How to Buy a Facebook Girlfriend for $5.
The web service GirlfriendHire has what it takes to make real human relationships obsolete. And why not? Facebook has already diminished friendship to a cowering, anemic orphan of a concept. Next up: Sex and love. The site allows you to directly order a fake girlfriend for $5. It’s a deal. You’ll pay far more for a Match.com subscription, where you own only the chance of meeting someone.
Who’s the real “Dropbox of the enterprise”?.
Dropbox relies on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) for data storage, which spreads files across multiple data centers throughout the United States. While Dropbox encrypts these files, the encryption process occurs only *after* they have been uploaded. For some companies, this approach may not be good enough, which is why enterprise and business competitors such as Accellion have made a point of offering “seamless client-side encryption of files before they are sent.” SpiderOak, which Ars examined earlier this month, is another example of a Dropbox competitor with client-side encryption.
Visiting (and eventually mining) asteroids is viewed by space development advocates as an imperative stepping stone to making our way out into the solar system. One group of President Obama’s advisors, the Augustine Commission, counseled that a manned asteroid mission might bring the highest payoff per dollar spent in terms of science and essential skills for space exploration. A study was also commissioned to check the feasibility of bringing a small asteroid—on the order of 10,000kg—back to the International Space Station. It reported no showstoppers.
via Asteroid takeout—a one-billionaire mission to bring a 500-ton asteroid to Earth by 2025.
The cards also have a short ID code on them, with a URL for the Cheek’d website. When a suitor receives the card, the idea is that they’re so filled with curiosity that they enter the code on Cheek’d and are taken to your profile page. Cheek’d calls it online dating in reverse.
via Equally Creepy And Creative, Cheek’d Is Online Dating In Reverse | TechCrunch.
You get the first month free, and can also get a free deck of five cards (shipping and handling not included.) Past that, you pay $9.95 for a monthly subscription (which basically means you pay $10/month to keep your profile live). Cards you still have to pay for, and decks come in various sizes with corresponding pricing.
Wow.
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via regex – How do you match only valid roman numerals with a regular expression? – Stack Overflow.
A recent case shows how patent litigation works. EveryMD sued Facebook over an infringement on hosting a home page, posting comments and rating information.
The company has since decided to pursue patent suits against presidential candidates like Mitt Romney over their Facebook pages. EveryMD did not immediately return FoxNews.com requests for clarification.
via Fark.com founder links patent trolls with ‘terrorists’ | Fox News.
Negotiating mostly on his own, Mr. Zuckerberg had fielded Mr. Systrom’s opening number, $2 billion, and whittled it down over several meetings at Mr. Zuckerberg’s $7 million five-bedroom home in Palo Alto. Later that Sunday, the two 20-somethings would agree on a sale valued at $1 billion.
via In Facebook Deal for Instagram, Board Was All But Out of Picture – WSJ.com.
This is unbelievably reckless.
We sell timely satellite imagery and derived information products to commercial customers and governments worldwide.
via Skybox Imaging.
The main goals of SpaceX’s flight include a fly-by of the ISS and a berthing operation in which the company’s reusable space craft, the Dragon, will approach the ISS and the crew aboard the orbiting outpost will use the ISS robotic arm to help it latch on.
The gumdrop-shaped Dragon capsule will carry 521 kilograms (1,148 pounds) of cargo for the space lab and will also aim to return a 660 kg (1,455 lb) load to Earth, said Michael Suffredini, International Space Station program manager.
via AFP: ‘Good chance’ for SpaceX April 30 launch to ISS: NASA.