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- A small utility program that is used to investigate, or test, the status of a system, network or Web site. Probes are mostly used for lawful purposes to determine...
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- You want to talk about colonoscopies?
- The virtual procedure gets rid of the probe going up your butt, but you still have the same preparation, which is where the pain is, so what's the advantage? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- Monitoring our immune system
- You might be surprised to learn that there are no clinical tools to track the human immune system today. This might change soon. UCLA researchers have developed a new PET scanning probe that will allow monitoring of our immune system. The scientists have used one of the most commonly used...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Images: Favorite views of Saturn
- Members of Ciclops, hardcore fans of Saturn and the Cassini probe, voted on their favorite images returned from the ringed planet. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-01-06
- Mukasey revives probe into lawyers' roles in NSA spying
- In his first week on the job, new Attorney General Michael Mukasey has reopened a long-stalled Justice Dept. investigation into the National Security Administration's domestic wiretapping program, The Los Angeles Times reports. The internal probe will investigate whether Justice lawyers acted unethically or broke laws in reviewing...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Generalized Dynamic Probes for the Linux Kernel and Applications With Arachne
- This paper presents Arachne, a tool for runtime analysis of complex applications. While efficiency considerations have played an important role in the design of Arachne, it allows safe and runtime injection of probes inside the Linux kernel and user space applications on both function calls and variable access. It features...
- White papers 2007-01-08
- AliveMon 2.0.102 (Windows)
- AliveMon is a network monitor that lets you know when servers or routers fail. Configurable alarms enable you to quickly solve problems before they turn into real headache. You can even automatically take corrective actions by auto-starting programs. Application-specific probes let you check the actual status of your application (like...
- Software downloads 2006-11-08
- Images: Lunar crash course; interplanetary visitors
- NASA is planning to crash a water-seeking probe into the moon while ESA visits Venus. Plus, news from Mars.
- Image galleries 2006-04-11
- Images: Lunar crash course; interplanetary visitors
- NASA is planning to crash a water-seeking probe into the moon while ESA visits Venus. Plus, news from Mars.
- Image galleries 2006-04-11
- The indictment: Cheney aide charged in leak probe
- Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, is indicted on five criminal counts of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements after a two-year investigation into the leak of a covert CIA operative's identity.
- Image galleries 2005-10-28
- The indictment: Cheney aide charged in leak probe
- Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, is indicted on five criminal counts of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements after a two-year investigation into the leak of a covert CIA operative's identity.
- Image galleries 2005-10-28
- Photos: Snowy dirtball
- NASA reveals discoveries made following the July 4 collision between its Deep Impact probe and comet Tempel 1.
- Image galleries 2005-09-07
- Photos: Snowy dirtball
- NASA reveals discoveries made following the July 4 collision between its Deep Impact probe and comet Tempel 1.
- Image galleries 2005-09-07
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- Verizon to test sending RIAA copyright warnings
- As long as...it's not a 3 strike policy... i'm relativaly ok with this particular thing...Just a notice and notice system, sometimes users dont know if they are doing something illegal. Furthermore, can they proof without anny doubt that there's a copyright infrigement?no they cannotWith such a large criminal records, the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Web 2.0 Summit video: GE shows off mini ultrasound device
- Not uniqueSonoSite makes a similar product. As part of a an upgrade of portable ultrasound used by the PA's to place central lines in a hospital chain, SonoSite reps used their latest & greatest product at the bedside on my patient who has known abnormal subclavian vein issues that...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon
- On Friday morning, NASA successfully rammed the LCROSS satellite and a probe into the south pole of the moon in an attempt to search for hidden pockets of ice. by Andy Smith
- Image galleries 2009-10-09
- DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business
- M/F competitionThere use to be plug compatible m/f from Amdahl and Fujitsu. When IBM switched from bi-polar to CMOS technology, the competition was unable to make the same switch. They have left the field.A few years ago, there was a small manufacturer of a PC server capable of...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business
- The Department of Justice is looking into IBM's mainframe business for anticompetitive behavior. According to a bevy of reports, the DOJ is requesting information from IBM's smaller rivals. The Computer and Communications Industry Association has been stumping for a probe of IBM's mainframe practices. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Sun faces H-1B visa probe
- Many points to make, but here is 1 quick point...Well before the current "economic slump", many U.S. citizens were Vocal, taking a stance against the H-1B visa program and the growing "offshoring" process. It's not just because of the economic downturn.. There are real problems with the H-1B program (and...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Future of MySQL worries EU regulators looking at Oracle-Sun deal
- mistake !!"""Here comes trouble for Oracle. The European Commission is extending its probe into the $7.4 million takeover of Sun, the New York Times reports.""""$7.4 million???times - """worth $7.4 billion, ""MySQL is dead alreadyMySQL is dead already with the purchase of Innodb by Oracle.Oracle has to suffer b/c EC wants...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Future of MySQL worries EU regulators looking at Oracle-Sun deal
- The European Commission is extending its probe into the $7.4 million takeover of Sun. Neelie Kroes, the European Union’s competition commissioner, expressed concern about MySQL, the open source database that competes with Oracle's SQL products. by Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
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