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You guys are totally invited to my sleepover.
We're gonna talk about servers, and soldering irons, and building your own computer, and cameraphones, and open source software, and
OH! oh oh oh!
I heard that Linus and Richard might try to sneak in! They're sooooo cute! *SQueaL!*
We'd all sit around the fire-wire.
Toasting Motherboards.
Telling end-user support stories.
Very scary...but a great way to network.
We should be so lucky!
Or quite possibly, Garibaldi, Sinclair, Sheridan, Delenn, Ivanova, Marcus, Dr. Franklin, Zack, Londo, Vir, Lennier, G'kar, Lochley, Lyta, Talia, Na'toth, Senator Hidoshi, Lorien, Zathrus, Corwin...pretty much everyone but Morden, and I bet even Morden said it of camera after he got all scabby:
"It's going straight to hell!"
So, I think you should add a couple of unicorns. Mad science! Robots! Underwear! Cute girls! Full comic online! http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ [girlgeniusonline.com]
"I wish I knew how to quit you!"
C-x C-c
And a little nauseous.
I just happened to sit down at my wife's computer and check Slashdot. The wife just recently got her own account (yes, I am lucky)
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Michael Dowse's aggressively unfunny film which seeks the lowest common denominator in nearly every scene.
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As a raunchy romantic comedy or an homage to the 1980s, Take Me Home Tonight is hardly worth a one-night stand.
It does possess a certain backward-glancing innocent appeal.
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Iffy for 16+
All-night-party movie mixes raunch and warmth.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this all-night-party movie set in the 1980s is, on the surface, focused on the main characters getting "wasted" and "laid." And while there's plenty of content related to sex and drinking/drugs, by the time the night ends, the characters have learned lessons about facing challenges rather than avoiding them. Still, expect lots of strong language ("f--k," "s--t," "p---y," and more), drug use and drinking, and sexual situations, innuendoes, and even some nudity. Bottom line? Save this one for older teens ... and parents who fondly remember the era of skinny ties and shoulder pads.
Messages: The main characters embark on a night of debauchery that includes sex, drinking, drugs, stealing a car, and, chiefly, lying. But it's clear that they're not bad people, and they make every attempt to undo their bad behavior and set things right. Plus, Matt learns to stop "playing it safe" and try something, anything, with his life. In essence, he learns bravery and to face challenges.
Role models: The movie's hero, Matt, has put his life on hold, ignoring his gift with math and numbers to work a brain-dead job. He's afraid of taking risks and facing challenges and lies to get a date with a girl he likes. But over the course of the movie, he struggles to undo his lie and begins to work up the courage to face life's challenges.
Violence: The main character agrees to perform a dangerous stunt during a party. As a result, he crashes into several cars and nearly drowns. There's a brief fight, mostly involving pushing and shoving.
Sex: The main character sleeps with the girl he once had a crush on in high school. She takes off her top, but her breasts aren't shown. The main character's friend starts to have sex with a woman in a bathroom, with another man watching. The woman is seen naked. Also extensive innuendo, some crotch-grabbing (while dancing), and a sequence about how men look at women's breasts.
Language: Strong, persistent language throughout includes many uses of "f--k" and "s--t," plus "bitch," "goddamn," "blow job," "bastard," "oh my God," "prick," "d--k," "a--hole," "p---y," "screwed," "hell," "ass," "hell," "laid," "boobs," and "slut." The characters also lip sync to a hardcore rap song that features the "N" word.
Consumerism: Pepsi bottles are on view during a dinner scene. The main character works at Suncoast Video, which is shown once and then frequently mentioned over the course of the movie. Budweiser bottles are on view during most of the party sequences.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: One of the main characters pours a huge glass of wine after getting fired. He also takes huge swigs from a bottle of champagne. He finds a bag of cocaine in a car and decides to snort some; he's shown clearly enjoying the high. Young adults are seen drinking beer and smoking cigarettes at a party. This is all played for humor, and there is no indication of addiction -- but there are also no serious consequences.
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Krivsky.. get this guy while his value is low!Angels optioned RHP Ervin Santana to Triple-A Salt Lake.
Mike Napoli replaces him on the roster. Santana gave up 16 runs in his final two starts and was 5-11 with a 6.28 ERA overall. He still has a rather bright future ahead of him, but this is the right move. The Angels will likely call up Joe Saunders to replace him in the rotation.


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Oct. 4, 2010
FRESNO, Calif. - Junior Mathieu Forget advanced to the semifinals of the "A" Flight at the Bulldog Classic in Fresno, Calif., over the weekend, while senior Even Jurgensen and freshman Axel Bouillin advanced to the "B" Flight title match, highlighting the first competition of the 2010-11 season for the UC Santa Barbara men's tennis team. Sunday's competition, which would have included a "B" Flight championship match between Jurgensen and Bouillin was rained out.
UCSB freshman Adam Luba also advanced to the semifinals of the "B" Flight.
Forget received a bye into the second round of the tournament. In his first match on Friday, he made quick work of Nevada's Victor Ouvard, 6-2, 6-2. On Saturday, in a quarterfinal match, Forget swept Fresno State's Nick Papac, 6-4, 7-5, before losing in the Bulldogs' Jean-Charles Diame in the semifinals, 4-6, 7-6, 6-1.
