Topic: SEX - on November 17, 2006 at 6:07:00 PM CET
Why orgasm might save the world --- First Annual Synchronized GlobalOrgasm for Peace
Winter Solstice Day - Friday, December 22nd
During our experience with BaringWitness in which thousands of mostly women (but supported by men) bared all to spell words of peace, it was quite evident that that our mostly male global media enjoyed our display. They enjoyed it so much that they forgot to 'poke porn' at us. Yes, they gave us respect - after the media blitz, Paul and I spent 3 years researching our evolutionary behavior and discovered a little-known document called Sexual Selection written by Charles Darwin.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 17, 2006 at 3:22:00 PM CET
Brilliant Minds Forecast the Next 50 Years
What will be the biggest breakthrough of the next 50 years? As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations we asked over 70 of the world's most brilliant scientists for their ideas.
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Topic: FUN - on November 17, 2006 at 3:16:00 PM CET
The "bush hid the facts" bug in Notepad explained
Fact. if you:
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Load Notepad in Windows (in my case XP Pro)
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Type "bush hid the facts" (all in lowercase, no quotes)
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Save this file under a name of your choice
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Re-open the file
you will not see the text that you typed, but instead you will see a bunch of squares (or, as I later found out, some Chinese characters - that is, if you have the Chinese fonts installed, which is not my case).
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 17, 2006 at 2:51:00 PM CET
British "Secure" Passports Cracked
The Guardian has cracked the so-trumpeted secure British passports after 48 hours of work: 'Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes?'
Privacy issues with new digital passport
Q. What could a boarding pass tell an identity fraudster about you? A. Way too much
Burce Sterling's copy of this article with embedded commentary
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on November 17, 2006 at 1:05:00 PM CET
Sophia shows she's still sexy at 71
SCREEN legend Sophia Loren shows she still has what it takes to make men go weak at the knees – as she poses for the Pirelli calender at the ripe old age of 71.
The Italian stunner flashes her luscious curves alongside younger beauties including film stars Penelope Cruz and Naomi Watts in next year’s edition of the famous calendar.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on November 17, 2006 at 1:02:00 PM CET
You Call That A Knife?
In a Crocodile Dundee-like moment, a Florida convenience store clerk repelled a machete-wielding robber by pulling out her own machete from behind the store's counter, a faceoff captured by a store surveillance camera.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 17, 2006 at 12:53:00 PM CET
Life in Prison for Smoking Marijuana
My name is Tyrone Brown, better known as T Baby to some. At age 17 I was sentenced to an aggravated life sentence in prison for smoking marijuana while on probation.
Now I know that may sound absurd and hard to believe because it sounded the same to me also when Judge Keith Dean in Dallas, Texas handed down his order more than 14 years ago. I soon realized that just like the marijuana smoke I consumed, my life was also to be consumed by these years behind bars.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on November 17, 2006 at 12:51:00 PM CET
Hole-in-wall thief used MP3 player
A FRAUDSTER outwitted sophisticated banking security systems by using an ordinary MP3 music player to bug cash machines and steal customers’ credit card secrets. Maxwell Parsons, 41, was the central figure in a gang who went on to steal goods worth hundreds of thousands of pounds in high street stores across Britain.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 17, 2006 at 12:07:00 PM CET
Linux users owe Microsoft Microsoft CEO says Linux "uses our intellectual property"
In a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Seattle, Ballmer said Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell earlier this month because Linux "uses our intellectual property" and Microsoft wanted to "get the appropriate economic return for our shareholders from our innovation."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 17, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM CET
Sun can solve global warming
Scott McNealy may no longer be leading the charge at Sun Microsystems but he still knows a good Sun sales opportunity when he sees it.
The company’s former CEO used the recording of a US TV chat show on "Going Green" to showcase Sun's Niagara chip, T1000 servers, Project Blackbox and Sun Rays as potential planet savers. He probably lost he TV audience when he started getting into the number of threads on a Niagara chip, though.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 17, 2006 at 11:40:00 AM CET
Microsoft could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions with a few lines of computer code
It is estimated there are 660 million computers in use worldwide, the majority of which run some iteration of a Microsoft operating system. Generating the electricity needed to power those computers requires hundreds of power plants that produce billions of tons of CO2 emissions. Many of those machines sit idle for 12 to 16 hours per day, burning electricity, but not doing any work, because businesses habitually leave their computers running overnight.
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