[url]http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/waterbridge.asp[/url]

[url]https://www.facebook.com/snowart8848[/url]

[url]http://blogs.nvidia.com/2012/12/how-nasa-uses-gpus-to-build-more-vivid-flight-simulators/[/url]
[quote]The visual system still needs to draw a new scene every 1/60th of a second. So, we use the largest frame buffer memory available from NVIDIA Quadro cards to store the entire visual database in use on the graphics card. With all the image data on the GPU, the IG doesn’t need to page them to and from system memory on the CPU, an operation that can cause the rendering to stutter.

The result: the image generator NASA developed for the USAF draws more pixels every two seconds than there are people on the planet.[/quote]
Wowzers.

Kristin Paget got a job helping Apple with it's OSes security. But it's the following that got my attention
[quote]Paget and company’s bug-hunt was so successful, in fact, that it forced Microsoft to push back Vista’s ship date. When the work was done, the hackers received special T-shirts, signed by Microsoft Vice President of Windows Development Brian Valentine. They read: “I delayed Windows Vista.”[/quote]
If I may paraphrase a common saying,"Assholes, assholes everywhere, and I only have two feet."

Canonical's pissed off RMS (and he has good reason to be).

[url]http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do[/url]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20641465[/url]

Interesting, now they're on the same, or similar footing, as the owners of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Edit: [I mean they're using the same scheme, although their scheme is technically more solid. With the Federal Reserve Bank, there's no real limit to the amount of money that can be made. But with bitcoins, I guess it's limited by the processing power available.

money=Federal Reserve Notes, which isn't money depending on how anal I'm feeling at the moment. :)]

[QUOTE=jasong;320932][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20641465[/url]But with bitcoins, I guess it's limited by the processing power available.[/QUOTE]Bitcoins are also limited to a quantity of 21 million by design.

[url]http://www.weather.com/news/apollo-seventeen-anniversary-20121207[/url]

all you naysayers better hope Obama keeps this promise. :)
 

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