Also on Friday, Jurgensen needed three sets to defeat Cal Poly's Jordan Kepler, 2-6, 6-0, 6-3. Bouillin topped Aswin Kolady of Fresno City College, 6-1, 6-3. Jurgensen then posted a pair of wins on Saturday. In the quarterfinals, he defeated Fresno City's John Karlmann, 7-5, 7-6, and in the semifinals he topped Jurgen Dejager of Cal Poly, 6-4, 6-4. Bouillin swept Quentin Mege of Nevada, 6-2, 6-0, and then defeated his teammate Luba, 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, to set-up what would have been an all UCSB final.
Luba's path the semifinals of the "B" Flight included a first round win over fourth-seeded Sebastian Hafner of Fresno State, 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, and a quarterfinal victory over Sacramento State's Danny Diaz, 7-6-6-3. Sophomore Max Glenn, who was seeded third in the "B" Flight, dropped his first round match to Cal Poly's Dejager, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Senior Taylor Chavez Goggin recorded a solid first round win for the Gauchos on Friday. The Summerland, Calif., native defeated Sky Lovill of Cal, 6-2, 6-7, 7-6. He then dropped a second round match to Fresno State's Siddarth Alapati, 5-7, 7-6, 6-2. Alapati was seeded fourth in the "A" Flight.
"We did pretty well today," said UCSB head coach Marty Davis of the Gauchos' Saturday performance that included six wins and just one loss. "Going 6-1 in singles matches and having an all-Gaucho final are both good things."
On the doubles side, had three teams competing in the Open Division and all three advanced to the quarterfinals. Bouillin and Jurgensen defeated John Karlmann and Aswin Kolady of Fresno City College before losing to Cal's Zach Gilbert and Sky Lovill. Glenn and Luba topped David Ayoun and Hugo Verdi Fortin of Fresno State before losing to Sebastian Bell and Drew Jacobs of Cal Poly. Finally, Chavez Goggin and Forget beat Sebastian Hafner and Nick Papac of Fresno State before dropping a quarterfinal match to Cal's Bozhidar Katsarov and Tommie Murphy.
UCSB players will return to action at the ITA Regionals in Irvine, Calif., on Oct. 21-26.


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Apple is in a state of collapse. Just look at the figures. It's enough to make a grown banker cry. Apple is no longer popular. It's a lame duck.
A few years ago, Apple was considered almost dead in the water. The Mac had dropped to around three per cent of the PC market, and the PC market back in 2005 was not the PC market of 2013. It was way smaller. Now Mac use is above 10 per cent in almost every market where it has an official presence, and Apple additionally sells truckloads of iPhones, iPods and iPads.
But still, thanks to analysts wanting bigger returns than Apple delivered, for reasons known only to themselves (share trading might be one conclusion) and thanks to consumers (me and you) wanting ever more magical amazingness from tech, it now looks like Apple is in a terrible position.
How terrible? We're talking big figures. It only has US$137,000,000,000 in the bank. That's only NZ$162,282,802,000. In English (for those zero-challenged like myself), that's over 162 billion dollars. So you can see why people are worried.
But that's not the problem. In many of the financial press accounts of Apple's Q1 2013 results, the terms 'disappointing' and 'flat' were used to describe this performance. Trouble is, people hear that and then berate me saying "Ooh, Apple's on the ropes! Doom and gloom! Bummer'. (And/or words to that effect.) But did they look at the figures? No likely.
Apple 'only' made US$13.1 billion in the last financial quarter. That's a difference of 3.1 billion from Exxon Mobil, $5.9 billion from Chevron and a differential of $6.7 billion from Microsoft, which launched a new operating system. To a very large audience.
Except that that's how much more Apple made than those companies, all otherwise considered stellar successes.
The 'disappointing' Apple quarter was the most profitable quarter ever for a tech company. The previous tech record was ... Apple's Q1 2012 net income of $13.06 billion. IBM was in third place for tech companies at $5.8 billion, so Apple's profits were more than those of Microsoft and IBM combined.
Ooh, tragedy. What on earth is wrong with those analysts? Still, investors are beginning to think that Apple products no longer have the attractiveness to consumers that they used to. So it doesn't matter what Apple actually achieves in sales and profit, its about the perception of Apple products. It's a sort of tacit acknowledgement that Apple really did innovate not so long ago, so hey, Apple, you should drive innovation again. Then all those other companies can profit off their own versions of Apple's things. As they have so handsomely over the last five years.
Just as a country's finance minister looking uncomfortable on TV and the market drops as a result, often for no good reason at all than, perhaps, personal discomfort of a minister, Apple seems to be suffering the fallout of both bad perceptions and rather gleeful (in the sense of premature schadenfreude) gloating over Apple's potential for demise. The company went from ugly mallard to beautiful swan; people hated the ugly duckling but boy, do they resent that pulchritudinous cygnus!
Most people love a good fall from grace, but like I say, it looks a bit premature, if not utterly false, wrong and not exactly imminent.
