Monday, 23. November 2009

Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty


Unless you've just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn't good for you. Did you know, that smoking isn't good for your computer, either? It's true, at least according to Apple. Two readers in different parts of the country claim that their Applecare warranties were voided due to secondhand smoke. Both readers appealed their cases up to the office of God Steve Jobs himself. Both lost.

consumerist.com

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Anti-bomb cops blew up my car


WHEN Headington man Michael Raphel parked his car in a London side street, the worse he feared was a parking ticket.

But when the businessman returned to his red Honda Civic Type R he found it had been blown up by anti-terrorist police.

oxfordmail.co.uk

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Hallo, ist da wer? - Außerirdische und Künstliche Intelligenz


Die Menschheit sucht im All sehnsüchtig nach außerirdischer Intelligenz. Doch fündig werden könnte sie auf der Erde: Die Roboter von morgen sind emotional und superklug. Die Frage wird sein: Wie gehen sie mit uns um? Sehen sie uns als Haustiere - oder als Nahrung?

spiegel.de

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Large Hadron Collider ready to restart


After a delay of over a year at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the massive underground particle accelerator, beginning on November 20, 2009, is already sending particles beams on paths within the circular, underground chamber.

Large Hadron Collider ready to restart

itwire.com Large Hadron Collider ready to restart 30 photos old shit

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Darwin 1st edition found on toilet bookshelf


An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.

Christie's auction house said Sunday the book - one of around 1,250 copies first printed in 1859 - had been on a toilet bookshelf at a family's home in Oxford.

cnews.canoe.ca tbo.com

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