voting machines are faulty (5)
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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsFor years, Diebold has embarrassed itself by claiming that obvious faults were actually not faults at all, and during the past decade or so, it mastered the act of pointing the finger. Now that it has ironically renamed itself Premier Election Solutions, it's finally coming clean. According to spokesman Chris Riggall, a "critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central ...
Diebold comes clean, admits that its e-voting machines are faulty (70)
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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsFor years, Diebold has embarrassed itself by claiming that obvious faults were actually not faults at all, and during the past decade or so, it mastered the act of pointing the finger. Now that it has ironically renamed itself Premier Election Solutions, it's finally coming clean. According to spokesman Chris Riggall, a "critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central ...
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Ashok said:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Brandon Bloom said:
how is this not CRIMINAL?!?!?!?!?!
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Lionel Riem said:
O RLY?
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OhCaptain said:
I'm still thinking criminal charges. If they really knew and did nothing, they should be in jail.
Verizon Wireless Discusses a Mobile Search Deal With Google (3)
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The two industry Goliaths are discussing a partnership that would give Google’s search service a prominent spot on the screens of Verizon phones, according to people briefed on the talks.
WebWorkerDaily » Archive Mozilla Tips its Hat to This Year’s Top Firefox Extensions « (10)
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Every year, Mozilla runs a contest called Extend Firefox, which is designed to name the best Firefox extensions created in the previous 12 months. This year’s list of winners is out, and one of the winners was previously written up here a while back: Pencil. In his writeup, Mike noted that Pencil works by marrying Firefox’s Gecko drawing engine with the ability to display, save and load an external canvas with a palette of shapes. ...
One Sleepless Night Increases Dopamine In The Human Brain (1)
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Just one night without sleep can increase the amount of the chemical dopamine in the human brain, according to new imaging research in the Journal of Neuroscience. Because drugs that increase dopamine, like amphetamines, promote wakefulness, the findings offer a potential mechanism explaining how the brain helps people stay awake despite the urge to sleep. However, the study also shows that the increase in dopamine cannot compensate for the cognitive deficits caused by sleep deprivation.
Primate intelligence | Out of the mist | Economist.com (2)
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Is Rollie an exception, or are all gorillas as clever?WHEN it comes to researching intelligence in primates, chimpanzees and orang-utans get all the attention. Chimpanzees have even been shown to outperform humans in memory tests and orang-utans have demonstrated impressive mathematical abilities. Gorillas, by comparison, have been left to one side because, well, let's say they have been seen as the not-so-bright cousins. But that view of gorillas may not be deserved. The perceptions of ...
MI5 report challenges views on terrorism in Britain | UK news | guardian.co.uk (3)
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Exclusive: Sophisticated analysis says there is no single pathway to violent extremism
Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data (37)
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A few months ago I talked about our plans to offer a persistent storage feature for Amazon EC2. At that time I indicated that the service was in a limited alpha release with a small number of customers. Since then the alpha testers have been putting the service to good use and have provided us with a lot of very helpful feedback. As of today, the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is now open and ...
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nybble said:
Unbelievable, this is amazing. I wish they'd give sample cost estimates - I/O requests is an interesting metric to charge by. Snapshots is really great.
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cb160 said:
Lack Persistant disk storage was one of the features that made running a traditional app on EC2 difficult. Now Amazon have added it with Elastic Block Store, that problem has gone away.Startup infrastructure costs just dropped to 0.
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Nico said:
wow.
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mndoci said:
It's here!!!
Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store has launched - All Things Distributed (44)
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Today marks the launch of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), the long awaited persistent storage service for EC2. Details can be found on the EC2 detail page, the press release and Jeff Barr's posting over on the AWS evangelists blog. Also the folks at Rightscale have two detailed postings: why Amazon EBS matters and Amazon EBS explained. With the launch of the Elastic Block Store we complete an important milestone in offering a complete suite ...
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tabo said:
FINALLY!
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DJ said:
I love you Amazon
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David B said:
SWEET!
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Andrew said:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Beware the next time someone borrows your cell phone or you leave it unattended. You may become the next victim of having all your cell phone data copied to the CSI Stick.Shared by adam (1063) Alberto (338) Benjamin (1149) Chirayu Krishnappa (3) Guy (789) J.D. Rucker (510) lmjabreu (26) mr_gadget (153) SMC (204)Contribute comment
