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NewsA veritable plethora of Windows PhonesprotectorPete O'Hanlon19 Sep '12 - 8:29 
Ooh look. There are three[^] flagship phones now. Let's see if the carriers and shops take them up now. *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010...
GeneralRe: A veritable plethora of Windows PhonesmemberSoMad19 Sep '12 - 13:34 
I don't know about it being a plethora, but it's 3 times as many as there are makers of iPhone   Soren Madsen
NewsBank of America Website Down Due to DNS AttackprotectorAspDotNetDev18 Sep '12 - 20:43 
Bank of America Hit by Cyber Attack.   I have tried visiting bankofamerica.com a few times, and most of the time I get "Error 7 (net::ERR_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out." The catalyst for the attack is apparently the prophet film that has been causing an uproar recently. Thou...
GeneralRe: Bank of America Website Down Due to DNS AttackmvpMarcelo Ricardo de Oliveira19 Sep '12 - 2:23 
Next will be the French banks:   http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/19/world/europe/france-mohammed-cartoon/index.html[^] There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner.   Take a look at Social News here in The Code Project.
GeneralRe: Bank of America Website Down Due to DNS AttackmemberAndrei Straut19 Sep '12 - 6:39 
Maybe they should consider switching to CloudFlare? :giggle: (reason why a few posts below, more exactly here[^]) Full-fledged Java/.NET lover, full-fledged PHP hater. Full-fledged Google/Microsoft lover, full-fledged Apple hater. Full-fledged Skype lover, full-fledged YM hater.
GeneralRe: Bank of America Website Down Due to DNS Attackmembermaharishi_b19 Sep '12 - 6:47 
Now i think its time for Chase to be down.   www.chase.com site seems to be down. Nothing is Impossible. Even impossible spells "i m possible"
NewsNASA's Android-powered mini-satellitesstaffTerrence Dorsey18 Sep '12 - 10:30 
What could you do with $3500 and an old smartphone? You could toss the phone, take the cash, and buy yourself the next best smartphone. Or, with a bit of a DIY attitude, you could push the limits of this hefty piece of technology and use it to power something else. That's the initial idea of the PhoneSat project, a small satellite project run by a team of engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center. The PhoneSat team has built and developed two small satellite models powered by Android smartphones, with the rest of the body constructed mostly of things you could buy at your nearest hardware store.
ET phone home.
JokeRe: NASA's Android-powered mini-satellitesmemberPaul Conrad18 Sep '12 - 18:01 
Terrence Dorsey wrote:ET phone home Probably better than a Speak & Spell "Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
GeneralRe: NASA's Android-powered mini-satellitesmemberJan Steyn19 Sep '12 - 4:37 
Create more space junk?
NewsReview: Tenkeyless Clicky KeyboardsstaffTerrence Dorsey18 Sep '12 - 10:29 
Shawn Blanc[^]:Mechanical keyboards are addictive. I think I have a problem. But I’m quitting now. Once you’ve acclimated to the tactical feedback and the clickety clack, typing on anything else doesn’t feel (or sound) the same. Earlier this year I spent a nerdy amount of time testing and...
GeneralRe: Review: Tenkeyless Clicky KeyboardsmemberPIEBALDconsult18 Sep '12 - 14:20 
I think I've read that before. Oh, I see, your snippet doesn't include the visual clues to indicate there's a link.
NewsAs the Microsoft developer world turns: Guidance for the perplexedstaffTerrence Dorsey18 Sep '12 - 10:29 
ZDNet[^]:Microsoft is in the midst of launching a host of new operating systems and tools this summer/fall. So what's a developer to choose to build apps and services for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Windows Server 2012 and/or Windows Azure? There are familiar, legacy .NET tools and frameworks...
GeneralRe: As the Microsoft developer world turns: Guidance for the perplexedmemberCristian Amarie24 Sep '12 - 8:16 
ANSI C. Nuclear launch detected
NewsHow to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop OnestaffTerrence Dorsey18 Sep '12 - 10:28 
CloudFlare blog[^]:At CloudFlare, an attack needs to get over about 5Gbps to set off alarms with our ops team. Even then, our automated network defenses usually stop attacks without the need of any manual intervention. When an attack gets up in the tens of Gigabits of data per second, our ops...
