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 50Mbps service and won\’t have a bandwidth cap, permitting as much use of the se..
Public Ad Campaign Takes Over Illegal Billboards in New York City Streets
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 down. That means they are open game for public art!\”
Are Record Temperatures Abnormal?
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 a total of 365,000 high temperature records and 365,000 low temperature records. During the second year of operation, each day and each station has a 50/50 chance of breaking a high and/or low record on that date – so we would expect about 182,500 high temperature records and about 182,500 low temperature records during the year.
In the third year of the record, the odds drop to 1/3 and the number of expected records would be about 121,667 high and low temperature records.\”
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Has MIT lost it\’s mind?
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 and important in human development, MIT haswithdrawn funding for eight crucial sports.
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Firefox 3.0.10 Released, Fixes Major Stability Issue [Updates]
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 to require two pushes so close together, but the plus side, of course, is that they do release important fixes with lightning speed. [Mozilla Developer News; Download]
Scientists Discover Way to Jumpstart Bone’s Healing Process – University of Rochester Medical Center
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 “miraculous†when discussing patient recoveries. But that’s the very phrase orthopaedic physicians and scientists are using in upstate New York to describe their emerging stem cell research that could have a profound impact on the treatment of bone injuries. Results from preliminary work being released today, patients confined to wheelchairs were able to walk or live independently again because their broken bones finally healed.
via Scientists Discover Way to Jumpstart Bone’s Healing Process – University of Rochester Medical Center.
What Crimes did Ferris Bueller Commit?
MetaFilter asks what Crimes did Ferris Bueller Commit during his Day off.
The list is impressive…. Quite Impressive…
Who\’s this Locum? And why is he hogging my CPU?
Question: I just did a huge cleanup of my backup drive, and my system is running slow, and I see a process named Locum? Â What\’s locum?
PID COMMAND Â Â Â %CPU Â TIME Â #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT Â RSHRD Â RSIZE Â VSIZE
75035 Locum    23.3%  6:12.20  1   30   25  420K+  300K  1244K+  19M+
75036 Locum    23.1%  6:22.59  1   30   25  416K  300K  1236K   19M
Question 1: Â What\’s Locum?
Locum is a Private Framework that Apple has created, and is currently located at:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Locum
This UnixJunkie article, goes into some technical details regarding Locum.
Question 2: Why?
Locum is used to assist in Deleting files & folders that the logged in user would not normally have access to. Â The finder will allow the user to delete a folder that has a file owned by Root. Â Normally Unix would not allow a non-root user to remove a folder that contains a file owned by root. Â The finder allows this, but when being emptied the Locum process has to be used to resolve all of these file permission / ownership issues. Continue reading