March 11, 2009
It's hard enough for me to download email, talk, visit a web site or SMS a large image with my cell phone - why would I want to go through the pain of participating in a web conference via cell phone? If your smartphone is equipped to run on a high speed network like 3G and has the processing power ...
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March 10, 2009
VIA THE REMOTE ISLAND: There's a very funny little telephone complication caused by Idol taking Anoop Desai as its 13th finalist... You see, when American Idol asks viewers to vote for finalists, they generally have them call one of twelve numbers, which range from 1-866-436-5701 to 1-866-436-57...
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Emily Farris
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March 08, 2009
I never really thought I'd ever type out the phrase "fossilized Walkman" or "fossilized PlayStation controller" in my lifetime, and yet, here I am Sunday morning, doing just that. Hooray? Of course,......
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Jack Loftus
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March 05, 2009
Putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers' plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume. Data centers, central to the nation's cyberinfrastructure, house computing, networking and storage equipme...
Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
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bjs
at 5:30 PM
February 18, 2009
PhoneNetworkFilter: Help me find government reports (or any official-ish industry reports) that give statistics for the failure rates of various phone systems under various conditions in the USA. So, for my job, I need to find reports that state authoritatively why phone calls could be dropped, not ...
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DetonatedManiac
at 3:09 PM
February 13, 2009
In hard times it's more important than ever to ensure that you pay no more than necessary for the essentials of life. In our list of 50 ways to get the most from your money here are seven tips on household bills....
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at 8:13 AM
February 09, 2009
This is like one of those ghost stories where the hero joins up with a fellow traveler, and then at the end of his journey discovers that his travel companion never existed. Oooooo! Only it's about AT&T, so instead of being spooky it's just annoying. Especially the part at the end where he receives ...
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Chris Walters
at 6:49 PM
February 02, 2009
Director : Randal Kleiser Release Date : Genre : Adventure, Family, Musical Cast : (Credited cast) , Lainie Kazan as Grandma, Henry Cavill as The Hunter, Morgan Thompson as Claire / Red, Sam Oz Stone as Matt / Rusty (as Sam Stone), Daniel Roebuck as Red’s Dad, Debi Mazar as Red’s Mom, Jo...
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at 12:58 PM
January 29, 2009
We grew up in a US time when horses were still used to deliver milk and baked goods, and collect recyclables (generically called 'rags' back then)... It was a slow time, when summer days were a week long, and to get from Saturday lunch to the starting bars of the first Looney Tunes of the Saturday m...
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Bob Brady
at 12:51 AM
January 26, 2009
Recently, the CBC posted an article regarding the seeming failure of Canada's national "Do Not Call" registry. It seems that unscrupulous businesses are getting the list and, surmising that it is comprised of valid phone numbers, calling people on the list. This has the effect of pissing a lot o...
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