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Music pushes kids to early sex

Music pushes kids to early sexSexy Music = Kid Sex...Hah!Elvis Presly take that you dirty dog! Taking those poor young kids and exposing them to your hip grinding sex-u-al body moves. Why you have been corrupting the minds of young Americans everywhere! (Oh and don't forget those Canadians,...

Tags: early sex, music, Homo Sapiens

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Is Myspace really as bad as it seems?

Is Myspace really as bad as it seems?A fiendly aside ...To strictly conform to biological classification nomenclature, it should read "Homo ipod" or "H. ipod" for short. Since modern humans are known by subspecies as well Homo sapiens sapiens, perhaps a more correct selection might be "Homo sapiens ipod"....

Tags: Homo Sapiens, MySpace

Discussion threads 2006-03-13

Additional Resources

(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

From ???Payola??? to ???Pay for Say???: Will Metrics Aid Honesty or Abet Dishonesty in Online Conversation?

From ???Payola??? to ???Pay for Say???: Will Metrics Aid Honesty or Abet Dishonesty in Online Conversation?I actually like this, maybebecause it has a potential to influence more perhaps speaking to the subconscious and because it might not be so darn disturbing as ad-breaks in the middle of a good movie,...

Tags: Pay-for Say???, Online Conversation, Metrics Aid Honesty, Abet Dishonesty

Discussion threads 2009-05-10

The Sierra Club's "How Many?" Knowledge Cards 1.05 (Mobile)

This quiz application from the Sierra Club offers an insight into numbers in nature. The ancients argued, or so we are told, about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. This intriguing application investigates more earthly, and more satisfying, questions. (For one thing, they are answerable.)...

Tags: Card, Mobile, Knowledge, Sierra Club, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales

Software downloads 2009-03-30

The Terminator scenario: Perhaps not so fictional after all

Sometime in the future--Military robots have joined forces and are targeting humans using Google Latitude. Tribes of robots have banded together in various metropolitan areas. Early reports indicate a programming malfunction.   Sounds like Terminator doesn't it? It could be real life some day if we don't...

Tags: Programming, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-20

HP intensifies the mainframe battle

HP intensifies the mainframe battleDinosaurs are immortal - fortunately.1) With apologies to whoever coined the phrase: "Most of IT history of the last 25 years has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good".2) Anything you can do on a server, can be done on a mainframe - and orders-of-magnitude...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, commodity computing, Dinosaur, mainframe, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

NASA and DoE team on dark energy research

NASA and DoE team on dark energy researchCongrats JDEM.........but if you don't terraform Mars soon, none of this new information is going to do anyone much good, now is it?Seems like a stupid response? Not so....1. We breed too much and we grow too little food and we use the...

Tags: team, human race, NASA

Discussion threads 2008-11-27

The 'real' cost of application outages

The 'real' cost of application outagesavailabilityDowntime costs will naturally depend on the business. I worked many years at NYSE, where downtime could cost millions. I used to maintain and run one of their most critical systems. Over 7 years, the total 'unavailable' time was less than 50 seconds.Now working in...

Tags: Mainframes, Manufacturing, Servers, outage, mainframe, application outage

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

Red Hat CEO: Vista marks end of 'planned software'

Red Hat CEO: Vista marks end of 'planned software'Red Hat CEO: Vista marks end of 'planned software'Is this guy completely clueless? Who actually listens to this fool? Planned software is the backbone of the software industry. That is how they get customers to prepare for an upgrade...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, UNIX, IBM OS, Red Hat Inc., software, Linux, open source, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OS

Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OSWell ..."Do you want Microsoft or Apple or your favorite Linux distro to say, "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't allow that," ..."Vista already does this when the broadcast flag is set, so not allowing any cracking tools shouldn't be too far behind. ;)Is Vista...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, invulnerable OS

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

Cross-SAGE: SAGE Data Mining Tool Based on Set Theory

SAGE Serial Analysis of Gene Expression is a technique for analyzing gene expression of a series of tags obtained from cDNA. This technology lets biologists analyze and observe the relative gene expressions of many samples in silico. To date, some visible analyzing platforms for SAGE were not provided in a...

Tags: Theory, Gene Expression, Productivity

White papers 2008-03-21

The state of Unix (Jun 18/07)

The state of Unix (Jun 18/07)Linux, Solaris and BSD are all going away...All of this conjecture ignores the simple fact that Microsoft WILL SHIP Windows Server 2008 in a few months time, ending all competition in the server industry for other operating systems. Linux and Solaris are engaged in a...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Servers, Jun, Unix, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-12-26

Notes from Britain: it isn't going to get better soon

Two sour notes from the sceptered isle. First their scientists are telling us we should expect to lose up to 50% of our fellow creatures. They are not giving odds on whether homo not-so-sapiens is likely to be one of the goners. Studying the entire known fossil...

Tags: Renewable Energy, IBM Lotus Notes, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Coming to grips with intelligent machines

Coming to grips with intelligent machinesResponse to SingularityGiven the present response to current problems - ie. Global Climate Change, Overpopulation, Corruption, War, Action on Blind Faith - is it likely that Homo Sapiens will last long enough to reach the state of Singularity? If we do survive, maybe...

Tags: intelligent machine, Singularity

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

Step 1: Collect samples (How the Cancer Genomic Atlas will work)

Step 1: Collect samples How the Cancer Genomic Atlas will workFighting CancerA very rare occasion to be proud of the " homo sapiens "

Tags: Cancer Genomic Atlas

Discussion threads 2007-04-02

Collaborative Google Q & A: Call for questions

Collaborative Google Q & A: Call for questionsSubsort for too many findsOften when completing a lengthy Google search which takes 1.87 seconds to report finding 1,243,400 records on the keywords, I scan the first few pages of finds with helpful subparagraphs for context. While I am evaluating the germaneness...

Tags: Google Inc., boxer

Discussion threads 2006-05-27

RFID startup attracts software talent

RFID startup attracts software talentThey have $6 millions to screw humanity by RFID (e.g. our privacy, etc)...... but they don't have even $1 to help humanity. That's how our society becomes inevitably sick when too powerful corporations rule it.sounds like you need some of those antidepressantsWith that much anger, you...

Tags: Workforce management, software, RFID, RFID Startup, talent

Discussion threads 2005-08-01

Sapiens 2.4.1 (Windows)

Sapiens is an adventure-arcade game that brings you back 100,000 years ago for discovering the everyday life of the Homo Sapiens Neandertalensis. You incarnate a young Hunter from the Light-Foot tribe: you'll have to explore your territory, keep up friendly contacts with the other tribes, trade objects, make assegai heads...

Tags: Myriad Software, Sapiens, Games, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-07-26

PPTP VPN authentication protocol proven very susceptible to attack

Later today, Joshua Wright will release an upgraded version of his ultra-high speed password cracking tool called ASLEAP . For those of you already familiar with ASLEAP, you might be wondering what this has to do with Microsoft's PPTP VPN protocol since ASLEAP is a LEAP authentication dictionary attack tool....

Tags: PPTP, password, ASLEAP

Blog posts 2004-12-17