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I want to Thank all of the editors that have contributed to Geek News Central this year. As I alluded to in a earlier post the readership of this site has grown by leaps and bounds this year. We can only hope that the trend continues. What was amazing was the very times I was busy with my regular Job
Do you want the full details of the 2 Rovers headed for Mars this site has the full skinny [Space.com]
Everyone has there fingers crossed and hopefully Spirit will have better success landing on the Red Planet than the last couple of tries. Sending a probe that far and hoping it will land by itself in one piece is always a gamble we will be keeping our fingers crossed. [Bloomberg.com]
Anyone that has a basic understanding about science understand that the Earth's rotation around the sun is not perfect and ever now and then a leap second has to be added. Well it seems since 1999 the Earth has arrived on time scientist can't quite understand why. But hey if the old mother ship is getting better Gas Mileage I
I somehow missed this site and found a link to it tonight over at ResearchBuzz. I am going to quote directly from their website so to give you the straight skinny on what they are providing. " BlogPulse - Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs Key Phrases, Key People, BlogBites, and Top Links are mined daily from new entries in over
Imagine someone sending you a e-mail message threatening to Blackmail you by saying that they will either wipe your computer or utilize porn to get you in trouble. If I got that type of message I would probably hit delete and flip my middle finger at the screen. Imagine someone though that is not computer savvy they could really be
This article is a little out of the norm for Geek News but it's a scary world out there folks and can you imagine how these would sell if single consumers could buy them and test a new partner. I can not imagine being single but if I was I would want to be able to get my hands on
In an interesting read the notorious spammer Alan Ralsky plans on continuing to Spam millions of in-boxes but vows to follow CanSpam laws by offering opt-out etc. I am sure the opt-out will work but probably only for the e-mail that is already sent. There needs to be a special prison built for spammers make them read the millions and
Imagine your driving down a deserted highway and your car shuts itself off. Then imagine a vehicle pulling up behind you and robs you. Seems some are worried that the features within GM OnStar could be relatively easily used by criminal elements or even by having someone snooping around tracking your movements. [NY Times]
Appears there is another Paypal e-mail scam going around. Always and I mean always load your browser yourself not thru a link in a e-mail and type in the URL manually yourself. Clicking on a HTML item in a e-mail message and you will more than likely end up on a website in China. [Boing Boing]
I am hoping that all of you programmers out there spent to much for Christmas and need some New Year cash. So for the third time I am re-posting this. Business must be awesome as several major sites picked up before on our need for a programmer and my willingness to pay for a programming job but to date we
Do you work with Movable Type do you create skins/templates. Messages out to this sites original designer have went unanswered, not at all sure why but I am in need of someone creative to do some design work for me on another site. I am happy to pay, I am not at all artistic in nature thus the more graphically
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