NewsHow Ruby Borrowed a Decades Old Idea From LispstaffTerrence Dorsey18 Sep '12 - 10:28 
Pat Shaughnessy[^]:Blocks are one of the most commonly used and powerful features of Ruby. As you probably know, they allow you to pass a code snippet to iterators such as each, detect or inject. You can also write your own functions that call blocks for other reasons using the yield keyword....
GeneralRe: How Ruby Borrowed a Decades Old Idea From Lispmemberahmed zahmed20 Sep '12 - 12:05 
Everything old is new again.   And strictly speaking, while not exactly a closure, a function pointer could be considered a code block. You just need to pass the "environment" as a variable. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a...
NewsBlack Mesa: Half-Life's Amazing Source RemakestaffTerrence Dorsey18 Sep '12 - 10:27 
HotHardware[^]:Black Mesa is the result of years of effort from a team determined to bring Gordon Freeman's first adventure into the modern age without compromising Valve's original artistic vision. It's one of the finest examples of fan-built mods that we've ever seen. This is no...
GeneralRe: Black Mesa: Half-Life's Amazing Source RemakememberRahul Rajat Singh18 Sep '12 - 20:20 
Oh I was waiting for this from almost 2 years.Every time I read the message "It will be released when it is done" on the Black mesa's website, my heart broke a little.   So you can imagine this insider news made me so happy today. Now it is here. I will go and download it today only....
NewsPIN number analysisstaffTerrence Dorsey18 Sep '12 - 10:27 
DataGenetics[^]:There are 10,000 possible combinations that the digits 0-9 can be arranged to form a 4-digit pin code. Out of these ten thousand codes, which is the least commonly used? If you were given the task of trying to crack a random credit card by repeatedly trying PIN codes, what order...
NewsWhy Monopolistic Telecoms Threaten Internet EqualitystaffTerrence Dorsey18 Sep '12 - 10:26 
Mashable[^]:Circumstances have led to a de-facto monopolized market, Susan Crawford argues. According to a newly released study by the New America Foundation, “In the future, consumers wishing to subscribe to higher speed Internet services will likely face a near monopoly from cable providers,...
NewsInternet Archive Amasses All TV News Since 2009staffTerrence Dorsey18 Sep '12 - 10:25 
NYTimes.com[^]:Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he founded and leads. “We want to collect all the books, music and video that has ever been produced by...
News$100 a year for Office: Microsoft unveils subscription ratesstaffTerrence Dorsey18 Sep '12 - 10:25 
GeekWire[^]:Today, the Redmond-based company officially unveiled the new pricing scheme for Office 365. Pricing is simple: $8.33 per month, $99.99 per year (billed annually). It’s an example of the company’s shift toward subscription-based pricing. Instead of simply launching a product for one...
GeneralRe: $100 a year for Office: Microsoft unveils subscription ratesprotectorAspDotNetDev18 Sep '12 - 14:48 
Terrence Dorsey wrote:Will you continue paying to use Office, or look for alternatives?   I don't think I've every paid for Office. Been using OpenOffice and (now) LibreOffice for some time. Though, I do use Microsoft Office at work. Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!
NewsWhy you can totally tether your Verizon Android phone for freememberatbennett17 Sep '12 - 14:55 
Verizon's hunger for spectrum space, and add-on fees, led instead to a flourishing unofficial tether and hotspot market. [ITworld]
NewsKindle Fire HD TeardownstaffTerrence Dorsey17 Sep '12 - 10:56 
iFixit[^]:The Kindle Fire HD has landed on the doorstep of iFixit. Naturally, we've embarked on the epic voyage of exploring the electronic innards of the Kindle Fire HD. What will we find? Follow along as we methodically break down each component.Don't judge an ebook reader by its cover.

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