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Daily Archives: April 24, 2008
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Insects use plant like a telephone
Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already %u2018occupied%u2019.
Insects use plant like a telephone
Garfield sans Garfield
Some Classified DoD Documents are Too Secret to Protect
The Department of Defense (DOD) relies on a global network of critical physical and cyber infrastructure to project, support, and sustain its forces and operations worldwide. The incapacitation, exploitation, or destruction of one or more of its assets would seriously damage DOD’s ability to carry out its core missions. To identify and help assure the availability of this mission-critical infrastructure, in August 2005, DOD established the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP), assigning overall responsibility for the program to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs (ASD[HD&ASA]).
Quadruple-Neck monster requires true guitar hero to play it
Confirm your geeky marriage with CAT5 connector wedding bands
Delta to install revolutionary Cozy Suite seats in economy class, tourists rejoice
Wedging yourself into an economy-class airplane seat is one of the atrocities of our age, but there’s help on the way. The Cozy Suite is a revolution in airline seating, giving you more room to yourself while giving the airlines the opportunity to pack even more sardines into their pressurized tin cans. Sure, it’s not as tricked-out as some of the latest business class seating, but it’s a whole lot better then the disgraceful seats in steerage now.
Designed by Thompson Solutions, Delta Air Lines plans to place the “fixed cocoons” in its Boeing 777 and 767 economy classes by 2010. With the seats’ staggered arrangement, the design not only keeps that person next to you out of your face, you also end up with a comfy place to rest your weary head. You can also recline without smacking into that unfortunate soul behind you, and there’s a footrest along with an extra 2 inches of legroom. Another major advantage: the passenger in the window seat can get to the aisle without the other two getting up.
Of course, Delta’s new merger mate Northwest Airlines (we call it “Northworst”) will probably help the new combined company find a way to make these great-looking seats uncomfortable, too, cramming even more people into those horrid, stuffy (albeit safe) airborne rattletraps. See the gallery for more shots of the Cozy Suite, and also see Thompson’s other version (with the orange seats) using a diagonal arrangement that’s a bit less fancy.
Judge issues arrest warrant for Darth Vader
A judge has demanded a Darth Vader impersonator be dragged before him after he succumbed to the Dark Side, attacked two Jedi with a metal crutch, and failed to show up for the resulting court appearance on an assault rap.
According to the Telegraph, Arwel Wynne Jones interrupted an outdoors TV interview* with brothers Barney and Michael Jones – the former aka Jedi Master Jonba Heho and founder of the UK’s Jedi Church – by jumping over a garden fence in Holyhead dressed in a black bin liner and “shiny black helmet” while shouting “Darth Vader” and quickly getting busy with the aforementioned crutch.
However, although Wynne Jones intially turned up at court earlier this week to receive justice, by the time his case was up he’d disappeared. Accordingly, District Judge Andrew Shaw ordered police to hunt down the miscreant, and concluded: “I hope the force will soon be with him.” ®
Seagate ships 1 billionth drive
The ST506 hard drive
Seagate is celebrating the shipment of its one billionth disk drive after 29 years in biz. The storage giant reckons it will reach its second billion in less than five-years’ time.
Seagate said it’s shipped the equivalent of 79 million terabytes of storage since the company made its first hard drive in 1979.
Its debut product, the ST506 hard drive, had a 5MB capacity, weighed about five pounds, and cost $1,500 (£757). Today, Seagate sells 1TB drives for under a third of that price.
The company figures its next 1,000,000,000 drives will go down easier based on the ever-increasing demand for storage. Gartner Group last year estimated more than 500 million drives were shipped worldwide, compared to about 30 million in 1990.
Seagate claimed that by the time its closest rival, Western Digital, reaches a billion drives shipped, Seagate will already be close to shipping its second billion. ®
SPAM!
There are a couple of sites out there which give you a good look at the global spam trending. Most of the links in here I found in the following site:
Messagelabs has a weekly overview of virusses, spam and phishing
Commtouch Spam lab has a nice graph with 30 / 100 days or 12 months view
The Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse has MRTG graphs of mail checked and spam ratio over 300 servers with loads of options to search through specific periods
Spamcop has good statistics showing which IP blocks the spam is coming from
Barracuda Central shows you what types of spam / phishing mails are being sent.
