Ten Ways

Einstein 2 and 3

And while we're on the subject, do you think the NSA actually chooses what calls to monitor?
Or do you think they just log it ALL and then when they need to "monitor" something, they just sort out the relevant datastream from the archives?

Exactly one kilogram, smooth to the nearest 0.0000000003 meter (1.18110236 × 10-8 inches), and round to within 0.00000005 meters (1.96850394 × 10-6 inches).

Lots of photos over at Make.
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Full post on Gizmodo, where I got the subject line...

1sockchuck wrote, in /. Monday,
 "It was a bad week to be a piece of electrical equipment inside a major data center. There have been five major incidents in the past week in which generator or UPS failures have caused data center power outages that left customers offline. Generators were apparently the culprit in a Rackspace outage in ( Read more... )

I guess I'm old enough that this kinda makes me sad:

(CNN) -- After nearly 150 years in business, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition Friday, the victim of a bad economy and the Internet generation.

Full story here: CNNI know this is going to happen to the newspaper in my hometown one of these days ( Read more... )

I'm sure most of you have heard about Barack Obama's Blackberry addiction.

In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas.So...the White House could get an internal Blackberry Enterprise ( Read more... )

Sometimes capitalism is bad.

Microsoft and x86 Slaughter Better Technologies.Microsoft leveraged its position as an Apple partner to appropriate the Mac’s graphical user interface for use on the x86 PC; starting with Windows 3.0 in 1990 and particularly with Windows 95, Microsoft pushed its DOS user base to Windows, further entrenching the ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't remember, the Web was announced to the world on August 6, 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.

He invented it so physicists could share info.

Google Groups still has the posting here.