Army to shoot live pigs for medical drill - Military- msnbc.com (2)
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The Army says it's critical to saving the lives of wounded soldiers. Animal-rights activists call the training cruel and outdated.
'Bush' sewage plant proposal makes ballot - Weird news- msnbc.com (1)
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A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot.
Man finds knife in Subway sandwich, sues - Food Inc.- msnbc.com (1)
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A New York man claimed in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday that he found a knife with a 7-inch blade baked into the bread of his foot-long "Cold Cut Trio" Subway sandwich.
Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak - The White House- msnbc.com (1)
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President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records.
Officer’s squad car wrecked 29 minutes into job - Vehicular weirdness- msnbc.com (1)
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Police officer Tim Pochron’s first day on the job went poorly: Less than a half-hour into it, his squad car was wrecked in a crash.
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Ara said:
Sucky first day on the job.
Grading Batman's Gear (7)
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I was thinking about the upcoming Batman movie, and I suddenly realized: Batman and Richie Rich are basically the same character. They both have butlers (Alfred, Cadbury), they both have sidekicks (Robin, Dollar), they both dress in ridiculous outfits (bat costume, short pants with bow tie) and they both have adventures in which problems are solved by the appropriate use of incredibly expensive material possessions. Alt Text Podcast Download audio files and subscribe to the ...
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Party People said:
Too true. Still, Batman is cooler than all other superheroes.
Thwarting New JavaScript Malware Obfuscation (6)
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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Malware writers have been obfuscating their JavaScript exploit code for a long time now and SANS is reporting that they've come up with some new tricks. While early obfuscations were easy enough to undo by changing eval() to alert(), they soon shifted to clever use of arguments.callee() in a simple cipher to block it. Worse, now they're using document.referrer, document.location, and location.href to make site-specific versions, too. But ...
Send the ISS To the Moon (20)
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jmichaelg writes "Michael Benson is proposing that NASA send the ISS to the moon instead of leaving it low earth orbit. (While we're at it, we should re-brand it as the 'International Space Ship.') He points out that it's already designed to be moved periodically to higher orbits so instead of just boosting it a few miles, strap on some ion engines and put it in orbit around the moon instead of the earth. That ...
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Miguel A. Arévalo said:
Jeje, curiosamente no me parece ninguna estupidez (si es que técnicamente es posible)
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Matthew said:
thinking of you dave :)
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C Yohman said:
And I'm thinking of you Muerl.
YouTube gadget soon scorned on Capitol Hill? (2)
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While the Politicians video search mechanism Google is rolling out may be a good first step toward making YouTube profitable, its potential in other applications is even more intriguing.
B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s (6)
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WmHBlair writes "Flightglobal has a report about the upgrades being made to the B-2A Stealth Bomber, which include Pentium class processors, JOVIAL code rewritten in C, and fibre channel hard drives. The Register, as usual, makes its usual light of this event with a tongue-in-cheek news item noting that the upgrade drags Stealth Bomber IT systems into the '90s."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
« Stop using FTP » (1)
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Steven Frank, un des gars de Panic, les créateurs du logiciel Transmit — un client FTP très populaire sous OS X — à propos du protocole FTP : Unless tunneled over a secure socket, FTP is 100% insecure. Your password, and the contents of all of your files are sent in the clear, free to be examined or captured by any network hop between you and your server.
Mystery insect bugging experts at museum - Science- msnbc.com (1)
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The experts at London's Natural History Museum pride themselves on being able to identify species from around the globe, from birds and mammals to insects and snakes. Yet they can't figure out a tiny red-and-black bug that has appeared in the museum's own gardens.
"In their own words": political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology (79)
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Posted by Arnaud Sahuguet and Ari Bezman, Product ManagersIn this U.S. election year, what information could be more important than the candidates' own words to describe their views, actions and platforms?Our teams have been working to develop tools to make it easier for people to track election-related information. A few months back, YouTube encouraged everyone to participate in the discussion process through the CNN/YouTube debates, Google Checkout offered an easy and fast way for individuals ...
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This is unbelievably great.
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annacoder said:
yet to try this.... but, boy O boy O boy!
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Ans said:
way to cool...
Cosmic Log: Should we be phoning E.T.? (1)
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Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Is sending a message to extraterrestrials a wise thing to do? Some experts say we should keep quiet to avoid the risk of an alien invasion.
Rogers offers nearly unlimited iPhone data plan (1)
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Rogers Communications, Canada's dominant wireless carrier, has responded to the outcry over its iPhone rate plans with a new option for nearly unlimited data. The company announced a $30-a-month data plan for the iPhone 3G that subscribers can add to their voice plans. With it, they can consume up ...
Messianic message stirs debate - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com (1)
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AFP - Getty Images A foot-wide stone tablet is said to bear Jewish messianic messages from the first century B.C. Scriptural scholars are abuzz over a stone tablet that is said to bear previously unknown prophecies about a Jewish messiah
