Scientists Have a 'D'Oh!' Moment
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 by Amber
Good afternoon, geeks! Here are your daily headlines (I'll add more as I find them!):
Scientists are smart, no doubt, but they can do dumb things -- like tell the whole world how criminals can guess social security numbers with over 80% accuracy using public info. Sheesh, let's keep stuff like that on the DL, k?!
The tech world is buzzing over the introduction of Google's new Chrome OS for netbooks, but I just can't get excited about it. Here's a story on the feud if you want to check it out.
Millions streamed the Jackson memorial service yesterday -- were you one of them?
Scientists are smart, no doubt, but they can do dumb things -- like tell the whole world how criminals can guess social security numbers with over 80% accuracy using public info. Sheesh, let's keep stuff like that on the DL, k?!
The tech world is buzzing over the introduction of Google's new Chrome OS for netbooks, but I just can't get excited about it. Here's a story on the feud if you want to check it out.
Millions streamed the Jackson memorial service yesterday -- were you one of them?
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