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“I've been programming computers for over 30 years now. That means there's a long trail of detritus left behind. I'm a pack rat by nature, so I've wound up with an awful lot of stuff. I've got computers, printers, software, source...

“Man has his computer stolen while staying at a friend’s house for the night. The apartment is broken into and his laptop is on the list of items stolen. The computer contains approximately 6 months of data and files that source...

“Way back in the spring of 1995 or so (yes, we did have computers back then, but the Internet of the time really *was* just a series of tubes), I was on the C++ compiler test team, and had just source...

“The involvement of Lori Drew (an adult) in the suicide of Megan Meier has been an unavoidable topic. Last week, Drew was tried on three counts of accessing computers without authorization, a legal statute meant to stop hackers. She was source...

“the Mayan calendar merely resets at that date. similar to how computers were expected to reset at y2k, it was not that they expected the world to end they just did not include dates after that much like our calendar source...

Meebo, which has about 6.5 million members, will be looking to make money on the applications through embedded advertising. The company will share revenue equally with developers.

“ The computer mouse was the creation of Doug Engelbart and his team at the Stanford Research Institute in California, who needed a simple way of controlling their computers. The result was a carved wooden block mounted on wheels, with source...

“Hidden from view by old willow trees, the cast-off tools of high-energy physics are strewn across 11 acres: rejected cables, tables with missing limbs, and computers that couldn’t keep pace. Swallows nest in rusty magnet frames, raccoons pillage through buckets source...

“Their idea: Take the supercomputers Gene Network Sciences already uses to help Pfizer and Biogen Idec invent drugs and use them to help hedge funds trade stocks, bonds,and other assets. "Computers and data are smarter than people," says Colin Hill, source...

“McColo Corp is alleged to have been the home to a number of command and control systems for a variety of botnets, some with more than 600,000 zombie computers under their control. Many reports also suggest that the company was source...

“         As you know, years ago, when NeXT first contemplated making computers, Steve Jobs decided that machines should be in the shape of a cube, and that they should be built from cast magnesium.  Although magnesium is a relatively expensive source...

“The test subjects showed richer sensory experience and heightened attention when conducting Internet searches, as opposed to reading book-like text on computers, said Gary Small, the Center's director, noting the brain activity was recorded in MRI results.” source... source...

“As sensors and computers continue to spread throughout the world they quantify our environment and offer the opportunity of real-time feedback.  Case in point is Honda's new "Ecological Drive Assist System for Enhanced Real World Fuel Economy", a sensor/display system source...

“The elasticity of driving to gasoline prices is estimated to be around the 0.06. That means a 10% rise in gasoline prices will eventually lead to a 0.6% reduction in miles driven.”