The internet is full of videos of thoughtful people setting things on fire. Here’s a perennial favorite: Cleave a grape in half, leaving a little skin connecting the two hemispheres. Blitz it in the microwave for five seconds. For one glorious moment, the grape halves will produce a fireball unfit for domestic life.
In one case, the source said that the founders were looking for ways to cut costs, and opted to scale back the customer service team. It was expensive to hire people to answer the phones and listen to customers’ issues from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. across multiple time zones. Despite the advice of higher-ups, the founders decided to cut staff. That led to an uptick in wait times and rants from irate customers via social media.
In an interview, Sims said he had no connection to Kayak but was moved to write about the comparison because he was a longtime admirer of Kayak’s interface. In early June, he had friends writing to tell him how cool Microsoft’s search was.
Despite having become what Breslow described as a “whiz” at 3-D animation, Galloway was unsure of how to pursue his ambitions until a recruiter from Industrial Light & Magic called to express interest in his work, which was discovered through an outreach program. The man advised him to attend college and study computer arts.
The community quickly fleshed out a set of rules – you had to have signed up as a Reddit user before November 10, for one, and they set a $15 cap on gifts.
Also, the organization plans to identify and train leaders who can head technology initiatives in their respective countries.
Morning State: It was a local indie label called Livewire. We are releasing the record through Indie Outlaw, which was a company founded by our manager in order to get the word to the streets about Morning State.
Gibson’s vision is to monetize news content on the backend, by scouring the internet for infringing copies of his client’s articles, then suing and relying on the harsh penalties in the Copyright Act – up to $150,000 for a single infringement – to compel quick settlements. Since Righthaven’s formation in March, the company has filed at least 80 federal lawsuits against website operators and individual bloggers who’ve re-posted articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, his first client.
• Hearts and minds. Audience members are letting each other into their homes and lives (the camera is turned on them).
Aas doesn’t pretend that all Let’s-Encrypt-certified sites are benevolent. “People ask if the bad guys use Let’s Encrypt. The answer is basically ‘yeah,'” he says. “But they’re also using a server, an ISP, a domain name. [An HTTPS] certificate is only a small part of their plan, and taking it away wouldn’t really change what’s going on.”
First up will be the latest Tamagotchi itself, V4.5. I haven’t been keeping track since the originals some 10 years ago, to be honest, but the latest batch takes the virtual pet through every stage of life: growing up, going to school, getting a job, and so on. The .5 upgrade brings, and I quote, “bling”:
SIGNS POINT TO YES: Patents Indicate Siri Developments on the Way
A couple Siri-related patent applications passed through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week: one that shows how Siri could be used on the Mac, and another that would use a voice trigger (“Hey Siri”) for interactions. Apple showed off this “Hey Siri” feature at WWDC in June, so that’s a done deal, and with tighter unification in iOS 8 and Yosemite, including improved Spotlight searching, it could make sense to bring Siri to the desktop.
A complimentary sample of the Ematic FunTab Pro was provided for purposes of this review.
Criminals, the company said, installed a program that allowed them to read and capture data on cards’ magnetic stripes, including cardholder names, card numbers, expiration dates and verification codes.
You can grab a copy of HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0 from the HTML5 Boilerplate website.
Anderson: Let’s talk about where all this is headed. You’ve brought the cost of rocket launches down by a factor of 10. Suppose you can bring it down even more. How does that change the game? It seems like when you radically reduce the price, you can discover a whole new market. It’s a form of exploration in itself.
Sellers and Fossum will replace part of the transporter’s umbilical reel, which weighs about 330 pounds on the ground. In what may be an awkward maneuver, Sellers will be holding the old umbilical in one hand and the new one in the other, Fossum said.
Two confirmed cases with the deadly new strain of TB have been detected at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) in Bangalore. But the scarier scenario is this: one among them, a 56-year-old man (the hospital has not disclosed his name), has gone absconding, raising the threat perception many levels higher, considering that he could infect others with the deadly strain.
“I had a friend who installed a remote access tool on a Netflix computer. When [the Netflix employee] was AFK–not at the computer–he could use that computer. From there he took a bunch of screenshots, and saw the [support] tool was called Obiwan.”
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About two thousand people per hour were clicking on the website hosting the Trojan software, Kaspersky said. “Most of potential victims live in Italy then Russia, Poland, Costa Rica, Spain, Germany, Ukraine and others,” Kaspersky Researcher Dmitry Bestuzhev wrote in a blog post.
David Randall and Christopher Welser are unlikely authorities on the reproducibility crisis in science. Randall, a historian and librarian, is the director of research at the National Association of Scholars, a small higher education advocacy group. Welser teaches Latin at a Christian college in Minnesota. Neither has published anything on replication or reproducibility.