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Example: I doubt anyone's been married on waterskis before. Or while submerged and in Scuba gear.

You could at least have come up with some better examples: Wedding on waterskis, Underwater wedding

But clicking on the submitted link is worth it just for the headline picture and the funny caption.

Use your Google Toolbar to help Folding@HOME

Sounds like you got some serious, serious horsepower, so I can't resist asking! ;-)

Join my Folding@HOME Google Toolbar team

For those with extra hardware to run Astrerix@Home, consider running Folding@Home! ;-)

Since they have the hardware in place, I wonder what they do when they don't have films to make and/or work - i.e. would they consider contributing those idle CPU times to something like the Folding@HOME project ... the powder2glass team would love the work units! ;-)

Yea, low-tech ... but pretty darn effective ... and I rarely need access to the CD/DVD drive and/or box itself, so it works for me.

Having said that, I look forward to the Pentium-M's ... 100+ Watts of power for the 3+ GHz Intel CPU's is semi-ridiculous ... and I gotta believe that if the thermal load from that can be removed, it will create savings in other areas. BTW, if you DO want your PC to be a space heater in the coming winter months, fire up Google Compute.

BTW, the first bazillion prime numbers HAVE been calculated, so for those /.'ers with spare CPU cycles, consider something perhaps more worthwhile such as Folding@HOME

The Incredible Hulk had fun with his halloween decorations but that's a warmup for his christmas lights where he plays RoShamBo when not helping out Google Compute.

Instead of the "pi" benchmark, can these guys to join my Folding@HOME team!?!

BTW, I'm really surprised that the 20,000 PC's are "only" $3,000 - seems like you could have 'em do clicks on Google Ads or other affliiate type stuff and make a lot more than that ... assuming you don't get caught.

I otherwise agree with most that was written - I totally agree that "less is more" when it comes to security (although there often ends up being hooks for stuff like RPC all over the place) and I couldn't believe it when I saw "Remote Assistance" enabled on my computer by default when I loaded it - WTF!

Just noticed a bunch of -1 and 0 comments from folks looking for gmail accounts, the powder2glass google toolbar team gives one away almost daily to (basically) the fastest clicker - something /.'ers should be pretty good at - one is being given away today between 1000-1100 MDT. They aren't quite as nifty or as fun as this radio controlled hovercraft I got yesterday! ;-)

Captbraritone and hellfire - The powder2glass google toolbar team is giving away free gmail invites - per the web page, will be one later this morning.

BTW, if you can't get a gmail invite from the poster above, they are giving one away periodically from the bottom of this Google Compute page.

There are several special metals in the Marvel universe that can have a place in the World of Darkness. These metals are usually very hard; much harder than mere steel, and they are not very ablative. They are also very rare, in general. One or two of them have special properties.

Adamantium

Adamantium is the hardest metal known to man, though it has not been made clear how dense it is. One would suspect that its density is roughly the same as that of normal steel, though a Storyteller can rule that it is as heavy as lead or as light as magnesium. At any rate, it would appear that no force on earth is sufficient to break or bend adamantium when it is at a normal temperature. Wolverine has used his adamantium-coated claws in Arctic climes as well as steamy jungles, so there is no reason to suppose that the metal becomes brittle at low temperatures. Judging from the number of times Wolverine's flesh has been roasted or vaporized right off of his skeleton in the comics, with no visible effect on the metal, we must assume that adamantium has a relatively high melting point. In any case, to be nice to Logan, it also seems likely that it has a fairly high specific heat capacity, at least for a metal. It may or may not be one of the magnetic metals- as seen in X-Men 25- because Magneto has enough raw power to reach down and repel protons in the raw, if he wants to.

There is a special process that allows adamantium in ionic (salt) form to be bonded to human bones- as in Wolverine's skeleton- or even human skin- as in Cyber's case. This process was developed by a Japanese scientist and villain called Dark Wind, and stolen (or sold) for the benefit of Department H, a branch of the Canadian Ministry of Defense. The following characters have some sort of connection to the metal, or are actually running around wearing it: Wolverine, Cyber, Dark Wind, Apocalypse, the Professor (not Xavier), Ultron, Lady Deathstrike.

Carbonadium

Carbonadium is a resilient, unstable metal that is much tougher than steel but more flexible than adamantium. It would seem as though it is a difficult and extremely expensive process to make carbonadium, which is probably an alloy of some kind, since there is apparently only one carbonadium synthesizer in the entire world. Carbonadium, like its more resilient counterpart adamantium, would appear to have a high specific heat capacity and melting point.

