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Comic for September 29, 2008 (3)
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- Surferbill said: Wonder which company acquisition this could refer to?
- ani625 said: what goes around..
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- Rob said: Awesome.
- Eduardo Coutinho said: O universo observável, de cima para baixo. E em escala logarítmica.
- Brad P. from NJ said: A great perspective.
- Jen said: A diagram of the universe, on a logarithmic scale? I wish I had this as a poster on my wall growing up. :) (I love both the Eiffel Tower and redwood drawings.)
- K said: Lovely !!
- zar said: Che meraviglia...
- Patrick said: ahahhaha!
- Ed said: I call "dibs" on posting this outside my/Bryan's office door. :-)
- Andrew Walkingshaw said: XKCD has some genius infographics.
- Penny said: I would buy a print of this.
- Corvus said: I want this as a full sized door poster for my office.
- mwsmedia said: I can haz poztur, pleeze?
- Andreas said: I can haz poster plz?
- Typo180 said: Just outstanding.
- Steve said: Tall tale
- rishabh said: i can see this one being shared some thousand times. Awesome!!!
- Bruce said: This version is funner than a similar but less fanciful graph I saw awhile back online.
- BuildMaster said: really cool, as per usual
- easyon said: WOOPYTHON!
- Jason Wojciechowski said: That's really good. Really good.
- Nicholas Schiller said: Yet another example of how amazing XKCD can be.
- Ryan Cahoon said: I love this type of his comics best; when he crams so much stuff in.
- focoma said: "It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree." -G.K. Chesterton
- Smal said: познавательно
- Heather said: Ohhh so here's where the WMDs were hiding. Chock-full of awesome.
- Debbie said: Dear Lord, But I Want This On a Poster For My Cubicle SOOO BADLY.
- Chris said: I want this as a poster. What an awesome work of art!
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China Wants UN To Help Trace Sources On Internet (2)
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An anonymous reader brings us a CNet story, which begins: "A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous. The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the 'IP Traceback' drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback proposal. Members ...Shared by Cassie Wallender (19) Surferbill (13)Contribute comment -
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onWeblver1 writes "A recent survey of IT professionals published by web security firm Finjan shows that data-theft should be a good reason for concern. Based on answers from 1,387 professionals, 25% acknowledged that their organization has been breached. What's worse, 42% did not know and could not exclude a breach, reflecting on the number of organizations that could potentially be breached without anyone knowing after the fact. Other findings we should be concerned about include ...Shared by Bubula (50) Surferbill (13)Contribute comment
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University Brings Charges Against White Hat Hacker (5)
onaqui writes "A university student at Carleton is learning that no good deed goes unpunished. After hacking into what was probably a not-so-secure university network, this guy took the time to write a 16-page paper on his methods and sent it to the system admins. Sounds like White Hat behavior to me. Yes, he should have asked permission before trying, but throwing the book at the guy and wrecking his life with criminal charges (which ...Contribute comment
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Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC (5)
onDoomsayers Delight writes "The Telegraph reports that Greek hackers were able to gain momentary access to a CERN computer system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) while the first particles were zipping around the particle accelerator on September 10th. 'Scientists working at CERN, the organization that runs the vast smasher, were worried about what the hackers could do because they were "one step away" from the computer control system of one of the huge detectors ...
- Scotty said: That's creepy
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iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do (7)
onThe_AV8R writes "Jonathan Zdziarski showed that every time you press the Home button on your iPhone, a screen capture is taken in order to produce a visual effect. This image is then cached and later deleted. Zdziarski says that there have been cases of law enforcement looking up sex offenders' old data and checking recovered screenshots." This revelation occurred in the midst of a webcast on iPhone forensics, demonstrating how to bypass the iPhone's password ...Contribute comment
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DOJ Needs Warrant To Track Your Cell's GPS History (4)
onMacRonin recommends a press release over at the EFF on their recent court victory affirming that cell phone location data is protected by the Fourth Amendment. Here is the decision (PDF). "In an unprecedented victory for cell phone privacy, a federal court has affirmed that cell phone location information stored by a mobile phone provider is protected by the Fourth Amendment and that the government must obtain a warrant based on probable cause before seizing ...
- Clint said: a rare win in the technology war, in which EEF are one of few champions willing to fight for our techno-political rights
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A physicist's pickup line (141)
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- LM said: I feel like such a geek for getting the quark joke.
- Rebecca said: Happy LHC Day.
- Matt said: My kinda dumb humor
- Vamsee Kanakala said: I don't really have to share this, do I? :)
- Stolee said: "Supercollider? I hardly know 'er!"
- Varun Nair said: Nice!
- Lee said: Yeah, a nerd thought of it. The LHC is the nerd equivalent of, "I shipping out for the war tomorrow." It was our one chance.
- Hadyn said: Best pick up line of the moment!
- Sandaruwan said: LHC might be a turning point in this era... law suit is the "sue fail" of this year
- Scottie said: Totally worth it just for the alt text.
- Rizzn said: I forgot that physics dept. folks were such freaks!
- Sharath said: "I digg physics" has a whole new meaning ;)
- Ed said: Ah, that's what I should've done last night.
- Cornerhouse said: will the universe come to an end?
- Alan said: Supercollider? I 'ardly know 'er!
- Kluzter said: Godamned Collider
- Ben said: This is so totally not true, no one puts up that much of a fight to _not_ fuck.
- Simone Villas Boas said: Qualquer colisãozinha de partículas é motivo para bebemorações.
- Brett L. said: I <3 Quark jokes
- Tom said: notice the use of the words up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom in the last panel...(SSD!)
- Jeffrey said: elementary, particle play
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Google Planning Offshore 'Data Barges' (22)
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In a startling new take on data center engineering, Google has filed a patent for a "water-based data center" that used the ocean to provide power and cooling. Read more at our web siteShared by Adrius Fortytwo (0) atul (117) Augmented Web (43) Bret Taylor (6) CannonGod (145) danb420 (29) Evan Sims (13) guttertec (22) hank (2) Igor Poltavskiy (8) Javed (98) Jeff (95) Jon Wiley (4) louisgray (107) mario r (1) Moses (25) PMinze (31) qthrul (16) Rich Miller (0) Stephan M (82) Surferbill (13) Zhasper (63)- Jon Wiley said: Wave power is good, but how about Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)?
- qthrul said: Sitting ducks.
- Igor Poltavskiy said: New Google's medium: ocean and space(own satellites)
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