Recently came across the old news of Plesiosaur Carcass Netted in 1977. I found it quite interesting and appealing too.. 
On April 25, 1977, a fishing vessel named the Zuiyo-maru of the Taiyo Fishery Company Ltd. was trawling for mackerel about 30 miles east of Christchurch, New Zealand, when a large animal carcass became entangled in its nets at a depth of about 300 meters (almost 1000 feet). As the massive creature, weighing about 4000 pounds, was drawn toward the ship and then hoisted above the deck, assistant production manager Michihiko Yano announced to the captain (Akira Tanaka), “It’s a rotten whale!” However, as Yano got a better look at the creature, he became less sure. About 17 other crew members also saw the carcass, some of whom speculated that it might be a giant turtle with the shell peeled off. However, no one on board could say for sure what it was..
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Megan Meier, a Missouri teen , had committed suicide by hanging herself at age of 13 last year. Recently, her parents learned that the boy she’d been corresponding with on MySpace (the one who unexpectedly began calling her a fat slut and said “the world would be a better place without you”) was actually a hoax created by the parents of a former friend. The parents of Megan Meier hope the people who made a fraudulent profile on MySpace will be prosecuted, and they are seeking legal changes to safeguard children on the Internet.
Megan Meier
Via : drudge.com/news
Guess there is an alphabetical naming convention for Ubuntu releases. The very first two releases were named Warty Warthog and Hoary Hedgehog (remember ?). Then came Dapper Drake (6.06), the first long-time support release. Then, the Edgy Eft (6.10), followed by Feisty Fawn (7.04) and the now, the Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). Also, the next release is announced to be Hardy Heron (8.04) expected in April 2008.
So, here it goes :
- Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
- Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)
- Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
- Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
- Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) [expected : April 2008 ]
The Berkeley’s School of Information Management Systems calculated how much unique information was produced in 1999 and again in 2002 (measuring the volume of unique data created in the world each year saved to film, disk, optical, and paper).
The 1999 study estimated that about 3,000,000 TB of unique information were produced that year.
The later study estimated that about 5,609,121 TB was produced in 2002.
Assuming the same growth rate to present, about 11,278,629 TB of new information were produced in 2006.
In November of 2006, Google released a paper which mentioned that Google’s web index at the time was 800 TB and Bigtable as a whole was approx ~1085 TB.
Volume of Information predicted in 2006 : 11,000,000 + TB
Volume of Information indexed by Google : 1,000+ TB
% of Information of the world indexed by Google ~ 0.02 %
[ Via KnowledgeBid ]
Sigbritt Löthberg, 75, Karlstad Sweden has a 40 gigabits per second connection ,which is the first time ever that a home user had such bandwidth to play with.
With a 40gbps line, about 1,500 high definition HDTV channels can be simultaneously delivered or a full high definition DVD can be downloaded in just two seconds !
This ultra-fast connection is made possible, thanks to a modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometers apart, without a need for intermediary transponders.
Sigbritt, who had never even had a personal computer till now, is no ordinary elderly woman. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg.
[ Source : The Local - Sweden’s News in English ]
“Second Life” is a wildly popular virtual world, where members can create animated proxies of themselves called ‘avatars’, and build homes, run businesses, and deal in virtual products and properties, all in exchange for real money (Linden dollars).
A group of 6 virtual retailers have filed a real-time law suit against a man in New York, alleging stealing and selling of copied versions of their virtual products in “Second Life”.
With over 10 million registered users, on an average, nearly $1 million is spent each day over buying food, clothes, shelter, and other virtual products.
[ Via Techtree ]
