"The citizens of South Park wake up one morning shocked to find the Internet is gone. Upon hearing news that the Internet may remain in California, Randy decides to head out west with the family."

Duma Speaker and, until today, UR Chairman Boris Gryzlov reminded the congress of their new chair's exalted status of "National Leader."

Russia has a formally constitutional government. But it also has Putin, "The National Leader," or "Vozhd" in Russian, whose authority supersedes all formal structures.

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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said the agency wasn't duped ... ``My goal was to make sure that whoever won the C-block had an open platform,'' Martin, a Republican, told the House telecommunications subcommittee.

The rules aim to boost consumer choice by requiring the C- block winner to let any legal wireless handset or program use the network.

The C-block comprises about a third of the auctioned airwaves, which will become available when television broadcasters switch to digital signals in 2009.

The auction, which ended March 18 after two months of bidding, raised $19 billion, exceeding government projections of as much as $15 billion.

Windows Live Hotmail's Anti-CAPTCHA automatic bot, which hooks itself into Internet Explorer on a victim's machine, has a success rate of about 10-15 percent. That means that it takes up to one minute for a single bot to create a new account.

To make matters worse, Websense Security Labs is now reporting that the method for getting around Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA has been improved to the point that a bot can decipher the text and make a guess in less than six seconds, on average.

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Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

and still get a recession

One factor helping the potato remain affordable is the fact that unlike wheat, it is not a global commodity, so has not attracted speculative professional investment.

Software development projects often fail because the organization sets unrealistic goals for the "iron triangle" of software development: scope, schedule and resources

There are two working Engima machines on the expo floor at RSA! And by working I mean you can punch in your own message on one machine, copy the cipher text, and find the other machine to decode it. Very cool.

coverage by Popular Mechanics

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astronauts photograph humanity from space, using hand drill as tracking device

Robert's Rules of Order is the informal short title of a book containing rules of order intended to be adopted for use by a deliberative assembly.

The author's interest in parliamentary procedure began in 1863 when he was chosen to preside over a church meeting and, although he accepted the task, felt that he did not have the necessary knowledge of proper procedure.

In his later work as an active member of several organizations, he discovered that members from different areas of the country had very different views regarding what the proper parliamentary rules were, and these conflicting views hampered the organizations in their work. He eventually became convinced of the need for a new manual on the subject, one which would enable many organizations to adopt the same set of rules.

Robert's Rules Online - Meetings run like a well-oiled machine

TiltViewer is a free, customizable 3D Flash image viewing application.

Google uses four different programming languages: C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript. Apparently, nobody likes writing web front ends in Java, not even Google who has a lot of web front end code in Java.

In an effort to increase developer productivity at Google, Steve tried to convince the company to adopt Rails (and consequently Ruby) as a programming language. When that fell on deaf ears (Google really does not want to increase the number of languages that must be supported by their infrastructure), Steve decided to do what any other frustrated programmer would do: he ported Rails to JavaScript. Line by line. In 6 months. Working 2000 hours.

Steve Yegge's blog rant about the exercise

Although common tracking systems, known as cookies, have counted a consumer's visits to a network of sites, the new monitoring, known as "deep-packet inspection," enables a far wider view -- every Web page visited, every e-mail sent and every search entered. Every bit of data is divided into packets -- like electronic envelopes -- that the system can access and analyze for content.

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), one of Germany's oldest and largest hacker organisations, on Saturday published Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble's fingerprints in its own magazine.

Schaeubele's prints were taken from a water glass he used at a public debate, said CCC spokesman Frank Rieger.

The CCC argues that fingerprints are a poor choice for identification documents because they are easy to collect, and also to reproduce - the group's website contains a 12-step guide for how to create a fake set of fingerprints.

The core technology that powers gDay. is MATE. (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation).

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