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ShirtlessBob said:
Don't drink the water in Toledo
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Some friends and I went out to the Walmart here in Bowling Green to get some bottled water to donate, and the shelves were completely empty. We went to Kroger next where they were restocking, but had limits on how much a household could take. There wasn't any price gouging going on here, but I heard there was a bit going on in Toledo. It was an interesting experience- you never expect something like that to happen, especially so close to home.

And as *oledo is our biggest rival in athletics, we were having a lot of fun with this on Twitter. We're terrible people.
 
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I'm not sure which thread is the right one for this information.

To the extent that a new threat of having one's computer or smartphone get hacked would be considered headline news....

USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher revealed on Thursday.

Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin’s SR Labs, noted that hackers could load malicious software onto tiny, low-cost computer chips that control functions of USB devices but which have no built-in shields against tampering with their code.

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Computers do not detect the infections when tainted devices are inserted into a PC because anti-virus programs are only designed to scan for software written onto memory and do not scan the “firmware” that controls the functioning of those devices, he said.

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Once a computer is infected, it could be programmed to infect all USB devices that are subsequently attached to that PC, which would then corrupt machines that they contact.
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Ah. I wouldn't worry too much. He wasn't symptomatic when he traveled. Very little chance he spread it unless he had one of the other people on that flight come into contact with his bodily fluids. It doesn't transmit via the air.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Ah. I wouldn't worry too much. He wasn't symptomatic when he traveled. Very little chance he spread it unless he had one of the other people on that flight come into contact with his bodily fluids. It doesn't transmit via the air.
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But California has banned plastic bags. THAT will raise the militias!!
 
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joecct said:
But California has banned plastic bags. THAT will raise the militias!!
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The best line I've read on this so far is: "California bans plastic bags; Real Housewives of Orange County to be canceled."
 
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The Nobel Prize in physics was announced today, going to the three scientists who made the 1990 breakthrough to create the first blue LED light, a search that took scientists 30 years to complete, which completed the RGB spectrum to then make white light from an LED possible.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/world/europe/nobel-prize-physics/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

So my question is this, because the Nobel prizes in science are generally delayed between the time of the discovery, usually after the general population has accepted the invention into common use (for those inventions that are practical rather than theoretical), when does the inventor(s) of 3D printing get the prize?
 
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St. Clown said:
The Nobel Prize in physics was announced today, going to the three scientists who made the 1990 breakthrough to create the first blue LED light, a search that took scientists 30 years to complete, which completed the RGB spectrum to then make white light from an LED possible.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/world/europe/nobel-prize-physics/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

So my question is this, because the Nobel prizes in science are generally delayed between the time of the discovery, usually after the general population has accepted the invention into common use (for those inventions that are practical rather than theoretical), when does the inventor(s) of 3D printing get the prize?
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Not until I can order a goddam "tea, Earl Grey, hot" from my goddam replicator
 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/science/ebola-dog-excalibur-nurse-spain.html?_r=0

Let me preface this by saying I'm a dog lover.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/science/ebola-dog-excalibur-nurse-spain.html?_r=0

But people. It's a ****ing dog. Not even your dog. Not even a dog you've seen before today. Yet here you are, protesting. You risk the potential spread of a truly horrific disease over a dog.

No wonder the Spanish have 25% unemployment. They have no ****ing priorities.
 
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Dear Parise. I watch CNN in the morning because I only have basic cable. Whatever bubblehead they have on there just uttered this phrase regarding the battle over Kobani: "To be honest, it ain't goin' well."

Cronkite wept.
 
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