Cablevision offers 101Mbps, cap-free Internet: \”Cablevision on Tuesday claimed the title of the fastest cable Internet provider in the US by launching Optimum Online Ultra. By using the newer multi-channel DOCSIS 3.0 standard, the carrier promises a peak of 101Mbps downstream and a still-fast 15Mbps upstream. The service is theoretically twice as fast as Comcast\’s […]
Public Ad Campaign Takes Over Illegal Billboards in New York City Streets: \”In a beautifully flawless prank, the Public Ad Campaign refaced over 120 illegal billboards in New York City. The billboards are illegal because the parent company never received permits and there are too many of them for the city to tear them all […]
Consider a hypothetical country with 1,000 top notch weather stations and the perfect unchanging climate (which our AGW friends imagine used to exist before they were born.) During the first year of operations, every station will necessarily set a high and a low temperature record on every day of the year. That is […]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is home to so many large heads. Heads that need nurturing. Heads that needs feeding. Heads that need, just occasionally, to sweat and play and bang. Now, some of MIT\’s finest brains will be denied these sources of release. Yes, in a swathing, thoughtless massacre of all that is good […]
Firefox 3.0.10 Released, Fixes Major Stability Issue [Updates]: \” Firefox may have updated to 3.0.9 just last week with a few critical security fixes, but the folks at Mozilla are already pushing out 3.0.10—this time fixing a major stability issue and one security fix. Seems like a little bit of a bungle on Mozilla\’s part […]
A 61-year-old male fractured his tibia while skiing, and three months later, still had not healed (left). Patient did not want surgery, and opted to take teriparatide. After three months on the drug, the fracture (right) began to heal, and today, the patient is back to his active lifestyle. Rarely will physicians use the word […]
MetaFilter asks what Crimes did Ferris Bueller Commit during his Day off. The list is impressive…. Quite Impressive…
Question: I just did a huge cleanup of my backup drive, and my system is running slow, and I see a process named Locum?  What\’s locum? PID COMMAND    %CPU  TIME  #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VSIZE 75035 Locum    23.3%  6:12.20  1   30   25 […]