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+ - World's Oldest Calendar Uncovered in a Scottish Field->

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+ - Full moon may effect sleep after all 1

Submitted by bmearns
bmearns writes "NPR is reporting that new statistical research by Swiss scientist Christian Cajochen suggests that the full moon may actually have an impact on human sleep, both in terms of duration and quality. "We found that people who entered the lab during a full moon slept, on average, 20 minutes less than people who came in during the new moon phase," says Cajochen. The results were statistically significant, but Cajochen admits that he is still skeptical of the conclusion."

+ - The North Pole turns into a lake->

Submitted by alabandit
alabandit writes "The North Pole may conjure up images of impressive ice sheets and freezing winds, but scenes from a webcam there reveal a different story.
Two weeks of warm weather in the high Arctic have caused an aquamarine lake to begin forming since July 13, according to the North Pole Environmental Observatory’s camera.
The National Snow and Ice Data Centre has reported that temperatures in early July were one to three degrees Celsius higher than the year’s average over most of the Arctic Ocean."

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Comment: Re:Femtocells insecure? (Score 1) 56

by NerdyLove (#44297791) Attached to: How To Compete With NSA By Hacking a Verizon Network Extender

Crappy consumer devices running an embedded OS easy to hack? You don't say! These things are a gold mine. They contain all the certificates and authority to act as a "tower" and are as hackable and available as any consumer device

No phone or smartphone is designed around the idea that the cell network can be "hostile" so they trust these things implicitly. Time to build a backpack rouge cell and go wandering around where "interesting" people hang out.

I'm sure the "interesting" people will have a healthy glow when you're through with them.


+ - Archos Gamepad Released In The USA

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Comment: Re:Beating Sony to the target may be the goal (Score 1) 182

by NerdyLove (#39386295) Attached to: Xbox 720 a No-show At This Year's E3

The 360 also had Xbox Live, which wipes the floor with PSN. The 360 is an okay console, but Live is a terrific service.

It's terrific until your account gets mysteriously compromised, your friends list gets wiped, and it takes MS three months to reimburse the $135 charge from the account that they promised would only take 30 days. For all of the hassle, they only gave me 2 1-month LIVE subscription codes.

I'm still a little sad that I probably won't run into most of the people who were on my list after they changed profile names so many times.

God doesn't play dice. -- Albert Einstein