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Crazy rasberry ants devour Houston's electronics

May 15, 2008 7:18am

Protect the Queen!

US Air Force wants "full control" of "any and all" computers

May 15, 2008 7:15am

They only way they're getting into my box is rubber-hose cryptanalysis.

Laptop thieves nabbed with help from Mac software

May 10, 2008 11:09pm

Moral of the story - don't have parties where friends of friends of friends can case the joint =p

Three-year-old boy has never slept; parents maintain 24-hour vigil

May 10, 2008 11:07pm

I don't know why people are saying "You die if you don't sleep; this kid is alive; therefore this kid has slept".

--You-- die if --you-- don't sleep. This kid obviously has his brain wired up differently. How exactly, and what that implies, we don't yet know.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that ducks let one hemisphere sleep while the other one stays alert, and then they switch over. What if this boy has something similar going on? He might not appear to sleep, but part of him at any given time is resting. That might also account for the reported mood swings, though let's not forget, he is a three year old after all.

If he really is able to survive without sleep, I think the parents should at least consider trying to put up with him until he reaches maturity, rather then reflexively reaching for the scalpel. In evolutionary terms, he could adapt very well to our modern environment where no-one ever has enough time.

Lack of sleep drives me crazy enough after three hours though, never mind three years...

BBC sends legal threat over fan's Dr Who knitting patterns

May 9, 2008 5:57am

I haven't been following the latest series, but that looks totally like an Illithid to me. A big, fuzzy, woolly Illithid come to suck the lint right out of you.

Although facial tentacles aren't anything particularly new. Cthulhu, Draenei, and don't forget, you still have Zoidberg.

YOU ALL STILL HAVE ZOIDBERG!

Thomas Disch reveals he is God, takes your questions

May 8, 2008 5:28am

So do you know I'm going to do something before I do it?

Argentinian "gnome" scaring the bejezus out of kids

March 13, 2008 12:53pm

Oh come on guys, it's The Sun.

Giant real-world game of Risk played on college campuses

February 22, 2008 5:17am

#2: So it gets more difficult after age 13, where the challenges are unleashed?

Truth about teleportation

February 15, 2008 10:47pm

Just call it "quantum transmission", no need to redefine the word teleportation.

Color the brain's fear system

February 15, 2008 12:29pm

Hey kids! Who wants to try out the Waterboarding station?

Navy robot lab porn

February 4, 2008 2:07am

Scary. All it takes is a dodgy movement-recognition heuristic and I TOLD YOU NOT TO MOVE, HUMAN! BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

Replacement jawbone grown in a man's stomach

February 2, 2008 5:00am

That is insanely cool. Really, how long before the brain is the only organ that can't be regrown?

Challenge: figure out Amazon's crazy-ass "proprietary" MP3 tagging system -- UPDATED

January 22, 2008 9:12am

I had some tagging problems with Rhythmbox once - I could change the tag, but when I next loaded, things were right back to the original.

Turns out there's another tagging system, "APE" tags. I think they're written by the windows foobar 2000 music management software, could be wrong. Anyway, Rhythmbox seemed to be reading these tags fine, but writing any edits to the ID3.

I ended up just hacking the file in a hex editor, looking at the end of the files for the tags and killing the magic number of the other tag.

Maybe your problem is similar? Amazon might be writing tags in a bunch of different formats, but your tagging software is only modifying the ID3 section?

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