November 2011
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Galaxy Crash Debris: Post-merger Spherodials paper... →
Citizen scientists at Galaxy Zoo study how galaxies come together.
http://blogs.zooniverse.org/galaxyzoo/files/2011/11/mergers-timeline1.jpeg
Peak Life Expectancy? « naked capitalism →
Average life expectancy in decline in America? It’s more likely than you think.
What Does HP Know About webOS Printers That We...
Re: It could be a leverage point
by Xest on 08: 15 AM November 23rd, 2011 (#38147870)
There's more to it than this, I have one of these printers and don't use it very often, however last night I was sat playing BF3 and notice something out the corner of my eye. The thing had switched itself on and it's front end on the tablet thing was staring at me with the blue light on the printer flashing, as if it was trying to communicate with me, as if it felt the need to make me acknowledge it's presence. I suspect HP does know something we don't know about WebOS, and that's that it is sentient. HP understands that if it doesn't retain a close relationship now, that when these things start to learn to do other things, like walk, and weild machine guns, then it risks suffering the same kind of enslavement as the rest of us. Me? I'm not too worried, I said "there there" to my printer in a calm voice, fed it some paper, and said "time to sleep" before gently turning it off. I hope this will be enough, that if I'm kind to it now, it will spare me when the day comes.
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Lately, Comcast has been depositing nearly 100% of the checks that I have sent to them. If they continue to cash my checks at this rate, I will be force to throttle back the check writing to 50% of the invoice amount. During times of peak demand of my money, it is only fair to other utility providers who also require a portion of this limited resource. With throttling in place, which should only...
Your Tax Dollars' at Dirty Work
there should be legislation
by Anonymous Coward on 07:17 PM November 13th, 2011 (#38044418)
protecting companies and institutions in the US from having to fork over more than a nominal amount (let’s say $10/yr) to reserve a domain based on their own name, provided that they never back it with content.
What if ICANN doesn’t play ball? Well, the legislation should then direct...
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Hubble Space Telescope
by ackthpt
Blowing your mind since 1990
Best damn use of NASA funds, since the Moon landing.
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The Cloud Has a Dark Lining
How long do you think the webOS app catalog will continue to operate after the last #webOS device has been sold?
- Rod Whitby of webosinternals
https://twitter.com/#!/webosinternals/status/132564454041858048
It’s something of a sobering wake up call which is happening more and more often these days. We’re becoming addicted to Cloud Computing; a concept which has a huge...
