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  1. Smeed's Law on Why Cell Phone Bans Don't Work · · Score: 1

    Smeed’s law is an empirical relationship that predicts the number of deaths in traffic accidents in a country, normalized to the number of vehicles in it

    See post from Vivek Haldar:

    http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/10126017769/smeeds-law-for-programming

  2. purposely done by oracle to taint java and android on Java 7 Ships With Severe Bug · · Score: 1

    must be it

  3. a civilization on Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe · · Score: 1

    ....that uses all the energy from their stars, colonizing the neighboring stars and galaxies, coming our way...

  4. Do you recall him ever mentioning Source Code? on Cancer Survival for Software Developers · · Score: 1

    Years ago, wherever I worked, I had a cartoon that hung in my office. It was from an early source code control company, and it showed a woman with two small children at a graveside. A man in a suit walks up, and the caption says, "Do you recall him ever mentioning Source Code?"

    Anyone have a link?

  5. Re:Thinkpads on Going, Going, Gone: IBM Sells PC Group To Lenovo · · Score: 1

    I dropped a venti latte (hehe) and a heineken (not at the same time) on my X31 keyboard and immediately turned it upside down (while it was still running). Nothing happened!

  6. taking and sending pictures is the killer app! on Hello Kitty May Be Key to 3G Survival · · Score: 1

    ....in Asia and Europe that is...

  7. Censoring? on Amnesty Calls Shenannigans on MS, Sun, Cisco · · Score: 1

    geez, that government must be really -evil-, thank god that the equipment of those companies doesnt get used for censoring in their home country, oh wait..