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Xyzzy 2015-02-19 18:00

[url]http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/[/url]

kladner 2015-02-19 18:48

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;395840][URL]http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/[/URL][/QUOTE]

Another reason to build your own computer, though that is no help for laptop users.

Mark Rose 2015-02-19 21:51

[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;395818]A wee bit closer to home for yours truly, Baltimore is another (Interstate 695). It too sports a bridge - over the Patapsco (the pronunciation of which is probably slaughtered just as often as that of the Thames) River, just above where the river empties into the Chesapeake Bay. "Ring road" is not commonly used (and definitely never officially used) terminology in the USA, however. In the cases of Baltimore and Washington, their circumferential highways (I-695 and I-495, respectively) are known as "beltways", hence the (usually pejorative) "inside the Beltway" referring to the DC political machine.[/QUOTE]

Ha! Now I know what a beltway is. I've heard that term but never knew what it meant. I've only ever heard of circumferential highways referred to as ring roads before.

BudgieJane 2015-02-19 23:56

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[url]http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/toxin-worlds-most-venomous-spider-could-treat-impotence#[/url]

Xyzzy 2015-02-26 22:44

[url]http://i.imgur.com/iSjaAOA.gif[/url]

ewmayer 2015-02-27 01:27

[url=www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/26/condom-makers-shares-surge-after-south-korea-legalises-adultery]Condom maker's shares surge after South Korea legalises adultery[/url]

A classic jurisprudential "when the rubber meets the road" moment in South Korea.

kladner 2015-02-27 01:51

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;396486][URL]http://i.imgur.com/iSjaAOA.gif[/URL][/QUOTE]

How did that dog's neck get stretched?

LaurV 2015-02-27 06:10

[QUOTE=ewmayer;396500]A classic jurisprudential "when the rubber meets the road" moment in South Korea.[/QUOTE]
Hehe, did anyone bought shares? :razz:

retina 2015-02-27 10:01

Not what it sounds like. It is actually very good
 
"1:60 model of an Air India Boeing 777-300ER made entirely from manila file folders"

[url]https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/sets/72157632208677161/[/url]

[size=1][color=grey]It would have been perfect if only they had spelled manilla correctly.[/color][/size]

Edit: [url]http://www.seattlepi.com/business/boeing/article/Man-building-Boeing-777-out-of-manila-folders-5169705.php[/url]

retina 2015-02-27 10:17

Let's deny that we have such things. Yucky, icky, eww.
 
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/hasbro-replace-penis-shaped-play-doh-toy-184824989.html[/url]

ewmayer 2015-02-27 22:41

[QUOTE=retina;396533][url]http://news.yahoo.com/hasbro-replace-penis-shaped-play-doh-toy-184824989.html[/url][/QUOTE]

Maybe they could rebrand it as a condom or sex toy and and sell it in now-liberated South Korea...


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