A lot of the speculation, which did serve to drive Apple's share price down, just proves to me how crap many of the analysts have become, which is not exactly an original thought.
Apple sold a record 47.8 million iPhones in that last quarter, compared to 37 million in the year-ago quarter, an almost 30 per cent increase despite the iPhone 5 apparently not being innovative enough. As of December 2012, Apple held a 36.3 per cent share of the US smartphone market, up over two points from its September 2012 share of 34.3 per cent. Samsung also gained with a 21 per cent share (in September 2012 Samsung was at 18.7 per cent). HTC, Motorola and LG comprise the rest of the top five OEMs at 10.2, 9.1 and 7.1 per cent market share, respectively. Nokia? Nah.
Apple also sold a record 22.9 million iPads compared to 15.4 million in the year-ago quarter, a nearly 49 per cent improvement.
But there were also some figures that gave pause, which may just mean the iPad is starting to be seen as a viable laptop alternative: Apple only sold 4.1 million Macs, compared to 5.2 million in the year-ago quarter, a significant 21 per cent drop despite some great new Macs. iPod sales were down too - 12.7 million iPods in the quarter, compared to 15.4 million in the year-ago.
iOS continues to trail Android in terms of mobile OS share. As of December, Apple's operating system held a 36.3 per cent share versus Google's 53.4 per cent, with Android seeing an increase just under 1 per cent. BlackBerry was third at 6.4 per cent, down 2 per cent from September. Windows Phone ranked 2.9 per cent and Symbian 0.6 per cent.
Anyway, despite the bad news, the ennui, the calamity... Apple's Board of Directors declared a cash dividend, poor darlings, of US$2.65 per share of the Company's common stock. Apple shareholders got a Valentine's Day gift in the form of a dividend, the third paid to shareholders.
Apple announced its dividend program last year and said it would distribute US$45 billion to its shareholders over the next three years. This is US$2.5 billion per quarter.
Apple may have payed out some cash, but the company was raking it in at faster. As you'd hope from any viable business.
Poor old Tim Cook, hey? Who'd be in his shoes?


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Malware designed to help law enforcement conduct surveillance against suspected criminals is not getting a pass by antivirus vendors, according to several leading antivirus firms, which told CRN the companies have strict policies against taking such measures on behalf of investigators or other officials at government agencies.
Whitelisting malware to help law enforcement avoid detection is strictly against policy, the antivirus vendors said. The message from antivirus firms comes just days after child pornography websites cloaked by the anonymizing service Tor were brought down and Eric Marques in Ireland was arrested for allegedly peddling child pornography on sites globally. The sites, hosted by Freedom Hosting, were infected with malware to uncover the identities of people visiting them. Some have speculated that evidence suggests that FBI investigators may be behind the infections.
"McAfee has a policy to not design back doors of any kind into our products," Chris Palm, director of corporate communications at Santa Clara, Calif.-based McAfee, told CRN via email. "McAfee doesn't participate in such a U.S. government program, and we're not aware of whether the reports of such programs are accurate."
[Related: Top 10 Malware Threats To Microsoft PCs]
Freedom Hosting delivered a variety of sites via Tor. It provided access to a hacking discussion forum and a hidden Wiki used by visitors to find other anonymous sites, known as dark nets. Vikram Thakur, principal research manager at Symantec Security Response, said malware authors could create malicious code that evades antivirus detection for a period of time, creating little need for law enforcement to seek assistance from security firms to whitelist their malware.
"We have a strict policy against whitelisting malware for law enforcement and governments globally," Thakur told CRN. "We have never received such a request from law enforcement."
Security experts that have reverse-engineered the malware found on the Freedom Hosting sites cloaked by the Tor network say that the identities of people uncovered by the malware were sent to a server located in Reston, Va. The malware discovered on the websites exploited a zero-day flaw in the Firefox browser, allowing it to steal a person's MAC address, which reveals the identity of the computer network and Windows host name being used by the computer.
The software used in the incident is analogous to spyware used by cybercriminals to steal personal details of victims. Roel Schouwenberg, a senior researcher at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, said the link to federal law enforcement agents isn't entirely clear. "Nobody has claimed responsibility for the Tor/browser incident," Schouwenberg said.
Kaspersky Lab has a strict policy against whitelisting any piece of malware, Schouwenberg said. Like most antivirus vendors, Kaspersky Lab currently detects the malicious code used in the Tor incident, he said.
"Our duty is to detect malicious code, regardless of who may be behind it," Schouwenberg said. "We can't make exceptions to that, for both ethical and technical reasons."
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to using the Internet to promote terrorist attacks against American military and civilian targets has been sentenced to 8˝ years in federal prison.
Twenty-four-year-old Emerson Begolly of Redbank Township was sentenced Tuesday on one count of solicitation to commit a crime of violence. Authorities say he posted on an Islamic extremist Web forum he moderated.
He also admitted to having a loaded pistol when he allegedly bit two FBI agents who tried to question him before his arrest in 2011.
Begolly faced a mandatory minimum of five years in federal prison on the weapons charge and up to 10 years on the solicitation count.