Carbonadium may or may not have one unique property: it may serve to stabilize a life-force vampire's condition, which would keep the mutant from having to drain the life force of others to survive. This may be a simple fact of Omega Red's condition, rather than something general to life-force vampirism.

Omega Red's tentacles are composed of carbonadium, and it is possible that his skeleton is also laced with the stuff. Other characters with a link to carbonadium include Wolverine, Sabretooth, Maverick, and John Wraith.

Omnium

Omnium is an extremely hard, extremely rigid metal that is likely to be second in resilience only to adamantium. In any case, it would seem that it is even less likely to bend without snapping than that metal. Omnium is not a commonly used or mentioned metal, but it has appeared on rare occasion in Marvel comics.

There was an acolyte of Magneto that had the power to change either himself or another person into an aware omnium statue. Other characters that have been seen using or testing the metal include Penance and the White

The SECOND article (this one) titled "First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered" was posted by Michael on Tuesday June 15, @04:59PM.

So we would expect the next one at 11:54PM ...

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The FIRST article titled "Worm Developed for Nokia Series-60 Phones" was posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 15, @10:04AM.

The SECOND article (this one) titled "First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered" was posted by Michael on Tuesday June 15, @04:59PM.

Conclusions left to /.

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HEY ... when you are done playing games (i.e. leave at night ... if you don't stay up all night playing! ;-) ... can you turn that cluster of 20 AMD XP 1800s to do some processing for a "do-gooder" cause such as Folding@HOME - my Google Compute team would love to get a boost from that type of horsepower! ;-)

While most /.'ers will probably run the FAH client, even Google supports Folding@home - read more at their Google Compute FAQ which allows you to run it as part of the Google Toolbar - heck, I even have my mother helping out this way since it is so super-easy to install.

And if you do decide to support Folding@home, consider joining a team - if you don't have one, you are welcome to sign up for my Google Compute team ;-)

What I have found REALLY interesting about MozDex is the "explain" button which I assume provides some insights into why MozDex decided to rank that web URL as whatever ... but the information as currently presented isn't understandable and/or explained.

For instance, I was interested where a Google Compute web page came up and was actually quite surprised that a MozDex Search shows it as #1. So I click on the explain button and I get a page with a buncha numbers ... but nowhere on this page (or anywhere on the MozDex site) can I find an explanation for what they heck they mean.

Since your claim-to-fame is open source/search, I think adding information on the internal algorithms would help you out. Keep up the good work - interesting stuff! ;-)

alek

P.S. Minor typo in the Corporate Info link from your FAQ

As alluded in the "Note to Slashdot Editors" (thought they would prune that), I first want to emphasize I have NO relationships with the folks running this content - I just think it is hilarious, although it will certainly provide some insights into how Google works, and we'll see all sorts of whacky things from the SEO pro's - again, I am not one of 'em.

Second, I hadn't thought about Slashdot ranking 1st for the contest as some have suggested - now that would be a crackup! Unfortunately, Slashdot won't allow you to place in IMG tag in a post (a requirement of the contest is a small image on the page), plus I'm not a member of the SearchGuild, so I'm not elgible ... maybe Cmdr Taco or Timothy need an iPod and/or 17" LCD - go for it! ;-)

Third, you know the folk at Google have gotten wind of this contest, and if I were them, I'd put a link on the main page to their own nigritude ultramarine page. I.e. Google should NOT tinker with their algorithms, but with a link from their PR10 main page, that certainly should shoot 'em up in the rankings. I gotta wonder if the pre-IPO Google would do this - we'll see with the "new" Google ;-)

Fourth, I appreciate some of the comments from folks about my Christmas Lights and the Christmas Webcam with webcontrol (yes, you can turn the lights ON and OFF via the web) which actually been on Slashdot before - in fact, you can read my Slashdot Effect Analysis from last year. I assure you it should be MUCH more interesting this year, as due to some multi-threaded optimizations, I think I'll be able to reduce the throttle from minimum 5-second updates to 1-second updates. I'm going to have to be REALLY NICE to my neighbors, 'cause it will be quite the flickering light show in December/2004 ... although I usually fire it up for a test-run in October as part of my Halloween Decorations and Lights.

alek

P.S. One thing slight off-topic is the Google Compute project which I thought I mention to those Slashdotters with idle CPU time that want to help the Stanford Folding@Home project - this really is a good cause.

The Hulkster