Derek Lovley and his colleagues of the University of Massachusetts discovered that the Geobacter bacteria is capable of producing nanowires. The bacteria is normally used to clean up toxic waste. Geobacter does not use oxigen, but metal as it's source for power. This probably explains the 3nm to 5nm nanowires it excretes while working. What metal the nanowires are made of is not yet known, but the genetic code responsible for their creation is. This opens up the possibility of modifying the bacteria to create nanowires on chips.
Ah, carrying on the great/. tradition. Never use spellcheck, to the extreme!
I wonder how many in the *hat communities will suddenly take an interest in finding holes in SCO operating systems.
Saying out loud "ours is the most secure and linux is the least secure" is a guaranteed way to make people suddenly interested, after all.. everyone loves a challenge.
Some of us actually work in the industry, set up and manage servers, deploy desktops, write code, make recommendations, etc. - its' not ALL about downloading as much pr0n as possible...
It seems to be a case of Microsoft following and doing a poor job of it.
For example, try doing a search for Leeds, UK and various incarnations. You'll get nothing, it seems only the USA exists on the planet with MSN Virtual Earth.
Also, what is it with the needless compass pointing north? Does Microsoft believe that some people don't know which way is north on a map of the planet?
At work I setup a SUS server running windows 2000 server. (when SUS first appeared)
What's surprising is that it's a Pentium 1 200MHz MMX machine, granted it's an old server but the thing runs with 256MB of mem and a couple of old IDE harddrives just fine.
It chugs along and does its job of applying updates across the network.
Course, we recently got a brand spanking new server so i've moved the sql db onto that and gonna stick WSUS 2.0 on the oldish Pentium 3 1GHz, 2GB ram etc server which was once the db server.
Little point in getting win 2k3 when you have little need for it.
3. The traffic he's about to encounter on his drive to work.
Are you joking? He probably just takes a helicopter everyday, or maybe by human drawn carriage, or perhaps that secret tunnel he had made underground to Microsoft hq, or perhaps he simply has a giant car with a big plow on the front that pushes all other traffic out of the way..
HP has announced along with numerous other printer and cartridge makers that they are again reducing the amount of ink stored in printer cartridges.
How much you want to bet they'll do that too?
I've got a HP Photosmart 8450 printer here, really class printer.. I use it to print out all my holiday photos (no complaints about HP printers), but the thing eats through printer cartridges like nobodies business.
I work at a print company and quite frankly I am amazed at the size of ink cartridges in comparison.
For example, we have a old(ish) A4 colour printer (one of the printers used for proofs to show customers) if memory serves that has about 6 ink colour cartridges which are quite big, especially in comparison to my A4 HP printer which has 3 ink cartridges which each have 3 ink colours in and are tiny.
Now, the works A4 printer is oldish. How much you want to bet if I were to look at a newer model it'd have significantly smaller cartridges?
It seems year on year the printer manufacturers make smaller ink cartridges for their printers in new ways to screw over their customers.
IIRC, the broadband video in the UK is actually streamed from your ISP.
The BBC multicasts all the broadband video to ISP's who then have their own servers to stream the video to their customers.
That way the BBC saves bucket loads on bandwidth and also the ISPs aren't having to serve multiple requests for essentially the same content saving them bandwidth.
It only happens with participating ISPs though.
And the only way for someone outside of the UK to get this broadband content would be to setup a proxy on a connection with one of the participating ISPs.
Actually, I remember hearing about a scanner that was able to detect explosives just by walking through it.. I believe it had the ability to "sniff" the explosives in a similar way that a dog is able to.
Can't remember what it was called, will try and find a link if I can.
Of course this is a cue for people making jokes, like:
Does it sniff your butt and try to hump your legs?
Slashdot Mirror
Apple cease and desist in 3.. 2.. 1..
Hey I have a valid excuse, I posted in the rush.. *cough*
Hey look! A flying monkey!
Derek Lovley and his colleagues of the University of Massachusetts discovered that the Geobacter bacteria is capable of producing nanowires. The bacteria is normally used to clean up toxic waste. Geobacter does not use oxigen, but metal as it's source for power. This probably explains the 3nm to 5nm nanowires it excretes while working. What metal the nanowires are made of is not yet known, but the genetic code responsible for their creation is. This opens up the possibility of modifying the bacteria to create nanowires on chips.
/. tradition. Never use spellcheck, to the extreme!
Ah, carrying on the great
See the Telephone Preference Service for great justice.
So, you're saying that everyone who has malicious intents buys all their software..? :)
A quick perusal on the donkey network quickly shows up SCO OpenServer Release 6.0.0.
