Here’s the original article: Mother Jones notes that in private interviews, Glenn Beck, fiery loon of the right, privately seems to believe in anthropogenic climate change. Last week he mocked climate scientists for being ‘alarmists’ who believe that ‘we’re all going to die in a fiery flood.’ Not long ago he touted the global warming […]
Well, the police will be busy now…. In Rochester, Ny… Starting Monday, all homes must have working carbon monoxide detectors in them. CO is the gas is known as the silent killer, as it has no color or smell. The new law requires that a detector be installed on the lowest floor that has bedrooms. Carbon monoxide detectors […]
Destructoid says it too well… I can’t think of anything more to say, other than I wish they’d finally have a decent sale on the game… I’m probably the only one that doesn’t own a copy…. Yes, you read that ludicrous number correctly. 28,981,249,043 zombies have been shot, battered, exploded and otherwise massacred since Left 4 […]
Last week there was one critical piece of news: The Lancet, the medical journal that broke the news about the autism-vaccination link, publicly retracted the study due to ethical misconduct and conflicts of interest on the part of the leading researcher. That bears repeating. The study that sparked twelve years of debate about the dangers […]
In honor of Comcast’s decision to rebrand itself as XFinity, Time Magazine published a list of the 10 worst corporate rebrandings, and the Sci Fi Channel’s decision to become Syfy made #3. Writes Time, “Spell Check On Syfy: Unless science fiction is spelled syience fyction, owners of the popular television network need some serious spelling […]
There was also the charge of hypocrisy; if Steve Jobs truly hates DRM so much and wanted it gone from iTunes Store music, why does he continue to lather it onto all video content from Apple, and why did he voluntarily add it to iPhone apps? Is it really Hypocrisy? Â Not really…. Â It’s called being […]
The term comes from the idea of a clumsy, ‘fat-fingered’ typist, who presses extra keys without being aware of it. As the practice of high-frequency trading continues to become more widespread, concerns are growing that erroneous trades carried out by ‘algos gone wild’—a sort of digitally amplified version of the ‘fat finger’ phenomenon—could cause a […]
Well, stop the cap has the details of basic RoadRunner speed increases for the Time-Warner Cable in Rochester, ny…. (And the region). My view… Roadrunner turbo isn’t currently worth the $9.99 difference between Standard & Turbo… The Rochester-Finger Lakes Division of Time Warner Cable has upgraded upload speed for Road Runner Standard service customers, up […]