I wonder how many in the *hat communities will suddenly take an interest in finding holes in SCO operating systems.
Saying out loud "ours is the most secure and linux is the least secure" is a guaranteed way to make people suddenly interested, after all.. everyone loves a challenge.
Some of us actually work in the industry, set up and manage servers, deploy desktops, write code, make recommendations, etc. - its' not ALL about downloading as much pr0n as possible ...
Sir, I dispute that!
What does this mean for current and future games that use OpenGL?
Is Carmack around?
Does this mean that games that currently use opengl based engines when say run on Vista versus XP take a performance hit?
The borg are now into stealing personal information?
Man, ever since Braga and Berman got their hands on the franchise it's been nothing but downhill!
Now they've got the borg stealing peoples personal information.
Forget what?
Who are you?
What is this?
Sssh, you don't want them knowing about usenet do you?
If you have Firefox (duh) get the User Agent Switcher extension.
Add a google useragent string like "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)" to it, switch to the google ua and voila, you're in.
This also works for a surprisingly large number of registration only sites as well.
Does anyone else find great irony in this?
I mean, in order for most Linux users to watch these films they have to break some draconian laws when playing DVD's.
Yet, the very thing they use to create these films on is Linux.
Well, if not irony.. some kind of word ending with ony.
I knew it, they all said I was mad to believe.
They all said I was mad to live in a small hut in the forest with my tinfoil hat, but i've proven them wrong now!
All you people with your pitiful belief in "physics", don't you see it's all a conspiracy?!
Same here, it's severely lacking.
It seems to be a case of Microsoft following and doing a poor job of it.
For example, try doing a search for Leeds, UK and various incarnations. You'll get nothing, it seems only the USA exists on the planet with MSN Virtual Earth.
Also, what is it with the needless compass pointing north? Does Microsoft believe that some people don't know which way is north on a map of the planet?
Don't knock it, it works!
Did you try the wayback machine?
I recently used that to get my hands on an old service pack for Arcserve 2000.
At work I setup a SUS server running windows 2000 server. (when SUS first appeared)
What's surprising is that it's a Pentium 1 200MHz MMX machine, granted it's an old server but the thing runs with 256MB of mem and a couple of old IDE harddrives just fine.
It chugs along and does its job of applying updates across the network.
Course, we recently got a brand spanking new server so i've moved the sql db onto that and gonna stick WSUS 2.0 on the oldish Pentium 3 1GHz, 2GB ram etc server which was once the db server.
Little point in getting win 2k3 when you have little need for it.
3. The traffic he's about to encounter on his drive to work.
Are you joking? He probably just takes a helicopter everyday, or maybe by human drawn carriage, or perhaps that secret tunnel he had made underground to Microsoft hq, or perhaps he simply has a giant car with a big plow on the front that pushes all other traffic out of the way..
Paint?!
Luxury.
In my way we had to etch data into the cave walls using our tongues, of course.. that's when we were even allowed to be in the cave at all.
HP has announced along with numerous other printer and cartridge makers that they are again reducing the amount of ink stored in printer cartridges.
How much you want to bet they'll do that too?
I've got a HP Photosmart 8450 printer here, really class printer.. I use it to print out all my holiday photos (no complaints about HP printers), but the thing eats through printer cartridges like nobodies business.
I work at a print company and quite frankly I am amazed at the size of ink cartridges in comparison.
For example, we have a old(ish) A4 colour printer (one of the printers used for proofs to show customers) if memory serves that has about 6 ink colour cartridges which are quite big, especially in comparison to my A4 HP printer which has 3 ink cartridges which each have 3 ink colours in and are tiny.
Now, the works A4 printer is oldish. How much you want to bet if I were to look at a newer model it'd have significantly smaller cartridges?
It seems year on year the printer manufacturers make smaller ink cartridges for their printers in new ways to screw over their customers.
Damnit, you always discover the correct link right after you post.
Anyway, see here.
IIRC, the broadband video in the UK is actually streamed from your ISP.
The BBC multicasts all the broadband video to ISP's who then have their own servers to stream the video to their customers.
That way the BBC saves bucket loads on bandwidth and also the ISPs aren't having to serve multiple requests for essentially the same content saving them bandwidth.
It only happens with participating ISPs though.
And the only way for someone outside of the UK to get this broadband content would be to setup a proxy on a connection with one of the participating ISPs.
Actually, I remember hearing about a scanner that was able to detect explosives just by walking through it.. I believe it had the ability to "sniff" the explosives in a similar way that a dog is able to.
Can't remember what it was called, will try and find a link if I can.
Of course this is a cue for people making jokes, like:
Does it sniff your butt and try to hump your legs?
But the light, oh god it burns! It burns!